Several people I know in Europe received recruitment messages from Facebook in December (branded as “Facebook” iirc).
Almost sprained a finger deleting mine.
I’m seeing LinkedIn Meta job recs now. (US)
US watchdog pokes Facebook a second time: Meta faces fresh monopoly lawsuit
The Federal Trade Commission’s antitrust complaint that Facebook, er, Meta operates as a monopoly will be heard by the courts after the US watchdog’s initial lawsuit was dismissed.
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Google’s and Facebook’s top execs allegedly approved dividing ad market among themselves
The alleged 2017 deal between Google and Facebook to kill header bidding, a way for multiple ad exchanges to compete fairly in automated ad auctions, was negotiated by Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, and endorsed by both Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg (now with Meta) and Google CEO Sundar Pichai, according to an updated complaint filed in the Texas-led antitrust lawsuit against Google.
Texas, 14 other US states, and the Commonwealths of Kentucky and Puerto Rico accused Google of unlawfully monopolizing the online ad market and rigging ad auctions in a December, 2020, lawsuit. The plaintiffs subsequently filed an amendment complaint in October, 2021, that includes details previously redacted.
On Friday, Texas et al. filed a third amended complaint [PDF] that fills in more blanks and expands the allegations by 69 more pages.
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There will be so many pictures of grandkids NFT’s.
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Meta’s “we need new internet regulations” ads are so ubiquitous, and yet I am aware only that they are asking for more power for carefully unexplained reasons.
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Responsibility by obscurity.
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The Diem association’s assets will be sold to Silvergate Bank — a crypto-focused bank in California that had partnered with the group to launch the digital currency — for $182 million (€162 million).
Silvergate will acquire Diem’s assets, including development, deployment, and operations infrastructure and “tools for running a blockchain-based payment network,” the bank said in a statement.
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Whoever is on top when regulations are put in place will be kept on top by the regulations?
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A good sign.
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“Let’s slap some boring ‘corporate art’ paint on top of VRChat to trick investors that we are trying to reach the youth who are leaving our services because they don’t want to interact with elderly racists anymore. That will totally work.”
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Trump suggests Facebook’s user base declined because people quit to get ready for his social-media platform
Yeah, that must be it. This guy is never wrong!
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Looks like they need to upgrade to a newer android leader model. The old one is outdated.
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Australian court finds Facebook ‘divorced from reality’ as it tried to define doing business down under
Australia’s Federal Court has described Facebook’s explanation of how its tech works as “divorced from reality” in ruling against it in a landmark privacy case.
Facebook tech made it before the bench because in 2018 The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) sued The Social Network™ over the This Is Your Digital Life app that funnelled data to Cambridge Analytica. Just 53 Australian Facebook users installed the app, but it accessed personal information describing over 310,000 Aussie users. In March 2020 the OAIC decided that warranted action against Facebook on privacy grounds because the 310,000-plus locals did not consent to info-sharing.
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