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Facebook ❤️ Fascism
Its Current Astrology Ad Campaign Shows that Facebook Knowingly and Deliberately Welcomes Hate
In a series of appearances in early October, Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen repeated a claim those of us paying attention have heard many times before, so much so that Facebook already has a standard approach to rebutting it. The claim is that Facebook deliberately solicits far-right or hate or fascist content, and that it knows full well that this is not merely one use case for its platform among many — as any method for building community will inherently be — but that there is something special about fascist content and Facebook.
Facebook’s usual mouthpieces, including Mark Zuckerberg himself, and Facebook’s spokesperson Nick Clegg, leapt in to defend the company, following its well-established formula: “I want to be unambiguous: Facebook does not profit from hate,” Clegg wrote in an open letter in 2020 in response to the #StopHateforProfit campaign to boycott the whole platform due to its distribution of racist, sexist, and fascist content, with language very similar to their responses to Haugen. For some reason, you’ve probably already forgotten about that campaign, and Facebook continues to do just what it does. You’ve likely also forgotten about the many other campaigns, the many times civil rights groups have called out Facebook for its “coincidental” promotion of antivaxx…
