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Mark Zuckerberg dismissed concerns about users leaving Meta platforms in response to the company's decision to end its US fact-checking program, saying any exits would be "virtue signaling."He makes that sound like a bad thing. When you have no feeling for anyone else, the concept other people have feelings, morals, values, and virtues feels like a bad thing.
Goodbye Bro
GreenWave
(12,641 posts)Irish_Dem
(81,266 posts)Our psychopath overlords think we are losers and suckers for having a moral code and ethics.
And knowing right from wrong.
eShirl
(20,257 posts)Hugin
(37,848 posts)When I finally get around to virtue signaling there wont be an ounce of subtlety about it. Youll know. Itll be very plain and blunt.
Midnight Writer
(25,410 posts)paulkienitz
(1,507 posts)Joinfortmill
(21,164 posts)We shall see.
Johonny
(26,178 posts)They are rolling out virtual people. These people are designed to increase your interaction. Sure, they might be people that pretend to like your flower photos. But the reality is shit posting increases interaction. They plan on hooking people on anger. Now is the time to escape before they rope you in. But I think you're right, people will be slow to leave.
Joinfortmill
(21,164 posts)lonely bird
(2,941 posts)Fuck all the way off.
keep_left
(3,210 posts)He sounds like Roosh V circa 2012. That shit is deader than disco.
Maninacan
(296 posts)I think i will leave FB. I like messenger but can do the same stuff with smartphone. I hate the AI button next to send as i have accidentally
hit it a couple of times. I need an alternative.
JI7
(93,616 posts)DownriverDem
(7,014 posts)to BlueSky? That's where Liberals are now.
Efilroft Sul
(4,413 posts)And they think their shit doesn't smell, too.
pansypoo53219
(23,034 posts)Boomerproud
(9,292 posts)JI7
(93,616 posts)JoseBalow
(9,488 posts)canetoad
(20,769 posts)Of a "Thought-terminating cliché" - a type of loaded language used to stop argument from proceeding and to quell cognitive dissonance.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought-terminating_clich%C3%A9
LuckyLib
(7,052 posts)Dad taught us this when we were kids.
BoRaGard
(7,591 posts)See you later SuckerBerg (R).
No tolerate fascist fakery (R).