Now #twitter has #employed #theassociatedpress and #reuters - two #leftwing #publications for #factcheck 'ing: https://www.lotuseaters.com/twitter-sign.. The same people behind #facebook 's " #facts "... *I'm sure there is nothing to be concerned about with #centralized #factchecking operations.* It's not like an #information #cabal or something!
This #article is pretty weak in evidence and claims, but the idea is there: http://techrights.org/2021/08/05/lousy-m.. I believe that in the current #political climate, pretty much any large #organization is doomed to fail. #mozilla #firefox have got management with specific ideas about how they should move forwards. For example, they implemented a #vpn and have been hiring ex- #facebook #data #scientists ... I'm not entirely sure they are going in the right direction.
#germany is surprisingly #based when it comes to #facebook #censorship https://www.techdirt.com/articles/202107.. I would perhaps go a little further and even have some fundamental right for #german #users to be able to use this #social network.
#facebook has reported a #cdc link as #falseinformation and #fakenews using their internal #factcheckers https://postimg.cc/XpWyN3pf Does make you wonder...
And now we see #microsoft , #alphabet ( #google & #youtube ) , #facebook and #twitter working with the #un to classify #wrongthink - quite literally: https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclu.. People 'sympathising' with #whitesupremacy - with such groups as #proudboys will now be classed as #terrorists and banned from all platforms. So much for #freespeech ...
Pretty crazy bug for a #messenger #chat #app - content being sent to the wrong person! For all their #encrpytion - it's meaningless if they don't get the absolute basics right: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Andr.. Apparently something similar happened in the early days of #facebook messenger: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=279..
Well that sucks. #facebook is sending me a #birthday reminder for somebody who has been dead for quite a few years as a result of #suicide ... I imagine quite a few other people got the message too, as they have posted their Birthday wishes to their wall. It's the same with other friends that died too young.
Possible #election #interference in #bulgaria by #facebook deleting #politician pages once they stop paying for #ads https://bozhobg.medium.com/facebook-took.. Facebook appear to be taking their money and then running with it. Strange behaviour indeed.
Most people do not like #ads - who would have thunk it? https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/.. #facebook will need to rethink their approach...
Apparently #trump will launch a #lawsuite against #facebook and #twitter for #cancelculture and #deplatform 'ing of people in the #us https://www.lotuseaters.com/trump-to-ann.. Seems like a pretty bold move, let's see what comes of it.
I remember seeing this, #facebook are getting people to #report one another as seen in some form of #communist #nightmare https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/202..
Wow, the #oculus now displays #ads thanks to #facebook https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/16/22535.. I'll give a hard pass on the #oculusrift thanks.
@barray on Mon Jun 07 01:46:39 UTC 2021 said: &eThe #aclu replied to the #freespeech loss charge by the #nytimes https://www.aclu.org/news/civil-libertie.. They raise some good points, including supporting #trump 's right to use #facebook and #twitter - despite this stance not being popular. I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt on this one for now.Yet another institution falling short on #freespeech https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/06/us/ac.. The #aclu apparently defended the fundamental rights of the #nazis and #kkk - but somebody who says "trans women are not women" (for example) is apparently too much to stomach. Something went very wrong when misgendering somebody is worse than Nazi death camps...
I was looking at this earlier today, due to a comment on #facebook https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfre.. It seems as though the #nhs is looking to "share" confidential patient data for 'research' purposes. It's *opt-out* and will be rolled out all over the #uk - it's quite likely this data will be mined and misused almost instantly.
#google and #apple are only opting out of #facebook 's advertising efforts because it doesn't benefit them - in fact it's a direct competitor to their own products: https://thebigtech.substack.com/p/google.. When it comes to large tech companies, *always* assume the worst, despite what they say.