As teens left Facebook, company planned to lure 6-year-olds, documents show. Internal posts and job listings show plans were moving forward.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/11/facebook-wanted-to-hook-6-year-olds-with-new-apps-documents-show/

#fb #meta

Facebook and the Metaverse

📡 @unlimitedhangout 📡 @tlavagabond

Whitney and Ryan Cristian discuss the recent news of Facebook rebranding as a "metaverse" company and provide important background on what the metaverse is and what its ambitions really are.

Links discussed in video available here: https://unlimitedhangout.com/2021/10/press/facebook-and-the-metaverse-with-ryan-cristian/

Originally published 10/29/21.

https://lbry.tv/@UnlimitedHangout:a/Ryan-and-Whitney:3
https://rokfin.com/post/58293
https://vimeo.com/640496780

#fb #meta #metaverse #microsoft #google

The real Meta

Facebook discovers there's already a company named Meta

It happens when you are busy in collecting data on others but forget to check data related to you.

https://thehill.com/changing-america/enrichment/arts-culture/579608-facebook-discovers-theres-already-a-company-named

#fb #meta

#Mozilla and #Meta (#Facebook) are now actually working together

https://www.xda-developers.com/mozilla-meta-interoperable-private-attribution/

Russia court bans Facebook, Instagram on extremism charges

https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-technology-business-moscow-facebook-456db70cbe8e9bb639fca9fe2d793b10

A Moscow court banned Facebook and Instagram on Monday for what it deemed extremist activity in a case against their parent company, Meta.

The Tverskoy District Court fulfilled a request from prosecutors to outlaw Meta Platforms Inc. and banned Facebook and Instagram for what they called extremist activities. Russian prosecutors have accused the social media platforms of ignoring government requests to remove what they described as fake news about Russian military actions in Ukraine and calls for anti-war protests in Russia.

The court’s ruling bans Meta from opening offices and doing business in Russia. Meta declined to comment when contacted by The Associated Press.

Prosecutors haven’t requested to ban the Meta-owned messaging service WhatsApp, which is widely popular in Russia. The authorities also emphasized that they do not intend to punish individual Russians who use Facebook or Instagram.

Instagram and Facebook were already blocked in Russia after the country’s communications and media regulator Roskomnadzor said they were being used to call for violence against Russian soldiers. In addition to blocking Facebook and Instagram, Russian authorities also have shut access to foreign media websites, including BBC, the U.S. government-funded Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, German broadcaster Deutsche Welle and Latvia-based website Meduza

Continuing the effort, Roskomnadzor on Monday blocked the website of Euronews, a European news network. The regulator has also cut Euronews broadcasts.

The court’s verdict comes amid multipronged efforts by Russian authorities to control the message about Russia’s military action in Ukraine, which the Kremlin describes as a special military operation intended to uproot alleged neo-Nazi nationalists.

A new law fast-tracked on March 4 by the Kremlin-controlled parliament, a week after Russia launched the attack on Ukraine, envisions prison terms of up to 15 years for posting fake information about the military that differs from the official narrative.

#Russia #facebook #instagram #ban #extremism #meta

Users in Texas, Illinois can no longer use certain filters on Instagram and Facebook

Fun social media filters are now banned in Texas and Illinois. Meta turned off AR #filters in the two states after they accused the company of misusing #facial #recognition technology.

Some filters are still available on apps like #Facebook and #Instagram, but the filters that use facial recognition are now gone, thanks to new state laws.

#Texas accused #Meta of violating #privacy rights through its technology.

In #Illinois, a class-action #lawsuit that restricted the use of #biometric data was settled.

Texas has a similar case pending.

However, Meta doesn’t believe that its technology violates facial recognition laws in Illinois and Texas.

Meta said it plans to roll out an opt-in system that would explain how its technology works and continue offering filters that map out users’ faces.

via www.ksby.com



> Meta doesn’t believe that its technology violates facial recognition laws in Illinois and Texas

Hookers believe they are virgins and politicians believe they are honest men who are benevolent towards their people

#Meta announces the World Economic Forum will have a leadership role in the metaverse

https://reclaimthenet.org/wef-to-have-leadership-role-in-metaverse

https://www.weforum.org/press/2022/05/new-initiative-to-build-an-equitable-interoperable-and-safe-metaverse

#wef #fb

The terrorist organization known as #Facebook or #Meta claims to have dismantled a propaganda network that had ties to the terrorist organization that calls themselves USA Military

It was "an interconnected network of accounts" on social media platforms that "used deceptive tactics to promote pro-Western narratives"

Meta confirms US military-linked propaganda campaign
https://www.rt.com/news/567144-facebook-us-military-propaganda/

https://about.fb.com/news/2022/11/metas-adversarial-threat-report-q3-2022/

https://public-assets.graphika.com/reports/graphika_stanford_internet_observatory_report_unheard_voice.pdf

https://about.fb.com/news/2022/09/removing-coordinated-inauthentic-behavior-from-china-and-russia/

#fb #meta #ai

The Former Israeli Spies Working in Top Jobs at Google, Facebook and Microsoft – MintPress - June 2023

AMintPress study has found that hundreds of former agents of the notorious Israeli spying organization, Unit 8200, have attained positions of influence in many of the world’s biggest tech companies, including Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Amazon.

The Israeli Defense Forces’ (IDF) Unit 8200 is infamous for surveilling the indigenous Palestinian population, amassing kompromat on individuals for the purposes of blackmail and extortion. Spying on the world’s rich and famous, Unit 8200 hit the headlines last year, after the Pegasus scandal broke. Former Unit 8200 officers designed and implemented software that spied on tens of thousands of politicians and likely aided in the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

#NSO #Pegasus #Israel #Unit8200 #ProjectNimbus #Google #Meta #Facebook #Microsoft #Intel #spyware #surveillance

Meta  confirms it is blocking EU-based users from accessing Threads via VPN

#Meta #Threads #VPN #EU

Google #Maps has an open source rival powered by #Meta and #Microsoft . This is what their first map with unpublished data looks like

Late last year we saw Amazon Web Services (AWS), Meta, Microsoft and TomTom create the Overture Maps Foundation (OMF), which has managed to capture 59 million "points of interest" such as restaurants, landmarks, streets and regional boundaries. Now their data is being made public to enable companies to create their own maps, without having to rely on Google or Apple.

https://overturemaps.org/overture-maps-foundation-releases-first-world-wide-open-map-dataset/

#USA Coalition Sue #Meta for Harming Youth

New York Attorney General Letitia James and a bipartisan coalition of 32 attorneys general today filed a federal lawsuit against Meta for harming young people’s mental health and contributing to the youth mental health crisis. The lawsuit alleges that the company knowingly designed and deployed harmful features on #Instagram, #Facebook, and its other social media platforms that purposefully addict children and teens. Filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, the lawsuit also charges that Meta routinely collects data on children under 13 without informing parents or obtaining parental consent, in violation of federal law.

“Kids and teenagers are suffering from record levels of poor mental health and social media companies like Meta are to blame,” said Attorney General James. “Meta has profited from children’s pain by intentionally designing its platforms with manipulative features that make children addicted to their platforms while lowering their self-esteem. Social media companies, including Meta, have contributed to a national youth mental health crisis and they must be held accountable. I am proud to join my fellow attorneys general to stop Meta’s harmful tactics and keep children safe online.”

The lawsuit alleges that Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, exploited young users for profit by designing its business models to maximize young users’ time and attention and deploying harmful and manipulative features that harm young users. Meta designed features on its platforms that it knew would harp on young users’ vulnerabilities. These features include:

Algorithms that are designed to recommend content to keep users on the platform longer and encourage compulsive use;
“Likes” and social comparison features known by Meta to harm young users;
Incessant alerts meant to induce young users to return to Meta’s platforms constantly, even while at school and throughout the night;
Visual filter features known to promote young users’ body dysmorphia; and
Content-presentation formats, such as “infinite scroll,” designed to discourage young users’ attempts to self-regulate and disengage with Meta’s products.

https://ag.ny.gov/sites/default/files/court-filings/meta-multistate-complaint.pdf

https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2023/attorney-general-james-and-multistate-coalition-sue-meta-harming-youth

🇵🇸 Meta: Systemic Censorship of Palestine Content | Human Rights Watch –

Meta’s content moderation policies and systems have increasingly silenced voices in support of Palestine on Instagram and Facebook in the wake of the hostilities between Israeli forces and Palestinian armed groups, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today.

The 51-page report, “Meta’s Broken Promises: Systemic Censorship of Palestine Content on Instagram and Facebook,” documents a pattern of undue removal and suppression of protected speech including peaceful expression in support of Palestine and public debate about Palestinian human rights.

Human Rights Watch found that the problem stems from flawed Meta policies and their inconsistent and erroneous implementation, overreliance on automated tools to moderate content, and undue government influence over content removals.

#Palestine #SocialPlatforms #Meta #Facebook #Instagram #Censorship
21/21/2023 #Report

Meta: Systemic Censorship of Palestine Content | Human Rights Watch –


#Report #Censorship #Facebook #Instagram #Meta #SocialPlatforms
https://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/media_2023/12/ip_meta1223%20web.pdf

#gov #censorship #fb #Facebook #meta #why

Judge Orders NSO Group to Surrender Pegasus Source Code to Meta | BitDefender - March 2024

A US Judge ordered the infamous spyware developer and vendor NSO Group to turn over its source code to Meta as part of an almost four-year lawsuit.

Meta sued NSO in 2019 after the American company discovered that a zero-day WhatsApp vulnerability was used to deploy the spyware. According to a Guardian report, the NSO's spyware was allegedly used against 1,400 people in the course of just two weeks.

#Pegasus #NSO vs #Meta #WhatsApp #SourceCode

Engineers warned #Meta that nations can monitor chats; staff fear usrael is using this trick to pick assassination targets in Gaza.

https://archive.ph/o1ld8

#fb #Facebook #WhatsApp #why