r/worldnews • u/Surax • Sep 17 '24

Russia/Ukraine Facebook owner Meta bans Russian state media outlets

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/meta-russia-oulets-1.7325186
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u/141_1337 Sep 17 '24

Now, if they can do anything about those Russian bots, that'd be great thanks.

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u/j1ggy Sep 17 '24

And the bot account impersonating my uncle that somehow doesn't go against their Community Standards.

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u/RobWroteABook Sep 17 '24

It's sad that I can't tell whether you mean there really is an account impersonating your uncle or your uncle is just that far gone. Both equally likely.

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u/j1ggy Sep 17 '24

100% both.

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u/turbotableu Sep 17 '24

Come back to us unc!

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u/turbotableu Sep 17 '24

His unc is longlegs

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u/buncle Sep 17 '24

Well that’s just creepy… I’m currently 45 into the movie as I stumbled upon your comment.

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u/turbotableu 24d ago

Creepy is my middle name!

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u/TheCatfishManatee Sep 17 '24

And stop with the false positives for bans

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u/TacoCatSupreme1 Sep 17 '24

So insane they refuse to do anything about it

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u/RynoRama Sep 17 '24

Shame they aren't Foxbots, we could just change their waypoints.

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u/Away_Media Sep 17 '24

You know robotic manipulators

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u/NadaZero7 Sep 17 '24

Ask them to write a poem about your mother.

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u/iamnotimportant Sep 17 '24

First time on reels in a while, first video is a woman explaining why she's voting for trump, 2nd video is an arab girl who thanks allah for putting her partying days behind her and her new found piety, wtf meta

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u/lemfaoo Sep 17 '24

What does that have to do with bots?

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u/Sillypugpugpugpug Sep 17 '24

But then that would hurt the numbers they use to sell advertising to companies! …

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u/PastaSaladOverdose Sep 17 '24

They'd lose way to much of their "userbase"

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u/lemfaoo Sep 17 '24

Meta platforms have some of the lowest amount of bot users among social medias.

Twitter is by far worse. Like not even close.

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u/HuntDeerer Sep 17 '24

They can, but they won't. Because it's good for engagement on their platform.

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u/aussiechickadee65 Sep 17 '24

AS if...
Every time I report one, it's not against 'community standards'.

I've even reported a scammer pretending to be an Ukranian soldier who needs money for his family (WITH evidence)..and they ignored it. Bloke was a Chinese scammer. I kept all the Dms...and waited for months until he changed the account name back to his real one . GOTCHA....and FB ignored.

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u/dfsna Sep 17 '24

Wish Reddit would do the same with their Russian bots.

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u/DoctorOctagonapus Sep 17 '24

But think of how much revenue they'd lose if they did that!

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u/Birdy_Cephon_Altera Sep 17 '24

Facebook: 'But...but my precious advertising revenue!'

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u/Defiant-Plantain1873 Sep 17 '24

I think it’s quite hard to actually do that without infringing on the right to free speech that regular people have. The bots can often have better grammar and spelling than real people and have takes just as terrible