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Meta cancelled climate change ads, then cancelled a local newspaper that reported about the ads, then a blogger who reported on the paper's cancellation, and now has escalated to blocking all of LGF (littlegreenfootballs.com)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Interesting take. You've certainly got me thinking about it a bit more.

I won't try to interpret the author's intent because that's for him to do and I don't want to speak on his behalf. But I do think he's right about the tone of the response to the error being wildly wrong. News orgs should be dispassionate and I don't get a sense that they were at all.

I think Meta fucks up. I think mass media is terrible at understanding what they're reporting about. I think conservatives in particular see boogie men everywhere. Anyway, I'd read Nick's piece earlier in the day and that had been my only exposure to the story, so I chose to link to it because to me it was a reasonable response.