Some 34 companies joined the Tent Foundation’s Coalition for Afghan Refugees and have pledged to train, hire, and “help integrate” refugees into the American economy, the Tent Foundation announced on Tuesday. The companies include Facebook, Uber, UPS, Pfizer, Chobani, Trip Advisor, Western Union, Hilton, Gap, Mastercard and Amazon – the …
Read More »Facebook censors German anti-lockdown movement under new rules to prevent real users from organizing & amplifying ‘harmful’ ideas
Facebook’s head of security policy Nathaniel Gleicher announced the action on Thursday, saying that his team has been working for months to “expand our network disruption efforts so we can address threats that come from groups of authentic accounts coordinating on our platform to cause social harm.” The closest his …
Read More »The culture in the grip of Instagram influencers can ruin lives and Facebook knows it. It’s time someone took responsibility
Can you imagine a life where you have breakfast at Harrods every morning, then go for an afternoon shopping spree at Knightsbridge, look picture-perfect on a Wednesday at noon, wear designer brands, stay in five-star hotels, fly first class, and don’t have to work nine to five? So-called influencers, who …
Read More »Trump SLATES ‘corrupt’ Facebook for secret system that ‘exempted’ VIP users from content moderator rules & sanctions
In a statement on Tuesday, the former US president labeled Facebook “corrupt” for protecting celebrities, politicians, athletes and others featured on a list of at least 5.8 million VIP users. Meanwhile, enforcement actions such as account suspensions, bans and shadow bans are meted out to the rest of the platform’s …
Read More »Two-faced Facebook’s hypocrisy on freedom of speech reveals it is now a clear and present danger to democracy
So, the truth is finally out: despite all the claims, promises and knee-bending by Facebook’s PR department, not all the platform’s three billion users are equal. Some, it seems, are privileged, sometimes by accident, but mainly by design. This is the inescapable truth that The Wall Street Journal has revealed …
Read More »Facebook’s smart glasses are an attempt to profit from our narcissistic culture, and also a cause for privacy concern
It is always necessary and valuable to ask what problem is being solved when confronted with a new technology or innovation. Facebook’s ‘Ray-Ban Stories’ smart sunglasses – which can take photos, record video, answer phone calls, and play podcasts – need such interrogation. According to Andrew Bosworth, head of Facebook …
Read More »LifeLog 2.0.? Facebook summons the ghost of Google Glass with Ray-Ban ‘smart glasses’ capable of stealthily recording uninitiated
The first product of a reported multi-year device partnership with Facebook, Ray-Ban ‘Stories’ sunglasses are almost indistinguishable from normal eyewear – except they sync up with a companion app called Facebook View on the user’s phone and require a Facebook account to use, according to Alex Heath, who tested them …
Read More »Facebook pays contractors to read your ‘encrypted’ WhatsApp messages, shares info with prosecutors – reports
Social media behemoth Facebook acquired WhatsApp in 2014, with CEO Mark Zuckerberg promising to keep the stripped-down, ad-free messaging app “exactly the same.” End-to-end encryption was introduced in 2016, with the app itself offering on-screen assurances to users that “No one outside of this chat” can read their communications, and …
Read More »Facebook, Twitter & Telegram face nearly $1 million in fines for repeated failure to delete content
“[Moscow’s Tagansky district] court received two protocols in relation to Telegram, drawn up under the Administrative Code of the Russian Federation for ‘Failure to delete information by the information resource under legislation on information, information technology and information protection.’ The maximum sanction for this offense is a fine of up …
Read More »Facebook apologizes after its AI put ‘primates’ label on video about black men
“We apologize to anyone who may have seen these offensive recommendations,” Facebook said in a statement to the media, adding that the entire topic recommendation feature has been disabled. The video, uploaded by UK tabloid the Daily Mail in June 2020, contained clips of two separate incidents in the US …
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