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1. Announces moderation team gutted

2. Announces that "community notes" will handle moderation

3. Make a bunch of moves to purge anyone in the community that might actually provide a factual "community note"

Well then, since 2016 I've been a Virtue signaling mother fucker. Fuck Zuck!

Anyone who claims someone is virtue signalling is virtue signalling. Except this one comment.

Anyone who stops using my product is a poo poo head

I think it would also be fair to say that anyone who doesn't is also virtue signaling.

I quit Facebook years ago because it's a shitty website full of spam.

IG has gone down the same path. It's like 70% suggested/sponsored content that's worthless at best if not disinfo, propaganda, fraud, etc.

Fash make trash.

20 years ago, a piece of shit like Mark Zuckerberg would have used a similarly meaningless term like “political correctness” instead. Made no sense then and makes no sense now. What is the problem exactly? Is there something wrong with having an ethical framework and applying it consistently? Or, having standards? Using this framing, any ideological viewpoint is inherently bad, including the nihilistic and hypocritical one that Zuckerberg himself is expressing here. It’s all just nonsense, and further evidence that the economy that plied this asshole with so much wealth is anything but a meritocracy.

The kind of people who would be bothered by being accused of "Virtue Signaling" are also the kind of people who are aligned with the rise of fascism and enabling of racism on the platform. But do go on acknowledging that working for Meta is itself an immoral position.

I quit before virtue signalling was a term that people used to describe things they don't like. I wonder what he would have called it back around 2012?

So he has confirmed that Meta is, as whole, a negative hasn't he?

Why didn't he just say anyone who quits Meta smells like poo-poo and pee-pee? That would at least be funny.

LMFAO virtue signal deez nuts. Fuckerberg.

I haven't had Facebook in 10 years lol. I don't have a vote on this one.

What I find delicious is that he is implicitly stating that being on any Meta platform is not virtuous.

Zuck is a fucking piece a shit. But the headline and article misrepresents what he was saying. His actual quote was "Some people may leave our platforms for virtue signaling" and appears to be directed towards users, not Meta employees.

I virtue signaled 7 years ago when the whole Cambridge Analytica scandal broke, realizing that Facebook is a seedy company that can't be trusted.

"Signaled" my "virtue" in 2016. Fuck you, zuck.

It’s kinda crazy how fast he’s unraveling into the right-wing griftersphere. Does Thiel or Putin have something on him?

No its called having morals and standing by them. Virtue signaling is when you pay lip-service to a cause and don't walk the walk. Almost like zuck doing his dei stuff when it was popular and doing a 180 as soon as it becomes slightly unpopular.

When I was a teen, I thought anyone who joins it is virtue signaling.

Your hubris is showing, Fuckerberg.

he means 'is showing virtue'. And he's right.

“Some people may leave our platforms for virtue signaling, but I think the vast majority and many new users will find that these changes make the products better”

So he's stripping away protections for marginalised groups to appeal to the "vast majority" who, by definition, don't need these protections and are in no way negatively impacted by their existence. Got it, and fuck you very much.

Lotta reasons and responses here i plan on using for when i finally make my "fuck you all i quit" post this weekend.

This is exactly the kind of thing a loser would say. Loser CEOs are always whining about people leaving their platform. Winners keep their head down and build something their users actually enjoy using.

The title alone shows admittance that leaving Meta signals virtue and good character.

isn't this giant sack of shit laying off like 1000 employees?

Why should I care what a self confessed pedophile thinks?

Will this decade be known as "the decade when billionares spiralled out of control"? First Musk then this android.

Oh no, not virtue signaling! There truly is no greater crime! Specifically, it isn't worse to be an overly-built, soulless chia pet if that's what you're thinking. Definitely not.

Joke's on him. I quit before it was Meta.

Wow, I knew Zuckerberg was a jerk and I knew he was right wing. But I didn’t think he was one of those rightwing immature edgelord jerks on the level of 4chan posters

Well firstly, virtue signaling is not fundamentally a bad thing. Devil is in the details.

Second, that's kinda rich coming from the guy who's been nothing but virtue signaling towards the upcoming Trump admin since his failed assassination attempt.

The fact that this clown even felt the need to talk about this shows that a noteworthy number of people are leaving the platform.

It's a slow burn, but legacy social media must die.