How many people are on Facebook in the United States?

According to the latest data, 250.2 million Facebook users are estimated to be in the United States, reflecting a 1.41% increase compared to the previous year. In 2023, the number of Facebook users in the United States was 246.73 million. Projections suggest that by 2028, this figure will rise to 262.8 million.Jan

Are not aware or not willing to acknowledge the danger of remaining on those platforms.

Social media
TV
Cable
Papers
Govt websites taken over
Govt radio

We are buried in compromised media

And most eat it up or are ignorant, leading to a growing population of brainwashed and misinformed.

Oversight by moral rational people was only hope, and that is gone.

And I preached that our glee in shutting down "disinformation" and having the government take an active roll in monitoring and pressuring social media would come to bite us in the ass. Without fail, when we stifle the first amendment, when we enact policies that may help us in the short term but do harm to the foundations that support the first amendment, it is always a net negative.

Controlling the narrative seems great when you are the one controlling it. But when the assholes are in charge, it doesn't feel quite so good.

Hopefully we, as a party, can get back to our roots of vigorously defending the first amendment rights of all, even if we don't like what is being said.

What facebook is doing is wrong now and similar actions they too were wrong four years ago also. They have evolved beyond a private entity that can censor with impunity to something that should be treated for first amendment purposes as a public forum.

Um no. Disinformation MUST be "shut down". The government's "role" in it can be through encouraging vetted 3rd parties to monitor and challenge misinformation, disinformation, and that info.

The SCOTUS upheld how the Biden Administration handled this. There was no "censorship" of any of the bullshit that flew out there but simply a notification to those entities about the misinformation and disinformation appearing on their platforms, that could literally cause harm (e.g., the continued insistence on the use of ivermectin to treat COVID, etc).

How those entities respond, which is what the subject of this OP is about, is completely separate from anything that the previous administration has done. THEY make their own decisions as private entities.

IOW, "You can lead a horse to water but you can't make them drink".

This bullshit that we can't regulate stuff that is harming us has to end

have, resources that are not associated with the government, and that includes the sell out Zuckerberg, Bezos, etc.

They can't be trusted.

I have never followed them and within 5 minutes, saw at least 3 posts. I blocked 'em