Mark Zuckerberg lost US$46 billion of net worth last night as Facebook - now called Meta Platforms - tanked by over 26% in one trading session.
The reason for the fall, quote (NZ Herald, sorry):
"One of the major reasons for the stock wipe-out was the revelation that for the first time since it was founded in 2004, Facebook's growth stalled – with the platform actually losing users.
It's the first time this has happened in its 18-year history, with more than half a million users deserting the site in the last three months of 2021."
Big Tech has proven to be an even greater censor of all opinion and thought than, if it were possible, governments. Or perhaps we'll put them on equal footing. Facebook may have been in big part responsible, with Twitter, for Trump's problems in the last campaign for presidency, leading to the formation of GETTR by Bannon.
Zuckerberg's little army of fascists ruthlessly delete anything that doesn't hold the Identity narrative, and most recently, Big Pharma's narrative that all must be jabbed with an inadequately tested vaccine (that I believe many will regret taking due to the long term health issues they will suffer from it).
It's probably way too much to think that these half a million users deserted in protest of Facebooks censorship; or perhaps not. Perhaps there is a tiny bit of hope.