Metawatch. (Formerly known as Facebookwatch.)

FGD135 · October 28, 2018, 8:35am

Well, okay then.

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RickMycroft · November 14, 2018, 12:46am

Will no one rid us of these turbulent fake news?!

Wanderfound · November 21, 2018, 12:04pm

Over the last several months, a progressive nonprofit called Color Of Change observed an uptick in public interest, and in public threats — many of which centered around the organization’s relationship with George Soros.

“We started seeing the threats coming in at us, in emails that were physical threats mentioning George Soros in them,” Rashad Robinson, Color of Change’s president, told Salon. “For us it was a very weird thing, as a black racial justice group, when they throw a philanthropist in the threat.”

This was especially confusing, Robinson explained, since Soros — a liberal Jewish billionaire and right-wing boogeyman — was not even one of the organization’s top five biggest donors.

It wasn’t until the New York Times published its blockbuster report that detailed the inner workings of an alleged smear campaign to deflect criticism of Facebook from progressive activists that the string of unfamiliar threats added up. The bombshell exposé claimed Facebook hired the Republican opposition-research firm, Definers Public Affairs, to smear anti-Facebook protestors as anti-Semitic, while simultaneously scapegoating anti-Facebook groups — like Color of Change — as under the control of Soros, a common right-wing refrain that reeks of anti-Semitism.

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Akimbo_NOT · December 5, 2018, 3:25pm

Fyi

Facebook entering “whitelisting agreements” with companies, including Netflix and Airbnb, giving them access to friends data after Facebook introduced new privacy policies in 2014/15.
Collins said a recurring theme of the papers is the “idea of linking access to friends data to the financial value of the [app] developers’ relationship with Facebook.”
They show it “taking aggressive positions against apps,” Collins said. This included email evidence showing Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg personally approved a decision to deny access to data for the now-defunct Twitter app, Vine.
Facebook made it difficult for users to know about changes it made to its Android app because they were controversial. The changes enabled Facebook to collect a record of calls and texts sent by users. -BusinessInsider

RickMycroft · December 6, 2018, 10:02pm

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-funds-facebook/fed-up-with-facebook-u-s-fund-managers-look-for-alternatives-idUSKBN1O519Y

Concerns about the social media giant’s declining profit margins and battered reputation have prompted 93 U.S. mutual funds to completely sell out of their positions in the company so far this year, exacerbating a roughly 35 percent decline in Facebook’s share price from its highs, according to Refinitiv’s Lipper research service.

Akimbo_NOT · December 19, 2018, 5:58pm

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Wanderfound · December 24, 2018, 9:00am

RickMycroft · January 5, 2019, 2:47pm

What could possibly go wrong?

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