2025-02-06
So the guys with access to our personal data don't want us to have access to their conversations. Sure. www.404media.co/email/dc4f2f...
404 Media
Sources: DOGE staff were ordered to stop using Slack while the group moves from the OMB to the Executive Office of the President, which is not subject to FOIA
https://www.404media.co/email/ dc4f2fa1-e993-4f30-aea1-b985998bd90a/ Mary Branscombe / @marypcbuk : so, Truth Social or X? or are they smart enough to use Signal? [embedded post] M...
2025-01-17
Hey Meta advertisers, — Are you cool with your dollars going to prop up the whims of a white nationalist? www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/u...
New York Times
Sources: Zuckerberg told Stephen Miller that he would do nothing to obstruct Trump's agenda and blamed Sheryl Sandberg for an inclusivity initiative at Facebook
Stephen Miller was the architect of Donald J. Trump's hard-line immigration agenda in his first term.
2024-09-17
PRESS RELEASE: Accountable Tech Statement on Meta's Announcement of Instagram Teen Accounts https://accountabletech.org/ ... [image]
New York Times
Instagram unveils Teen Accounts, a sweeping update to boost privacy and limit intrusive effects for under-18 users, including making accounts private by default
The app, which is popular with teenagers, introduced new settings and features aimed at addressing inappropriate online contact and content …
2024-08-14
Take note: Big Tech is working “behind the scenes to shape a once-in-a-decade rewrite of the rules governing how pollution from power use is disclosed.” https://www.ft.com/...
Financial Times
How Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft, and Meta are using accounting techniques to hide their growing emissions, while working to influence pollution disclosure rules
Critics say a proposed change could allow large energy users to hide their true emissions — By its own account, Amazon is a green business leader.
2024-04-26
It's official! The @FCC voted to restore #NetNeutrality protections. We join hundreds of advocates in celebrating this win, bringing us closer to ensuring everyone has access to affordable, reliable high-speed internet. [image]
New York Times
The FCC votes 3-2 to reinstate the US' net neutrality rules, expanding government oversight of ISPs and aiming to protect consumer access to the internet
Oh right, there wasn't one. Telecomms are fuming about the restoration of rules that prevent them from gouging their customers. Us. … Chuck Darwin / @cdarwin@c.im : FCC votes to ...
2024-04-11
We partnered with @GLAAD to collect signatures from 200+ Instagram content creators urging the company to reverse a new policy that limits the spread of “political content,” which overwhelmingly harms Black, disabled, and LGBTQ+ advocacy accounts. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Washington Post
Hundreds of political and news content creators ask Meta to reverse its default Threads and Instagram setting opting accounts out of seeing “political content”
Taylor Lorenz / Washington Post :
“Me being Black, I didn't politicize that, someone else did,” said @TheConsciousLee, who signed our open letter with @GLAAD urging Instagram to reverse its new decision to limit political content. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Washington Post
Hundreds of political and news content creators ask Meta to reverse its default Threads and Instagram setting opting accounts out of seeing “political content”
Taylor Lorenz / Washington Post :
“This hurts people's access to information and their ability to find accurate information,” said Ky Polanco of Instagram account @/FEMINIST, who said Meta disabled fundraising on her account after she raised $100K for abortion rights in 2021. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Washington Post
Hundreds of political and news content creators ask Meta to reverse its default Threads and Instagram setting opting accounts out of seeing “political content”
Taylor Lorenz / Washington Post :
Instagram's action to limit “political content” on its platform poses a serious threat to education, civic engagement, and democracy. We joined hundreds of creators and @glaad in calling on Instagram to stop limiting political content by default. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Washington Post
Hundreds of political and news content creators ask Meta to reverse its default Threads and Instagram setting opting accounts out of seeing “political content”
Taylor Lorenz / Washington Post :
We joined @GLAAD to organize an open letter to Instagram head Adam Mosseri with 200+ creators urging them to reverse the decision to limit political content by default, which undermines the reach of advocacy work in areas that have become “social topics.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Washington Post
Hundreds of political and news content creators ask Meta to reverse its default Threads and Instagram setting opting accounts out of seeing “political content”
Taylor Lorenz / Washington Post :
2024-01-23
In a huge win for privacy, Meta will allow European users to opt out of cross-app tracking under the Digital Markets Act #DMA, which governs large platforms in an effort to level the digital playing field. https://techcrunch.com/...
The Verge
Meta plans to let EU users unlink their Instagram and Facebook accounts, as well as other Meta services, ahead of the EU's DMA taking effect in March 2024
Jon Porter / The Verge :
2023-12-07
Big T̵o̵b̵a̵c̵ c̵o̵ Tech is expanding their web of influence in academia to shape research on their products: “Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg alone has donated money to more than 100 university campuses, either through Meta or his personal philanthropy arm.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Washington Post
How Google, Meta, and other tech giants ramped up university donations over the years, giving them influence over AI, social media, and disinformation research
Washington Post :
2023-11-03
#BREAKING: A former Facebook senior engineer has come forward with shocking internal research from the company on Instagram's harms to kids. https://www.wsj.com/...
Wall Street Journal
Ex-Instagram consultant Arturo Béjar, set to testify in Congress on November 7, says Meta did not fully act on its Well-Being Team's findings to protect teens
When a Meta security expert told Mark Zuckerberg that Instagram's approach to protecting teens wasn't working, the CEO didn't reply.
2023-08-19
WATCH: Our Co-founder and Executive Director @nicolelgill shared with @CBCCanada, “Like it or not, they're a part of how news is shared across the globe, including in Canada,” in response to Meta's block on Canadian news content on Facebook and Instagram during the wildfires. [video]
CBC News
Evacuees from the wildfires threatening Yellowknife say that Meta's news fight with Canada's government makes it harder for them to share lifesaving information
Meta notes government sources not blocked as northerners duck ban by sharing screenshots of information
2023-06-27
“The opaque nature of programmatic advertising has inadvertently turned major brands into unwitting supporters, unaware that their ad dollars indirectly fund these unreliable AI-generated sites,” said @jbruce218 of @Newsguardrating. https://www.technologyreview.com/ ...
The Verge
AI is killing the web with spam sites, mass article producing “AI editors”, AI-generated junk on Etsy, Reddit, and Wikipedia that exhausts moderators, and more
In recent months, the signs and portents have been accumulating with increasing speed. Google is trying to kill the 10 blue links.
2023-05-04
Generative AI is turbocharging fraud, accelerating disinformation, and enabling discrimination. @LinaKhanFTC writes in the @nytimes how the @FTC is committed to upholding existing rules to rein in AI and promote fair and open competition. https://www.nytimes.com/...
New York Times
The FTC Chair calls for regulating AI, saying the tech could fuel market dominance and collusion by large firms, increase fraud and discrimination, and more
Lina M. Khan / New York Times :
Generative AI is turbocharging fraud, accelerating disinformation, and enabling discrimination. @LinaKhanFTC writes in the @nytimes how the @FTC is committed to upholding existing rules to rein in AI and promote fair and open competition. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Financial Times
The UK CMA launches a “fact-finding” review of the AI market, including LLMs, to assess opportunities, guardrails, and principles to protect competition
CMA chief Sarah Cardell says the regulator will examine technology behind software such as ChatGPT
2023-01-26
Today, Facebook chose profit over safety. Our research found his inflammatory posts on Truth Social repeatedly violate Facebook's own criteria for reinstatement. He now has an even larger platform to spread content that threatens our democracy. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Axios
Meta plans to reinstate Donald Trump's Facebook and Instagram accounts in the coming weeks with “new guardrails to deter repeat offenses”, after a two-year ban
- “We've always believed that Americans should be able to hear from the people who want to lead the country,” Clegg told Axios.
2023-01-09
Meta must #KeepTrumpOffFacebook for the threat he still poses to public safety. As our Co-founder and Executive Director @nicolelgill told the @washingtonpost: “The absence of violence after the midterms is not at all reason to let him back on.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Washington Post
In the coming weeks, Meta plans to announce its decision on reinstating Donald Trump, who was harassing 2020 election workers by name as recently as last week
Naomi Nix / Washington Post : Tweets: @mattnavarra , @melissabaker712 , @digiphile , @accountabletech , @washingtonpost , and @nataliemj10 Tweets: Matt Navarra / @mattnavarra : Tr...
2023-01-02
As our Executive Director @nicolelgill told @MsHannahMurphy: “If Facebook looks at what Trump has been putting out publicly in the past few years, it is clear he is not a reduced threat to safety, If anything, he has gotten more emboldened.” https://www.ft.com/...
Financial Times
Experts weigh in on Meta's decision on whether to lift Donald Trump's Facebook and Instagram bans; a source says the announcement will be made after January 7
360 posts clearly violate Facebook Community Standards — 116 posts amplified followers & sympathizers of QAnon — 239 posts contained election-related disinformation https://account...