Exactly this. The moment for me was in December 2023 when I asked my husband to show me his home feeds across platforms to compare them with mine. He was seeing zero news from Gaza, and that’s when I realized they are building and reinforcing multiple divided social realities here, not simply doing censorship. View quoted note →

During Covid is when I deleted every post I had ever made in 15 years on Facebook because I could see the direction it was going. I would not call it worse then than now, though. They are still banning and shadow banning like crazy. We still can’t even say the word “vaccine” pretty much anywhere. Maybe X now, but still there is no organic reach on X anymore. View quoted note →