Facebook just keeps finding new ways to be awful. The latest stunt is to jump into the comments section of your posts to insert some approved agitprop that stays near the top of your feed.
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Free speech vs “misinformation” control: Libs of TikTok banned from Facebook
Apparently so, and Libs of TikTok owner Chaya Raichik says it’s for good …
‘One Of The Worst Downturns’: Mark Zuckerberg Blasts Biden’s Economy In Warning To Employees
Facebook’s parent company Meta Platforms cut plans to hire engineers by at least 30% Thursday as founder Mark Zuckerberg warned employees of an economic downturn.
“If I had to bet, I’d say that this might be one of the worst downturns that we’ve seen in recent history,” Zuckerberg told his staff during a weekly session, the audio of which was obtained by Reuters. Meta reportedly planned to hire roughly 10,000 new engineers throughout the year, but has cut this expectation down to 6,000-7,000, Zuckerberg announced in the audio.
Facebook forbids mainstream political argument as ‘hate speech’
Facebook is unwisely banning a “mainstream political argument” as “hate speech,” notes law professor Eugene Volokh. The social media giant blocked a Congresswoman’s Facebook post saying “Biological men have no place in women’s sports. SHARE and SIGN if you agree.” Facebook said, “Your post didn’t follow our Community Standards on hate speech.”
Facebook’s slide into dystopia
Zuckerberg’s metaverse strategy isn’t working
It has been ten years since Facebook’s IPO. Superficially, the experience is the same: news feed, friends network, third-party apps. Yet the feel of the site has completely changed. Whether it was the parade of casual game notifications, the injection of endless clickbait and memes, or the slow ossification of discourse into like-minded and frequently vicious agreement, Facebook doesn’t feel antisocial these days so much as alien: a parade of voices each occupying a small, hermetic sphere, mostly oblivious to each other. (Of course, the alternative of having these spheres interact, as on Twitter, is far worse.)
Facebook secretly funded campaign to kill anti-Big Tech legislation
Facebook has reportedly secretly funded a nationwide “grassroots” campaign to fight anti-Big Tech antitrust legislation gaining momentum in Congress, using covert operations to try and sway the public against bills that would hurt the company.
Facebook founded American Edge, a political advocacy group, in late 2019 with a single $4 million donation in order to try and kill bipartisan antitrust legislation in Washington through op-eds in local papers, critical advertisements, and collaborations with conservative think tanks, business associations, and former national security officials, the Washington Post reported.
How Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg Rigged the 2020 Election to Defeat Trump
Mark Zuckerberg is best known for creating and leading Facebook, a company that’s made him one of the wealthiest men in the world. With an estimated worth of $80 billion, he poured hundreds of millions of his fortune into the 2020 election.
Here’s the thing: You probably had no idea at the time Zuckerberg was influencing the outcome of the most contentious presidential election in our lifetime. That’s because we didn’t learn the true extent of Zuckerberg’s financial contributions until the voting already took place.
Emperor Mark Zuckerberg looks to mint his own currency
‘Zuck Bucks’ is the latest — and most egotistical — scheme by the Meta founder
Throughout history, emperors have insisted that coinage carries their face, and Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg is no different. This is, after all, a man obsessed with Augustus, even naming his son after the Roman emperor.
Employees at the company formerly known as Facebook refer to “Zuck Bucks”, the latest effort in the social media giant’s attempts to generate revenue from transactions on its platforms by introducing tokens, or a modern day scrip currency.
Worthwhile Despot Initiative: Russia Moves To Declare Facebook Parent Company An ‘Extremist Organization’
March 11 (Reuters) – Prosecutors have asked a Russian court to designate Facebook’s parent organisation Meta Platforms (FB.O) as an “extremist organisation,” Interfax reported on Friday.
The state prosecutor also asked Russia’s communications watchdog to restrict access to Meta’s Instagram social networking service.
Reuters reported on Thursday that Meta would allow Facebook and Instagram users in some countries to call for violence against Russians and Russian soldiers in the context of Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine .
Facebook and Instagram will temporarily allow violent speech against Russians: report
“We are issuing a spirit-of-the-policy allowance to allow T1 violent speech that would otherwise be removed under the Hate Speech policy when: (a) targeting Russian soldiers, EXCEPT prisoners of war, or (b) targeting Russians where it’s clear that the context is the Russian invasion of Ukraine (e.g., content mentions the invasion, self-defense, etc.),” Meta Platforms (formerly known as Facebook, Inc.) wrote in an internal email to moderators, viewed by Reuters on Thursday.
Metaverse app allows kids into virtual strip clubs
Some apps in the virtual-reality metaverse are “dangerous by design”, the NSPCC has warned in response to a BBC News investigation.
A researcher posing as a 13-year-old girl witnessed grooming, sexual material, racist insults and a rape threat in the virtual-reality world.
The children’s charity said it was “shocked and angry” at the findings.
Head of online child safety policy Andy Burrows added the investigation had found “a toxic combination of risks”.
‘Democratic’ Facebook Shuts Down Grassroots Trucker Group Protesting COVID-19 Mandates
Facebook ousted a populist group of U.S. truckers protesting COVID-19 mandates despite calling itself a “democratic” platform.
Introducing Meta’s Next-Gen AI Supercomputer
Today we’re introducing the AI Research SuperCluster (RSC), which we believe is among the fastest AI supercomputers running today and will be the fastest in the world once fully built out in mid-2022. AI can currently perform tasks like translating text between languages and helping identify potentially harmful content, but developing the next generation of AI will require powerful supercomputers capable of quintillions of operations per second.