• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    15 days ago

    They are pretty explicit in their mission to sow discord and disinformation maximize profits and minimize costs

    With Trumpism taking over the federal government wholesale, there’s little reason to even pretend to cater to the minority party. Unless there’s a shift during the midterms, of course. Then Zuck will rediscover religion and insist the content on his site needs to be moderated by liberals again.

    But its all just patronage. These moderation jobs are either soul-sucking gig work or no-show positions for the local professional political leadership. The work isn’t a profit center so it only exists as a means of assuaging regulators or cultivating cronies. Facebook’s real work is in harvesting data for Nat.Sec and gulling suckers with ads. Nothing else matters.