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@luckytran@med-mastodon.comWith news Meta was reluctant to remove COVID misinformation on its platforms in 2021, it's critical to remember that they also did the opposite when Threads launched, and were overzealous in suppressing all COVID information, even from reliable sources. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/09/11/threads-covid-coronavirus-searches-blocked/
@luckytran Facebook was absolutely ripe with misinformation (from masking to disease pathology to modeling) in 2020. It was a toxic deluge of garbage opinions from low-quality sources, it's one of the primary reasons I left that platform in April 2020 and refuse to join Meta or Threads. Both those other platforms have continued the tradition of manipulating public perceptions of the pandemic (and vaccines) to the disservice of medical professionals.
@luckytran@med-mastodon.com
what was the stated objection Freidman had to government regulation - oh yeah slow to act and as a result often aiming to tackle a situation that had changed.
Turns out private enterprise is even worse in both regards.
@Theriac @luckytran
Not that the mainstream is particularly good, but in #Canada Facebook has blocked All mainstream news on the platform rather than pay journalists for their work
Google and Facebook just scuttled a similar journalism-funding bill in California
So right now there is zero professional journalism on Facebook. And almost nobody knows they’re only getting bots, paid-ads and scammers instead
Watch the 2025 Canadian elections. It’s gonna be #BrexitNorth 
@AccordionBruce @Theriac @luckytran
> "rather than pay journalists for their work"
You mean "rather than pay journalists *to link to* their work". Facebook gives them free advertising and reach, and yet they wanted to be paid for that privilege. It's not Facebook's fault that their entire industry has failed to adapt a viable business model to the internet.
@louis @Theriac @luckytran
I’ve been criticizing mainstream media for their monopolies for decades
Now #Google and #Facebook have stepped in and out-monopolied them
I am willing to focus on the largest present enemies of the free flow of information
Facebook has profited off of facilitating genocide, and its leadership should probably face international tribunals for those crimes
@AccordionBruce @Theriac @luckytran Maybe so, but that still doesn't mean they should have to pay the news companies every time someone shares a link to one of their articles. That was always an absurd law bound to backfire.
@louis @Theriac @luckytran
It is definitely not working out well up here
@louis @Theriac @luckytran
Facebook can’t pay journalists, instead taking the greatest percentage of the advertising budget that journalist used to receive, resulting in the crushing of what once was professional journalism
Too bad journalism 
#Facebook though is happy to take money from dictators and those ready to destroy democracy now that journalism does not exist
That’s one hell of a business model
I am happy to regulate the fuck out of them and #Google
@AccordionBruce @Theriac @luckytran How exactly do they "take" the advertising budgets of journalists?
@Theriac @luckytran The problem is bureaucracy, whether the entity is public or private. When you have that many humans working together, turning the ship takes time (by design, so no one person can run the ship into a rock).
@louis@ingenthron.social @luckytran@med-mastodon.com
The difference, imo, is in the motivation behind the actions they take : Governments should have the effects their actions have on people's lives at heart, while commercial entities have profit at heart.
@luckytran
"Threads is the place for me" said people who want a Corperation running their reality
@luckytran @zuck says he regrets removing misinformation which means he would have preferred that people die instead of getting accurate information. You can't have it both ways @zuck - you either stand proud of the lives you saved or admit that you wished more people had died.
#Threads is yet again toxic and endangering people's lives, it needs to be defederated.
@luckytran Maybe social media should just never be considered a primary place to get information?
@luckytran At least they are recognizing that dangerous information might be worse than no information at all. Smart for once.
@luckytran
Just bear in mind the source and his biases.