Facebook Deletes Internal Employee Criticism of New Board Member Dana White

[u/UnscheduledCalendar]

https://www.404media.co/facebook-deletes-internal-employee-criticism-of-new-board-member-dana-white/

[u/Mark_Collins]

The irony of this comment is striking. Algorithms are designed to boost engagement, yet here I am, adding my own comment to the mix.

There’s this widespread notion that social media is a space for sharing concerns, connecting with others, and building communities. In reality, it thrives on exploiting feelings like anxiety, boredom, and insecurity to maximize engagement—and, ultimately, ad revenue.

The worst part? Unless you’re leveraging social media for branding or business purposes, you’re likely being exploited. It eats up your time and constantly presses your emotional buttons, hoping to trigger a reaction.

[u/broooooooce → u/Mark_Collins]

Wish I could upvote this commemt 100x.

[u/surnik22 → u/Mark_Collins]

I’m aware of the irony sadly, but I can’t stop trying to accurately inform and/or correct people. Reddit’s user base also is different from Facebook or Twitter or Instagram and you still get some traction with actual insightful comments.

Less traction than repeating the same jokes, making a pun, tragedy porn, outrage porn or normal porn, but some traction, especially a few comments deep into a thread where it’s mostly people who actually were interested and not just scrolling past.

It’s not great, but it’s better than Facebook.

[u/Round-Astronomer-700 → u/surnik22]

You nailed it. I find that reddit has a lot more "real" discussion instead of a bunch of lame tropes/jokes/memes overshared into oblivion. Obviously there are subreddits where you can find that, but if that type of content starts making it's way into other subreddits the downvotes will take care of it. I feel downvotes really make the difference. It's not about creating an echo chamber, it's about silencing shit that has nothing to do with the topic at hand. Downvotes quell whataboutism.

[u/Sprucecaboose2 → u/surnik22]

It's not just that you are looking to inform. By our very nature, people are social creatures. We want and seek out other humans to communicate with. It's why social media is so huge. The companies have hijacked and monetized almost every aspect of modern social life. You almost can't interact with other people without also interacting with a company's product or platform. Especially as third spaces become distant memories.

[u/CaptainBayouBilly → u/Mark_Collins]

Instead of going after the platform, inform the advertisers of the tolerance of hate on the platform.

[u/surnik22 → u/[deleted]]

You can make some headway. Advertisers don’t always care, but the brands they advertise for often do.

Coke/GM/Apple/etc don’t want their ad sitting next to questionable or divisive content and generally go out of their way to avoid it. Even when it something like an article about why Nazis are bad, you’ll have less people willing to put their ad up because they don’t want to be associated with Nazis at all. Lots of brands will have white lists/black lists of site they’ll advertise on and even topics or key words they wont if it appears in the specific article/image.

If you actually want to scare brands away from a platform, wait till one of their ads pops up over an absurdly racist or bigoted post, screen shot it then post that screen shot to social media. If they know people are noticing and associating their brand with whatever bad shit it is, they may take action

[u/Cory123125 → u/CaptainBayouBilly]

This used to work, but not any more. We are now seeing those advertisers shy away from even saying things like that they racism/homophobia is bad out of fears of being seen as "woke" (literally a positive thing).

[u/OhSixTJ → u/Mark_Collins]

Reddit in a nutshell.