First came the bots, then came the bosses - we’re entering Musk and Zuck’s new era of disinformation | Joan Donovan https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/12/elon-musk-mark-zuckerberg-disinformation #USelections2024 #MarkZuckerberg #Socialmedia #Technology #USpolitics #Instagram #Facebook #ElonMusk #Threads #USnews #Media #Meta #X

So my partner posted a quote by Hannah Arendt on Facebook: "The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism."

People have been blocked from seeing it.

Zuckerberg is as much of a fascist stooge as Musk. Do he not look to Putin's Russia and see how the oligarchs were treated there? Does Zuckerberg honestly believe that the Trumps and Musk won't steal his empire from him? If he does, he's a fool.

#FaceBook #Fascism #Trump

#Blog Wat #Boycot ik niet?
#Gokken #Auto's #Facebook #Creditcard #Amazon
https://ximaar.wordpress.com/2024/10/31/boycot/

I somehow ended up in a FB comment section where a mom posted a photo of the mess in her house.

The comments are all along the lines of
"Keeping your house tidy is easy! I enjoy doing it so much! You just have to know where the place of everything is, and you have to put things back in their place every time!"

...
...
...

I think I might have pulled an optical nerve rolling my eyes.

#parenting #SocialMedia #WTF #Facebook #nope

My entire Facebook account (with all my connected pages and groups) was suspended without warning yesterday & my appeal was denied. I shared a post about this on Medium:

AI Facebook Suspension
https://medium.com/@wfryer/ai-facebook-suspension-c720087cf931

#edtechSR #MediaLit #SocialMedia #Facebook #AI

#Meta detiene sus planes de entrenar su #IA con publicaciones de usuarios de #Facebook e Instagram en #Europa
https://facua.org/noticias/meta-detiene-sus-planes-de-entrenar-su-ia-con-publicaciones-de-usuarios-de-facebook-e-instagram-en-europa/

#Facebook suffers big loss in lawsuit against #datascraping company - https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/01/facebook-suffers-big-loss-in-lawsuit-against-data-scraping-company/ "Judge throws out Meta claim against firm that sells Facebook and Instagram data."

FB just asked me if I want AI to answer questions in my group for me and "generate activity" and, to quote Dorothy Parker

What fresh hell is this

#Facebook #SocialMedia #WTF #AI

Tiny Mastodon Tip About Blocking Threads/Meta ​​

With this week's news
about Meta starting to test Threads integration with ActivityPub (the protocol that makes the Fediverse interconnected): https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/13/meta-starts-testing-threads-integration-with-activitypub/

Many people, like myself,
might feel uneasy about this. There are many reasons to be:

Whether it is due to Meta's (mal)practices when it comes to moderation, disinformation, politics, or problematic privacy, to say the least, your discomfort with this is very valid ​

On Mastodon,
know that you can pre-block a whole domain at the account level ⛔️

Now, this is not a complete solution and might not prevent all of your data from passing through, but it should prevent Threads accounts on these instances from following you and seeing most of your posts, and you theirs.

HOW TO ❓

1. On desktop, go to "Preferences" > "Import and export"

2. On your computer, create a text file and copy the 2 following lines in it:

threads.instagram.com
threads.net

3. Change the ".txt" extension of this file to ".csv"

4. Go back to Mastodon's Preferences and go to the "Import" section in the left side menu.

5. There, for "Import type" select "Domain blocking list"

5.1. On the right, make sure to select "Merge" and not Overwrite in order to keep your previously blocked Domains, if you had any.

5.2. In "Data" on the left, click on "Browse" and select the ".csv" file you just wrote.

5.3. Click "UPLOAD" at the bottom.

6. You will then see a message to confirm. Click "CONFIRM" ​

7. Done! And good riddance! ​​✨

#TinyMastodonTip #Mastodon #Meta #Threads #Facebook #Privacy

#Meta’s new #AI image generator was trained on 1.1 billion #Instagram and #Facebook photos - https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/12/metas-new-ai-image-generator-was-trained-on-1-1-billion-instagram-and-facebook-photos/

If we would invest 50% of the energy wasted on all these #Facebook discussions to make the #Fediverse actually better on our collective terms — THAT would be better ;)

Don't be naive, people. #Facebook is only interested in collecting more data and to connect that data to profiles to feed to the ad machinery. If #ActivityPub can be used for that, they will give it a try. That's it. That's all. It's still Facebook.

#Meta klaut sich die Ideen bei der Konkurrenz zusammen, ist das eigentlich erlaubt?

Vor Jahren hab ich damit begonnen #Telegram zu nutzen, wegen der "Kanäle" die es dort gibt und den viel umfangreicheren Features, die Gruppen betreffend.

Jetzt lese ich, dass #Whatsapp bald "Kanäle" einführt, Videonachrichten usw.

Waren das noch Zeiten, als #Facebook seine Konkurrenten gekauft hat, jetzt klauen sie sich die Features nur noch zusammen?

Ist das rechtlich wirklich so einfach?

#followerpower