Tests: Meta's recommendation systems promote underage sex content on Instagram and Facebook Groups, despite Meta setting up a child-safety task force in June
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Tests: Meta's recommendation systems promote pedophile content on Instagram and Facebook Groups, despite Meta announcing a child-safety task force in June 2023
The social-media company has stepped up enforcement, but its algorithms continue to promote problematic content
New York City's crackdown on short-term listings causes Airbnb listings to plummet, while some turn to services such as Craigslist, Houfy, and Facebook Groups
Amanda Hoover / Wired : X: @weatherdai , @colincrook , @scottlincicome , @alexlmiller , @tomasforgac , and @nickhalver Forums: r/newyorkcity and r/technology X: @weatherdai : wow. incredible. I thoug...
A look at Fake Review Watch on YouTube, run by Kay Dean, documenting fake reviews on Yelp, Google, and others, often tracing them back to Facebook Groups
Stephen Council / SFGATE : Tweets: @dannosphere , @mrmalty , and @sfgate . Forums: Hacker News Tweets: Dan Gentile / @dannosphere : “The online review business is the Wild West, and there's no sherif...
How the founders of the Buy Nothing Project, which grew via Facebook Groups of neighbors exchanging free stuff, built their own app amid member resentment
How an idealistic community for exchanging free stuff tried to break away from Facebook and ended up breaking apart. Tweets: @longreads , @wired , @chameauleon , and @vauhinivara Tweets: @longreads : ...
Frances Haugen's documents have been useful to the press and groups opposing Facebook, but reporting should now expand to examine Haugen and her backers' goals
> regulators —> legislation, we're not going to get the outcome we're hoping for. 7/n Joe Bak-Coleman / @jbakcoleman : My concern is that we're going to address “move fast and break things” with “regu...
A US hacker says he built a network of “news” sites and Facebook Groups in 2015 to push bogus stories after a company hired him to “stop Hillary Clinton”
He was hired to build a fake news op but now wants to put things right. — This is the story of the mastermind behind … Tweets: @ax_sharma , @robviglione , @fark , @dangillmor , @hexadecim8 , @czedwa...
Investigation sheds light on Force 47, the Vietnamese army's online information warfare unit behind pro-state Facebook Groups that aim to correct “wrong views”
In Vietnam, where the state is fighting a fierce online battle against political dissent, social media “influencers” … Tweets: @samfbiddle , @samfbiddle , @tostevinm , and @timothyjgraham Tweets: Sam ...
A look at Facebook Groups, used by two thirds of Facebook's MAUs and a company focus since 2017, which make leaving the platform especially difficult
Facebook invested heavily in the one feature it knew people couldn't leave behind: Their groups — Before the pandemic, Andrea Norrington barely checked Facebook. Tweets: @geoffreyfowler , @kcpike , ...
Report: conspiracy theories about the origins of Oregon's wildfires are still spreading through private Facebook Groups, despite the company cracking down
Conspiracy theories about the origin of fires in Oregon are still spreading through private Facebook groups days …