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Doubt it. They're already censoring news they don't like.


https://notthebee.com/article/metas-twitter-clone-launches-i...

Tons of censoring.

Not even allowed to talk about the cocaine found at the White House.


I gotta say removing political/controversial topics isn't necessarily a bad thing. Just depends on your use case and stuff. Not every platform needs to be a free speech zone—right now it feels like a pretty chill space to share food pics and talk about inconsequential topics with friends.


Wow.

How are they already tagging accounts as "repeatedly posting false information that was reviewed by our independent fact checkers" if they've only been up for what, a day? Seems a bit premature unless they already had a pre-written blacklist.


You can do something repeatedly in the space of 24 hours, and if there isn't a backlog (and its hard to have one before you launch), there's no reason fact-check review of non-complicated cases has to have high latency.


Surely it’s that. And not the fact that Facebook routinely censors anything makes their preferred president look bad.


hilariously; people blame facebook for getting both Trump and Biden elected.


sounds like they imported instagrams WatchList


Funny, other people are complaining that they aren't censoring "transphobic" posts.


What do you mean by censoring and why did you put transphobic in quotation marks?


Probably because saying benign stuff like "there are only two genders" is considered transphobic by radicals.


There are (1) people like J.K. Rowling, (2) people like Kiwi Farms, and (3) people who can’t tell the difference between (2) and (3). (3) likes to use the word “transphobic” indiscriminately.

To be fair I don’t know if the people involved are complaining about (1) or (2) or both but they are using a word that I am putting in quotes.


See, this is exactly the kind of thread I would not want to see on Threads (or HN)


There's only ever one reason...




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