I don't get it. I started getting fed up with #Facebook when it started changing its settings and layout on a seemingly weekly basis -about 12 years ago. And the various malicious functions of its algorithm have been well-known since at least that time.

Again, I don't get it.

Mark Zuckerberg’s rebrand is a master class in distraction

https://disconnect.blog/mark-zuckerbergs-rebrand-is-a-master-class-in-distraction/

#facebook #meta

Mark Zuckerberg’s rebrand is a master class in distraction

Meta’s platforms are still causing harm, but the CEO has convinced the media to look at the future instead of the present

^{Paris Marx (Disconnect)}

Meta, which recently joined the newly founded #SocialWebFoundation, "cut 21,000 jobs, including in trust and safety and customer service, over multiple rounds of layoffs", leading state and local officials "puzzled by what to expect from Facebook" around voting misinformation.

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/consumer/meta-misinformation-problem-local-election-officials-worried-rcna172842

#news #TechNews #SocialMedia #meta #facebook

Meta's misinformation problem has local election officials struggling to get out the truth

Derek Bowens has never had such an important job.

^{Jonathan Vanian, CNBC (NBC News)}

CEO of Meta, which recently joined the newly founded #SocialWebFoundation, thinks that "individual creators or publishers tend to overestimate the value of their specific content".

https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/25/24254042/mark-zuckerberg-creators-value-ai-meta

#news #TechNews #SocialMedia #meta #facebook #threads #zuckerberg #AI

Mark Zuckerberg: creators and publishers ‘overestimate the value’ of their work for training AI

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says the company could strike partnerships for “valuable” content to train AI tools, but that it could walk away from paying others.

^{Adi Robertson (The Verge)}

CEO of Meta, which recently joined the newly founded #SocialWebFoundation, suggests that there is "no causal connection" between social media and teen mental health.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/25/24254044/mark-zuckerberg-meta-social-media-teen-mental-health

#news #TechNews #SocialMedia #MentalHealth #meta #facebook #threads #zuckerberg

Mark Zuckerberg says there’s ‘no causal connection’ between social media and teen mental health

In an interview with The Verge, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says that existing research shows there isn’t a causal connection linking social media platforms and teen mental health.

^{Emma Roth (The Verge)}

Historia repetida: drásticas reducciones de alcance de publicaciones en redes, sin explicación

La investigadora Cora Gamarnik denunció una drástica reducción en el alcance de sus publicaciones tras un bloqueo en #Facebook recibido en diciembre de 2022. Su experiencia personal plantea interrogantes sobre la opacidad en las políticas de curación de contenidos y el impacto de los algoritmos en la libertad de expresión

#GAFAM

https://www.observacom.org/historia-repetida-drasticas-reducciones-de-alcance-de-publicaciones-en-redes-sin-explicacion/

Historia repetida: drásticas reducciones de alcance de publicaciones en redes, sin explicación

La investigadora Cora Gamarnik denunció una drástica reducción en el alcance de sus publicaciones tras un bloqueo en Facebook recibido en diciembre de 2022.

^{Nicolas Neves (Observacom)}

If you want to check whether your server federates with Threads, you can use this tool (enter your server name in the part marked "filter by domain"):

➡️ https://fedipact.veganism.social

Here's a list of nice well-run servers which have blocked Threads:

➡️ https://fedi.garden

If you need help moving your account to a new server, here are step-by-step instructions:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/transferring-your-mastodon-account-to-another-server

This guide also answers lots of common questions.

#FediTips #DefederateThreads #Threads #Meta #Facebook

#Fedipact - The instances blocking Zuckerberg's Threads.net

An interactive list to see which ActivityPub (Matodon, Lemmy, FireFish, etc) instances are federating with Threads.net

^{fedipact.veganism.social}

Facebook Has New Unsavory Ways Its Tracking You

Very unsafe. I Ran Away From Facebook a Long Long Time Ago

#Facebook. #UnderTheHood #Gizmodo #Privacy

Meet ‘Link History,’ Facebook’s New Way to Track the Websites You Visit

Facebook introduces a confusing new setting as the walls close in on Zuckerberg’s data machine.

^{Thomas Germain (Gizmodo)}

the thing is, you really don't even need to look at #Facebook's past to know blocking Threads is an absolute must. there are literally organisations calling for the murder of queer people with accounts on #Threads RIGHT NOW.

any instance that commits to "active moderation against racism, sexism, homophobia and transphobia" (which includes all the instances in https://joinmastodon.org/servers , by the way) is in violation of their own ToS if they DON'T block Threads.

#FediPact #Meta #FediblockMeta

Servers

Find where to sign up for the decentralized social network Mastodon.

^{joinmastodon.org}

Es inútil evitar que #Facebook entrene su Inteligencia Artificial con nuestra información🧐

Puedes solicitar acceso a los datos que utiliza y que se elimine la información personal, pero #Meta no garantiza ni el acceso ni la eliminación, aunque sea tuya ⤵️
https://es.wired.com/articulos/facebook-entrena-su-ia-con-tu-informacion-personal-pero-impedirlo-seria-inutil

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What I find baffling about people shunning the #FediPact are the assertion that Meta should be treated as all other instances and not blocked, as if over a decade of conduct is too unreliable of a data point to ever possibly judge a corporate entity.

For example...

Less than a year ago Meta were profiting from ads accusing the LGBTQ+ demographic of being "groomers" after a report the month before which shined a light on the issue. https://www.mediamatters.org/facebook/meta-still-profiting-ads-use-anti-lgbtq-groomer-slur-despite-platforms-ban
Meta has confirmed these ads would be against their policies. https://www.dailydot.com/debug/reddit-post-inspires-calls-twitter-ban-anti-lgbtq-groomer-slur/

Looking back to 2021 Meta was taking money from the Chinese government to promote material that denied the genocide of Uyghur Muslims in China. https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/facebook-china-misinformation/

Centre for Countering Digital Hate found in late 2020 that Facebook despite being warned 2 years prior were hosting dozens of accounts selling neo-nazi merch to 80'000 followers. https://counterhate.com/research/hatebook/

These are just the handful of incidents from the last three years, there have been more during this timeframe, before it and since but I had to cut it somewhere for my sanity. On that note am I insane or would any admin out there (apart from the ones running anarchy instances) tolerate this from another instance? Like is this the organization you want to associate yourself with? Because this talk of "We need to wait and see" implies that so far you have no problem with this kind of conduct within your federation, that this is the behavior you expect from the rest of Fedi. Surely we can do better than that don't y'all think?

#Project92 #Meta #FaceBook

Profits from propaganda: Facebook takes China cash to promote Uyghur disinformation

Facebook is taking money from China to promote "propaganda" playing down the plight of Uyghur Muslims, a Press Gazette investigation has found. China's treatment of Uyghur people in the western provin

^{William Turvill (Press Gazette)}

We, the moderation and administration of tech.lgbt, are signing the Anti-Meta Fedi Pact in fellowship with our peer communities. (https://vantaa.black/pact)

There is over a decade of precedent that Facebook will not have users' best interests as their guiding principle but rather profit margins, if it joins the Fediverse.

We at tech.lgbt have long held the belief that corporation owned instances are a threat to the core of the Fediverse: freedom for users to be themselves and to be a part of their communities. The 2010s saw the loss of online freedom when the majority of the Web was consolidated into a few destinations, and Facebook entering here could lead us back to centralization. Furthermore, NDAs for server admins will constrain our sovereignty online by binding us legally from disrupting their business.

We are not products. We are people, and we do not welcome Facebook in this space.

#meta #FediPact #facebook #project92 #mastodon #fediverse #FediBlockMeta #FediAdmin #p92 #MastoAdmin

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Large platforms - think #Twitter, #Facebook, etc - are very unresponsive to users. Most famously, Facebook polled its users on whether they wanted to be spied on. Faced with overwhelming opposition to commercial surveillance, Facebook ignored the poll result and cranked the #surveillance dial up to a million:

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/facebook-ignores-minimal-user-vote-adopts-new-privacy-policy-flna1c7559683

5/

Facebook ignores 'minimal' user vote, adopts new privacy policy

^{Wilson Rothman (NBC News)}

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Sounds like a mess, and I think the use of 'anarchy' is unfair to anarchists. ;)

https://www.iccl.ie/news/unsealed-court-documents-reveal-data-anarchy-at-meta/

#facebook

Unsealed court documents reveal data anarchy at Meta - Irish Council for Civil Liberties

ICCL letter to European Commission highlights new material about Meta’s internal data systems, and how Meta infringes the DMA & GDPR.

^{Johnny Ryan (Irish Council for Civil Liberties)}