"What Meta is doing is it is incentivizing [users] to find issues that people believe in deeply, that people feel deeply aggrieved about, and to manipulate those audiences for profit. Meta has a responsibility to enforce its authenticity and monetization rules."

Fine them until they do so. Lord knows we wont' block Meta.

[–] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Make the fine so gobsmacking that it hurts them enough to the point where they seriously ponder wether they’ll ever recover from that.

Make the corporation feel like its revenue sources are mortally wounded, or will be if they get hit again.

This is how they will stop.

Otherwise, a "10 million settlement" merely becomes the operating cost of doing "business".

[–] grey_maniac@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 days ago

Make the fine a percentage of voting stock for each infraction. Too many infractions and a perpetrator has voluntarily donated their organization to the country it violated.

[–] EatYourOrach@lemmy.ca 18 points 3 days ago

"... constant lying is not aimed at making people believe a lie, but at ensuring that no one believes anything anymore. A people that can no longer distinguish between truth and lies cannot distinguish between right and wrong... With such a people, you can do whatever you want." - Hannah Arendt, 1906-1975, German historian and philosopher

[–] HumanOnEarth@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

And the fucking morons won't ever come close to understanding that they're being manipulated.

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Literally no, or rather I should say, if only that were the case!!

The literal definition of the word moron is a mental age between 8-12, or in terms of IQ score between 51-70.

Whereas propaganda can affect people with literal PhDs, trained in the craft of problem-solving and discernment of the true hidden behind many sometimes conflicting facts.

Of course, I am aware that you meant the term more in the colloquial sense of "foolish or notably stupid person". But therein lies the danger due to such ambiguity.

We should think of propaganda less dismissively imho, as in not something that mere morons would fall for, and rather as something that you or I and everyone we know or even do not know could easily fall for as well.

Propaganda affects not merely morons (implication: we here are safe) but PEOPLE.

[–] HumanOnEarth@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 days ago

Strongly disagree.

At this point, with basically everyone having internet access and a free 13 years of education, if you fall for this shit and go all in without even doing the slightest bit of looking into things..... you're a moron.

I would bet 90% plus of separatists indeed fall into the 51-70 IQ range or lower.

100 is average IQ. There are about 41.5 million people in Canada. By definition approximately 20,750,000 people have a below average IQ. Alberta is about 5 million. I don't how how many people are true separatists, but I think I've seen 20% being thrown around? That's 1 million.

Not a stretch, at all, that almost all separatists are low IQ. Plenty of room on the left side of the bell curve for 1 million moron separatiats.