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Judith Wilson's avatar

I’m concerned it might be a place where citizens’ negative comments might be under surveillance while we feel “safe”? Then we can be whisked away by ICE! Perhaps our Social Security can suddenly disappear! Our bank account can be stolen! All of this happens because BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING AND LISTENING TO YOU in the Friends Tab!👽👾🤖👀🥷🏻🧟‍♂️!

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Francesca Cee's avatar

I've been really worried about this too but I bet it's not limited to Facebook. I read that they are using AI to search through social media content. I'm sure it's not benign searches either. Probably targeting immigrants and dissidents. I'm getting increasingly paranoid about posting anything against the current administration. I guess this is what they want. Everyone scared into submission

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Judith Wilson's avatar

You have every right to be paranoid! I’d be careful of too much slander! We Democrats don’t need to say what a F….R he is! We already know it😊

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Kai Kinzer's avatar

First thing I thought of, too. Especially because you can never fully erase yourself from FB, it won't let you.

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Kasey Coff's avatar

I think it's phase one of "You like the new warm 'n' fuzzy 'Friends' tab? We see you're on there a lot. Unfortunately, we're going to be changing it to 'Subscribers only.' For only $3.99 a month you can join our basic tier, or for just $8.99 per month, subscribe to our Friends ad-free tier!"

Fuckerberg is a dickhead, but he's a billionaire dickhead. He sees Netflix and Amazon Prime Video making gobs of money with subscriptions - even Musk has got in on it with TwiXter. Zuck wants some of the pie, too.

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Lisa Chambers's avatar

What the hell? It’s been so long since I’ve shut that door. So creepy.

What was said to me at one point by a big pussy who likes to cosplay as a tech titan is that, “It doesn’t matter whether or not you leave the door open or closed.”

That pissed me off. I will never be censored in any medium. See you in the gulag. Long white witch hair Do. Not. Care.

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Caroline Boudakian's avatar

Wow! What an interesting and fantastic article. Facebook has become a sewage-filled platform I can't even call social media anymore. It has become everything Zuckerberger used to hate! He's just a tech-bro oligarch who debased himself sitting behind Trump on Jan 20th, and whose legacy will be a gigantic landfill!

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Mike Feder's avatar

Great writing! A burst of inspired muckraking genius!

I am, though, more than a little disappointed to learn that "Ava"--from no fixed address and with no real identity-- Ava, who loves my picture on FB and is practically expiring with passion when she sees the great stuff I post... that she is a BOT!

But, listen--What if Ava and all her kind are just mindless, soul-less bots? The boundaries of love are measureless and exist in a universe beyond human understanding.

And really, who's say that Ava, or Greta or Wanda--simply because they aren't HUMAN--don't experience the manifold joys of love?

Anyway, terrific writing and, sadly, probably true--

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liz's avatar

There is something seriously wrong evolving out of Silicone Valley -- a.pandemic of human Bots. The paranoia is reaching peak performance. Articles, like "Inside His Start-Up"... (NYTimes 3.30.25) re: Bryan Johnson, guru of "Blueprint" explains the fear of investigative reporting as The Dark Underground Accusation Economy. Freaky.

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Susan Niemann's avatar

I dropped FB and I’ve never looked back. It used to feel fun and connecting….now, just Scammy and fraudulent.

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Cinthia Teague's avatar

It feels to me like billionaire paranoia. Like Luigi and they all tremble. Build bots as an army to insulate themselves from the masses. Just silicon bros playing war games 🎮

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K.M.'s avatar

BOYCOTT

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Mike Feder's avatar

thanks

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KMB's avatar

I stopped using Facebook in 2016. Zuckerberg has now joined the fascists.

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Leonardo Del Toro's avatar

By now, it is impossible to delete your cyber footprints. If they (big balls brother) want to send you to El Salvador Airbb, for a anus enlargement procedure they will. So, I decided to stay and use FB to fight them using their channel.

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This Must Be Said's avatar

Protecting us? Did someone really fall for this?

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