TIL that on #Meta platforms now one can write terrible, offensive slurs against LGBTQIA+ folks and immigrants… with zero repercussions. But the second one mentions a #Fediverse project like #Pixelfed, the post is automatically removed.
Meta “moderation” policies in 2025: racism, xenophobia, transphobia, homophobia and sexism are allowed; mention of competition is strictly forbidden.
Source: mastodon.social/@dansup/113813…
Mai come in questi giorni è importante dare un segnale forte contro meta e amazon
Abbandonare i loro social ora e subito e non contribuire mai più alla valanga di disinformazione e odio che gira nelle loro piattaforme. Le alternative del #fediverso non mancano, non sono perfette ma migliorano ogni anno, consigliamo:
#META
facebook - poliverso.org
Instagram - pixelfed.uno
GoodReads - bookwyrm.it
Twitch - nostream.mastodon.uno
'#NobelPeacePrize winner #MariaRessa has said #Meta’s decision to end #factChecking on its platforms and remove restrictions on certain topics means “extremely dangerous times” lie ahead for #journalism, #democracy and #socialMedia users'
Listen to Maria
She's been speaking truth to power in the #Philippines for decades, one of the most dangerous countries in the world for #journalists
I greatly admire her and if anyone knows what they're talking about here, it's her
theguardian.com/world/2025/jan…
Maria Ressa warns of ‘dangerous times’ for journalism and democracy after move to end factchecking in USDan Milmo (The Guardian)
¿Que cómo de malo es?
Mirad esto.
No es que #Meta permita ahora llamar a alguien "enfermo mental", no. Eso sigue estando prohibido, con una excepción: si eres LGTBQI, entonces sí te lo pueden llamar y no es causa de acción por parte de los moderadores.
Literalmente han añadido una excepción para poder volver a patologizar a las personas LGTBQI.
This is NOT Meta's Facebook/Instagram/Threads.
This is MUCH better 
✨
Take the time to familiarize yourself with this new way of life.
Interact with others genuinely,
let go of the numbers.
Discover new features,
let go of the old ways.
Read about the culture here.
Listen, learn, and make it your Home 💚
infosec.exchange/@Em0nM4stodon…
#Mastodon #Fediverse #Meta #Facebook #Instagram #Threads
This is NOT Twitter. This is MUCH better 🐘 Take the time to familiarize yourself with this new way of life. Interact with others genuinely, let go of the numbers. Discover new features, let go of the old ways. Read about the culture here.Infosec Exchange
At the same time the largest conservative outlets were screaming about censorship, #Meta was internally clocking them as the biggest producers of hate speech on Facebook. Simultaneously, one employee notes: "We make special exceptions to our written policies for them."
RE: bsky.app/profile/did:plc:o4pdp…
Mark Zuckerberg, Recipient of World's First Rat Penis Transplant, Announces Meta Will Stop Fact Checking
thehardtimes.net/culture/mark-…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, medical pioneer who received the world's first experimental rat penis transplant, announced today that the social media juggernaut would stop fact checking.Matt Husser (The Hard Times)
Hey guys, here’s a message from Mastodon gGmbH partner Meta from the Social Web Foundation.
Enjoy!
threads.net/@tomwarrenuk/post/…
#meta #mastodon #socialWebFoundation #BigTech #SiliconValley #moderation #freezePeach
Meta unveiling big changes to Threads, Instagram, and Facebook today. Zuckerberg is abandoning fact checkers in favor of an X inspired Community Notes system in a move to restore “free expression” and reduce moderation mistakesThreads
Das sollte man in Bezug auf die Nutzung von kommerziellem #SocialMedia und #Kommunikation nicht unbeachtet lassen, vielleicht auch besonders in #digitaleKirche:
#Meta unterstützt #Trump Amtseinführung finanziell mit großer Summe:
bbc.com/news/articles/c8j9e1x9…
#Instagram #Facebook #WhatsApp #FediKirche
It appears to be the latest attempt by the Meta boss to build a closer relationship with the incoming president.Liv McMahon (BBC News)
Lots of great stuff on open source & AI from Facebook's @yannlecun - As usual @karaswisher asks some great questions. Am I convinced that the bots aren't going to lead to our downfall, no. Do I think Yann's got it right on legislation no. But I liked his responses on open source, and frankly his openness to confront power.
youtube.com/watch?v=UmxlgLEscB…
#OpenSource #AI #Meta
Johns Hopkins University and Vox Media have teamed up to present the On with Kara Swisher podcast at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center. The partn...YouTube
🚨 Ever spoken about something and the next minute you're getting an advert about it on your smartphone? Almost like your phone is listening..
Well, evidence claims that Meta, Microsoft, Google and Amazon could all be listening!
For more details 👉 👉404media.co/heres-the-pitch-de…
#Meta #Amazon #Microsoft #Google #CMG #CMGpitch #Bigtech #Activelistening
Meta is already using it’s user’s data in the USA, But its brazen attempt to use EU user data and introduce Meta AI won’t pass! 🙅 🧐
Read more here 👉👉tuta.com/blog/noyb-privacy-win…
#MetaAi #Meta #AI #NYOB #Privacyrights #gdpr #GDPR #AI #Tuta #privacy
Meta’s ‘legitimate interest’ to use Facebook and Instagram user data to train its AI models met with backlash in the EU.Tuta
I'm hearing that Mozilla worked with Facebook to build this malware that they silently injected into our machines.
Reminds me of that episode of Batman where Batman teamed up with the Penguin to develop a more citizen-friendly system of crime and extortion so that the Penguin could stop having so many people murdered.
Oh, no, wait. That never happened because Batman knows who the fucking bad guys are.
Facebook v roli pasáka vlastních uživatelů. Zase. #meta #soukromí
news.refresher.cz/157218-Faceb…
Dokumenty, které byly předány loni v dubnu v rámci rozsáhlé antimonopolní žaloby proti společnosti Meta, byly odtajněny 23. března. Stojí v nich překvapivé informace o vztahu mezi Netflixem a bývalým Facebookem.Karolína Fejtová (Refresher)
Meta is deploying chatbots powered by AI to impersonate humans in its discussion groups. The chatbots make stuff up—that is their nature. One invents a nonexistent child. Another pretends to have nonexistent merchandise. It shouldn’t be necessary to explain how vile and poisonous this is, but Casey Fiesler @cfiesler spells it out:
theconversation.com/ai-chatbot…
People participate in online communities to share experiences and sympathy. AI chatbots that join the conversation can only pretend to offer either.The Conversation
Just published my first post on the new Kibbutz Blog: LALegault’s antisemitism, explained
blog.kibbutz.gay/sarah/lalegau…
Holocaust revisionism and Nazi inversions Example A Biden/Bibi/Hitler, history will remember them in the same breath Link: https://n...sarah
Threads is the largest player so far to adopt #ActivityPub, and as @mike says, “The implications are huge.”
Why is Threads doing this? How is the team working with the community? How are they thinking about moderation, monetization and privacy in these early days and going forward?
In the newest episode of @dot_social, Mike digs in with @rklambo, Director of Product Management, and @pcottle, Software Engineer. Check it out in the fediverse on PeerTube or wherever you like to listen to podcasts. More details here:
about.flipboard.com/inside-fli…
#DotSocial #Podcast #Fediverse #Federation #MastodonMigration #Threads #Meta #ActivityPub #Flipboard
Threads is the largest player so far to adopt ActivityPub, which is needed for the open social web to scale. Why is Threads doing this?Mia Quagliarello (Flipboard)
If you’re on mastodon.social, I would highly recommend that you switch to a different server that protects its people instead of exposing them to a well-known bad actor like Facebook/Meta via Threads.
For alternatives, see: fedipact.veganism.social
And remember that Mastodon is not the fediverse. The fediverse is much more than just Mastodon and definitely more so than mastodon.social and Mastodon gGmbH.
#mastodonSocial #mastodonGGMBH #mastodon #fediverse #threads #facebook #meta
An interactive list to see which ActivityPub (Matodon, Lemmy, FireFish, etc) instances are federating with Threads.netfedipact.veganism.social
"Facebook snooped on users’ Snapchat traffic in secret project, documents reveal"
Das ist vorsätzliches Umgehen von Sicherheitsmaßnahmen und eine illegale Überwachung/Spionage. Wer Meta/Facebook noch in irgendeiner Weise vertraut, der sollte sich gut überlegen, was Vertrauen für ihn bedeutet.
Reminder to anyone who said "Meta wouldn't do anything to Fediverse, we should let them join!"
Meta is now automatically muting all posts that mention PixelFed, so it's users can't read about any alternatives to its services.
mastodon.social/@dansup/112126…
Just remember, *Every time advocacy groups warn about tech/capitalism, believe them.* We don't make shit up, we use history of actions and facts to state our reasons to be against it.
If your instance isn't part of @FediPact please urge your admins to join or move to another instance who is.
And if you want proof, ask the general public what Jabber/XMPP was, and then ask what Google how they killed it.
EDIT: *Please* send support to the creator of the FediPact, @vantablack as she is homeless. This is possible because of them.
#fedipact #meta #pixelfed #eff
Attached: 1 image Threads hiding @pixelfed mentions, not a good look Meta 🙄Mastodon
Zoom Layoffs Target DEI Amid a Broader Pullback on Diversity Initiatives 🙁
"Zoom is following in the footsteps of Google, Meta, and other corporate giants that have used layoffs to cut back on diversity, equity, and inclusion programs."
"... the website loads in a special browser built into the app, rather than your phone’s default browser. In 2022, privacy researcher Felix Krause found that Meta injects special “keylogging” JavaScript onto the website you’re visiting that allows the company to monitor everything you type and tap on, including passwords. Other apps including TikTok do the same thing."
What the hell?? This is so creepy.
#Meta #JavaScript #Privacy #web #SocialMedia #News #Threads
gizmodo.com/meet-link-history-…
Facebook introduces a confusing new setting as the walls close in on Zuckerberg’s data machine.Thomas Germain (Gizmodo)
My #FediPact 2.0 website tool is now available for your anti-fascist viewing pleasure!
Please share this around so I can finallly go to sleep 😫. I know people wanted to see it.
Servers not listed just had no readily-available data for me to grab.
#Threads #Meta #FediPact #Zuckerberg #Mastodon #Lemmy #Firefish
An interactive list to see which ActivityPub (Matodon, Lemmy, FireFish, etc) instances are federating with Threads.netfedipact.veganism.social
How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse) écrit par Ploum, Lionel Dricot, ingénieur, écrivain de science-fiction, développeur de logiciels libres.ploum.net
Meta thinks your #privacy is for sale.
Would you pay 160 euros per year to Facebook & Instagram for respecting your right to privacy?
Here's more info: tuta.com/blog/meta-pay-for-pri…
#dataprotection #gdpr #consent #socialmedia #meta #facebook #instgram #whatsapp
Meta's approach of 'pay for your privacy' is wrong in so many ways. Let's find out why!Tutanota
"𝑱𝒂𝒎𝒂𝒊𝒔 𝒅𝒂𝒏𝒔 𝒍’𝒉𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒊𝒓𝒆 𝒅𝒆𝒔 𝒓𝒆́𝒔𝒆𝒂𝒖𝒙 𝒔𝒐𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒖𝒙, 𝒖𝒏 𝒓𝒆́𝒔𝒆𝒂𝒖 𝒔𝒐𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒍 𝒏’𝒂 𝒂𝒔𝒑𝒊𝒓𝒆́ 𝒂𝒖𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒅𝒆 𝒅𝒐𝒏𝒏𝒆́𝒆𝒔 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒏𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒔."
"Vous allez voir vos données personnelles aspirées et 𝐣𝐚𝐦𝐚𝐢𝐬 𝐝𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐥’𝐡𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐬 𝐫𝐞́𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐮𝐱 𝐬𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐮𝐱, 𝐮𝐧 𝐫𝐞́𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐮 𝐬𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐧’𝐚 𝐚𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐞́ 𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐝𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐞́𝐞𝐬 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐞𝐭 𝐧𝐞 𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐚 𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐢𝐬𝐞́𝐞𝐬 avec les autres données personnelles des autres réseaux sociaux de #META qu’avec #Threads aujourd’hui", explique toujours Xavier Degraux."
Mais à quoi d'autre pouvait-on s'attendre ?
rtbf.be/article/threads-le-res…
Un nouveau réseau social est disponible en Belgique depuis ce jeudi 13 décembre. Il s’appelle Threads et est le petit...Maïté Warland, édité par Miguel Allo (RTBF.be)
The recent excitement surrounding Thread's arrival on the Fediverse is concerning. To understand why this is not a good idea, consider their economic interest in harvesting data, their poor moderation, and their manipulations. Nothing good can come from their federation. Don't roll out the red carpet for them.
#Threads #Mastodon #Krita #MastoArt #Meta
🚨#BREAKING: EU Bans Personalized Ads on #Facebook & #Instagram 💪
Or: How the small country of Norway has brought down Meta
1. Impose a fine of €90.000 per day on Meta for personalized ads. ✅
2. Make the fine temporary and call on EU orgs to check whether Meat violates the EU GDPR privacy protection rules. ✅
3. EU threatens with fines of up to 4% of #Meta's global turnover. ✅
More 👉 tutanota.com/blog/facebook-ins…
BTW: #Tutanota comes with zero ads, but maximum privacy! 😎🥰
Started with a fine of only $90,000 Norway is about to destroy Facebook's & Instagram's business model relying on personalized ads.Tutanota
The EU bans Meta's use of personal data for behavioural advertising.
The European Data Protection Board said Wednesday it had adopted a binding decision that will ban Facebook and Instagram owner Meta from using the personal data of users for targeted advertisements.
Earlier this year Norway imposed a ban on sending Facebook and Instagram users targeted advertisements based on their personal data.
Okay, what the heck?!
How can such a process be approved?
#whatsapp #meta #account #deactivation #email
Some congressional Democrats say three large tax preparation firms sent “extraordinarily sensitive” information on tens of millions of taxpayers to Facebook parent company Meta over at least two years.FATIMA HUSSEIN (AP News)
