Meta Connect developer conference - 25 September 2024, USA, Menlo Park: At the Meta Connect developer conference, Mark Zuckerberg, head of the Facebook group Meta, shows the prototype of computer glasses that can display digital objects in transparent lenses.
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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced earlier this week that the company’s social media platforms will no longer have independent fact-checkers, a fact that internet trolls ran with to hilarious results.
In a video posted on Tuesday, not only did Zuckerberg announce that he is rolling back fact-checking that kept Instagram, Facebook, and Threads from becoming a haven for hate speech and misinformation, but he said that he was planning to collaborate with President-elect Donald Trump to oppose international regulations of social media companies after meeting with the MAGA leader at Mar-a-Lago and donating $1 million to his inauguration. Bluesky is look better everyday!
“We’re going to simplify our content policies and get rid of a bunch of restrictions on topics like immigration and gender that are just out of touch with mainstream discourse,” he said. “What started as a movement to be more inclusive has increasingly been used to shut down opinions and shut out people with different ideas, and it’s gone too far.”
Because Zuckerberg moral fortitude appears to be the equivalent of a used piece of gum stuck to the bottom of your shoe, this week Meta also announced that the social media juggernaut was making sweeping changes to its content moderation policies, granting users the ability to post hate speech about race, nationalities, ethnic groups, and of course, sexual orientation and gender identity, claiming that it’s doing this because these topics are often part of the political discourse.
To the delight of Zuckerberg haters everywhere, people on the internet decided to troll the Meta founder and his newly fact-checking free social media platforms by posting the most outrageous and bonkers “facts” about him. These included outrageously hilarious lies about him and faux obituaries with fun facts like Zuckerberg having “his head surgically removed, flown to an undisclosed location in Germany and Cryogenically frozen” and dying after a “longtime battle with werewolf gonorrhea.” Yep, that checks out!
Keep scrolling to see the funniest fake obituaries and “facts” clowning on Mark Zuckerberg.
