Weaponization of Facebook

nivek

As Above So Below
This report about the use of Facebook in the Philippines should be disturbing to anyone who uses Facebook, which I do not use and will never use...What has happen and is happening in the Philippines is a blatantly obvious weaponization of Facebook and a sneak peek at a dystopian future...

It’s a society where, increasingly, the truth no longer matters, propaganda is ubiquitous, and lives are wrecked and people die as a result — half a world away from the Silicon Valley engineers who’d promised to connect their world.

For all the recent hand-wringing in the United States over Facebook’s monopolistic power, the mega-platform’s grip on the Philippines is something else entirely. Thanks to a social media–hungry populace and heavy subsidies that keep Facebook free to use on mobile phones, Facebook has completely saturated the country. And because using other data, like accessing a news website via a mobile web browser, is precious and expensive, for most Filipinos the only way online is through Facebook. The platform is a leading provider of news and information, and it was a key engine behind the wave of populist anger that carried Duterte all the way to the presidency.

Yet some Filipinos say Facebook treats the Philippines as an absentee landlord might, occasionally dropping by to address minor issues but often shrugging off responsibility for the larger, more problematic stuff: the conspiracies that helped land de Lima in jail, the misinformation that has clouded the public’s understanding of a brutal drug war, and the propaganda that continues to damage the democratic process in the Philippines.

How Duterte Used Facebook To Fuel the Philippine Drug War

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Shadowprophet

Truthiness
This report about the use of Facebook in the Philippines should be disturbing to anyone who uses Facebook, which I do not use and will never use...What has happen and is happening in the Philippines is a blatantly obvious weaponization of Facebook and a sneak peek at a dystopian future...





How Duterte Used Facebook To Fuel the Philippine Drug War

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It's a worry I've had for a while, There used to be a time when the Internet was more or less a past time a mishmash of everyone's opinions and no one took any particular opinion too seriously, So people could act in any way they saw fit, They could say anything they wanted and it honestly didn't matter.

That was then, That was years ago, Society has changed, People have accepted and adopted the internet as a legitimate and serious forum for discussion. Now passing comments can' cost people their jobs, Their Families, Even their lives.

This magical beast we call the internet is being weaponized, It's even being used to spy on other countries and wage legitimate warfare, Cyber Warfare Some other interesting news is how Google has in the last few years changed all its policies, People think Youtube has simply changed its monetization rules, But Google owns Youtube and the problem is Google itself.

The problem is deeper than people think, Google is not a government controlled organization, it has a lot of power, One huge problem right now with Google is they are in negotiations with China over the creation of a Chinese Government controlled censored Google search engine. Google might return to China. Here's why that's so controversial The problem here is, If China can tell Google what to do, But No other nation can. That leads down a whole other conspiracy rabbit hole.

Sadly, With the New EUCD What is the European Union Copyright Directive (EUCD)? - Definition from Techopedia It's looking like the internet will no longer be a place of freely exchanged information and free speech may be a thing of the past entirely. But, In some ways, Free speech in the ways people fantasize about, has never existed anyway. The problem is, The net is a financial powerhouse, That One percent of greedy rich bastards want total control over its economy. Some Day, The safest thing a person will be able to do, Is avoid the internet entirely, However, I don't believe this will be an option, I believe a time will come when people will be forced to at least register online and report frequently or they will violate some yet non-existent law. I don't think we will have a choice in the future.
 
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nivek

As Above So Below

FBI blasted after Zuckerberg revealed their warning ahead of the Hunter Biden laptop story: ‘Collusion'

Twitter exploded after Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg claimed in a Thursday podcast appearance the FBI warned Facebook about "Russian propaganda" before the Hunter Biden laptop story dropped in 2020.

Speaking on an episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, Zuckerberg explained, "The FBI, I think, basically came to us - some folks on our team - and was like, 'Hey, just so you know, like, you should be on high alert… We thought that there was a lot of Russian propaganda in the 2016 election. We have it on notice that, basically, there's about to be some kind of dump of that's similar to that. So just be vigilant.’"

Zuckerberg acknowledged that "the distribution on Facebook was decreased" of the New York Post’s story about Hunter Biden's laptop, noting, "fewer people saw it than would've otherwise." When asked by Joe Rogan how many people had been deprived of the information, Zuckerberg responded, "I don't know off the top of my head, but it's - it's meaningful."


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