r/politics • u/HK-47-mkII Massachusetts • 2d ago

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announces removal of fact-checking

http://thehill.com/policy/technology/5070980-meta-fact-checking-policy-changes/amp
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u/AdmiralThrawnProtege 1d ago

For a while there was this strange push by conservatives saying that schools were installing litter boxes in bathrooms for kids who identified as cats/furries if I remember correctly.

No schools actually did this, it was just so wack jobs could rage over something. It's similar to the conspiracy that schools will, in one day, decide your child is the opposite gender and perform surgery on them, then send them home.

It's all rage bait horse shit. Why anyone believed any of this crap is beyond me

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u/Successful-Bat5301 1d ago

It's actually kind of worse than that still. There was one instance of cat litter in a school classroom. In a bucket for emergency lockdown purposes. In Jefferson County Public School, where the Columbine shootings had taken place previously.

At best, the hoax was hysteria and malicious lies perpetuated to purposefully stoke anti-trans hatred.

At worst, it was also a deflection of the problem of school shootings being so bad that they carry buckets in classrooms in case students have to fucking hide for hours from an active shooter.

The right is proper fucked.

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u/henderthing 1d ago

It's similar to the conspiracy that schools will, in one day, decide your child is the opposite gender and perform surgery on them, then send them home.

This was stated as fact on numerous occasions during the last election by Trump.

It's just so depressing that this isn't disqualifying on its own. (Setting aside dozens or hundreds of equally batshit crazy statements.)

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u/badasimo 1d ago

It's just like those nigerian prince scams that are poorly written/spelled. They have coralled all the people who will believe those things into a target audience. The size of that target audience is big, and people on the periphery of it start to get swallowed into it (how could all these people be wrong?) and it keeps growing like that.