
Running Tally of Shitty Meta News
I will try to keep this list updated.
Shitty News from January 2025
- 2025-01-07 Meta eliminates fact-checking in latest bow to Trump
- 2025-01-07 Calling women 'household objects' now permitted on Facebook after Meta updated its guidelines
- 2025-01-09 Leaked Meta Rules: Users Are Free to Post "Mexican Immigrants Are Trash!" or "Trans People Are Immoral"
- 2025-01-13 Meta admits it deleted links to decentralized Instagram competitor Pixelfed
- 2025-01-14 Meta celebrates "freedom of expression" by censoring an LGBTQ group critical of Facebook.
- 2025-01-15 Lawyer Drops Meta Over Mark Zuckerberg's "Toxic Masculinity" Stanford professor Mark Lemley says the company and its founder have descended into "Neo-Nazi madness."
- 2025-01-17 Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly blaming former Meta exec Sheryl Sandberg for a company inclusivity initiative. Good ol' Mark throwing someone under the bus to avoid Trumpian attention.
- 2025-01-17 Meta's Community Notes Will Not Impact Paid Ads, Company Confirms. Sure. Just buy your way around any sort of pesky remaining "fact-checking".
- 2025-01-17 No fact-checking for Facebook and Instagram is driven by money, consequences will be harmful: MUN prof
- 2025-01-19 R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe calls for Facebook and Instagram blackout in protest against advance of American far right
- 2025-01-21 Meta Faces Backlash As Democrat-Related Terms Disappear From Instagram
- 2025-01-22 Facebook removes, then reinstates, page of British anti-racism organisation
- 2025-01-22 Meta admits some people can't unfollow Donald Trump on Instagram
- 2025-01-23 Report: Meta's fact checking program failed to spot most disinformation
- 2025-01-24 (Opinion) Meta's new policy will only add to disinformation
- 2025-01-25 Meta platforms blocked posts by abortion pill providers
- 2025-01-27 Meta's "MAGA Makeover"
- 2025-01-27 Facebook's internal policy makers decided that Linux is malware and labelled groups associated with Linux as being "cybersecurity threats". The sad irony here is that Facebook runs much of its infrastructure on Linux and often posts job ads looking for Linux developers.
- 2025-01-29 Everything is Spam on Facebook Unless It is Paid Post (or Actual Spam)
- 2025-01-29 As an Autistic Man With Debilitating Social Anxiety, I'm Disturbed by Facebook's Intense Rightward Shift
- 2025-01-29 Facebook user disturbed after coming across bizarre ads on their feed: 'This is a peek of a weird future'
- 2025-01-30 Meta warns that it will fire leakers in leaked memo
- 2025-01-31 Meta Blocked News in Canada. Ads for Scams Are Taking Its Place
- 2025-01-31 "Mark must have the Facebook app installed": Internet explodes as Zuckerberg's meeting on leaks... leaks again
- 2025-01-31 Meta to pay $25 million to settle Donald Trump lawsuit, Zuckerberg hails administration
Shitty News from February 2025
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