Facebook are evil

[Raheem]

Facebook Doesn’t Know What It Does With Your Data, Or Where It Goes: Leaked Document

“We do not have an adequate level of control and explainability over how our systems use data,” Facebook engineers say in leaked document.

www.vice.com

Which kind of begs the question that I think might have been asked earlier in the thread ... what if Facebook can't be fixed?

What happens to a car if it can't be fixed?

 

[rubbershoes]

What happens to a car if it can't be fixed?

It gets driven to Epping Forest and set on fire

 

[NoXion]

Facebook Doesn’t Know What It Does With Your Data, Or Where It Goes: Leaked Document

“We do not have an adequate level of control and explainability over how our systems use data,” Facebook engineers say in leaked document.

www.vice.com

Which kind of begs the question that I think might have been asked earlier in the thread ... what if Facebook can't be fixed?

I don't think Facebook can be "fixed", because it was never "broken" in the first place. It's not a vehicle that's been involved in a collision. It was deliberately designed to function in the way that it does. Facebook should be shut down because the very premise of it is based on harvesting data from users and selling it on.

Say what you like about facebook, but at least they're cracking down on discrimination against... landlords?

Apparently it's sorted now, but only because the situation raised a stink on Twitter. But how many more decisions like this go uncontested, because of Facebook's reliance on underpaid humans and stupid algorithms to do their moderation?

I want to stress that this isn't an issue of free speech, but an issue about Facebook following their own damn rules. Saying one thing while doing another is inherently deceptive, and is only compounded by Facebook's shitty mechanisms for appealing moderation decisions.

 

[magneze]

Singapore ranks Facebook least safe e-commerce option

Singapore's safety scheme measures scam-combatting capability

www.theregister.com

Another Facebook product deemed unsafe. Shocking I know.

 

[magneze]

Facebook enforces ban on gun sales with 10-strikes-and-you’re-out policy

10-strikes policy on gun sales revealed in "internal guidance" obtained by WaPo.

arstechnica.com

10 strikes is not really enforcing anything very effectively is it? I wonder what the debate was that ended up on 10.

 

[two sheds]

Meta slammed with lawsuits claiming social media hurts kids

Plus: Why safety data for self-driving technology is misleading, and more

www.theregister.com

Will follow this with interest

 

[petee]

 

[Raheem]

Facebook enforces ban on gun sales with 10-strikes-and-you’re-out policy

10-strikes policy on gun sales revealed in "internal guidance" obtained by WaPo.

arstechnica.com

10 strikes is not really enforcing anything very effectively is it? I wonder what the debate was that ended up on 10.

I suppose the algorithm needs to be reasonably confident, statistically speaking, that someone's been murdered before it puts revenue in jeopardy.

 

[magneze]

A Nebraska teenager is facing criminal charges alleging she aborted a fetus in violation of state law, after authorities obtained her Facebook messages using a search warrant. Seventeen-year-old Celeste Burgess, who is being tried as an adult along with her mother Jessica Burgess, is awaiting trial in Madison County District Court on charges that they broke a Nebraska law banning abortions after 20 weeks.

This marks one of the first instances of a person’s Facebook activity being used to incriminate her in a state where abortion access is restricted — a scenario that has remained largely hypothetical in the weeks following the US Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. Nebraska currently outlaws abortions beyond 20 weeks. On Monday, Republican lawmakers in the state failed to secure enough votes to decrease that window to 12 weeks.

Facebook Gave Nebraska Cops A Teen's DMs So They Could Prosecute Her For Having An Abortion

A Nebraska teenager is facing criminal charges alleging she aborted a fetus in violation of state law, after authorities obtained her Facebook messages using a search warrant.

www.forbes.com

Teen’s jailing shows exactly how Facebook will help anti-abortion states

A teen shared one message, then cops requested all her data without her consent.

arstechnica.com

 

[bluescreen]

When your own chatbot disses you:

Meta's chatbot says the company 'exploits people'

The new prototype doesn't think much of the company's CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, either.

www.bbc.co.uk

and

Meta's latest AI chatbot has mixed feelings about CEO Mark Zuckerberg: 'It is funny that he has all this money and still wears the same clothes!'

When asked about CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Meta's AI chatbot gave answers ranging from "I think he is a great guy" to "He's too creepy and manipulative."

www.businessinsider.com

 

[On Fire]

Good thing about Facebook: Groups
Bad thing: Groups are rarely as good as a well run forum.

 

[Steel Icarus]

 

[On Fire]

Good thing about Facebook: Most news organisations are on it
Bad thing: It is better just to go to the news website

 

[On Fire]

Good thing about Facebook: Many of your friends are on there and you can catch up with them.
Bad thing: People generally only post good things about their lives on Facebook so it is a bit misleading.

 

[moochedit]

People generally only post good things about their lives on Facebook so it is a bit misleading.

I don't know about that. Some people post about the bad things in their lives on fb.

 

[magneze]

Still evil:

Facebook users sue Meta for bypassing beefy Apple security to spy on millions

A former Google engineer reported the risk, but Meta found no privacy concern.

arstechnica.com

 

[stethoscope]

Why Mark Zuckerberg had to announce 11,000 job cuts at Meta

Company thought rise in online activity would last, rivals stole its users, and metaverse was too uncertain for shareholders

www.theguardian.com

With whats happening over at twitter, I think the social media bubble has burst personally.

I'd be glad to see a lot of forums re-appear, so many music ones I used to like have dissapeared or gone very quiet in the last ten years.

 

[paul mckenna]

Now is a seriously good time to buy FB stock

-64%.

You dickhead.

 

[savoloysam]

£600M for the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Merely a penny in the bug eyed twat's back pocket.

 

[savoloysam]

After 16 years (yes I was pretty much there from the start, almost) I've finally deleted my account. I kept it for a long time, not to keep up with the rubbish that people post, but because I must have liked about 700 pages of Bands and venues etc. It was a decent all in one place to keep up with events. The final straw for me was not just the growing data farming concerns it was the fucking adverts. I logged on this week and it was an advert for every three posts.

I probably should have deleted it ages ago but farewell bye bye zuckerturg.

 

[paul mckenna]

not joking, actually bought some stock after mentioning it.

Of all the FAANG companies, they've probably got the best record of creating product in the shortest time. If the metaverse turns out to be another internet landgrab i'll wager they get there first.

They took a big hit with Apple's privacy stuff also but they'll find a workaround and turn that firehose back on

Now is a seriously good time to buy FB stock

Thanks Editor for the thread, the stock is up 83% since this message

 

[magneze]

Twitter rival launches in a couple of days. Wonder if they'll improve privacy?

Nope!

 

[paul mckenna]

Stock is up 111%

 

[RubyToogood]

Facebook really seems to be dying on its arse now as they monetise the shit out of it at the expense of showing you any of your friends' posts. They're clearly gearing up to rip the guts out of Instagram as well. Removing the ability to see recent posts for a hashtag has rendered a lot of things meaningless.

 

[Magnus McGinty]

I binned my account end of 2022 given anything my friends had to say I couldn’t see for adverts, but anything I had to say was all open to whichever state department interested. No wonder it was free.

 

[singsongfun]

Threads is not evil. Maybe Meta has turned the corner and can have a useful community for good.

 

[RubyToogood]

Threads is not evil. Maybe Meta has turned the corner and can have a useful community for good.

They all start out like that.

 

[RoyReed]

Threads is not evil. Maybe Meta has turned the corner and can have a useful community for good.

Zuckerberg

 

[FridgeMagnet]

Nothing which spams me with so many posts from boohoo, prettylittlething, ladbible, and ant and dec can possibly not be evil

 

[Artaxerxes]

Threads is not evil. Maybe Meta has turned the corner and can have a useful community for good.

Lol