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"Since Meta blocked links to news in Canada last August ... right-wing meme producer Jeff Ballingall says he has seen a surge in clicks for his Canada Proud Facebook page.
'Our numbers are growing and we're reaching more and more people every day,' said Ballingall, who publishes up to 10 posts a day and has some 540,000 followers.
'Media is just going to get more tribal and more niche,' he added. 'This is just igniting it further.'"
@MLClark I believe that's exactly what Facebook/Meta('s executives) hoped would happen.
It seems they want division, hatred, fear, rage, chaos, disinformation... anything that'll keep people trapped in their online echo chambers & drive them to adopt extreme views; as radicalization progresses it makes in-person/real-life interaction outside online echo chambers ever-more difficult, leading victims to move more & more of their social life online until there's nothing left in the real world.