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jennyzilliac - The way we vote out billionaire mega-power brokers is to stop using their platforms.

Thanks to the Fediverse, we have democratic alternatives to billionaire dictators.

I know I'm preaching to the choir here, but many of us are continuing to use sites like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. I'm struggling to get off a couple of them myself, so I'm not judging anyone. Let's support each other in making the hard but important efforts to strengthen democracy in the US and around the world.

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“The end result could be Meta removing access to almost all legitimate news organizations, but leaving up links to news stories from disreputable outlets, or blogs and other one-person operations,” wrote Laura Hazard Owen of Harvard’s Nieman Lab.

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The Guardian: ‘Disaster’: warning for democracy as experts condemn Meta over Canada news ban
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/04/canada-meta-news-ban-facebook-fake

#SaveDemocracy #abandonbillionaires

The way we vote out billionaire mega-power brokers is to stop using their platforms.

Thanks to the Fediverse, we have democratic alternatives to billionaire dictators.

I know I'm preaching to the choir here, but many of us are continuing to use sites like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. I'm struggling to get off a couple of them myself, so I'm not judging anyone. Let's support each other in making the hard but important efforts to strengthen democracy in the US and around the world.

[Note: This article is about Meta in Canada, but the need to protect democracy is global.]

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“The end result could be Meta removing access to almost all legitimate news organizations, but leaving up links to news stories from disreputable outlets, or blogs and other one-person operations,” wrote Laura Hazard Owen of Harvard’s Nieman Lab.

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The Guardian: ‘Disaster’: warning for democracy as experts condemn Meta over Canada news ban
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/04/canada-meta-news-ban-facebook-fake

#SaveDemocracy #abandonbillionaires