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Facebook was the start (though Yahoo and YouTube weren't far behind). All conservatives and the rich have is money, so what's it to them to buy out the company or their CEO? This may end up being a worse propaganda machine than FOX, but time will tell...Haven't been on Reddit but not sure how their algorithm has been doing but their ads were very conservative before I left...
Facebook Hired Joel fucking Kaplan right after he left the Bush White House. Kaplan personally exempted rightwing conspiracy news sites from Facebook's truth standards, while also deprioritizing more overtly left leaning sites.
He personally nixed any change to the Facebook algorithm that would reduce the radicalization pipeline.
Oh, and he also stuffed Facebook management with right-wing yes men.
Thank you. At least someone remembers that Facebook/Meta has been a right winger echo chamber earlier than Musk's version