Meta today began removing ads from attorneys who were seeking clients that claim to have been harmed by social media
. . . Thereby proving the absolute ease and facility with which content can be rapidly identified and removed when that content removal serves the corporation, and thereby actively helping to prove the plaintiffs’ cases for them.
Now that’s meta.
Like I feel your point, but also the ads definitely have a lot more identifiable information (target audience, keywords, sectors, etc.) they can use for detection & removal vs random posts using algospeak and other evasion tactics
Buddy, it’s a multi-billion company - they could detect anything if they really wanted. But that coutry is ran by rich pedos and it shows.
Honestly, when I still used it I saw a ton of obviously malicious and illegal ads. After reporting them I’d get the message that they followed their guidelines.
A lot of leaks have shown that they know their products are incredibly harmful, but that changing it would hurt their bottom line.
Meta is an evil company filled with careless people.
They’re ok with their ads harming society, democracy, human rights and civil liberties. But they’re removing ads that might give their victims the means to fight for the harm they caused them.
Remember the time Signal ran an ad campaign on Facebook that told you what info Facebook gave them on you and got banned?
A couple months ago a story came out of a court case that they would happily keep running ads that were identified as scams; they would just increase the advertising costs for the accounts running those ads. The more reports, the higher the price until they reach a limit to ban them. Basically if their users are getting scammed, they want a bigger cut.
Kind of related: if you use Gmail and Android check your spam folder! You might have a class action email informing you about the suit against Google. I had one in my spam folder, have seen others saying the same
Jfc you weren’t kidding.
Taylor v. Googleor just searchclass actionSame here. Had it in spam. Tell your friends and maybe we can turn that into another class action. :)
I greedily await my $0.18!
Bold strategy.
Let’s see if it pays out for them, Bolton
The strategy to fuck with a class action lawsuit is to fuck with the lawyers leading the class action lawsuit.
… This is how you get another class action lawsuit, which is comprised entirely of lawyers.
Jesus Fucking Christ, these people are idiots.
Not that I think anything Facebook does is good, but doesn’t this just make sense? They’re not required to provide ad space to anyone, so why would they provide it to people who want to harm their business? If I was the evil CEO of an evil corporation, I would do the same.
I hope it leads to them losing another class action about scams. They claim it’s too hard to regulate ads when there are so money, but clearly they can filter if they choose to.
Yes, but it also hurts their case when they’re demonstrating clearly that they can filter out ads they determine to be harmful.
I feel especially sorry for the dumb fucks who stuck around on Meta services long enough to notice the change.
But, at the same time, I don’t feel sorry for them, because, 15 years ago, I was screaming for them to get off the service, warning them of all the horrible things that were to come, and they ignored me.
So they got what was coming to them. As a result, the amount of pity I have for them is limited.
Some of us have no choice. If I don’t have social media, record labels won’t sign my music. I cannot afford to pay someone else to maintain it for me.
Link to music pls :)
I write a few different styles, been writing big beat for a couple of years now and trying to do it as independently as possible. But still needs promoting online, hence social media ugh.
Yeah ok but you’re not scrolling your wall for hours a day, right?
Yeah for some reason I find it easier to avoid infinite scroll with FB than reddit! I know, that’s like mentioning Voldemoort round here.
Not sure if any Lemmy-ers still use reddit, they fucked it again (removed /all). It’s rapidly turning into a copy of meta, feeds are now curated by algo rather than votes :(
https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/articles/378f18f7-00a1-48e5-9682-06defa1f0d49
https://gwennseemel.com/blog/2022/0209-quitting-instagram-facebook/
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-musicians-leaving-facebook-anslem-gentle-j-r-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rc1MUrj9vZ8
Nobody said that doing the right thing would be easy. It rarely is. But I’d rather die doing the right thing, than live being part of the wrong thing. 🏳️🌈✊
Thanks for the links, will check them all out. But from a brief squizz at the bbc link… can I just point out that these are all VERY established artists, with established fanbases. None of these will be interacting with people online anyway, already using a social media manager to do all their posts etc.
There’s no point making music that nobody knows exist, and unfortunately streaming / social media are the main avenues for reaching new fans these days.
