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  basilgohar
  A lot of people are implying that people that object should leave the company. The question is, if the people that actually care and push back leave:1. Will this increase or decrease the incidents? 2. Will we know more or less about these incidents in the future? 3. Will anyone else inside work for or against this happening?Which way do we want things to go?I don't mean to say it's clearly this or that. I think it's a genuinely interesting and challenging dilemma. Do I continue working someplace that is involved in something evil but try and provide a voice, push, influence, or, if nothing else, a voice to the outside of the goings on inside, or do I separate myself and work only from the outside?We can imagine the same for law enforcement, military, defence contractors, government, and any number of other vectors and industries.Snowden was working from the inside before he leaked what he did. Every single whistleblower was involved first.
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  selectodude
  Meta employees still cash checks from evil company not realizing all the interference is possible due to them showing up to work every day.
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  p2detar
  The situation everywhere looks dire. These aren‘t social media platforms anymore but tools for propaganda and repression against opposition groups across different countries.> 25.10.2026: Meta removed three prominent satire pages from Facebook the day before presidential elections in Bulgaria.> Shortly after the deletion they were recreated and gathered tens of thousands of followers within hours. Less than 24h later Meta removed them again. Due to past incidents involvement of security forces is suspected. No meaningful response from Meta as usual.Source: https://bsky.app/profile/yurukov.yurukov.net/post/3myozobbcy...
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  cheriot
  Is there a description of what Meta to help Flavio? The article just makes vague assertions.
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  loeg
  No actual details or evidence of favoritism backing the claims.
• anon
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  ludsan
  Sorry all. I'm very slow here. The linked story only talks about a group within Meta showing concern with concernable events. What was the event?I'm slow because this article doesn't describe it: and believe it or not, I use this website as a source of "breaking" news, so I sincerely would like to know.EDIT: ahh p2detar has something real: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50248577
• matt3210
  Company influences politics for shareholder value, not a surprise at all. This was just the time they got caught and I bet the other MAG7 are doing it in some form too even if its just massive donations
• none_to_remain
  Feels to me it was established in 2021 that the major platforms had the power to place potentates and pretenders under Interdict.
• rl3
  >252 points by guitcastro 1 hour ago | 100 commentsThis was trending #1, and now it's not even main page at #37.
• henriquenunez
  And nonetheless our democracy won
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  ivell
  These behaviors are only short term beneficial for the company. Eventually they will just get banned in other nations as a threat to sovereignty.
• shrubby
  Tech fascism is panicking universally as the algorithmic manipulation doesn't seem to work anymore as people are getting more and more aware of the tactics.
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  Aurornis
  There are so many English articles about this topic that never explain what happened. I clicked on everything from Reuters to Al Jazeera and they're all reciting the same line about "accounts restricted".The best I could find was from some translations of paywalled Brazilian articles like this one https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/poder/2026/10/em-mensagens-int...The "account restriction" was a period of about 24 hours where Instagram's "Boost Post" feature wasn't working for some accounts, including Lula's. The ads were still shown, but the part to add more money for the boosts wasn't working that day.There's another complaint about not being able to search for "Lula" and get the exact account after they changed the global search to require 5 characters to identify accounts.There are additional accusations of things like some stories posts getting cut short and the AI tool not applying political restrictions equally.A lot of the articles imply the "internal communications" caught them red-handed doing these things intentionally, but as far as I can tell those internal communications are just them responding to the issues? If there was a leaked internal communication about them disrupting elections, the news stories would probably lead with that instead of dancing around the subject.That's the context I could find after not getting much useful information from this link. I know this comment is going to make some people angry but to clear I'm only trying to figure out what these articles are talking about.
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  seydor
  "I'm fine with this"Probably Zuckerberg's gravestone
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  xlayn
  I'm going to make a very bold claim here... block those 2 big ones and you will fix a lot of what's going on the planet right now.
• johen8
  Honestly, in 2018 Meta *allegedly* interfered in the other direction. It basically goes along with who the US President is. This discourse is just to stoke division and promote censorship and bigger government control.
• anon
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  brandonagr2
  For those not in the loop, what are the actions that "have been programmatically made user-facing to such an obvious and biased extent"?
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  ChrisArchitect
  Related:Meta employees say Lula’s accounts restricted in Brazil electionhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50227639Lula wins election after final votes talliedhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50237485
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  lenerdenator
  Any calls for Meta to change are useless until Mark Zuckerberg no longer holds a majority of voting shares. You have to have reforms around that first. Cambridge Analytica, the Metaverse, the New Mexico judgment... all examples of things that would have gotten any other CEO canned due to their damage to the bottom line, but Mark doesn't have to worry, because he's not going to vote himself out.
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• join
  meddling in elections and enabling genocide, the company
• cute_boi
  "We Meta employees want to build technologies and platforms that millions of people use and enjoy."We Palantir employees want to build software tools for clients to combine, clean, and make sense of their own scattered datasets
• worik
  This will damage Meta's business. As the meme that they cannot be trusted spreads alternative methods of communication will revive, and start to flourishTrust does matter. Hard to win, easier to loose, and no matter how big you are, how mean you seem, you can still sicken and die
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  drgo
  Is there a competition among the tech pros for who becomes the most hated tech bro in the world?
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  xyst
  To me this is just virtue signaling while cashing a $200K+ salary from evil corp. plus probably puts a target on your back.If you truly despise their actions, start leaking documents to the press. Climb the ladder as high as possible and infiltrate top leadership.
• ihsw
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  SideburnsOfDoom
  Armaments factory employees denounce bombs.
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  jacquesm
  So, they all resigned?