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[Link] Peter Thiel Is Stepping Down From Facebook to Go Full MAGA

Read: 8/2/2022 www.vice.com

Billionaire tech investor Peter Thiel is stepping down from the board of Meta, Facebook’s parent company said Monday.

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[Link] WhatsApp criticised for plan to allow messages to disappear after 24 hours

Read: 6/12/2021 www.theguardian.com

WhatsApp users are to be given the option to have their messages disappear after 24 hours, a change that drew immediate criticism from children’s charities. In a blog post announcing the change, WhatsApp, which has 2 billion users, said its mission was to “connect the world privately”.

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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] Zuckerberg: Meta Will Continue To Subsidize Headset Cost

Read: 8/11/2021 uploadvr.com

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg gave insight into the company’s current and future hardware business model at Connect 2021, indicating that the plan is to continue to sell devices at cost or with subsidies to help build a larger ecosystem with as many users as possible.

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[Link] Mark Zuckerberg downloaded and used a photo app that Facebook later cloned and crushed, antitrust lawsuit claims

Read: 7/11/2021 www.businessinsider.com

The founders of a photo-app startup filed an antitrust lawsuit against Facebook's parent company, Meta, The New York Times first reported on Thursday.

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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] Parallel metaverses: Facebook’s name change is challenged by Arizona retailer Meta PCs

Read: 2/11/2021 www.theguardian.com

Meta PCs, an Arizona-based company that sells computers, laptops and software for gamers was an unremarkable retail outfit a week ago.

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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] 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] 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 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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[Link] Facebook Is Trying to Delegitimize and Discredit Frances Haugen

Read: 10/10/2021 www.vice.com

The third time she threw in the word stolen, it almost felt forced. “I’m saying that for the majority of teens on Instagram and the survey—the stolen survey—that was shared in the testimony shows that the majority of teens …” she said, before getting back to her point. 

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[Link] Move over, space. Tech billionaires have a new utopian boondoggle: the ‘metaverse’

Read: 7/8/2021 www.theguardian.com

Look at all of our tech billionaires trying to leave the world to evade responsibility for their malevolent influence on it. Anything to avoid being confronted by the workers they exploit or the victims of the ethnic and religious clashes facilitated by their platforms.

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