Here’s another quick guide: delete Instagram and Threads.
It’s a censorship and surveillance panopticon.
Maybe just don’t use it? Especially don’t use it if you’re on the left? Especially, especially don’t use it for news and organizing if you’re on the left?
I can get the argument (though I don’t respect it and I’ve never let it decide for me) that you need to keep Zuckerbook to keep in contact with grandma. I don’t get the argument that it’s a great place to find an anti-imperialist news feed or to organize people when it’s so transparently hostile and so deeply in bed with the US security state.
You want to view content from Russian funded news, Chinese news, anti-imperialist news? There are these neat things called websites and this other neat thing called the fediverse.
If you have to change a setting you’ve already lost the majority of people and that’s the point of censorship and propaganda, not to control all the people all the time but enough of them.
- Uninstall Instagram
