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I hope everyone gets this Facebook joke. (Original Post) JohnnyRingo Saturday OP
Ha! Ocelot II Saturday #1
Yep! GreenWave Saturday #2
I gotta say this is the first I've heard of this EYESORE 9001 Saturday #3
It's not true. None of it. JohnnyRingo Saturday #7
Sounds believable to me FoxNewsSucks Saturday #8
And Musk disappeared the creator of Tesla. ananda Saturday #17
Sorry. Slow on the caffeine uptake this morning. EYESORE 9001 Saturday #9
Hannah Arendt is pretty smart Lucky Luciano Saturday #12
Good one! samplegirl Sunday #28
Its a joke ColinC Saturday #19
If truth doesn't matter, The Madcap Saturday #4
Alternate facts do not need to be fact-checked. keithbvadu2 Saturday #5
Not the full history. Just enough to expain his character, or the lack thereof. (old article) usonian Saturday #6
LOL! nt (makes me want to post that on fb! lol) orleans Saturday #10
p.s. i googled chris hughes and found this article orleans Saturday #11
A very interesting life indeed. a kennedy Saturday #20
I posted this on FB a few days ago. I think I will post again to make sure everyone I know sees it. camartinwv Saturday #13
Good enough to spread like butter. Historic NY Saturday #14
A wonderful fun read! chouchou Saturday #15
Fortunately, one can post on Facebook - like here - that it's fake. As long as we can do that, who needs fact-checking. Silent Type Saturday #16
People need to flood moniss Saturday #18
Just asking... OldEurope Sunday #30
They have set the rule that anything at all moniss Sunday #31
It is the truth! WA-03 Democrat Saturday #21
It would be funny, if it wasn't truthy. nt Xipe Totec Saturday #22
The truthiness makes it funny! JoseBalow Saturday #24
haha I forgot about Truthiness! JohnnyRingo Sunday #26
Hilarious! red dog 1 Saturday #23
Joke is Chris Hughes is alive and well IbogaProject Sunday #25
This is how you lie well! Aussie105 Sunday #27
It's believable malaise Sunday #29
We don't need no stinkin' fact-checking! Martin68 Sunday #32

EYESORE 9001

(27,686 posts)
3. I gotta say this is the first I've heard of this
Sat Jan 11, 2025, 10:54 AM
Saturday

What sort of acquaintances did zuck have back then? Ones that could make someone vanish entirely. I’m ignorant of zuck’s upbringing too.

JohnnyRingo

(19,502 posts)
7. It's not true. None of it.
Sat Jan 11, 2025, 11:29 AM
Saturday

...But since Zuck officially ended fact checking on his site, anything goes. Including lies about him.

The real punchline is that 40% of people online say they get their news from Facebook and other social media.

EYESORE 9001

(27,686 posts)
9. Sorry. Slow on the caffeine uptake this morning.
Sat Jan 11, 2025, 11:38 AM
Saturday

It’s getting to the point that nothing can be believed in media - corporate or social. Perhaps that’s the point.

Lucky Luciano

(11,523 posts)
12. Hannah Arendt is pretty smart
Sat Jan 11, 2025, 11:53 AM
Saturday

The result of a consistent and total substitution of lies for factual truth is not that the lie will now be accepted as truth, and truth be defamed as lie, but that the sense by which we take our bearings in the real world - and the category of truth versus falsehood is among the mental means to this end - is being destroyed.

Hannah Arendt

samplegirl

(12,315 posts)
28. Good one!
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 07:23 AM
Sunday

What an asskisser he turned out to be. Who would have thought? He never stopped insurrectionist's from posting there evil on Facebook!

ColinC

(11,080 posts)
19. Its a joke
Sat Jan 11, 2025, 05:40 PM
Saturday

Higjlighting that lies like this(and worse ones) are now allowed to be spread via facebook since Facebook changed their rules.

The Madcap

(742 posts)
4. If truth doesn't matter,
Sat Jan 11, 2025, 11:08 AM
Saturday

Then staying away from conversation is probably the safest path in daily life.

usonian

(15,168 posts)
6. Not the full history. Just enough to expain his character, or the lack thereof. (old article)
Sat Jan 11, 2025, 11:19 AM
Saturday
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/apr/17/facebook-people-first-ever-mark-zuckerberg-harvard

So here’s what I know about Mark Zuckerberg. During those first few weeks of Facebook’s existence, while he was assuring his fellow college students that we could trust him with our identities, he had a private conversation on instant messenger with a friend. That conversation was subsequently leaked, and published by Silicon Valley Insider. It is as follows:

ZUCK: yea so if you ever need info about anyone at harvard

ZUCK: just ask

ZUCK: i have over 4000 emails, pictures, addresses, sns

FRIEND: what!? how’d you manage that one?

ZUCK: people just submitted it

ZUCK: i don’t know why

ZUCK: they “trust me”

ZUCK: dumb fucks

In the intervening years, I’ve learned that Zuckerberg values his own privacy so much that he has security guards watching his trash, that he bought four houses surrounding his own house to avoid having neighbors, that he sued hundreds of Hawaiians to sever their claim to tiny plots of land within his massive Kauai estate, and that he secretly built tools to prevent further private messages from coming back to haunt him.

What I haven’t learned, or seen any sign of, is that he has changed his opinion of the intelligence of his users. It’s Zuckerberg’s world, and we’re all just a bunch of dumb fucks living in it.

orleans

(35,434 posts)
11. p.s. i googled chris hughes and found this article
Sat Jan 11, 2025, 11:51 AM
Saturday

kind of an interesting / progressive guy it seems


https://www.forbes.com/profile/chris-hughes/

Chris Hughes grew up in small town North Carolina before heading off to Phillips Academy and then Harvard. He met Facebook co-founders Mark Zuckerberg and Dustin Moskovitz as a freshman at the Ivy League school, and joined the startup as its spokesperson. Internally nicknamed "the Empath," Hughes, who studied history and literature, focused on the site's functionality and user-friendliness instead of coding. In 2007, he left a growing Facebook to join then-senator Barack Obama's presidential campaign as the Director of Online Organizing. He spearheaded my.barackobama.com, a popular social media site for supporters. In 2012, Hughes bought a majority stake in the New Republic, a progressive-leaning magazine that focuses on politics and culture. His attempt to revamp the publication led to mass resignations across the newsroom, and he ultimately sold the magazine in 2016 after years of financial losses. Read Less




Hughes founded a social network for nonprofits called Jumo in 2010 and sold it one year later to publishing company Good. He then purchased the New Republic for $5 million in 2012 and invested another $20 million in the magazine before selling it in 2016. Since then, Hughes has been leading the fight against Facebook while supporting his universal basic income think-tank, Economic Security Project.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/mnunez/2019/07/26/how-facebook-cofounder-chris-hughes-made-and-spent-his-fortune/
(more to this article from 2019)



camartinwv

(93 posts)
13. I posted this on FB a few days ago. I think I will post again to make sure everyone I know sees it.
Sat Jan 11, 2025, 12:11 PM
Saturday

Silent Type

(7,619 posts)
16. Fortunately, one can post on Facebook - like here - that it's fake. As long as we can do that, who needs fact-checking.
Sat Jan 11, 2025, 12:30 PM
Saturday

Beside, I bet what passed as fact-checking on FB would not even have identified that as fake.

moniss

(6,258 posts)
18. People need to flood
Sat Jan 11, 2025, 01:19 PM
Saturday

social media incessantly with tons of claims about horrible things these mega billionaires do both personally and in business. Go on quarterly earnings conference calls and ask about allegations of accounting fraud for example. Do everything possible to harm them.

OldEurope

(1,276 posts)
30. Just asking...
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 09:40 AM
Sunday

...what are those rich men hiding in the basements of their gated palaces? Why do they still look so young?

moniss

(6,258 posts)
31. They have set the rule that anything at all
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 10:17 AM
Sunday

can be said with impunity so if someone wants to say Tesla, by extension, is successful due to the blood sacrifice of children it should be perfectly fine. If He of Foul Odor wishes to publish a denial that's fine and they also set the rule that takes care of it and there is to be no legal action. Their rules. Hope they like them.

IbogaProject

(3,908 posts)
25. Joke is Chris Hughes is alive and well
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 12:07 AM
Sunday

And he did help create it. Only the missing part and the timing are BS.

Aussie105

(6,553 posts)
27. This is how you lie well!
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 01:00 AM
Sunday

Take some verifiable facts, spin them into a story, then hide your lie inside a web of truth.

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