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[–] spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 10 hours ago

Oh yes, another ""accidental"" deployment of a feature that just got accidentally thought up, implemented and deployed.

[–] PhoreTwunny@lemmy.world 8 points 9 hours ago

Nobody of value is still on Facebook anyway.

[–] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 11 points 10 hours ago

Is an “error” because they got caught.

[–] Pika@sh.itjust.works 93 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

having a whole lot of "Accidental" topic suppression as of late aren't they?

[–] GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 hours ago

They flipped the censor switch in inauguration night. I bet Zuckerberg let Trump hit the button.

[–] ogmios@sh.itjust.works 29 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

Whoops. Accidentally suppressed discussions regarding the accidental suppression of discussions. Those darned silly technical glitches are just so unpredictable.

[–] BumpingFuglies@lemmy.zip 12 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Those suppressing the discussions about the suppression of discussions have been suppressed.

[–] kambusha@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

A møøse once bit my sister.

[–] Zier@fedia.io 25 points 16 hours ago

Bunch of liars. More like Two-face-book! Amirite?

[–] CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago

Maybe they were just worried that kids were getting into hacking!

https://youtu.be/t1oHuDos8TI

[–] noorbeast@lemmy.zip 41 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

If you can't clearly admit why it happened you are deliberately avoiding being held accountable, because if you can fix it you know the cause!

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 24 points 18 hours ago

Sorry guys. We made a mistake! We only meant to suppress things like human rights, democrats, and minorities. We didn't mean to discriminate against linux. We don't give a shit about linux. ~ Meta response team.

[–] independantiste@sh.itjust.works 24 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

I mean... Yeah, it pretty obviously was a mistake from the beginning. Anyone who thinks otherwise is just as bad as the conspiracy theorists who think there's a deep state controlling us with the 5g in the vaccines. Facebook don't have any incentive to ban the word Linux, even they use it. It's not like it's a subject that would make their customers go away (like NSFW stuff for example). The shit I've seen people say "it's probably Microsoft paying them to censor Linux users" as if 1. Linux is any threat to windows's market share and 2. Microsoft didn't intentionally keep Linux alive as a way to avoid antitrust lawsuits. Microsoft is big on Linux too with azure.

[–] Opinionhaver@feddit.uk 8 points 12 hours ago

It's hilarious how people turn everything into conspiracies nowdays, while at the same time dismissing every narrative they don't like as a conspiracy too. Just today, there's another thread about Gemini "refusing to discuss Bernie Sanders" while at the same time it gives the exact same answer when asked about Trump.

[–] Engywuck@lemm.ee 10 points 15 hours ago

Are you trying to bring reason in the n-th internet drama of week? How dare you?

[–] small44@lemmy.world 29 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

We had a big backslash so we decided to act like it was an error

[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 4 points 18 hours ago (1 children)
[–] muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 5 points 17 hours ago

I remember when we were below 1%.It's nice to see that we're moving in the right direction.

[–] jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 3 points 18 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 4 points 18 hours ago

Whoops!

Whoopsie!

/Ryan George.