Discord is getting scraped by a spy site. China wants Apple to drop all Meta apps from the app store! Twitter's Grok is spreading more fake news.
And next year's phone chips might be thirstier than this year's!
"Meta switched this year to using AI/no human in the loop reports for child abuse material to save $ -meaning the govt. can no longer legally use them w/o a warrant. Side benefit for Meta - fewer child abuse cases link back to them, at the cost of children’s safety."
-F Haugen
"Org that busts child sex trafficking rings. "Asked CEO who's most to blame -w/o hesitation, he said Meta. We try to work with them, but they're not helping."
-S Juvetson https://marici.org/
Not sure if other people do this, but I use notifications of favorites/boosts as a discovery mechanism for accounts to possibly follow.
I mean it's a potential sign they have similar interests, so might as well visit the profile and see if they post interesting stuff you want to see more of.
I'll often favorite a few posts along the way too, which I hope doesn't seem too weird to people!
Stylized 3D illustration about bloggers, for the Dutch ComputerTotaal magazine.
You might notice "META" and "WTF" in the letters. That's just coincidence… Uh, I mean… It was of course a visionary prediction of Zuckerberg's corporation. 😉
"Since end-to-end encrypting communications on the platform as a measure to protect user privacy, Meta no longer has access to the content of messages so cannot monitor what is spreading. But the company now says it has technology to spot accounts engaging in abnormal behaviour, with 8m accounts banned a month – 75% of which are banned before those accounts are reported by users."
#Meta, the parent #company of #Facebook, has been advised by the European #Data Protection Board against enforcing a "Consent or pay" system on its users for data protection. The EDPB, chaired by Anu Talus, emphasized the importance of providing users with genuine choices regarding their data privacy when implementing such models. "Online platforms should give users a real choice when employing 'consent or pay' models. The models we have today usually require https://pike.link/fPKup...
The EU's Data Protection Board (EDPB) has told large online platforms they should not offer users a binary choice between paying for a service and consenting to their personal data being used to provide targeted advertising.
Meanwhile in the UK, ‘whatever you like provided our ministers get a cut’.
🇬🇧 #Pirates victory: After our open MEP letter criticising #Meta’s ‘pay or okay’ scheme the EU Data Protection Board is also speaking out against its legality. A big step towards overcoming Meta’s surveillance-capitalist business model and establishing surveillance-free ads!
“Israel is killing people based on being in the same Whatsapp group as a suspected militant. Where are they getting this data? Is WhatsApp sharing it?”
I feel we have to make this relevant to USians given how low the exchange rate of Palestinian lives to the US Dollar is: Think of it this way, this probably means your credit score is also affected by the people in your WhatsApp groups.
Today I tried out #Facebook’s “write with AI” button, and the result was predictably awful and laughable. Just a tepid word salad, a zero-nutrient space-filler, a collection of terribly mundane nonsense.
Why would anyone hit “post” after seeing this kind of result? It’s only good for a laugh and a delete. It’s just noise. Garbage.
I’m surprised the #EU isn’t going to allow the #meta pay or let us show you personalized ads thing. It seems like a perfectly fair compromise to me. You can either pay Meta through ad revenue or directly and preserve your privacy.
This seems like the EU saying its citizens are entitled to use Meta’s services regardless of their financial value which seems sort of bonkers. Facebook isn’t a public utility.
Considering #Threads is run by the same people, I'm increasingly convinced that #Meta will use Threads to exploit the free labor of creators in the same way it does with Instagram.
#Meta (#Facebook, #Instagram) laisse la propagande pro-russe proliférer auprès de millions de Français, révèle une ONG
Des millions de comptes français ont été exposés à des publicités pro-russes visant à les convaincre que l'aide en #Ukraine n'était pas nécessaire, sans aucune modération de Meta. C'est l'une des révélations d'une étude de l'ONG AI Forensics.
Abonnieren oder akzeptieren - vor dieser Wahl stehen derzeit etwa Nutzer*innen von #Facebook und #Instagram. Sie sollen jeden Monat 9,99 EUR abdrücken oder sich individuell überwachen lassen.
So ein Modell ist nicht fair, sagt nun der Europäische Datenschutzausschuss #EDPS. – Und jetzt?
2021 wurde die #Facebook-Seite der #Filmwerkstatt Düsseldorf von #Meta grundlos gelöscht. Auf unsere Klage hin schaltete die Plattform die Seite wieder frei. Heute verhandeln wir, um einen nachhaltigen Schutz der #Kunstfreiheit zu sichern. Die Seite der #Filmwerkstatt wurde mutmaßlich wegen eines Programmhinweises auf einen Oscar nominierten Film gelöscht. Das Filmstill zeigte einen der Hauptdarsteller und eine Gruppe mit Lendenschurz bekleideter indigener Menschen. https://freiheitsrechte.org/themen/freiheit-im-digitalen/filmwerkstatt