In supporting the extreme right, Meta is undermining the Bolivian government.
March 5, 2023Tweet
(RT) βΈ» Meta, the company that owns Facebook, has blocked a slew of accounts and groups as part of its "Adversarial Threat" program. This includes 1,041 Facebook accounts, 450 Pages, 14 Groups and 130 Instagram accounts belonging to supporters of the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS-IPSP), the party of government. Meta claims it is defending "members of the opposition," but this means allowing these same groups to publish open hate speech and racial discrimination against Bolivia's minority groups. Critics have called Anez's regime fascist, and the Sacaba massacre left 11 people dead and an estimated 98 wounded after police and soldiers fired on protesters who were decrying the undemocratic ouster of former president Evo Morales and the installation of Anez. Meta defended "members of the opposition" who are still committing acts of violence and insurrection on Facebook, despite the fact that the terms of service don't forbid having friends with the same political views and using the platform to spread factual information and debunk false news. He also defended the use of fake news in foreign languages other than English due to a lack of qualified staff and a broken AI system.
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