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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMeta Threw a Party for a Right-Wing Influencer Who Wants to "Save the West"
We don't need another 'savior'
Meta Threw a Party for a Right-Wing Influencer Who Wants to Save the West - Mother Jones
Last week, conservative influencer Isabel Brown celebrated 100 episodes of her podcast, where she sings the praises of motherhood, frets about the dangers of open borders, and asks rhetorical questions about homosexuality and what she frequently terms radical Islam.
To celebrate, Brown had a party thrown by the Daily Wire, the right-wing site that hosts her podcast. The event was also sponsored by Meta, the mega-company that owns Facebook, Instagram, and Threads, among other sites. The decorations included an archway that read Seeking Truth to Save The West, underneath the words Presented by Meta and the companys logo. An Instagram post from Brown celebrating the party thanked my amazing team at the Daily Wire and our friends at Meta for throwing me the cutest save the west party right in the heart of dc, and reiterated that the tech company had made this special celebration possible.
Meta hasnt trumpeted their sponsorship of the party, but the Daily Wire, which advertises heavily across Facebook and Instagram, did, including in a Facebook ad that offered a video recap of the event and in an Instagram post that included the hashtag #MetaPartner.
As Media Matters pointed out in 2023, the Daily Wire has been a major advertiser on Meta, and has used those ads to promote right-wing causesfor instance, spending some $5.7 million amplifying anti-trans content from its media personalities and other anti-trans rhetoric. Those ads, the watchdog group wrote at the time, often seemed to directly contravene Metas policies on hate speech.
To celebrate, Brown had a party thrown by the Daily Wire, the right-wing site that hosts her podcast. The event was also sponsored by Meta, the mega-company that owns Facebook, Instagram, and Threads, among other sites. The decorations included an archway that read Seeking Truth to Save The West, underneath the words Presented by Meta and the companys logo. An Instagram post from Brown celebrating the party thanked my amazing team at the Daily Wire and our friends at Meta for throwing me the cutest save the west party right in the heart of dc, and reiterated that the tech company had made this special celebration possible.
Meta hasnt trumpeted their sponsorship of the party, but the Daily Wire, which advertises heavily across Facebook and Instagram, did, including in a Facebook ad that offered a video recap of the event and in an Instagram post that included the hashtag #MetaPartner.
As Media Matters pointed out in 2023, the Daily Wire has been a major advertiser on Meta, and has used those ads to promote right-wing causesfor instance, spending some $5.7 million amplifying anti-trans content from its media personalities and other anti-trans rhetoric. Those ads, the watchdog group wrote at the time, often seemed to directly contravene Metas policies on hate speech.
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Meta Threw a Party for a Right-Wing Influencer Who Wants to "Save the West" (Original Post)
B.See
8 hrs ago
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(319,527 posts)1. Fuck All the GREEDIEST Zombies
That Ever Stole From the Poor and Middle Class Just to Get More & More Billions in their Counting Rooms.
marble falls
(72,059 posts)2. When has Meta not been at least quietly RW?
newdeal2
(5,501 posts)3. It's not the advertising dollars
That is a tiny amount to them.
Its the pressure from Trump to bend the knee. Leadership got the memo and theyve made all sorts of changes to their governance and board to cater to MAGA. Someone had to approve this and it wasnt by accident.