in 2018, Facebook told Vox that it doesn’t use private messages for ad targeting. But a few months later, The New York Times, citing “hundreds of pages of Facebook documents,” reported that Facebook “gave Netflix and Spotify the ability to read Facebook users’ private messages.”...
Does going this far with targeted ads actually increase people’s likelihood to buy something? Like, the value of data you can get on someone has to plateau at some point, right?
Basically, people are about as vulnerable to misinformation campaigns online as the Native Americans were to all the diseases the colonizers brought over. Most people have no natural defenses against it.
Fr. I legitimately wouldn’t mind just a few banner ads to pay for things, but as per usual, the corpos got too damn greedy. So congrats, now you get no ad viewage from me.
Grumbles about generative AI’s shortcomings are coalescing into a “trough of disillusionment” after a year and a half of hype about ChatGPT and other bots....
I read “it’s dying” by people on Discord and Reddit all the time, but the numbers prove otherwise. It’s been going up this entire time and sitting over 3 billion MONTHLY ACTIVE USERS!...
I feel this so heavily. Those that are just that braindead, and don’t want to fix their braindeadedness, just drag down the rest of society. Like do we really gotta spare resources for hateful mouthbreathers that mob mentality on anything they don’t understand? Like, if they’re going to hate entire swaths of people for no good reason, they deserve to be hated.
I live in Michigan and basically as soon as you go into any rural area, it’s Trump Land. Complete with crazy hand painted signs calling Biden a demon and praising Trump as a god.
WASHINGTON — Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has filed a motion to oust Speaker Mike Johnson, three sources with knowledge of the move told NBC News, doing so just as the House voted to avoid a government shutdown....
You see, this is my biggest gripe with TikTok, so many people treat it like the ONLY place to get information. Just search “McDonald’s hash browns copycat recipe”.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) pressured Republicans to name the specific crime they are accusing President Biden of as they proceed with their impeachment inquiry....
As Haiti faces an extreme political and societal crisis amid a wave of intense violence, tech billionaire Elon Musk and right-wing pundits online are weaponizing unverified claims of cannibalism coming out of the conflict to advance a political agenda on immigration....
Meta gave Netflix and Spotify access to users private messages (arstechnica.com)
in 2018, Facebook told Vox that it doesn’t use private messages for ad targeting. But a few months later, The New York Times, citing “hundreds of pages of Facebook documents,” reported that Facebook “gave Netflix and Spotify the ability to read Facebook users’ private messages.”...
Pick 3 Rules (files.catbox.moe)
I’ll choose 3, 5, and 7.
ruler 📏 (reddthat.com)
Majority of Americans now use ad blockers (www.theregister.com)
Choose the planet, choose Ecosia: why you’re going to be asked to pick a search engine (blog.ecosia.org)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/18270004...
Chatbot letdown: Hype hits rocky reality (www.axios.com)
Grumbles about generative AI’s shortcomings are coalescing into a “trough of disillusionment” after a year and a half of hype about ChatGPT and other bots....
Trump is selling 'God Bless the USA' Bibles for $59.99 as he faces mounting legal bills (apnews.com)
Former President Donald Trump is now selling Bibles as he runs to return to the White House....
This is a member of the Ku Klux Klan pontificating on education. (lemmy.world)
Serial Killers Have Rapidly Declined Since The 1980s (www.discovermagazine.com)
Why is Facebook still so insanely popular? (midwest.social)
I read “it’s dying” by people on Discord and Reddit all the time, but the numbers prove otherwise. It’s been going up this entire time and sitting over 3 billion MONTHLY ACTIVE USERS!...
The House GOP just gave Biden’s campaign a huge gift: Roughly 80 percent of House Republicans just lined up behind a plan to cut Social Security and ban all abortions (www.vox.com)
Donald Trump would be on track to win a historic landslide in November — if so many US voters didn’t find him personally repugnant....
Transcendentalism rule (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
Trump tops Biden by 8 points in Michigan poll (thehill.com)
This causes me psychogenic pain to look at. (lemmy.world)
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene files motion to oust Mike Johnson as House speaker (www.nbcnews.com)
WASHINGTON — Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has filed a motion to oust Speaker Mike Johnson, three sources with knowledge of the move told NBC News, doing so just as the House voted to avoid a government shutdown....
'Everyone in the World Needs to See This': Footage Shows IDF Drone Killing Gazans (www.commondreams.org)
McPoverty (lemmy.world)
Ocasio-Cortez demands GOP specify actual crimes in Biden impeachment inquiry (thehill.com)
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) pressured Republicans to name the specific crime they are accusing President Biden of as they proceed with their impeachment inquiry....
Users ditch Glassdoor, stunned by site adding real names without consent (arstechnica.com)
Fresh fox plants (pawb.social)
McDonald’s stores hit by global IT failure (www.cnn.com)
From the article –...
Mississippi police officer pleads guilty to forcing prisoner to drink his own urine (www.theguardian.com)
Michael Christian Green faces up to year in prison after pleading guilty over incident in town of Pearl in December...
Elon Musk smears Haitian migrants with 'cannibal' claims amid crisis (www.nbcnews.com)
As Haiti faces an extreme political and societal crisis amid a wave of intense violence, tech billionaire Elon Musk and right-wing pundits online are weaponizing unverified claims of cannibalism coming out of the conflict to advance a political agenda on immigration....
Possibly a double-standard? (lemmy.world)