- thegrayzone.com Facebook designates Grayzone journalist Kit Klarenberg a ‘dangerous individual’ - The Grayzone
The notoriously intelligence-friendly social media network appears to have imposed a ban on posting a recent report by Kit Klarenberg, and is automatically restricting users who re-publish his work. Multiple Facebook users have reported being banned, or having their posts censored, after sharing an ...
Multiple Facebook users have reported being banned, or having their posts censored, after sharing an investigation by The Grayzone’s Kit Klarenberg into CIA and MI6 involvement in the creation of ISIS. Readers who post links to the piece on the social network find themselves frozen out of their accounts, on the apparent grounds that Facebook has classified Klarenberg as a “dangerous individual.”
- www.wired.com Facebook Trains Its AI on Your Data. Opting Out May Be Futile
Here's how to request that your personal information not be used to train Meta's AI model. "Request" is the operative word here.
- www.reuters.com Meta to drop 'Facebook News' tab in some European countries
Meta Platforms said on Tuesday it will discontinue the "Facebook News" feature on its social media app in the UK, France and Germany, later this year.
- mashable.com Threads backtracks flagging right-wing users for spreading disinformation
Regardless, right-wing Twitter users already hate Threads.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1898346
> When Threads launched on Wednesday, numerous right-wing users shared(opens in a new tab) their dissatisfaction(opens in a new tab) with Twitter's biggest competitor — on Twitter of course — over having their accounts flagged for disinformation. As of Friday, however, it seems the warning label on accounts that reported the issue has since disappeared.
- www.theverge.com Facebook turns over mother and daughter’s chat history to police resulting in abortion charges
Unencrypted chat history is a prime target for police
A 17-year-old from Nebraska and her mother are facing criminal charges including performing an illegal abortion and concealing a dead body after police obtained the pair’s private chat history from Facebook, court documents published by Motherboard show.
- www.bbc.com Facebook owner Meta plans to create Twitter rival
A text-based version of Instagram could potentially let users carry across followers from other apps.
Meta has shown staff plans for a text-based social network designed to compete with Twitter, sources have told the BBC.
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How to mute incoming calls from a specific person on messenger?
I have their messages muted, which is great. But they call me on fb and my phone rings.
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Account banned from marketplace. For mentioning the word cryptocurrency?
I was selling a table and had the word cryptocurrency in the ad. They want me to send them government issued ID
- nymag.com Why Facebook’s Metaverse Is Dead on Arrival
Scott Galloway thinks Mark Zuckerberg is exactly the wrong person to build an alternate reality.
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How Facebook got addicted to spreading misinformation - The company’s AI algorithms gave it an insatiable habit for lies and hate speech, Now the man who built them can't fix the problem!
www.technologyreview.com How Facebook got addicted to spreading misinformationThe company’s AI algorithms gave it an insatiable habit for lies and hate speech. Now the man who built them can't fix the problem.
Some very interesting insight imparted here from Joaquin Quiñonero Candela, a director of AI at Facebook, about how AI started to take off within Facebook, the prominence it was given, and the depths to which it was encouraged to instigate interactions.
We have known a long time, even before Cambridge Analytica, that private information was leaking out of Facebook (not what this article is about), but this exposure about how AI is used now also confirms the lengths to which Facebook would go to "fuel flames" in order to elicit more engagement. The goal really was to inflame as much of any sort of engagement as possible. Obvious misinformation often invokes more response, than agreement with any topic.
Seriously this is not what most other social networks do. Most (all?) open source social networks such as Mastodon, Hubzilla, Pixelfed, etc have very superficial algorithms to deal with popular vs chronological order choices, managing blocks and bans, etc, but those algorithms are generally visible for inspection. Generally open source social networks are fun networks for people to interact and socialise on. They are not intended to manipulate their users. Facebook is just not that in any form or way...
But it's our own choice what social network we join. Absolutely no-one is forced to join any specific social network. You should ask what the purpose/goal of a specific social network is, and are your own goals the same?
See https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/03/11/1020600/facebook-responsible-ai-misinformation/
#technology #AI #deletefacebook #misinformation
- www.theverge.com Facebook brings back news after Australian government amends upcoming law
It says the changes addressed its ‘core concerns’
- www.thepigeonexpress.com Facebook to revoke ban on news pages in Australia • The Pigeon Express
Facebook has decided to revoke its ban and restore news content in Australia after being reassured by government in recent discussions.
Also see this: https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/23/22296778/facebook-ends-australian-news-ban-bargaining-code-google
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If Facebook Australia is no longer serving "news" doesn't that make it the best version of Facebook available?
Seriously, how Facebook presents "news" and practices social manipulation is fundamentally broken in Australia because of this decision.
Any Ausies on here that can let us know what FB looks and feels like right now?
- news.yahoo.com Unsealed court document claims Facebook 'knew for years' that a metric was inflated and ignored an employee warning to avoid a revenue hit
Facebook executives "took steps to conceal the problem" with its inflated Potential Reach metric, the unredacted court document says.
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Blocklist for (presumably) all Facebook domains
github.com blocklists/corporations/facebook at master · jmdugan/blocklistsShared lists of problem domains people may want to block with hosts files - blocklists/corporations/facebook at master · jmdugan/blocklists
- www.bbc.com Facebook sued for 'losing control' of users’ data
The alleged data breach was revealed in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
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Facebook is refusing to honour GDPR deletion requests (thread on /r/europrivacy)
teddit.net Facebook GDPR data deletion : r/europrivacyI am trying to completely remove any information Facebook has of me using the legal way. I know it's impossible to know
Direct link in case Teddit doesn't work: https://old.reddit.com/r/europrivacy/comments/la0i5x/facebook_gdpr_data_deletion/
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Facebook is blocking lemmy claiming its violating the community standards
That's a shame, you would want to share stuff there
- www.cnbc.com Facebook reports a decline in users in the U.S. and Canada
Facebook’s third quarter results are out — here are the numbers