Dead Internet Reality

Headline is slightly misleading. FB isn't hiring people specifically to do this; they have a program that pays "content creators", and these people fall under that label.

Why are there rarely counter-campaigns for all of these? Passivity of governments towards this is so weird. They occasionally mention banning social media and at the end just do nothing. Why not promote their views too.

Make the fine so gobsmacking that it hurts them enough to the point where they seriously ponder wether they’ll ever recover from that.

Make the fine 60% of their annual global revenue. And enforce it to the fullest the laws allows. Make examples of them.

Make the corporation, the moral entity, understand that allowing such practices will result in the moral equivalent of getting close to being mortally wounded when caught, or will be if they get hit again.

This is how they will stop interfering.

Otherwise, a "10 million settlement" merely becomes the operating cost of doing "business".

Time to move the national debt to exclusively Alberta banks.

They follow the American and Russian narrative: fragment your targets to make them weaker, then take them one by one. They do it in Europe as well.

"What Meta is doing is it is incentivizing [users] to find issues that people believe in deeply, that people feel deeply aggrieved about, and to manipulate those audiences for profit. Meta has a responsibility to enforce its authenticity and monetization rules."

Fine them until they do so. Lord knows we wont' block Meta.

"... constant lying is not aimed at making people believe a lie, but at ensuring that no one believes anything anymore. A people that can no longer distinguish between truth and lies cannot distinguish between right and wrong... With such a people, you can do whatever you want." - Hannah Arendt, 1906-1975, German historian and philosopher

And the fucking morons won't ever come close to understanding that they're being manipulated.

this should tell you all you need to know about the movement, its not real. go out and vote the referendum down.

That headline is misleading. Yes they are getting paid, but as part of engagement revenue. Just like Google, tiktok, Instagram, etc.

Sad as hell that grifting using right wing propaganda is so profitable.

And before you say I am defending meta here, I am not. It's a misleading headline, and participation in meta products is explicit support for these people, because YOU are paying for it by being the product being sold to advertisers.

Corporations are evil, don't participate.

I predict that once the voting is done, we'll see headlines such as "Despite huge online positivity, Alberta separatism gets a no" and no one will be suprised

Chiquita 2.0

I guess if Canada wants to keep Alberta around, they should likely do something... considering it's their power grid and network, and province.

Disappointing, but not surprising

Alberta screaming for independence is like a toddler crying because he isn't allowed to touch a hot stove