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Meta follows Twitter regarding populism and Trump ingratiation — and we keep experimenting ;)
It was anything but a surprise, as Mark Zuckerberg announced in Threads the change in their communication — and in the essence of the Meta-owned social networking platform “Threads”:
What did he mean by “going back to our roots […] giving people a voice”? Is it a Trumpian “Make Facebook great again”? Or is it a reminder of Facebook’s original purpose: stalking girls?
Replacing fact-checkers with community notes reminds us of the fate of Twitter under Elon Musk, where moderators were fired and “community” was to take over moderation (with all the downsides of bullying, political bias, lack of community expertise, polarisation, “dominance of the loudest”, failing to address the misinformation the etc. we know from Twitter). Zuckerberg is embracing Trump’s and Musk’s “vox populi” narrative (note that “vox populi” was initially used by Alcuin of York to denigrate people):
Nec audiendi qui solent dicere, Vox populi, vox Dei, quum tumultuositas vulgi semper insaniae proxima sit / And those people should not be listened to who…
