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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] Clearview AI ordered to delete all facial recognition data belonging to Australians
Read: 14/11/2021 www.theverge.com
Controversial facial recognition firm Clearview AI has been ordered to destroy all images and facial templates belonging to individuals living in Australia by the country’s national privacy regulator.
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[Link] Facebook Shuts Down Massive Photo Tagging Facial Recognition Program
Read: 2/11/2021 www.vice.com
For years, photo tagging was a core Facebook feature and was one of the main things people “did” on Facebook. To tag a photo, you clicked a specific part of it and wrote in the name of your friend.
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[Link] Facebook has ruined our reality, now it’s coming for the metaverse too
Read: 31/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
“Facebook”. The word paints a thousand pictures, every one of them a portrait of some element of the human condition I could happily live without. Message requests from veterans in Montana that read, “Hello beautiful Lady.
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[Link] Zuckerberg’s role in Facebook rebrand may backfire, experts say
Read: 31/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
Mark Zuckerberg’s effort to remove “negative associations” between Facebook and its parent company may be undermined by his decision to front the launch of its rebranding as Meta, experts have said.
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[Link] Zuckerberg Announces Fantasy World Where Facebook Is Not a Horrible Company
Read: 29/10/2021 www.vice.com
Facebook’s new name is “Meta,” and its new mission is to invent a ‘metaverse’ that will make us all forget what it’s done to our existing reality.
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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] Opinion: Dear Facebook: No one cares about Oculus; give us Instagram revenue!
Read: 26/10/2021 www.marketwatch.com
Facebook goes the Alphabet route — giving investors numbers on a young business instead of mature operations, while renaming the company — but can we just skip to the part where the SEC makes Zuckerberg tell investors what they actually want to know? Facebook Inc.
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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 bans, sends cease-and-desist letter to developer of Unfollow Everything extension
Read: 12/10/2021 www.techspot.com
What just happened? Given the rough couple of weeks Facebook has been through, the company could definitely use some good PR right now, so here's exactly the opposite: it's been revealed that the social network has permanently banned the creator of a tool that unfollows all connections automatically
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