Anti Facebook
- As of today it's against the double standards to say "thank you" on Fascistbook!
Earlier today I commented another's post and thanked them for their understanding in my native language. The sentence was literally "Thank you for your understanding!" and nothing else. Half an hour later I received a warning that my post has been removed because the post was against their double standards. So I left Fascistbook. I haven't deleted my account, I just won't visit it anymore. If you're still in that anti-social toilet, avoid thanking anyone for anything, otherwise you might find yourself in a read-only mode for a few days. I could post a screenshot of both my comment and the warning but both are in Bulgarian language and I doubt you'd understand anything from the screenshot.
- I'm unable to create a new account on Facebook.
cross-posted from: https://crazypeople.online/post/3193703
> All of a sudden, l'm unable to access my facebook account. I tried to create a new account. They verified my email, my mobile number, the device that I use, my ip address and even took the biometric of my face. And after everything, the feedback is that it doesn't fit the community standard. > > Is there any roundabout way of creating a new account on Facebook ?
- www.aljazeera.com Facebook hosts Israeli ads promoting illegal activity
Facebook’s parent company Meta has been hosting paid Israeli adverts promoting illegal activity.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/28349363
> Facebook’s parent company Meta has been hosting paid Israeli adverts promoting activities including illegal settlement real estate, demolitions of Palestinian buildings and fundraising for Israeli forces in Gaza. Here’s what an Al Jazeera investigation discovered.
- How does Facebook trap people? Is it just a social addiction or are there Facebook-only essential services?
cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/9930406
> I have never used Facebook. I’m trying to understand the ways in which people are getting trapped in there. Obviously there is an addiction factor, but I’m more interested in how someone who is (hypothetically) immune to addiction might still be forced into #Facebook. > > If someone needs Facebook to access something essential like healthcare, that’s what I want to hear about. To inspire a list of things that are “essential” I had a look at human rights law to derive this list: > > * right to life > * healthcare > * freedom of expression > * freedom of assembly and of association > * right to education > * right to engage in work and access to placement services > * fair and just working conditions > * social security and social assistance > * consumer protection > * right to vote > * right to petition > * right of access to (government) documents > * right to a nationality (passport acquisition) > * right of equal access to public service in his country > > I don’t imagine that Facebook has an essential role in supporting people’s human rights. I assume most gov offices have a Facebook presence, but there is always a way to access the same services outside of FB, correct? > > I can think of a couple situations where FB access is important to reaching something essential. E.g. > > * A police department recovered stolen bicycles and announced that theft victims could visit the FB page of the police dept. to see if their bicycle appears in the photos. Non-FB users were blocked from the page and there was no other means to reach the photos. Effectively, non-FB users were denied equal access to public services. > > * A Danish university has a Facebook page as well as just about every single student. Facebook was used exclusively to announce campus social events and even some optional classes. Students without FB were excluded. In a sense, they were being excluded from some aspects to public education, although strictly speaking the FB exclusive events were not required to obtain a degree. > > * Regarding freedom of assembly, there is an activist group in my local area fighting for the right to be offline. I wanted to join the group, but their sole presence is on Facebook, ironically. So my freedom of assembly in this case is conditioned on being trapped in Facebook. > > In any case, I would like to hear more examples of what essential information or services is compromised by leaving or neglecting to join Facebook.
- 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
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1874605
> 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.vice.com Facebook’s Monopoly Is Imploding Before Our Eyes
Competition, miscalculations, and regulatory scrutiny have all but killed the advertising giant's dreams of diversifying its business and rolling up the digital world into its platform.
- www.businessinsider.com Meta has burned $15 billion trying to build the metaverse — and nobody's saying exactly where the money went
Meta's losses from its metaverse project continue mounting. The company says it's due to heavy spending on research, but it's light on the details.
- futurism.com $1.2 Billion Metaverse Horrified by Report It Only Had 38 Active Users
Metaverse project Decentraland, a sandbox environment that allows users to buy and sell virtual real estate, isn't exactly teeming with people.
- www.wired.com Facebook Freeloads Off Newspapers. This Plan Might Stop It
The Journalism Competition and Protection Act would allow publishers to finally bargain with Meta and Google.
- english.tau.ac.il Facebook Proven to Negatively Impact Mental Health
New study first to establish causal link between use of the platform and reported worsening in anxiety and depression among college students
- www.mintpressnews.com Meet the Ex-CIA Agents Deciding Facebook's Content Policy
Facebook has recruited dozens of individuals from the CIA to highly politically sectors such as trust, security and content moderation.
- www.technologyreview.com Facebook is bombarding cancer patients with ads for unproven treatments
Clinics offering debunked cancer treatments are still allowed to advertise, despite the company’s stated efforts to control medical misinformation.
- theintercept.com Facebook Allows Praise of Neo-Nazi Ukrainian Battalion If It Fights Russian Invasion
Facebook classifies the Azov Batallion as a particularly dangerous hate group but will allow praise of its defense of Ukraine against Russian forces.
- arstechnica.com Facebook misled investors on scope of misinformation problems, whistleblower says
Meta made “material representations and omissions,” complaint alleges.
- nymag.com Zuckerberg Has Burned $500 Billion Turning Facebook to Meta
The social-media Goliath has fallen out of the top-ten largest companies in the world by market capitalization.
- Meta (Facebook) sued in excess of $150 billion for its role in Rohingya genocidewww.zdnet.com Meta sued in excess of $150 billion for its role in Rohingya genocide
Facebook has been accused of using algorithms that amplified hate speech and failing to take down specific posts inciting violence against the Rohingya people.
- www.businessinsider.com Facebook, now Meta, just got hit with its first major lawsuit since a whistleblower exposed a trove of internal documents
The attorney general's lawsuit alleges that Meta cost investors and Ohio's largest pension fund $100 billion since its bad practices first surfaced.
- internetfreedom.in Your mom was right: Facebook is bad for you!
In light of the recent whistleblower revelations against Facebook, which allege that Facebook is well aware of the harms it causes but chooses to prioritise profit, we wrote to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on IT asking them to initiate an inquiry.
- www.theverge.com Facebook fined $70 million for withholding information about Giphy acquisition
Facebook’s Giphy acquisition is under scrutiny by the UK.