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Virtue boycotting?

Just so you all know the New York Post is a Rupert Murdoch (same person who owns Fox News) rag. According to Wikipedia it wasn't profitable from 1976 to 2022 perhaps even loosing up to $70 million a year. The reason why he ran it at a loss for so long is for influence. Prior to Murdoch's acquisition the "Post was seen to have liberal tilt, supporting trade unions and social welfare". Now it's a conservative trash rag.

Please use another source if you can.

People in the US care far too much about some possible badmouthing. Did Mark Zuckerberg call me a virtue signaller? I dont care. Zuckerberg is creepy as hell. Did some zionist genocider call me an anti-semite? yeah I dont care about their opinion on that either. Did some republican say democrats are weak on some issue? Who cares. All they do is lie and talk stupid all day long.

We all need to stop caring about what people we dont respect think or say about us.

I quit a long time ago without even meaning to.

There was just less and less content to keep me interested while more ads and "recommendations" kept taking their place. At some point I was just forcing myself to open the app each day and just stopped.

If an app, website, or game won't respect my time, why should I give it any?

how very fellow kids of mark

Friendly request that you please don't give News Corp views and re-edit the post to either link to the paywalled Business Insider article about it, the Yahoo article reprinting it without a paywall, or the archive.is version of the article.

https://www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerberg-dismissed-concerns-users-leaving-meta-platforms-virtue-signaling-2025-1

https://www.yahoo.com/news/mark-zuckerberg-says-users-may-203526245.html

https://archive.is/EOSFo

We need to find a way to prevent sociopaths from making it to the C-suite.

What we really need is everyone to suddenly quit at once.

It needs to happen so fast there is no time to sell off the bleeding stocks

summons angry goose:

"Which virtues, motherfucker?!"

Why would a billionaire resort to name calling random people ?

Ooooh ... his wealth and power is threatened.

"not giving me money is virtue signaling" damn, guess i gotta give him money

"Being virtuous is virtue signaling."

Ok. How about go fuck yourself Mark. Am I vice signaling enough for you now?

No, zucky-fuck. Pretending to care about your users and acting a certain way while you do the opposite to get a small-handed fat orange gremlin back into office is virtue signaling.

I forgot that not being part of a platform that just changed its rules to openly allow and advocate for hate speech toward trans people is virtue signaling.

Sorry that I want trans people to live without harassment and have human rights, I guess. What a virtue signaling asshole I am.

Quit? Proud to never had an account.

K. quits anyway

Mark Zuckerberg is a whiny piss baby.

Makes me think that platforms banning Trump after Jan 6 were just kissing up to Biden coming in. Maybe there is just a cycle of capitalist sucking up.

I finally deleted mines. I don't want to be on platforms using AI bots to engage users and the privacy issues. I just finally told any family where else to follow me and dipped.

1. Announces moderation team gutted

2. Announces that "community notes" will handle moderation

3. Make a bunch of moves to purge anyone in the community that might actually provide a factual "community note"

Anyone who doesn't want be evil is doing so performatively. Obviously.

What about those of us who never joined?

Anyone who stops using my product is a poo poo head

Anyone who claims someone is virtue signalling is virtue signalling. Except this one comment.

I quit Facebook years ago because it's a shitty website full of spam.

IG has gone down the same path. It's like 70% suggested/sponsored content that's worthless at best if not disinfo, propaganda, fraud, etc.

Fash make trash.

Well then, since 2016 I've been a Virtue signaling mother fucker. Fuck Zuck!

I’m counting on these changes actually making our platforms better

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The Meta boss was defiant in downplaying the possibility of a mass exodus of users.

I mean, he's probably not worrying too much about the US/EU markets, since in terms of MAU, Southeast Asia probably represents over 70% of that. Does anyone know what has been the general reaction to his bullshit over there?

Mary-Frances Makichen, a Threads user who has 253 followers, lamented that Meta and Zuckerberg “are counting on the fact that it’s too hard for people to leave Threads and IG.”

Pretty much. It's probably actually impossible to fully delete the accounts, fuckyzucky lives off users' data.

LMFAO virtue signal deez nuts. Fuckerberg.

I haven't had Facebook in 10 years lol. I don't have a vote on this one.

He's been taking testosterone hasn't he.

20 years ago, a piece of shit like Mark Zuckerberg would have used a similarly meaningless term like “political correctness” instead. Made no sense then and makes no sense now. What is the problem exactly? Is there something wrong with having an ethical framework and applying it consistently? Or, having standards? Using this framing, any ideological viewpoint is inherently bad, including the nihilistic and hypocritical one that Zuckerberg himself is expressing here. It’s all just nonsense, and further evidence that the economy that plied this asshole with so much wealth is anything but a meritocracy.