Faine Greenwood: Direct from Mosseri: they DON’T want to encourage politics and hard news posting on Threads, and the “scrutiny, negativity…or integrity risks that come along with them.”

Direct from Mosseri: they DON’T want to encourage politics and hard news posting on Threads, and the “scrutiny, negativity…or integrity risks that come along with them.”

I have a threads account with a variation of this fake name and I find it unusable

So Threads would like everyone to forget that Meta is actively helping fascist law enforcement hunt down women seeking abortions?

they would absolutely love for people to forget that

That is deeply disturbing. Social media sites helping harmful law elements is the antithesis of a reasonably free and healthy society.

so it really is just exclusively for brands to talk to each other then

'no politics' rules inexorably lead to reactionary/conservative politics dominating the platform, as anything that maintains the status quo is regarded as nonpolitical

Well I don’t know about other countries but the one that I live in already has a terrible Instagram community and now all of them are on threads. I went to twitter to escape from those assholes and not returning anytime soon😂

meta is struggling to ban moms 4 liberty on facebook bc of one of the top guys being conservative. i do not think they will be preventing any of the alt right freaks on threads

The Minivan Taliban will flourish like all the other hate groups on Threads. It’s Facebook 2.0

Meta’s going to dodge that caravan.

Doubtful.

"we want to be a public square" doesn't jive with "we want no politics" because for centuries of human existence, the public square was where "politics" happened.

Makes you wonder what the term even means then. A place to sell something perhaps?

They mean Times Square. Filled with adds and too crowded

A quadrilateral the sides of which are known?

Same energy as streamers who have a "don't talk about politics" rule, which essentially just translates to "we don't want to isolate our Nazi viewers because they might give us money"

so in other words... if your existence is political (read "marginalized in race, orientation, gender, et. al") Threads don't want you. Sure Ellen... keep believing you're on "gay twitter."

Whenever anyone says this, I interpret it as a coded message to bigots of “it’s cool, we got you”

Every time I think threads can't get stupider I am immediately proven completely and hilariously wrong

The idea of a "public square" is so inherently married to politics that this is incoherent . Maybe sports Twitter ends up there (more features to control what you're seeing, like lists, will be needed for that, first) but all public conversations are eventually political by definition.

This is exactly the style of language that ends up with climate activists being suppressed on Facebook Fossil fuel companies get to freely bc they 'sell a product' https://www.pbs.org/wnet/peril-and-promise/2022/03/facebooks-new-ad-policies-make-it-harder-for-climate-groups-to-counter-big-oil/

Facebook's New Ad Policies Present Challenges for Climate Groupswww.pbs.org Meta has removed advertisers’ ability to target audiences on 'sensitive' topics. Climate groups say the change favors polluters.

So here we all are. The Birdsite politics junkie refugees.

I love the usage of "verticals" and thinking of posts solely in terms of how much revenue they might generate for the site, as opposed to if they might make the place interesting for people to read.

this is me, I guess I can't thread.

"Ignore what's going on around you, just let us monetize you without the mess" If a platform suppresses reporting on our local wildfires, the war, and breaking news, I'm not interested.

this is literally them saying 'don't worry ur pretty lil heads about the big scary hard politics and who's passing laws and stuff, lets get wendys coupons and watch real housewives'

Feels like a direct response to more and more ppl & governments giving a shit about how news propagates to me, they just don't wanna have to deal with it. https://apnews.com/article/meta-news-canada-facebook-instagram-d0afcc95469107a51d98e127c05f636d

Meta tests blocking news content on Instagram, Facebook for some Canadiansapnews.com Meta is preparing to block news for some Canadians on Facebook and Instagram in a temporary test that is expected to last through the end of June. The Silicon Valley tech giant is following in the ste...

"let us be unscrupulous quietly, if you talk about it too loud people will ask questions"

Yes, it’s a weasel cop-out move

/weasel

WEASEL

huh interesting how all the "amazing communities" he mentions are oriented around products

Or could heavily be, at least. I mean none of those things necessarily have to be monetized but they definitely have huge potential to be 😂

Raytheon replies "so true bestie 💅"

People like this spend so much time conversing and sharing ideas exclusively with other soulless value miners that they don't even understand that this is a statement of intent that most people would find monstrous

"we have no plans to enforce any kind of fact checking or truth in politics, science, news or anything else really because that stuff costs money it doesnt make it"

I literally don't think the internet has seen a platform as vapid as threads is. just Brands and the biggest rocks-for-brains people you've ever met in your life. a perfectly smooth plain of advertising dollars as far as the eye can see

Just call it Brands instead of Threads. It's the "what's happening, fellow kids" of social media.

They sure seem to hate politics, but everything I've seen shows they're more than cool with transphobes. Funny how that works. 🤔

You see hate isn’t political it’s just lucrative but not really they don’t really have good biz acumen tbh

Yes, reports of anti trans bullying/slurs are not acted upon. Maybe a wider ‘market square’ (🙄) will squeeze them out. Idk.

Wow, these people sure know how to ruin a perfectly benign phrase like “public square.”

It’s instagram with words. Meaning every celebrity and “influencer” with 3 million instagram followers (importing those followers to Threads) will just take over and rule Threads 🥱

The most "that's not for me" social media site imaginable.

see this is why i still think bsky has a chance and a half. i have gotten so much news just in my following feed without an algorithm

[searches for metaphor] I suppose there are some people that go to Disneyland just for Main Street USA. There's obviously nothing problematic about the presentation choices there either.

The management here was resistant, or ignorant of, a national security community as late as April, when Faine gave me an invite code. That started the infiltration, which of course national security types know how to do.

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