Summary
Meta’s Instagram faced criticism after searches for “Democrat” or “Democrats” displayed a “results hidden” message, while “Republican” returned 3.3 million posts.
The issue emerged after Donald Trump’s inauguration, which Meta owner Mark Zuckerberg attended.
Meta attributed the problem to a technical error affecting political hashtags and promised a quick fix.
Critics, however, flagged concerns over perceived political bias, especially as Meta has recently shifted content moderation policies and aligned closer to the Republican administration, including donations to Trump and appointing a Republican as global affairs chief.
Its the Digital Markets Act and it went into law May 2023. AFAIK the only app that has implemented interoperability is Matrix. The rest are going to be fined at some point if they dont get their shit together
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Markets_Act
Doesn’t apply to Signal.
It applies to apps with large marketshare, maintained by for profit entities over 7.5 billion euro revenue in the EEA for 3 years or over 75 billion euro marketcap , and ironically it seems like the only apps actually currently doing anything to meaningfully comply with it are tiny, non profit maintained apps.
Yeah. So WhatsApp and, umm, Facebook chat. What other apps do people use from huge for profit companies? Maybe Google Meet?