Notices tagged with meta, page 5

Remember when the founder of the #SocialWebFoundation was encouraging people to use #WhatsApp over #Signal? Because his boss owns #WhatsApp?

#ICE can compel #Meta to hand over lots of user metadata because Meta also uses metadata to spy on users, as a way to circumvent the encryption.

Conversely, Signal does everything in its power to minimize the amount of metadata it collects.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/the-wiretap/2025/10/21/ice-spies-on-whatsapp/

gonna be giving a 20 minute talk about fedipact at the seattle GNU linux conference this year!!!

november 7th, 4:30pm, room 332

https://pretalx.seagl.org/2025/talk/QANHFC/

#FediPact #meta #threads #SeaGL #seattle

Hahahahahaha, Irish Data Protection Commission is and always has been a sick joke.

Now they’ve just become a parody of themselves.

If you’re surprised by this, you haven’t been paying attention:

https://ar.al/2025/03/21/careless-people/#luck-of-the-irish

In the EU, the Irish DPC doesn’t enforce GDPR, @noybeu does.

#ireland #DataProtectionCommission #DPC #dataProtection #GDPR #EU #corporateCapture #BigTech #SiliconValley #Meta #technoFascism https://mastodon.sdf.org/@ParadeGrotesque/115428228176439210

Gute Nachrichten! Die Nutzung antisozialer #Konzernmedien - noch immer fälschlich „soziale #Medien“ genannt, geht in den jüngeren Generationen wieder zurück. Kann ich von meinen Studierenden & Kindern her sehr bestätigen. #X & #Meta produzieren auch mittels Konzern - #KI riesige, zunehmend brüchige Blasen… https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000293189/zenit-erreicht-social-media-konsum-nimmt-weltweit-ab

#Meta Reportedly #LayingOff Hundreds From Its #AI Team

https://gizmodo.com/meta-reportedly-laying-off-hundreds-from-its-ai-team-2000675723

Man kann diesen Text gar nicht oft genug loben und verbreiten! Er spricht offen ein Problem an, was hier im #Fediverse schon lange diskutiert wird, weil es gerne als Argument genutzt wird, um #instagram #bluesky #meta #twitter #x etc. nicht zu verlassen.

"Da habe ich aber 10.000 Follower und hier nur 500 😭 "

Wenn ihr dieses Argument hört, schickt den Leuten diesen Artikel über die "Reichweitenlüge":

https://digitalcourage.de/blog/2025/die-reichweitenluege

Seht diesen Tröt als #Lesebefehl an!

Meta is once again in trouble for showing inappropriate adverts to do with babies on Facebook and Instagram after a woman had a miscarriage.

The story is on the BBC.

Meta once again highlights that Meta put profits before it users and what they did was indefensible!

#socialnetworks #meta

Marvel gets meta with Wonder Man teaser

#Teaser #Marvel #Storytelling #Meta #ComicBooks

https://arstechnica.com/culture/2025/10/marvel-gets-meta-with-wonder-man-teaser/

RE: https://mementomori.social/@juergen_hubert/115332193669869104

To expand on my earlier post, I have frequently read the notion around here that the #Fediverse doesn't need to grow in order to be successful. I vehemently disagree.

Commercial social media either bends its knee to #fascism (e.g. #Meta and #TikTok ) or actively its influence to actively promote fascism (e.g. #X , and I have my suspicions about Meta as well). As we should all know by now, fascism is bad for marginalized groups, bad for democracies, bad for the environment, and bad for the planet as a whole.

Thus, to have a chance for the long-term survival of human civilization, we absolutely must replace commercial social media with something better. And right now, the Fediverse seems to be the best candidate we have for "something better". Thus, by making the Fediverse grow, we can help build a better world! Isn't that a worthy case we can all support?

Such growth will also allow us to support some legitimate use cases which currently cannot realistically be fulfilled by the Fediverse as it is:

1 Political activism. To really rally people to a good cause, you need to reach lots and lots of people - and that's difficult with the Fediverse's tiny, tiny user base. There is a reason most of the political activists - even those who are basically sympathetic to us as such - are still using Meta, TikTok, and even X for their work. These platforms are all deeply hostile to progressive causes, and they are _still_ more useful for progressive political activism than the Fediverse. Think about that.

2. Businesses. Most people use social media as a hobby, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. Still, we live in a late-stage Capitalist hellscape, and we all need to make money somehow. And many small business owners use social media to make others aware of their work and products. If they cannot find enough customers via the Fediverse, then they will stick to Facebook et. al.

To make this clear, "supporting small business" in the Fediverse does _not_ mean you have to accept a deluge of ads in your stream, or next to it. All of this should be by consent only. But it is absolutely legitimate if companies want to open up an account and/or instance where they talk about their latest products (like, say, #ttrpg publishers) and where fans and customers can interact with them. And if doing this on the Fediverse is not worth the time and effort for them due to a lack of users, then they will stick to Facebook.

(Full disclosure: I, too, am doing a long-running experiment to see if using the Fediverse as my primary advertising environment is profitable. So far, I am earning €200/month - a nice side income, but far from enough to make a living off it.)

There are some further social media use cases which could be vastly improved by a larger Fediverse user base, although they would need new software as well:

3. Job and career networking similar to #LinkedIn
4. Crowdsourced Question and Answer systems like #Quora

and probably a few others I haven't thought of (do you have any further ides?). But either way, to my mind the positives of a growing Fediverse will far outweigh the negatives.

So what _can_ we do to expand the Fediverse? A good question - I have a few ideas, but what are your thoughts?

@ulfi

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Sicherlich habe ich z. B. kryptographisch kein ausreichendes technisches Knowhow. Mit Technologiefolgen, Demokratie und Gesellschaft beschäftige ich mich hingegen schon länger.

Ich sehe große Unterschiede zu den #USA und den restlichen nicht-authoritären Staaten.
Zugriffe auf #Meta-Konten sind dort eher die Regel. #Meta (vorm. #Facebook) sind dort schon für viele Behörden eher häufig. Zudem sollte es seit dem #ProjectAnalyticaSummit eigentlich...

@2ndStar @mina

Today I had to unfollow someone because they posted a link to an article and a word I had filtered was in the article preview (but not the post text or the link URL), which was frustrating and sad.

Here is a feature request/bug report on the Mastodon Github issue list asking that filters also be applied to preview cards of links in posts:

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/32940

Add a thumbs-up or a comment to the Github issue if you also want this to be fixed! :) (If you don't have an account but still want it to be fixed, maybe a boooost? 🚀)

#MastoMeta #meta #MastoDev

Google said it will pay $24.5 million to resolve U.S. President Donald Trump’s claims that being banned from his YouTube channel after the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol was illegal censorship. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/09/30/tech/google-trump-suit-jan-6-ban/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #google #youtube #us #donaldtrump #x #meta

Gavin Newsom Signs First-In-Nation AI Safety Law

#AIRegulation #Meta #AITransparency #TechIndustry #AIHarm

https://slashdot.org/story/25/09/29/2054225/gavin-newsom-signs-first-in-nation-ai-safety-law

"You wouldn't hit a guy with glasses, would you?"

"Are they #Meta glasses?"

If you even just think about buying Meta's Ray-Ban Glasses that record everyone around you without consent,
I will judge you as a creep, and avoid and report you like I do with other creeps.

Don't. Record. People. Without. Consent.

#Privacy #Consent #Meta #RayBan

I see so many people (mostly men, this isn't random) talking about how Meta's Ray-Ban glasses are "incredible" or "still not ready" yet, I don't see anyone calling it what it is:
Voyeurism.

This technology will increase voyeurism and stalking aggressions in unacceptable ways. These glasses are a voyeur's dream weapon. Also a doxxer's and stalker's dream weapon.

Why are our laws and cultures not protecting us against this?

#Privacy #Safety #Meta #RayBan #Consent

The #UnitedStates 🇺🇸 is now hunting those who expose masked #ICE (Immigration & Customs Enforcement) agents on social networks.

I think Meta will use its resources to prevent the exposure of these individuals, but I am not sure how long they will be able to hold out.

👉🏾 Courts Block #Meta From Sharing Anti-ICE Activists’ #Instagram Account Info With Feds https://theintercept.com/2025/09/24/court-block-instagram-subpoena-ice-border-patrol/ 🔛 @TheIntercept

Every day I am becoming more appreciative regarding the existence of the #Fediverse.

I see Meta licking fascist boots.

I see Meta sexualizing children.

And somehow, I see people still using #Meta products.

#Facebook #Instagram #Whatsapp

Fascists claiming they're "Protecting Woman and Girls" yet they never acknowledge any of this stuff, it's like they don't actually care about Men predating on Girls, so long as they're White and Rich.

Not a peep out of that crowd when Trump visited, they adore Rich White Paedos, don't they?

Also Men....they wouldn't be doing this unless it worked, Meta knows you're a paedo....

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/20/parents-outraged-meta-uses-photos-schoolgirls-ads-man

#Whiteness #Meta #Patriarchy #Misogyny #Manosphere #Zuckerberg #CAM #Technology #TechBros

> #Meta has used back-to-school pictures of schoolgirls to advertise one of its social media platforms to a 37-year-old man

> The man noticed that posts encouraging him to “get Threads” (…) were being dropped into his Instagram feed featuring embedded posts of uniformed girls as young as 13 with their faces visible and, in most cases, their names.

> The children’s images were used by Meta after their parents had posted them on Instagram to mark their return to school.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/20/parents-outraged-meta-uses-photos-schoolgirls-ads-man