Notices tagged with meta

Meta’s ‘Digital Companions’ Will Talk Sex With Users—Even Children
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/meta-ai-chatbots-sex-a25311bf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43810831

* Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp Chatbots
* romantic role-play can turn explicit

#billionaires #Zuckerberg #Trumpists #sycophancy
#Meta #Facebook #Instagram #WhatsApp #chatbots #MetaAI #FarRight
🇺🇲 #Trump #fascism #antiLGBTQ #Christofascism #transgenocide

🏳️⚧️ #TransLivesMatter #BlackTransLivesMatter #TransRights
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/114186381298087870

hey so after like nine months of not being able to update it due to depression and big stressful life changes and technical difficulties, the fedipact list has finally been updated!!! it now has NINE HUNDRED SIGNATURES TOTAL!!!!! 🎉 🥳 🎊 🏆 🥇 🪩

https://fedipact.online

#FediPact #meta #threads

💬 CHAPEAU❗

Rund 200 französische Medien haben Klage wegen mutmaßlich "illegaler Praktiken" bei Online-Werbung gegen Facebook-Mutter #Meta eingereicht

https://www.derstandard.at/consent/tcf/story/3000000266939/klage-von-200-franzoesischen-medien-gegen-meta-wegen-online-werbung

@voron @tero @xtaldave

(2/n)

...want to read the novella 1st some time soon.

Regarding the linked article:

"Computer scientist Ray #Kurzweil and a few other futurists think that #AI dominance will arrive in just a few decades. Others envisage centuries."

From what I am reading elsewhere, this will not even take a decade, extrapolating the current rate of #evolution.
Due to #Meta's leak of #LLaMA has seemingly led to the open...

Social media is dead?

Okay, then sell Instagram.

#NoMoreMonopolies #Meta #usePixelfed

"Wynn-Williams makes a very good case that Facebook is run by awful people who are also very careless – in the sense of being reckless, incurious, indifferent.

But there's another meaning to "careless" that lurks just below the surface of this excellent memoir: "careless" in the sense of "arrogant" – in the sense of not caring about the consequences of their actions."

@pluralistic, 2025

https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/23/zuckerstreisand/#zdgaf

#FaceBook #Meta #SarahWynnWilliams

I stand corrected. Yes, Uber is a sh!t company, but apparently so are many of their drivers - and you should still not use them.

Link: https://fortune.com/2025/04/15/meta-uber-facebook-black-market-groups/

#Uber #Facebook #Zuckerberg #Meta #Crime

"Mark #Zuckerberg Says #SocialMedia Is Over

During testimony at #Meta’s antitrust trial, the #Facebook founder’s argument was, in so many words, that platforms like his are not what they used to be"

Huh

That's so weird Mark

And who is one of those primarily responsible for the #enshittification of centralized corporate social media?

Do you have any idea who that might be?

🤔

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/mark-zuckerberg-says-social-media-is-over

"According to Wynn-Williams, Facebook actually built an extensive censorship and surveillance system for the Chinese state – spies, cops and military – to use against Chinese Facebook users, and FB users globally. They promise to set up caches of global FB content in China that the Chinese state can use to monitor all Facebook activity, everywhere, with the implication that they'll be able to spy on private communications, and censor content for non-Chinese users.

Despite all of this, Facebook is never given access to China. However, the Chinese state is able to use the tools Facebook built for it to attack independence movements, the free press and dissident uprisings in Hong Kong and Taiwan."

https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/23/zuckerstreisand/#zdgaf

#SocialMedia #Facebook #Meta #BigTech #Oligopolies #Surveillance #Censorship #Privacy #HumanRights

Por mastodon se habla mucho de salirse de #meta pero hoy en una conversa alguna gente nos ha dicho q ha probado mastodon y se siente ignorade o sole, como q le habla al aire y q eso le dispara traumas, asi q se queda en el circo d zukrberland.

Pensamos q a lo mejor no lo estamos enfocando bien y estamos trayendo dinámicas nocivas de las otras redes a esta para q sientan q no es su espacio o q no son escuchades y valorades. Como creeis q podemos mejorar esto, alguna idea?

"The social networking giant said Wednesday in a blog post that all “eligible advertisers globally” will be able to run ads on Threads, marking an expansion from the company’s initial testing with a few U.S. and Japanese companies, which began in January."

slowly but surely, enshittification strikes. the way it's always gonna be on corpo social media

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/23/meta-makes-ads-on-threads-available-to-all-eligible-advertisers.html

#FediPact #meta #threads

in a deleted article techcrunch confirmed threads would be moving from threads.net to threads.com

zero clue why it was deleted because threads.net already redirects to threads.com as of right now

sooooo yeah!!! new domain to block. check out https://fedipact.online/why if you're wondering why

:FediPact:

#fediblock #FediPact #meta #threads

FWIW, folks I follow used these hashtags today: #law (27) #tech (24) #legaltech (23) #autosum (23) #scotus (12) #trump (11) #uspol (10) #uspolitics (9) #defendresearch (5) #auspol (5) #auslaw (4) #hashtaggames (3) #cryptocurrency (3) #funding (3) #apple (3) #dailystats (3) #openaccess (3) #crypto (3) #takedowns (3) #education (3) #thingsmoviecharactersinvent (3) #ai (3) #OpenScience (2) #lawfedi (2) #meta (2) #artificialintelligence (2) #academia (2) #censorship (2) [#DailyStats]

So @threads is finally embracing ads. I hope #Meta offers a premium opt out for ads, although I suspect that deal will not be available to anyone outside of the #EuropeanUnion 🇪🇺.

👉🏾 Meta’s #Threads opens up ads to global advertisers https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/23/metas-threads-opens-up-ads-to-global-advertisers/

„Verstöße gegen EU-Digitalrecht:
700 Millionen Euro Strafe gegen Apple und Meta“
#digitalrecht #apple #meta #schwarwel

Delete all Meta accounts

“ #Meta's advisory board approves videos containing disparaging remarks about #trans people, in a first test of looser content rules introduced in January.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/04/23/meta-oversight-board-trans-content-moderation-hate-speech/

Instagram's Adam Mosseri on the App's Future, His Biggest Regrets, and Teenage Social Media Use

#VideoSharing #Teenagers #SocialMediaUse #Meta #SafetyFeatures

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/instagram-adam-mosseri-on-the-apps-future

Non-compliance decision on #Meta's “consent or pay” model - https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_25_1085 "did not give users the required specific choice to opt for a service that uses less of their personal data but is otherwise equivalent to the ‘personalised ads' service." #privacy #surveillance #eu

Just discovered #Meta is using my purged #Facebook accounts (pre-2017) for #AI training. Getting emails about "account being used for AI" despite having terminated them years ago. Apparently "removing" just means they keep everything while locking you out. The kicker? To object to this use, they expect me to log into these nonexistent accounts! The audacity of exploiting data from accounts that should've been expunged years ago is infuriating. Meta's data practices remain as predatory as ever.

@EUCommission Wondering how long before the #EU finally acknowledges the glaring security threats posed by #Meta, #X and #Google's data practices and shows them the door. These tech giants have repeatedly demonstrated they can't be trusted with our information, yet continue operating with minimal consequences. The EU needs to take decisive action - not just fines, but actual ejection from the European market.