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Your best interests have never been a part of Facebook's DNA. They've created some amazing tools and helped connect the world online, but it's come at the cost of privacy and social cohesion. Their platforms have been tailored to keep users addicted and to drive metrics even at the expense of societal problems.
Your precious life moments and conversations should not be owned by a corporate entity profiting from your inputs. You should understand how and why a company is using psychological tactics to keep you addicted, enraged, or feeding you specific types of content.
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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
The Facebook Files
Facebook knows, in acute detail, that its platforms are riddled with flaws but hasn’t fixed them. That’s a key finding of a Journal series that launched this week, based on an array of internal company documents. Read all the stories here.
Facebook says Instagram is not ‘toxic for teens,’ despite damning WSJ report
The PR push comes days ahead of a Senate hearing
Something Weird Is Happening on Facebook
Someone appears to be pouring enormous energy and effort into a data collection project aimed at building personality profiles from social media interaction…again
WhatsApp Has Shared Your Data With Facebook for Years, Actually
A pop-up notification has alerted the messaging app's users to a practice that's been in place since 2016.
How Facebook Undermines Privacy Protections for Its 2 Billion WhatsApp Users
WhatsApp assures users that no one can see their messages — but the company has an extensive monitoring operation and regularly shares personal information with prosecutors.
In 2019, Almost All of Facebook's Top Christian Pages Were Run By Foreign Troll Farms
In 2019, 19 of Facebook's top 20 pages for American Christians were run by Eastern European troll farms overseas, internal documents leaked to MIT
Academics ask for laws to open the social media black box
Boffins tell US lawmakers social media titans cannot be trusted to police themselves
Leaked Facebook docs show the company saw pre-teens as an 'untapped' audience and wanted to 'leverage playdates,' The Wall Street Journal reports
The documents obtained by The Wall Street Journal show that Facebook feared it was losing market share among teens and tweens to Snapchat and TikTok.
Facebook is an out-of-control system bent on surviving at all costs
Two big recent exposés about the platform have shown exactly why we should all be on guard by Facebook's 'survival at all cost' strategy, writes Noam Cohen.
Facebook used Big Tobacco playbook to exploit teens and children, senators say at hearing after WSJ series
Facebook's Antigone Davis, global head of safety, was grilled Thursday at a Senate subcommittee hearing about Instagram's impact on teens' mental health.
'It has really taken a dive': How misinformation is changing Facebook community groups
Facebook group admins in regional Australia say misinformation is fracturing previously positive online communities and affecting their towns' sense of togetherness.
Whistle-Blower to Accuse Facebook of Contributing to Jan. 6 Riot, Memo Says
In an internal memo meant to pre-empt a “60 Minutes” interview, Facebook defended itself and said that social media was not a primary cause of polarization.
Whistleblower: Facebook is misleading the public on progress against hate speech, violence, misinformation
Frances Haugen says in her time with Facebook she saw, "conflicts of interest between what was good for the public and what was good for Facebook." Scott Pelley reports.
jason@calacanis.com on Twitter
“the @60minutes piece was devastating for $FB expect investigations, resignations, & stock annihilation over the coming weeks/months Complete confirmation of everything we expected: their greed & lust for growth built a Frankenstein they can’t control.”
Edward Snowden on Twitter
Facebook-owned Whatsapp being down is a reminder that you and your friends should probably be using a more private, non-profit alternative like @Signalapp anyway (or another open-source app of your choice). It's just as free, and takes like 30 seconds to switch. #facebookdown
Data of Over 1.5 Billion Facebook Users Sold on Hacker Forum
Data on over 1.5 billion Facebook users is being sold on a hacking-related forum, enabling cybercriminals advertisers to target users.
Facebook whistleblower says Zuckerberg knows site harms children
Facebook whistleblower says company has hid information about dangers of its platforms from public
Whistleblower tells Congress that Facebook products harm kids and democracy
A former Facebook employee compared the social network to Big Tobacco at a Senate hearing on Tuesday, saying the company has hidden what it knows about the problems its products cause.
Facebook's new whistleblower is renewing scrutiny of the social media giant
Facebook could be facing its biggest scandal yet as a former employee comes forward to expose some of the company's secrets.
Facebook harms children and weakens democracy: ex-employee
Mark Zuckerberg denies claims, heard in the US Senate, that Facebook puts profits before people.
Facebook runs the coward’s playbook to smear the whistleblower
Smears didn’t work for Big Tobacco, but Facebook’s trotting them out anyway.
Facebook is nearing a reputational point of no return
The problem starts at the top
Facebook Banned Me for Life Because I Help People Use It Less
Facebook’s behavior isn’t just anti-competitive; it’s anti-consumer.
Over 1.5 billion Facebook users' personal data found for sale on hacker forum
Unrelated to other recent problems Facebook has had, this particular batch of data was scraped from profiles, meaning it's publicly available knowledge. That doesn't stop it from being dangerous.
Facebook’s role in Myanmar and Ethiopia under new scrutiny
Whistleblower Frances Haugen adds to long-held concerns that social media site is fuelling violence and instability
Facebook is a menace to children. Maybe Congress will finally take action.
Whistleblower Frances Haugen testified that Facebook knew Instagram hurt children. See why the hearings might force Congress to regulate the company.
Facebook is ‘biased against facts’, says Nobel prize winner
Philippines journalist Maria Ressa says social media firm is threat to democracy and failing to halt spread of misinformation
Facebook bans, sends cease-and-desist letter to developer of Unfollow Everything extension
Louis Barclay, creator of the Unfollow Everything browser extension that lets users unfollow—not unfriend—all their friends, groups, and pages simultaneously (rather than individually), writes that his program...
Facebook says it will ban sales of the Amazon rainforest after an investigation found plots of land were illegally sold on the platform
A BBC investigation found illegal sales of parts of the Amazon rainforest on Facebook Marketplace. Eight months later, Facebook is banning the sales.
Facebook permanently banned a developer after he made an app to let users delete their news feed
The developer Louis Barclay, who created Unfollow Everything, told Insider he was scared and anxious after receiving a cease-and-desist letter.
A second Facebook whistleblower says she's willing to testify before Congress and that she's shared documents with a US law agency
The former employee Sophie Zhang has criticized what she believed was Facebook's failure to stop authoritarian regimes from abusing its platform.
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Most Canadians believe Facebook harms their mental health, survey suggests
Forty per cent of those who responded to an online survey by Leger and the Association for Canadian Studies said they had a negative opinion of Facebook
Facebook is trapped in a PR nightmare of their own making
Facebook's lack of willingness to maintain healthy relationships with the media has now bitten it on the backside.
Facebook’s Whistleblower Said the Company Does Too Little to Protect Users. Most of the Public Agrees - Morning Consult
Following the testimony of former Facebook Inc. employee and whistleblower Frances Haugen, most of the public said in a recent Morning Consult poll that the company does not do enough to protect user safety and supports both congressional and corporate actions to remedy the situation.
Facebook is planning to rebrand the company with a new name
The tech giant wants to be known for more than social media’s ills.
How Facebook neglected the rest of the world, fueling hate speech and violence in India
A trove of internal documents show Facebook didn’t invest in key safety protocols in the company’s largest market.
fasterthanlime 🌌 on Twitter
🔒 google has a secret deal with facebook called 'Jedi Blue' that they knew was so illegal that it has a whole section describing how they'll cover for each other if anyone finds out - google appears to have a team called gTrade that is wholly dedicated to ad market manipulation
jack⚡️ on Twitter
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Facebook settles claims it discriminated against US workers
And that $14.25m is supposed to be some kind of record
Alarming new report shows Facebook misinformation still spreading like wildfire
Study takes a close look at one source of COVID-19 misinformation.
Google 'colluded' with Facebook to bypass Apple privacy
Amended Texas complaint alleges backroom efforts to maintain ad dominance and more
The Facebook Papers: What you need to know about the trove of insider documents
'We've been fueling this fire for a long time and we shouldn't be surprised it's now out of control,' an employee reportedly wrote on an internal message board.
Whistleblower Frances Haugen says Facebook's investment in the 'metaverse' shows how its priorities are all wrong
Facebook plans to hire 10,000 people to build the 'metaverse,' and Frances Haugen told UK lawmakers it should invest the money in safety instead.
Security Researcher Finds Facebook App Tracking iPhone Movements
New warning as Facebook app is suddenly caught secretly 'spying' on millions of iPhone users…
Zuckerberg Announces Fantasy World Where Facebook Is Not a Horrible Company
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.
Facebook to change name to Meta and build VR fantasy world
His social network has Meta-stasized
The metaverse is bullshit
You're not losing your mind: it really does just sound like a worse version of the internet.
Nobody Can See Into Facebook
Imagine if automakers were the only ones who could test their cars—and they kept the results secret.
Facebook employees questioned apparent restrictions on Palestinian activist's account: Documents
A congressional staffer provided the redacted documents to news outlets.
As teens left Facebook, company planned to lure 6-year-olds, documents show
Internal posts and job listings show plans were moving forward.
Facebook documents reveal company targeted children as young as 6
Children as young as six were the next business target for Facebook
Zuckerberg’s Meta Endgame Is Monetizing All Human Behavior
Exploiting data to manipulate human behavior has always been Facebook’s business model. The metaverse will be no different.
Meta to continue use of facial recognition technology | AppleInsider
Facebook this week announced that it will no longer deploy facial recognition technologies on its platform, but the social network's parent company, Meta, said that the commitment does not apply to its metaverse products
'The Big Tobacco of Our Generation': Study Shows Huge Scale of Facebook Climate Lies
The flood of disinformation unleashed by Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook is drowning audiences around the world.
Mark Zuckerberg downloaded and used a photo app that Facebook later cloned and crushed, antitrust lawsuit claims
The founders of the photo-looping app Phhhoto say Facebook strung them along with the promise of a partnership that never materialized.
Facebook reportedly is aware of the level of ‘problematic use’ among its users
One in eight Facebook users reported "compulsive" social media use
Why Facebook’s Metaverse Is Dead on Arrival
Scott Galloway thinks Mark Zuckerberg is exactly the wrong person to build an alternate reality.
CNN Poll: Three out of four adults think Facebook is making society worse
Roughly three-quarters of adults believe Facebook is making American society worse, a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS finds, with about half saying they know somebody who was persuaded to believe in a conspiracy theory because of the site's content.
Restore Net Neutrality, Or Facebook Will Dominate The Internet Forever
Without a functioning FCC, it’s only a matter of time before Big Tech and Big Telecom team up to screw us all.
Facebook’s “Metaverse” Must Be Stopped
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg's metaverse is no utopian vision — it's another opportunity for Big Tech to colonize our lives in the name of profit.
JRE #1736 - Tristan Harris & Daniel Schmachtenberger
Listen to this episode from The Joe Rogan Experience on Spotify. Tristan Harris is a former Google design ethicist, co-founder and president of the Center for Humane Technology, and co-host of the Center for Humane Technology’s 'Your Undivided Attention' podcast with Aza Raskin. Daniel Schmachtenb...
The CEO of cosmetics retailer Lush says he's 'happy to lose' $13 million by deleting Facebook, TikTok, Snapchat accounts over teen mental-health harms
Cosmetics company Lush made waves by permanently shutting down its accounts on many of the biggest social media accounts on Black Friday.
Meta's acquisition of Giphy is set to be blocked by an antitrust regulator, report says
The UK regulator issued a provisional finding in August which said the acquisition was anti-competitive.
A leaked internal Facebook survey shows employees are losing confidence in leadership and fewer than half intend to stay
Facebook, now called Meta, measures employee sentiment in an internal "Pulse" survey twice a year. We viewed the latest results.
The metaverse is bullshit
You're not losing your mind: it really does just sound like a worse version of the internet.
Facebook sold ads comparing vaccine to Holocaust
Facebook has sold ads promoting anti-vaccine messages, comparing the US government's response to Covid-19 to Nazi Germany, casting doubt on the result of the 2020 election, and even pushing political violence.
Meta sued in excess of $150 billion for its role in Rohingya genocide | ZDNet
Facebook has been accused of using algorithms that amplified hate speech and failing to take down specific posts inciting violence against the Rohingya people.
The metaverse could let Silicon Valley track your facial expressions, blood pressure, and your breathing rates — showing exactly why our internet laws need updating
Big Tech could gain much more personal data on you in the immersive metaverse — and use it to inform its algorithms and advertising partners.
More than 300 scientists have told Mark Zuckerberg they want access to Meta's internal research on child and teen mental health because it doesn't meet scientific standards
Zuckerberg has a 'moral obligation' to align Meta's child and teen mental health research with established scientific standards, the letter says.
Her Instagram Handle Was ‘Metaverse.’ Last Month, It Vanished.
Five days after Facebook changed its name to Meta, an Australian artist found herself blocked, with seemingly no recourse, from an account documenting nearly a decade of her life and work.
Open letter from The BMJ to Mark Zuckerberg
Article Related content Article metrics Rapid responses Response Rapid Response: Open letter from The BMJ to Mark Zuckerberg Dear Mark Zuckerberg, We are Fiona Godlee and Kamran Abbasi, editors of The BMJ, one of the world’s oldest and most influential general medical journals. We are writing to r...
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Facebook's reputation is so bad, the company must pay even more now to hire and retain talent. Some are calling it a 'brand tax' as tech workers fear a 'black mark' on their careers.
At the group-director and VP level, Facebook staff are getting $3 million to $6 million in restricted stock units each year, one recruiter said.
Buying Influence: How China Manipulates Facebook and Twitter
New documents detail how Chinese officials tap private businesses for online information campaigns, offering a rare glimpse into how China’s vast bureaucracy works to spread propaganda online.
After the Facebook whistleblower came forward, the company reportedly tried to discredit her reputation among politicians
In October, Frances Haugen exposed major issues at the social media giant. Then, company lobbyists smeared her name on Capitol Hill, the Wall Street Journal reports.
Facebook Said My Article Was 'False Information.' Now the Fact-Checkers Admit They Were Wrong.
While this is a problem, it's not one that scrapping Section 230 would solve.
Facebook Hosted Surge of Misinformation and Insurrection Threats in Months Leading Up to Jan. 6 Attack, Records Show
A ProPublica/Washington Post analysis of Facebook posts, internal company documents and interviews, provides the clearest evidence yet that the social media giant played a critical role in spreading lies that fomented the violence of Jan. 6.
Facebook collecting people's data even when accounts are deactivated
Facebook does not make it clear that, when accounts are deactivated, its data connections continue to get new information.
Keeping Mark Zuckerberg Safe Cost Meta Nearly $27 Million Last Year
The cost of keeping Mark Zuckerberg safe keeps going up for Meta Platforms Inc., far outstripping what similar technology companies with high-profile executives are spending.
Meta plans to take a nearly 50% cut on virtual asset sales in its metaverse
Meta is letting Horizon Worlds creators sell virtual assets within the worlds they build but it plans to take a significant cut on each transaction.
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