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[Link] Facebook Engineers Admit They Don’t Know What They Do With Your Data
Read: 8/9/2022 www.vice.com
Earlier this year, Motherboard reported about an internal Facebook document that said the company has no idea where users’ data goes, and what the company is doing with it.
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[Link] The Taliban Are Blacklisted by Facebook. Then Why Are They Allowed to Post?
Read: 2/12/2021 www.vice.com
For years, Facebook has prohibited the Taliban from using its platform under its counter-terrorist and hate group community standards.
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[Link] Twitter Is Going to Make It Harder To Share Videos and Pictures Taken in Public
Read: 30/11/2021 www.vice.com
Twitter is expanding its policy on posting private information with the goal of limiting the risk of harassment, intimidation, and doxing.
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[Link] Meta delays encrypted messages on Facebook and Instagram to 2023
Read: 22/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
The owner of Facebook and Instagram is delaying plans to encrypt users’ messages until 2023 amid warnings from child safety campaigners that its proposals would shield abusers from detection.
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[Link] OK, So Facebook Is Bad. Now What?
Read: 15/11/2021 www.vice.com
Evidence has been mounting for years that Facebook is harmful for its users. Countless reports have documented how the company’s algorithms push people toward radicalization, allow extremist movements to grow, and spread misinformation on an unprecedented scale.
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[Link] Yes, Mark Zuckerberg Sites Are Down
Read: 4/11/2021 www.gizmodo.com.au
It would appear that Messenger, as well as Instagram’s messaging function and other Facebook-owned services, are currently having trouble, as thousands of users report being unable to access the company’s platforms Wednesday.
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[Link] Don’t Go Cheering Facebook for Killing Its Face Recognition Database Just Yet
Read: 4/11/2021 www.gizmodo.com.au
On Tuesday, Facebook offered us a brief respite from the deluge of awful news stories on the company with a pretty pleasant-sounding announcement.
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[Link] Facebook lets Kazakh govt directly flag harmful content, joint statement says
Read: 4/11/2021 www.reuters.com
ALMATY, Nov 1 (Reuters) - Facebook owner Meta Platforms (FB.O) has granted the Kazakh government access to its content reporting system, after the Central Asian nation threatened to block the social network for millions of local users.
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[Link] What Crisis? Facebook Made $9 Billion In Profit in the Last 3 Months
Read: 26/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. On the face of it, Facebook has been having one of the worst weeks in its history.
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[Link] ‘History will not judge us kindly’: Facebook employees rip Zuckerberg in leaked messages
Read: 26/10/2021 nypost.com
Facebook employees say Mark Zuckerberg’s obsession with growth has overridden ethical concerns and allowed hate speech and incitements to violence to spread unchecked, internal messages leaked to media outlets show.
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[Link] Facebook whistleblower tells politicians to 'team up' with US to regulate social media, or be ignored
Read: 23/10/2021 www.abc.net.au
Frances Haugen quit Facebook earlier this year and told a congressional hearing in October that Facebook's products were harming children and fuelling polarisation in the United States.
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[Link] Facebook’s Brand Is So Toxic Zuckerberg Reportedly Wants to Change Its Name
Read: 20/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. In the middle of one of the worst crises his company has ever faced, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is not digging in and fixing the democracy-destroying problems he’s created. Instead, he’s reportedly planning to rebrand.
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[Link] Facebook says Craig Kelly’s content on United Australia Party page OK after banning MP
Read: 19/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
Facebook says the United Australia Party’s page does not violate the social media giant’s community standards despite carrying prominent content from Craig Kelly, whose accounts have been banned for breaching the social media company’s misinformation policy.
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[Link] Facebook Says Extremely Common Thing It Does Is Bad When Reporters Do It
Read: 19/10/2021 www.vice.com
In an attempt to get ahead of reporting that will seemingly make Facebook—already reeling from weeks of revelations from a whistleblower—somehow look even worse, the company has adopted an increasingly popular strategy among some corporations: posting through it.
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[Link] Facebook Just Suspended the Accounts of Some of Its Biggest Critics
Read: 7/8/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Facebook has made good on its threat to kick out a group of researchers who’ve been among the platform’s biggest critics.
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[Link] Er, no, we would like to continue suing Facebook, US state AGs tell courts
Read: 30/7/2021 www.theregister.com
Attorneys General from 46 US states, plus Guam and Washington DC, have appealed a district court’s decision to dismiss their antitrust lawsuit against Facebook that claims the social media giant illegally acquired its competitors to maintain a monopoly.
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