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Meta bans ads for Virginia Woolf play in Spain because they cover ‘social topics’ - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/21/meta-ban-virginia-woolf-a-room-of-ones-own-barcelona-teatre-raval "Facebook and Instagram ads mentioning ‘civil rights or feminism’ are filtered out" #meta's #infantilising #censorship
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN ONE MAN SHAPES GLOBAL SOCIAL MEDIA? 💎
I watched a ColdFusion video this morning about Meta’s growing legal problems. The numbers are completely absurd. Around 7,000 lawsuits. Another 100,000 arbitration proceedings. Billions have already been paid in fines and settlements by the company. But the money isn’t what caught my attention. Something more interesting is happening.
THE DESIGN ITSELF IS BEING PUT ON TRIAL.
For years we’ve argued about what people post on social media. Misinformation. Hate speech. Political extremism. Teen mental health. Moderation. Free speech. And underneath all that sits a machine whose job is remarkably simple:
KEEP THE USER ENGAGED.
The strange thing is that is exactly what drove me away.
I joined Meta's social networks to stay connected with friends. But over time, I could barely find them. The feed was filled with everything except the people I had come there to see. What I increasingly felt was not connection. It was isolation.
THE LONGER WE STAY, THE MORE ADVERTISING META CAN SELL.
And engagement algorithms discovered something rather inconvenient about human beings. Anger works. Fear works. Division works. Outrage works extremely well.
According to the video, Meta itself investigated whether maximising engagement was increasing political division. It found that it was. Possible changes were proposed, including exposing people to a wider range of viewpoints. But reducing division also reduced engagement.
AND GROWTH MATTERED.
That is the part I find difficult to get past. If a company makes more money when I remain angry, frightened, comparing myself with others and unable to stop scrolling, then my well-being and its business model are pulling in opposite directions.
Now, some of the lawsuits are going after the machinery itself: like counts, infinite scrolling, autoplay and recommendation algorithms. Not merely what is inside the cage.
BUT THE CAGE ITSELF!
Perhaps that is where this conversation should have been all along. Social media does not necessarily need to disappear. But maybe we need social spaces whose survival does not depend upon keeping human beings agitated enough to remain there.
That seems a rather more useful place to begin.
Video: Meta’s Legal Troubles Are Worse than You Think — ColdFusion
https://youtu.be/IBZ7TqauY_4?si=HgsxMCRTAeM71ao5
@3goodthings @DigitalCoup @meditation @economics_that_works @bookstodon @disability @pwd @joinin
#Meta #SocialMedia #Facebook #Instagram #Algorithms #people #human #DigitalWellbeing #Fediverse
I think Meta knows I do not use any of their garbage AI things so they’re asking me to send over proof of my identity because my activity is suspicious, according to them.
I of course have refused and now others are wondering, yet again, how to get a hold of me if I’m not on Facebook messenger. I posted a status to friends only giving out my VOIP phone number for SMS and calls but absolutely no one over there wants to keep my phone number, they just want to use Facebook messenger.
This has made me think no one actually wants to leave the walled gardens except for those of us that have already left.
I tried getting everyone into signal, or better yet, Delta Chat but I honestly quit trying and now just use SMS. I couldn’t care less if SMS isn’t the most private or secure, it was like having a root canal just trying to get others to SMS me alone, and I had even less success with trying to get others to use apps like Signal and Delta Chat.
I’m using #JMP as a Voip number via the fabulous #XMPP
I don’t understand why everyone likes those garbage walled gardons so much because ever since finding RSS again, and chronological timelines, I don’t get the appeal.
And that fucking interface. I do not understand how sighted people tolerate it. I’m sure it looks very pretty and polished, but it’s an absolute nightmare to use.
📰 ONU alerta sobre possível interferência da Meta nas eleições do Brasil
#News #TSE #whatsapp #lula #meta #MarkZuckerbergo #Facebook #onu #interferência #IA #fláviobolsonaro #brasil #Instagram #Eleições2026noBrasil
This theatre work in Barcelona is being banned by Meta for covering Virginia Wolf and/or "social topics".
How clear evidence of the censoring of social issues, by the #MassiveManipulationMachine
So, not a surprise that Apple is renaming Lake Ontario to appease the child rapist that occupies the White House.
If you're stuck using an iPhone or other Apple device you don't have to use Apple Maps or their services. For maps download a privacy respecting, open source map app like Organic Maps.
Pull your data out of iCloud and use a service like Proton which offers a package that includes email, cloud storage, documents, Password manager, VPN, etc.
Boycott #Apple #Google #Meta #Amazon #Microsoft and any other #US #Tech that supports fascism.
No one forces you to use or pay for their services. Move your data. Boycott them.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/organic-maps-offline-maps-gps/id1567437057
🧑⚖️ German court rules Meta liable for scam ads on Facebook and Instagram
｢ A Frankfurt court said Meta’s ranking algorithms and ad auctions make it more than a passive host, so it cannot rely on the EU’s liability shield ｣
https://thenextweb.com/news/meta-scam-ads-ruling-germany-frankfurt-court
“Meta’s settlement with 52 state attorneys general is a bad deal for all internet users, and especially for teens. That’s what we said the day the settlement was announced.
In this post, we go through the Settlement’s provisions in detail and explain why that is so, including how:
- The Settlement embeds age assurance technology and age-gates into Meta’s social media products and requires all users—minors and adults—to undergo a rights-threatening age estimation process
- The Settlement places severe restrictions on Teens that can largely only be modified by the Teens’ parents and only then in exchange for giving their parents a ton of information about their online community and usage;
- The Settlement seems to empower the attorneys general to enforce Meta’s content restriction on “age inappropriate content,” categories that Meta itself has had trouble administering without excluding information about sexuality, sexual and reproductive healthcare, and abortion medication;
- The Settlement actually requires Meta to collect, analyze, and retain more information about its Teen users—when the pressure should have been on Meta to diminish its surveillance capitalism.
- And the Settlement in no way limits the attorneys general from seeking the user information for their own law enforcement purposes.”
#SocialMedia #Meta #AgeVerification #Censorship #USA #Surveillance
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I stopped using #Google and any other #bigtech products a long, long time ago (2015-ish? maybe earlier). It's time for everyone else to move away too, and this includes #Apple, Microslop (#Microsoft), #Meta, #Amazon and many others.
ONLY use #openSource products:
- use #linux
- use degoogled Android ROMs like @GrapheneOS, and many others for any Android phone
- use @fdroidorg as your store
- use #OpenStreetMap clients (like @organicmaps)
- music: @powerampache
Reply here or DM me for guidance
FACEBOOK IS TOXIC. META IS AWFUL.
WHY CONTINUE FEEDING IT? 💎
Nearly everyone complains about Facebook and Meta.
The algorithms are toxic.
The advertising is invasive.
The outrage is manufactured.
CHILDREN ARE BEING HARMED.
Privacy is disappearing.
And then millions of people open Facebook or Instagram.
Again.
And again.
I genuinely do not understand it.
If you believe these companies are damaging children, manipulating attention, and making billions from human vulnerability, why are you still giving them your presence?
Especially the parents.
If Facebook and Instagram are unhealthy for your children, what exactly are you modeling by remaining there yourself?
“We know this place is harmful, darling, but Mummy and Daddy have photographs to look at.”
I left Meta years ago.
I didn’t die.
My friends did not evaporate.
Civilization continued.
There is email.
There are phones.
THERE IS THE OPEN WEB.
There is even the terrifying possibility of seeing another human being, god forbid, in person.
Meta survives because people who complain about it continue supplying exactly what it needs:
Their attention.
Their relationships.
Their outrage.
THEIR CHILDREN.
You do not have to wait for Zuckerberg to become a better person.
You can simply leave today.
The door swings both ways.
@DigitalCoup
@economics_that_works
#Facebook #Meta #Instagram #SocialMedia #Algorithms #BigTech #DigitalWellbeing #OnlineSafety #ChildSafety #Privacy #AttentionEconomy #TechEthics #SocialMediaAddiction #Zuckerberg #DeleteFacebook
Edited 90d ago
Think of this as a taste that the #Philippines CICC is dead serious. Take this as a warning for #Meta, in particular the #Facebook platform. The Philippines is not afraid to block access to any important platforms. They don't care if businesses and workers are disrupted. They will block everyone.
🚨 NEW EPISODE 🚨
Last week, Meta reached a settlement with nearly every US state over claims that it knowingly harmed children with its addictive apps. But what does that mean for Meta users in Europe?
https://www.europeanspodcast.com/all-episodes/will-metas-american-makeover-come-to-europe
Edited 68d ago
Interferência nas Eleições pela META
Parlamentares democratas dos Estados Unidos, liderados pelo senador Bernie Sanders, cobraram explicações da Meta sobre suspeitas de tratamento desigual às campanhas de Lula e Flávio Bolsonaro nas eleições brasileiras.
Em carta enviada a Mark Zuckerberg, eles questionam possíveis restrições a conteúdos ligados ao candidato do PT e o aumento da visibilidade de publicações do adversário.
Os congressistas pedem esclarecimentos sobre a atuação dos algoritmos, a moderação de conteúdo político e possíveis contatos entre a empresa e o governo de Donald Trump. A Meta nega favorecimento eleitoral e atribui os episódios relatados a falhas técnicas.
#Eleição2026 #MetaNãoSeMeta #VemProFediverso
#Democracia #ExtremaDireita #Meta #MarkZuckerberg
#RedesSociais #WhatsApp #Instagram #Facebook
Parlamentares democratas dos Estados Unidos, liderados pelo senador Bernie Sanders, cobraram explicações da Meta sobre suspeitas de tratamento desigual às campanhas de Lula e Flávio Bolsonaro nas eleições brasileiras.
Em carta enviada a Mark Zuckerberg, eles questionam possíveis restrições a conteúdos ligados ao candidato do PT e o aumento da visibilidade de publicações do adversário.
Os congressistas pedem esclarecimentos sobre a atuação dos algoritmos, a moderação de conteúdo político e possíveis contatos entre a empresa e o governo de Donald Trump. A Meta nega favorecimento eleitoral e atribui os episódios relatados a falhas técnicas.
#Eleição2026 #MetaNãoSeMeta #VemProFediverso
#Democracia #ExtremaDireita #Meta #MarkZuckerberg
#RedesSociais #WhatsApp #Instagram #Facebook
I hope Brazilians celebrate by deleting their Facebook accounts.
Why Hunterbrook is shorting Meta: https://hntrbrk.com/breaking-news/muse-tickertrends
A word of explanation: Hunterbrook is a team of investigative journalists in the employ of a private-capital fund. The journalists dig up dirt on some company or investment offering, Hunterbrook (the investment company) shorts it, then then Hunterbrook (the web site) publishes the dirt. While this sounds sketchy, it’s apparently legal.
Edited 22d ago
As others have pointed out, there could be an influx of newcomers to the #Fediverse from #Brazil who are tired of #Meta 's latest shenanigans while meddling with politics.
If you see them, be friendly and welcoming, and under no circumstances start with "You are using the Fediverse wrong!"
I mean it. We have a serious "Reply Guy" problem around here, and we've already lost our big chance with Black Twitter. Let's not screw _this_ opportunity up, okay?
Edited 15d ago
Seems like at least the account back, but no word from Meta on why this happened. This is why they were so smart of @indivisibleteam build out on platforms like Bluesky and Mastodon & their own direct to their users newsletters too - that are not at the whim of giant big tech.
#Meta needs to give exact and full answer of what the Hell just happened on this critical day of action. #Nokings #NoKingsVoteEarly
Edited 23d ago
Spent the last few days downloading my Facebook data in JSON format so I can save all the audio and video everyone has sent me over the years and you all really should show people how much data they have about you. Like a scared straight program, oh fuck it, who am I kidding. That will never work. #Facebook #Meta
I'm finally ready to take the Fediverse seriously. Years of tech overreach and enshittification have worn me out.
The final straw came when Meta decided I should pay over $50 a month just to share a few links to my own podcast. That includes a blue check that means nothing anymore (thanks, X). They already sell ads and our data. Now they want my money too.
Bear with me while I adjust. If I pull out old habits, please don't yell at me.
New video is up!
This week's video is about Muse, from Meta AI, and the 404 Media report where internal Meta engineers speculated that a data breach related to Muse may be inevitable. I also discuss general risks around AI agents and previous security incidents with Muse.
If you enjoy the video, please tap the like button. This helps us tiny creators a ton. Thank you!
Edited 31d ago
📰 Na sede da Meta em SP, manifestantes denunciam influência em favor da extrema direita na eleição
#brasil #manifestacao #News #whatsapp #Facebook #Instagram #Eleições2026noBrasil #eleicao #fláviobolsonaro #meta #lula
Feminist orgs claim #Meta censoring posts about #Cornell 7 case - https://mashable.com/tech/meta-censoring-posts-about-cornell-7-orgs-claim "Florence Pugh received a "sensitive-content" warning on her Cornell post; she doesn't appear to be the only one."
🚨 🇧🇷 ¿Meta favorece a Bolsonaro y perjudica a Lula? Brasil denuncia manipulación electoral
¿Puede Meta manipular una elección presidencial en Brasil? La campaña de Lula pide anular la candidatura de Flávio Bolsonaro por presunta manipulación algorítmica. Mensajes internos publicados por Folha de S.Paulo apuntan a restricciones contra cuentas vinculadas a Lula, mientras la empresa habla de fallos técnicos. ¿Quién controla los algoritmos que influyen en las urnas?
@DanielaPastrana, Directora de Diario Red América Latina
Brasil: denuncias cruzadas y encuestas ajustadas marcan recta final de la elección presidencial | #UChileRadio
#Noticias #bolsonaro #brasil #debate #denuncias #elecciones #Lula #meta #polarización