What evidence do they have? Also a court demanding Meta prove the negative is funny.
kbbgl87 22 minutes ago [-]
Nao Se Meta, that's clever
N_Lens 12 minutes ago [-]
It means "Don't get involved" in Brazilian Portuguese.
johnhamlin 9 minutes ago [-]
Roughly translates to “stay out of it?”
nielsbot 34 minutes ago [-]
Meta has interfered with elections before, we know the Trump admin wants Bolsonaro Jr in power, and the US establishment has supported anti-socialism in Brazil in the past. (The CIA agitated against Lula under Reagan, for example)
Is it overly conspiratorial to think the Meta is doing what they're accused of on behalf of the US?
missmewiththatl 32 minutes ago [-]
Trump should focus on America. In 15 days, he's going to wish he didn't.
cute_boi 21 minutes ago [-]
Hopefully, trump loses so badly republican will get some sense.
hackyhacky 17 minutes ago [-]
It doesn't matter whether Republicans lose the election or not. Trump will just ignore/dismiss the election results, or ignore/dismiss Congress, as he did has done for the last two years.
recroad 32 minutes ago [-]
It would be conspiratorial to not think that.
colordrops 26 minutes ago [-]
Conspiracies are hidden. It's a confirmed fact that they banned his account during the election. This is no conspiracy - it's out in the open.
idontwantthis 23 minutes ago [-]
A conspiracy is just people talking to each other about a crime. It doesn’t have to be hidden. Conspiracies can be in the open.
howunfortunate 23 minutes ago [-]
By this logic, old Twitter interfered with US elections by banning Trump.
hackyhacky 16 minutes ago [-]
> Twitter interfered with US elections by banning Trump.
You mean when Twitter "permanently" banned Trump in January of 2021, after the 2020 election (which he lost)? Which election do you suppose that interfered with?
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owebmaster 30 minutes ago [-]
> Is it overly conspiratorial to think the Meta is doing what they're accused of on behalf of the US?
Not at all. We all know it. There's just literally nothing we can do. The whole world is an US dictatorship
catlikesshrimp 60 seconds ago [-]
Or russian dictatorship or chinese dictatorship?
I would still pick US, If I could choose.
evann-dev 3 minutes ago [-]
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lifeisloving 35 minutes ago [-]
People should look up the North American Technate, because we're living in it. Its been a mission of techno-fascist for a couple decades, they're finally succeeding. They will get rid of democracy altogether
(they may have already, they can basically do mind control with recommendations algorithms and get swaths of people to do whatever they want).
N_Lens 10 minutes ago [-]
At long last! A Global Torment Nexus!!
slibhb 10 minutes ago [-]
A large minority of people cannot cope with losing elections. Shadowy forces are behind every loss. Ironically, it's this attitude that undermines democracy. More than Facebook at any rate...
georgemcbay 5 minutes ago [-]
> Conspiratorial nonsense along these lines rises to the top in almost every HN thread.
Calling them "secret mind control powers" is not a helpful way to communicate about this subject (regardless of which side you land on) but Google is worth 4 trillion dollars and Facebook is worth 2 trillion dollars almost entirely because many people can fairly easily be manipulated into thinking things based on what is put in front of them enough.
Not entirely not mind control powers.
neom 12 minutes ago [-]
Elon Musk’s grandfather, Joshua Haldeman, was a leader of that movement in Canada.
From that article: "Haldeman died in a plane crash in 1974, when he was 72 years old. His grandson, Elon Musk, was just three."
handoflixue 23 minutes ago [-]
I mean, if they have secret mind control powers that they've hid from the rest of the world for years, it seems kinda pointless to try and oppose them?
At that point, they've already won, neh?
(this is mostly to object that hyperbolic phrases like "basically mind control" don't do your argument any favor)
tomalbrc 18 minutes ago [-]
> secret mind control powers
Secret? Its called "X" and Facebook.
Rendered at 02:08:25 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) with Vercel.
Is it overly conspiratorial to think the Meta is doing what they're accused of on behalf of the US?
You mean when Twitter "permanently" banned Trump in January of 2021, after the 2020 election (which he lost)? Which election do you suppose that interfered with?
Not at all. We all know it. There's just literally nothing we can do. The whole world is an US dictatorship
(they may have already, they can basically do mind control with recommendations algorithms and get swaths of people to do whatever they want).
Calling them "secret mind control powers" is not a helpful way to communicate about this subject (regardless of which side you land on) but Google is worth 4 trillion dollars and Facebook is worth 2 trillion dollars almost entirely because many people can fairly easily be manipulated into thinking things based on what is put in front of them enough.
Not entirely not mind control powers.
Fun read: https://www.cbc.ca/newsinteractives/features/joshua-haldeman...
At that point, they've already won, neh?
(this is mostly to object that hyperbolic phrases like "basically mind control" don't do your argument any favor)
Secret? Its called "X" and Facebook.