Episode
Taking a Break from Meta- please join me in Boycotting all Meta platforms this week
- Podcast
- The Conversation Art Podcast
- Published
- Jan 21, 2025
- Duration seconds
- 736
- Processing state
not_requested
Actions
POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-conversation-art-podcast-420741/episodes/taking-a-break-from-meta-please-join-me-in-boycotting-all-meta-platforms-this-week/transcription-requests
Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode.GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-conversation-art-podcast-420741/taking-a-break-from-meta-please-join-me-in-boycotting-all-meta-platforms-this-week.md
Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource.
Summary
After learning about the Lights Out Meta campaign, a boycott on all Meta platforms from January 19th thru January 26th, 2025, it sounded like a good idea, and after reading about it more extensively, I think it's a necessary one. Here are the articles I quote from in this one-off boycott episode: Meta's pivot to the right sparks boycotts and calls for a user exodus and- Lights Out Meta: R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe calls for Meta boycott to protest rise of US far-right and- Meta Boycott And TikTok Ban Could Signal Social Media's Transformation