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Instagram and all corporate media should be held accountable. (energycommerce.house.gov)

submitted 1 year ago by ineedaunion@lemm.ee to c/worldnews@lemmy.ml

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I see it daily in Montana. Never thought I'd see such blatant scum that are protected here.

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[–] bloopernova@programming.dev 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is that click through image real?!?

What the fucking what?

[–] ineedaunion@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

Yep. My account was locked today for speaking out on such a channel. The entire platform is Russian bots, facists promoting and child molesters.

[–] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This doesn't surprise me at all.

[–] ineedaunion@lemm.ee -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My account was locked today for speaking out about it.

[–] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I routinely go find white supremacists on Facebook and report the shit out of their accounts. The amount of times Facebook has been fine with pictures of Hitler or the N word is shocking.

[–] XeroxCool@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"how could we tell if this white supremecy promotion or just another happy educational image? Context matters!" - Facebook moments before they never check context because they're "too big" and laughing all the way to the bank with your increased screen time and interaction on Facebook

[–] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Look at this page we found today, isn't this wonderful?

https://www.facebook.com/PepperCave?mibextid=ZbWKwL

[–] the_kgb@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

it's like he flipped a switch two days ago...

[–] owiseedoubleyou@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The full unpaywalled WSJ article btw: https://archive.is/GbQB1

[–] ineedaunion@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

You're the champ we all deserve.

[–] beefbaby182@lemmy.thesanewriter.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Unfortunately if you play music in a band Instagram is kind of a necessary evil for spreading news about your band.

[–] Mayonnaise@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In my experience, Instagram has also become the most reliable source for local restaurants randomly being closed (this has happened more often than I would like to discuss post-pandemic) and breweries (i.e. which food truck is at which brewery on any given day).

I have found those to be the only reasons that I ever check Instagram.

[–] beefbaby182@lemmy.thesanewriter.com 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, for anything local, Instagram and Facebook are still the way to go. I don't have a personal Instagram account, but when I check the band's account I really don't see anything questionable in there. I guess it just comes down to who you follow and who follows you. The worst thing I see is the occasional bot spam or bot account follow.