Mark Zuckerberg's MAGA conversion is complete as he tears up the internet and remakes it in Trump's image.
I really feel that headlines such as this from the dailyfail are part of the problem, The changes apply to Facebook and Instagram, while I acknowledge they are very popular and have billions of users the internet is more then just these two platforms.
Problem is big tech gets directly corrolated ( if that is the right word here ) to technology, so Windows is the default OS, Office is the default, Teams and zoom are default for video conferencing, The language used seems to alter our brains on a subliminal level to make us think there are no other alternatives or as the FSF would put that replacements.
I think independent platforms, websites and the Fediverse are going to be far more important over the next few years, or even beyond.
@zleap thinking of Trump's threats, it might be coercion rather than a conversion. See https://www.politico.com/news/2024/08/28/trump-zuckerberg-election-book-00176639
I am sure that I read back before Trump won the first time, that facebook would show posts to people in certain areas, for example high immigrant area, would promote content that suggests immigrants commit a certain number of criminal offenses. Trump had a solution, build a wall.
So even that is election interferance, it favoured trump. BUT is it? If you take content at face value, don't fact check and just think of facebook as the oracle of the truth, then surely as a user who chooses to use facebook you really are to blame. It is not as if how the platform works is not well known, does not need to be fully understood as such. We had cambridge analytica which hardly really dented the user base of facebook that much.
