mathew- Think people might be encouraged away from Threads into the Fediverse via account migration? Facebook blocked an application that would let you export your own friend list for use in other social media systems.
<https://www.gmanetwork.com/news/scitech/content/225390/facebook-blocks-contact-exporting-tool-for-google-chrome/story/>
Next up, why shouldn't we trust Facebook to moderate?
- Facebook continued to actively promote posts that its own internal teams concluded were "bad for the world", because they had high engagement.
<https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/24/technology/facebook-election-misinformation.html>
- Facebook allowed right-wing web site The Daily Wire to break Facebook's content rules and use coordinated sockpuppet accounts for self-promotion, even after being told about it.
<https://popular.info/p/facebook-allows-prominent-right-wing?no_cover=true>
- Facebook allowed climate change denialists to be exempt from a supposed Facebook fact-checking program, because they spent money on ads.
<https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/facebook-arbiter-truth-fact-check-mark-zuckerberg>
- Facebook refused to count Holocaust denial as a form of hate speech and ban it.
<https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/16/facebook-algorithm-found-to-actively-promote-holocaust-denial>
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