"Such speech may be offensive to many, but it is not Meta’s role to police offensiveness" what??????
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What even are their policies and community guidelines for? Just publicity. Or as a tool in other cases. Corrupt liars.
Rich people and people in charge (see: police, their kids, even local politicians) don’t have to follow rules, especially rules they wrote. They think that their motives are always justified/pure/exceptional, and so the rules don’t need to apply to them.
META's job is to get people to click and comment. It's all marketing that I walked away from years ago.
The best kind of content for engagement is hate. You get users angrily defending both sides, stacks of comments, reposts (both in support of, and "OMG look at what they're saying), the whole shebang.
Meta has learned that promotion of hate content pays off handsomely on those sweet sweet engagement metrics that shareholders love.
So of course they're going to pay the hatemongers for content. Even when their own content policies ostensibly forbid it. Because that's what makes line go up and they'll do anything to keep that happening.
Ragebait!
Man, this really isn’t the future I was picturing when I was growing up, but here we are.
"The Internet of the future will be amazing! People will use it to voluntarily enrich their minds, and freedom and peace will reign!"
Actually: Nazis
Hey now, it isn’t only Nazis…
^It’s^ ^also^ ^an^ ^overwhelming^ ^amount^ ^of^ ^CSAM…^
This is something I struggle to accept every day of my life.
Between this, Cambridge Analytica, and the overall enshittification of society it has brought, can Meta be fucking dissolved already? Or would that be too harmful to the global dopamine hit supply?
Underscoring how much Meta has dropped the ball on this one, even X — owned by Elon Musk, who performed two suspiciously Sieg Heil-looking salutes back in 2025 — has banned The Noticer for violating its “hateful profile policy.”
Not just Nazis but Nazis that make other Nazis squeamish.
Now That Is What I Call A Headline
These pages and individual creators posted content that appeared to be in clear violation of Facebook’s own hate speech policies. Nonetheless, they were able to earn money on their posts through the platform’s “Content Monetization” program — which is invitation-only.
Meta should’ve been under no illusions about who they were paying to drive engagement on the platform.
Yet I'm sure that's exactly what they claim. [insert South Park BP Oil Sorry meme]
BTW:
Facebook’s monetization program can be quite lucrative, though it’s unclear how much each of these pages made individually. In 2025, Facebook doled out nearly $3 billion to 16 million accounts, the reporting notes. The platform periodically discloses data on these monetized accounts, which has been collated into a searchable database by the tech accountability non-profit What to Fix.
$3b / 16m is $187.5 each account.
Quite
Lucrative
Yes, my master.
:sigh: I hate when people just tell outright lies for clicks.
Did bad people get money from Meta? Yes.
Did Meta actively pay bad people to post bad content? NO. This is like saying that Youtube had hired people to post AI videos targeting children because they pay people part of the advertising they sell on videos. It is not the same thing at all.
If a Walmart employee beats you up while they're on the clock, these twits would post "WALMART HIRED AND PAID PEOPLE TO BEAT INNOCENT PEOPLE UP".
Am I saying Meta is great? No1 Fuck you no! But is this headline bullshit? YES IT IS.
"Hugo Lennon ... believed to be one of the organizers behind an “anti-immigration” march on a sacred Indigenous site in the city last year."
MFW talking to anyone in my red state
Yeah... they're that stupidly-malicious
As if it wasn't obvious enough that nazi posters have special protected status on social media platforms. The report buttons do nothing against them.
That's crazy talk. The report buttons work exactly as intended for racist accounts. Every time someone reports them they make 50 cents.
Oh that's the actual headline lol.
I thought it would be like they paid some people with some ties to fascist groups but some plausible deniability...
But no. Full mask off.
I'm shocked! Shocked I tell you! Ok not even a tiny bit.
Meta’s “financial model is to reward content creators who get engagement, and as we know, the best way of getting engagement is to produce rage bait, extremist material, aggravating material: anything that will get people upset and arguing is the best way to get engagement.”
That tracks.
Facebook spent years claiming it couldn’t control what its platform amplified: Apparently it gets much easier when it’s time to write the checks.
i would be surprised if they wouldnt, because they only ever push right wing material on FB.
That shortened headline phrasing is semantically ambiguous. With context it's clear, but it can also be read as "Meta has caught paying nazis in order to post on Facebook"
Milliardäre lieben Nazis? Schock
Imagine what his ancestors would think of Zuckerberg when if they could read this.
Vasily Grossman, a Ukrainian Jew himself, wrote this after WW II on Jewish Nazi sympathizers and collaborators:
The violence of a totalitarian State is so great as to be no longer a means to an end; it becomes an object of mystical worship and adoration. How else can one explain the way certain intelligent, thinking Jews declared the slaughter of the Jews to be necessary for the happiness of mankind? That in view of this they were ready to take their own children to be executed - ready to carry out the sacrifice once demanded of Abraham?
From the article:
Hate, unfortunately, sells. Right-wing extremism researcher Kaz Ross told ABC that Meta’s “financial model is to reward content creators who get engagement, and as we know, the best way of getting engagement is to produce rage bait, extremist material, aggravating material: anything that will get people upset and arguing is the best way to get engagement.”
It’s another example of how quickly Meta dropped its once-stricter content moderation policies when Donald Trump returned to the White House. Shortly before his second inauguration, Meta loosened its standards around hate speech, particularly on topics like gender identity and immigration, two of the far right’s favorite issues.
It's much bigger than just corporate 'profits' ! This is the US/western oligarch Class pushing the world to the brink of WW3, only because they are trying to hinder China and others from eclipsing them and thereby taking away the exorbitant power they have commanded for several hundred years, while colonizing and exploiting the world..
Meta and the Zuck are colluding with the US Epstein Class to manipulate the entire 'western' hemisphere of people where Meta/facebook are present.
This is psychopathy/manipulation on a civilizational scale, and the Zuck and all his Epstein buddies will need to pay the consequences of that at some point.