Thank you!  I agree, Fb and social media in general is a dead end now. The thing is that they are simultaneously squelching our speech while making us thinking the world is hearing us – we really have no idea how many of our 'friends' can hear us. It is treadmill to no where.  It really is The Matrix.

Also? I am surprised you didn't mention how people are saying the Yemenis may have caused the Fb shutdown (I doubt this is true, but who knows really) by chopping a cable in the Red Sea. Yeah end Fb and Israeli genocide at the same time! woo hoo!)

This week's Meta outage plunged millions around the world into panic. No sooner did Bill Weinberg get back on Facebook than its robots slapped restrictions on his account for supposedly promoting "dangerous organizations"—precisely in response to his protests against online stanning for extremist groups! Apart from subjection to such Orwellian diktats from Meta's robotocracy,  Facebook has tweaked its algorithm to sideline links to news articles and instead boost "reels" and "memes," with high entertainment value but little informational content. This has tanked SEO for news outlets and resulted in ominous layoffs across the news industry. In Episode 216 of the CounterVortex podcast, Bill reiterates his call for a meme moratorium, as the ony means of consumer resistance to Meta's profiteering, anti-social agenda—but also asks what can be done about the more fundamental question of this corporate Borg's assimilation of every sphere of human reality.

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