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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Fri Jan 24, 2025, 05:58 PM Jan 24

Bororwitz - My War with Facebook

As a force for good, Facebook has never rivaled Doctors Without Borders. But improbably, it just got worse.

First came the announcement that founder Mark Zuckerberg was going full Joe-and-Mika by donating a million dollars to Trump’s Inauguration.

Then parent company Meta replaced its president of global affairs, former UK deputy prime minister Nick Clegg, with longtime Republican goon Joel Kaplan.

But this glorious shitshow reached a crescendo when Zuck declared that Facebook was firing its third-party fact-checkers—because, as any casual Facebook user knows, the platform’s biggest problem is that it’s just too darn factual.

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https://www.borowitzreport.com/p/time-to-unfriend-facebook

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it is LONG PAST TIME Skittles Jan 24 #1
"Full Joe-and-Mika." Paladin Jan 25 #2
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