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With the presidential election creeping closer and so many issues at stake, entering political discussions can feel like walking into a land mine. We are more divided than ever, and it often feels ...
Despite broader efforts to reduce political content on Meta platforms, Threads, the company’s X competitor that launched in 2023, recently announced a new trending section, called Topics, which ...
There’s no need to wade into a political conversation in the early days or weeks following the election—or even at all. Give yourself time to celebrate or grieve, Israel suggests; neither will ...
The barbs exchanged between the two was highly publicized and is an example of political flaming and a flame war. [30] Similar messages were shared leading up to the 2024 Presidential election, with Donald Trump referring to his opponent, Kamala Harris, as "Lyin' Kamala," and the incumbent, Joe Biden, as "Crooked Joe Biden" on his X account. [31]
Facebook has been accused of censoring messages critical of Israel and supportive of Palestine. During conflict over the Sheikh Jarrah controversy in 2021, Facebook was accused of deleting hundreds of posts critical of Israel. [42] Senior Facebook officials apologized to the Palestinian Prime Minister for censoring pro-Palestinian voices. [43]
Facebook has, at least in the political field, a counter-effect on being informed: in two studies from the US with a total of more than 2,000 participants, the influence of social media on the general knowledge on political issues was examined in the context of two US presidential elections.
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Facebook has been criticized for having lax enforcement of third-party copyrights for videos uploaded to the service. In 2015, some Facebook pages were accused of plagiarizing videos from YouTube users and re-posting them as their own content using Facebook's video platform, and in some cases, achieving higher levels of engagement and views than the original YouTube posts.