Bad analogy Data was lovable; and had morals.
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He was written that way.
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Quack pH truthers will cure your Corona Effect.
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He’s supporting Trump. Musk is supporting Trump - “thanks for that juicy NASA contract Donnie!”
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https://www.mediamatters.org/facebook/mark-zuckerberg-hypocrite-and-trumpist
“ Mark Zuckerberg is a hypocrite and a Trumpist
The Facebook CEO knew what he was doing wading into the president’s latest tantrum”
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I’ll bet this goes over well with ol’ Marky-mark.
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Hey - we’ve already learned that calling someone a pedo guy isn’t actionable!
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You know Facebook has an image problem when major nonprofits start turning down donations over political lies
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s refusal to apply platform policies to moderate rule-breaking posts by President Trump and other political figures has prompted a pair of tech policy groups to stop accepting money from the ad biz.
On Wednesday, Public Knowledge and the Open Technology Institute said they would no longer accept funding from Facebook because it refuses to moderate hate, misinformation, and abuse.
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Facebook’s cool with sharing the President’s nonsense on its mega-platform – but don’t you dare mention ‘unionize’ in its Workplace app
Facebook this week temporarily halted plans to roll out tools that would have allowed its Workplace customers to censor touchy topics, following a reported internal staff revolt.
Workplace looks and operates like self-contained private instances of Facebook – with familiar features such as groups, instant messaging, and news feeds – for businesses to use to manage their employees. The paid-for service has been deployed by tens of thousands of organizations, from Starbucks and Walmart to the Royal Bank of Scotland.
On Wednesday, according to The Intercept, execs revealed to Facebook staff a new addition to the software: tools for employers to filter out undesirable topics and words from their Workplace news feeds. One example given was “unionize.” Facebook techies revolted, we’re told.
The engineers were mostly upset at the notion Facebook was helping companies shut down labor-organizing efforts. Although employers, in America at least, can ban workers from using company email and messaging systems to organize a union, folks ultimately still have the right to organize a union in their workplace.
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Whatsapp blamed own users for failure to keep phone number repo off Google searches
An infosec researcher reckons Whatsapp was a bit too quick off the mark to blame its users when hundreds of thousands of phone numbers, names and profile pictures were found to be easily accessible via Google.
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Facebook has revealed it will happily share details of changes to its News Feed algorithms with Australia’s government, but said it won’t pay local media organisations when social network users share their content online.
The Social Network’s™ position is outlined in a new post regarding and submission to [PDF] the agency overseeing development of Australia’s proposed “News media bargaining code”.
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Facebook’s $500k deepfake-detector AI contest drama: Winning team disqualified on buried consent technicality
Five engineers missed out on sharing a top prize of $500,000 in a Facebook-backed AI competition – after they were disqualified for using images scraped from Flickr and YouTube to train their deepfake-detecting system.
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Facebook accused of trying to bypass GDPR, slurp domain owners’ personal Whois info via an obscure process
Facebook is accused of attempting to bypass Europe’s hard-line privacy legislation and access personal data on domain name holders through an obscure policy process with the Whois registry.
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https://www.mediamatters.org/facebook/facebook-has-profited-running-racist-kung-flu-advertising
Facebook has profited from running racist “kung flu” advertising
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It’s hard to be the untamed wild west, and a stable giant advertising platform at the same time.
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Who’d have thought that cutting off a major revenue stream would force them to grow a backbone. Not the reports of harassment or their own algorithms driving people apart (and shelving their own research)… Nope, none of that, just cutting off all those juicy ad bucks… but i’ll take it.
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The invisible hand at work. Yay capitalism! /s
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Late stage… something.
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