meta

German court rules #Meta tracking technology violates European privacy laws - https://therecord.media/german-court-meta-tracking-tech "sets a precedent which the court acknowledged will allow countless other users to sue without “explicitly demonstrating individual damages,” " big #privacy

Does anyone here have information about the status of Matrix-WhatsApp bridging/interoperability? (Maybe @matrix?) 🤔

Ads coming to WhatsApp is making me much more frustrated than I already was. I haven’t been updating the app since the introduction of Meta AI, but now WhatsApp is demanding that I update within 15 days or I won’t be able to use the app anymore.

So, the time has come: I have two weeks to backup and quit WhatsApp for good.

Since I’m here: could I also ask for your advice for local-only, not cloud, software that can backup ALL my #WhatsApp chats and store them locally in a browsable format/database? I found out about WhatsApp-Chat-Chat-Exporter but I’d like to learn more before testing it out.

Boosts welcome, let’s help each other and resist the broligarchy together! ✨

Damn, we wouldn’t have all this trouble if only the #DMA was actually enforced 🤬

#Matrix #WhatsApp #bridge #interoperability #MatrixBridge #Meta #MetaAI #MastoAiuto #askFedi #help #broligarchy

#Meta is building a new #AI data center that is expected to use 5 GW of #energy.

That is a staggering amount of power for one facility. For reference, on a really hot day Washington, DC and Baltimore combined use about 11 GW of energy at the peak of the day.

Remember #Facebook Copying all USA University pictures WITHOUT CONSENT of the AUTHORS then LAUNCHED #FACEBOOK?

That #THEFT put #MYSPACE #Out_of_Business Overnight..

🥊 #Boycott #facebook and #meta! Also #META was a Previously #STOLEN_NAME! by #Mark_Zuckerburg??

That was #originally #STOLEN as well without CONSENT of the Author/Creator ??

#ZUCK THE #F*CK just took it and used it without author consent??

Just like #OPENAI CHAT ALPHEBET SOUP is doing right now w/ ILLEGAL MASSIVE SCRAPING of other peoples content called #IP_THEFT!
or worse #Copyright_Infringement.

TAKE YOUR PICK WHO IS BETTER LOOKING? Before or After?

So where was #DICKHEAD at that time?? 2 decades these thieves have been living off our dime.

#VANCE YOU ARE A #TRAITOR TO THE #USA!

Time to #DEPORT #TRAITORS #GUILTY OF #TREASON!

https://youtu.be/l0aXwfDwF8o

📛 DISCLAIMER: We Cover the 'Way' the #News is #COVERED_UP! 👿

WELCOME TO #DECENTRALIZED_GLOBALIZATION 🌐 #GLOBALIZATION is NOT Dead! It's just the Beginning!..
The NEW DIGITAL GLOBAL ORDER | NO NATIONALITY LEFT BEHIND | COMING SOON! 🌏 🌍 🌎

🔴 The #Next #Global_Superpower Isn't Who You #Think 🧠 WHO is TastingTraffic.com?

🧠 https://youtu.be/uiUPD-z9DTg

DavidV: 25 YEARS 24/7 Experience:

* Software Architect (PhD) Supervisor -25 years 300K PMS (project management) hours
* EXPERT BLACK BOX TESTER (1999)
* Founder of WebTafficCops.com the 1ST Dedicated CLICK FRAUD ENGINE on the Planet (1999)
* Founder of SEO (Search Engine Optimization, (1999)
* Founder of RTB (Real Time Bidding (1999)
* Founder of HFT (High Frequency Trading 2001)
* Founder of the first Screen Recorder (Applets) on the Planet (2000)
* Founder of DEVSECOPS (2000)
* Founder and CREATOR OF #BULLETPROOF #cryptocurrency FULL PRIVATE NODES via WWW since 2016 and MERCHANT INTEGRATION.

🍷 🍾 #TASTINGTRAFFIC_LLC | The Largest (WWW) #DIGITAL_TRAFFIC PROVIDER in the WORLD since 1999.

🌐 https://tastingtraffic.net/sitemap.xml

TASTINGTRAFFIC_LLC are NOT affiliates of this provider or referenced images used. This is NOT an endorsement OR Sponsored (Paid) Promotion/Reshare.

I was on a new podcast called WTF Now. My episode is called How the internet went wrong. Sad title, but you will understand when you listen.

This is really back to my strong belief that we need regulation when it comes to user profiling. IMHO it should just be banned. Have a listen and let me know what you think!

#Vivaldi #Browser #AI #SurveillanceCapitalism #Meta #Politics #internet #Web

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxvqCwu2cI0

By taking my photo in any context, at any time, you implicitly agree to the terms of this contract: You are disallowed, forever and without exception, from sharing anything containing my image or likeness with any product or service offered by Meta, or with any company that uses the image or likeness of me to train, model, or otherwise support any image capture, generation, facial recognition, AI, or yet to be invented technology. The terms of this agreement are irrevocable in the absence of explicit, written consent signed by my hand using ink and paper.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/27/facebook-is-asking-to-use-meta-ai-on-photos-in-your-camera-roll-you-havent-yet-shared/

#enshittification #meta #facialrecognition #AI #generativeAI

,,Hakendran,, trackt #Gerichtsverfahren gegen #BigTech #Google #Meta #Facebook #Instagram #TikTok 👨‍⚖️👨‍⚖️

https://tracker.hakendran.org

The Big Tech Lobby Playbook

How Big Tech’s power has rewritten digital rules globally

https://www.somo.nl/big-tech-lobby-playbook/

Big Tech giants have developed a powerful playbook to shape laws and politics in their favour, all around the world.

Our Big Tech Lobby Playbook series explores their tools and strategies through 6 case studies from Australia, Brazil, India, the EU, Kenya and the US.

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#BigTech #SocialMedia #Lobby #Meta #X #Facebook #Instagram #TikTok #LeaveX #SaveSocial

Uhhhhh so I just went on a really long rant on my blog about why I don't like Meta platforms. 😆

It's called "8 reasons why I think Meta platforms are pointless".

#Meta #SocialMedia #blog #writing

https://bookswithnoelle.wordpress.com/2025/06/27/8-reasons-why-meta-platforms-are-pointless-imho/

Bé, dissabte nit fent hores extres. mastodont.cat, entre d'altres molts servidors del fedivers i externs, ha estat "escrapejat" per els bots de #Meta (https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/meta-facebook-tech-copyright-privacy-whistleblower). La llista:

https://www.dropsitenews.com/api/v1/file/b3555944-e204-4f5e-9a64-e44281b19a82.pdf

Parlant amb altres admins, he modificat el fitxer robots.txt per a impedir als màxims bots IA possibles que "escrapejin" directament mastodont.cat.

El nou robots.txt que ja tenim actiu:

https://mastodont.cat/robots.txt

#manteniment

A #NewMexico jury ruled Tuesday that #Meta knowingly harmed children’s #MentalHealth & concealed what it knew about #child sexual #exploitation on its #socialmedia platforms.

The landmark decision comes after a nearly 7-week trial, & as jurors in a federal court in California have been sequestered in deliberations for more than a week about whether Meta & #YouTube should be liable in a similar case.

#law #accountability #tech #business #moderation #pedophilia
https://apnews.com/article/meta-facebook-new-mexico-trial-28eabd8ec5f58c1d1ecddc21bb107de7

Why The #Metaverse Was Doomed From The Start

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLItp5SiRGw

#Meta #Horizons

#Meta to cut 10% of staff as it pours billions into #AI

Meta said Thursday it plans to lay off roughly 10% of its workforce, or about 8,000 people, the latest in a string of #tech industry #layoffs fueled in part by #ArtificialIntelligence.

The company is also closing around 6,000 open roles, Janelle Gale, Meta’s chief people officer, wrote in a memo published by Bloomberg.

The layoffs will go into effect on May 20.

#jobs #labor #AIisComingForYourJobs
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-23/meta-tells-staff-it-will-cut-10-of-jobs-in-push-for-efficiency

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@pheonix/116221805295722939

#Meta only exists for two reasons:

- Money
- Info gathering on everyone for reason 1

Part 3/3 See Parts 1 & 2

What is the number #1 most EFFECTIVE and Most Expensive type of Advertising in existence??

🏆 🏆 🏆 #WORD_OF_MOUTH #Advertising = TRUST! Without it?.. >> 🍲 🍲 🍲 Soup Line..

👎 👍 #likes are for 🃏 #PUNKS!

And each website (Fediverse) is also your own #Decentralized #Advertising_Hub where you make 100% ON THE Advertisement profits, sold from your site! Not #Notech! = BOOYA!

Remember 📏 #Calculators were allowed in schools? Most kids could not afford a calculator at that time. So not only did calculators divide student socially; but also the thought was that they would be used to #CHEAT_ON_TESTS.✅

🏁 #Cheating Pandemic Started There;)

But I asked myself even back then ( Just a kid being honest with himself ) " If I let the calculator do all the work; what am I learning?? And am I EXERCISING the BRAIN like my kick ass arms!??
🥊 💪 💪

The 🧠 #brain is like a #muscle if you don’t #work_it_out how is it supposed to get #BIGGER, #FASTER, #STRONGER and SMARTER?

IF YOU DON'T USE IT YOU WILL LOSE IT! And PURPOSE of Chatgpt, OpenAI and now Whale Seek. Just like your #Dumbphone and turned you into the #WALKING_DEAD!?
🧎 🧎‍♂️ 🧎‍♀️

Hello Anyone Home?

YOU are #learning #how to #copy NOT #CREATE!

YOU are being taught #HOW TO #COPY = AKA to steal is #IP_THEFT! You are kept trapped in a BOX (THINK #GAZA), just like AMERICAN ONLINE, until many realized they are not even on the #Internet.

They were #trapped in a #dedicated #CENTRALIZED #advertising_box 📦 📦 📦 ALL ALONG.. SAME SAME: Chatgpt, openAI and now Whale seek. NOT EVEN CLOSE TO #AI!

🌉 #OVERNIGHT! #YOU AND ALL YOUR #CONTENT CAN BE #BANNED, #TAKEN_DOWN AND YOU ARE #OUT_OF_BUSINESS = #LUNACY!

Considering its your livelihood under the control and Free speech is under scrutiny by inept OTHERS??

While #American_Online (AOL) was making a fortune in #advertising off of YOU, Until some (NOT ALL) actually found the REAL Internet by #accident? DURING THE LAST 2 DECADES. It was over for American online OVERNIGHT.

The Exact same IS NOW happening with (JEWS, KKK, NAZI'S PAGAN.GOV, CENTRALIZED BANKS, SOCIAL NETWORKS, BIGTECH, SUCH AS #GOOGLE, #MICROSOFT, #AMAZON, #APPLE, #META, #FACEBOOK, #INSTAGRAM, #TWITTER AND #YOUTUBE = #Centralized Social Networking and #CENTRALIZED APP STORES.

Now 🔍 🎩 🔎 Identified as #ILLEGAL #Pegasus 🦄 #ASSASSINATION 🔫 #Tracking Surveillance Hub is OVER ROVER 🛰️ 📡 #BANNED_FOREVER!!

#Defined?

Chatgpt, OpenAI and Whale Seek >> (Advance Predictive search with audio = #Alexa #REBRANDED).

This tech was invented in 1999 when Major Search Engines started to copy every page on the internet ( #without user #consent) and PASTED it into there data base S (THEFT) (aka LLM’s) to make money (PROFIT) from search OFF their #stolen_content (Your Content!? w/o Consent, IS INFACT the pure definition of #COPYRIGHT_INFRINGEMENT. 🚔 🚔 🚔 🚔 🚑

It gets worse.. including #Illegal Bigtech 3rd party 🍪 🍪 🍪 #Cookie injections into 3rd party #Browser's which is called #CONCEALMENT OF #LIABILITY by all bigtech ( = #Felony Section 2 Sherman Anti Trust Act) by use of 3RD PARTY #SHAWDOW_BROKER COMPANIES??

Why not make that 🥠 🥠 🥠 #fortune for yourself instead with #REAL_CONTENT.. #Yours;) Massively Improving the quality (not Quantity) of content on the 🌐 WWW Internet.

TastingTraffic launching soon. Earn up to 300K net in the comforts of your own living room.

#Big_Kudos to 🇦🇺 #Australia protecting INNOCENT HEARTS! BRAVO #AUSSIES!

“This is a global problem and we want young Australians essentially to have a childhood,” #prime_minister #Anthony_Albanese said when introducing the bill last week. “We want #parents to have #peace of #mind.”

The Online Safety Amendment (Social Media Minimum Age) Bill 2024 sets Australia up as a test case for a growing number of governments which have legislated, or have said they plan to legislate, an age restriction #on_social_media (DAVIDv COMMENT: NOTICE #CENTRALIZED_SOCIAL_MEDIA ONLY NOT THE ENTIRE #WWW INTERNET). Countries including France and some US states have passed laws to restrict access for children without parental permission, but the Australian #ban is #absolute. A full under-14s #ban in #Florida is being #challenged in court on #free_speech_grounds.

IF YOU ARE UNDERAGE YOUR PARENTS ARE YOUR FREE SPEECH! If not a #Jew_Terrorist or #Godless_Pagan_DIRTBAGS.Gov!

DavidV: "This is EXCLUSIVELY A BIGTECH CENTRALIZED SOCIAL NETWORK PROBLEM #NOT A #WWW_INTERNET_PROBLEM!"

“It’s #cart before #horse,” Sunita Bose, managing director of #Digital_Industry Group, which has most #social_media companies as members, told Reuters. “We have the bill but we don’t have guidance from the Australian government around what are the right methods that a whole host of services subject to this law will need to employ.”

https://au.news.yahoo.com/australia-ban-under-16s-social-124305590.html

📛 DISCLAIMER: We Cover the 'Way' the #News is #COVERED_UP! 👿

WELCOME TO #DECENTRALIZED_GLOBALIZATION 🌐 #GLOBALIZATION is NOT Dead! It's just the Beginning!..
The NEW DIGITAL GLOBAL ORDER | NO NATIONALITY LEFT BEHIND | COMING SOON! 🌏 🌍 🌎

🔴 The #Next #Global_Superpower Isn't Who You #Think 🧠 WHO is TastingTraffic.com?

🧠 https://youtu.be/uiUPD-z9DTg

DavidV: 25 YEARS 24/7 Experience:

* Software Architect (PhD) Supervisor -25 years 300K PMS (project management) hours
* EXPERT BLACK BOX TESTER (1999)
* Founder of WebTafficCops.com the 1ST Dedicated CLICK FRAUD ENGINE on the Planet (1999)
* Founder of SEO (Search Engine Optimization, (1999)
* Founder of RTB (Real Time Bidding (1999)
* Founder of HFT (High Frequency Trading 2001)
* Founder of the first Screen Recorder (Applets) on the Planet (2000)
* Founder of DEVSECOPS (2000)
* Founder and CREATOR OF #BULLETPROOF MONERO full NODES via WWW. (2016)

🍷 🍾 #TASTINGTRAFFIC_LLC | The Largest (WWW) #DIGITAL_TRAFFIC PROVIDER in the WORLD since 1999.

🌐 WORLD WIDE BUSINESS HOURS?? 24/7 ;)
JOBS FOR ALL WORLDWIDE COMING SOON;!

Part 3/3. See Parts 1 & 2.

Part 1/3 See Part 2 & 3. ✝️ REMEMBER ( #AOL )? #AMERICA_ONLINE?

🦅 #Baby_Boomerangs do..

Hey #Kids Your #DAD FROM #SARASOTA MADE the same DUMB big MISTAKE (oh well we learn the hard way called #LIFE_EXPERIENCES ;).

💽 📀 💽 📀 During the #AOL_CRAZE, (1000, 10,000 free internet hours discs being mailed to you weekly? (Remember?)

I am in Myakka Valley FL. Park. With my Family 🐓 #Feeding the #Gators;) LIKE PETS..

Teaching my kids >> #Face the Fear and the @Death of Fear is #CERTAIN!

🥊 #BONUS! #BigKudos to Australia protecting INNOCENT HEARTS! BRAVO #AUSSIES! ❤️ ❤️ ❤️

It's 1999 Back to the future.. ..but at the same time configuring #REAL #Internet_Access on my #Motorola Blackberry 🙃 #StarTac flip phone;) ..Best phone on the 🌐 planet at the time imho.

To my surprise was getting 900 baud rate, BACK THEN

🥊 #BOOYA!?? Took 45 min to download one photo. But it worked;)

That's called the #INTERNET kids in its infantile stages.

📥 Wasn't long after that we got rid of our phones since the advent of #email; since emails were #encrypted but phone calls were not (aka phone taps = Recordings)?? Not to mention #location_tracking by #GPS SENSOR in your Phone.

✝️ #TRUTH?? Secured email (communications) replace DUMPHONES back in 1999. Today #Dumphones are #dedicated #Tracking_Devices using APPs from #APP Surveillance #Stores #masquerading as #TRACKING_BEACONS.

👹 CENTRALIZED Social Networking aka AMERICAN ONLINE BIGTECH Prison Boxes are simply Unsuspecting ADVERTISING BOXES to LURE, CORRAL and CAPTURED YOU into A #MOUSE_TRAP>> Just like the #JEWS and #PAGAN_GOV did to HAWAIIANS. Proof the JEWS and Pagan.gov with Grade 8 educations cannot even think outside a BOX!??

🚑 🔥 🚑 🔥 THEY CORRALLED and Murdered ALL NATIVE HAWAIIANS AREAS AND BURNED THEM ALIVE.. SOME TRAPPED and burned their CARS.. while others jumped over the side of the road into the water to escape the flames???

🐊 #LEARN Online #Debian based OR #Ubuntu based Open Source LINUX Distro #Operating_Systems. The #REAL_WINDOW TO THE REAL WORLD WIDE WEB CALLED THE INTERNET SINCE 1999. LIVES ON LINUX Distro's #NOT_WINDOWS

🐊 and cannot be stopped since WWW has been an INTERNET #Standard for the last 30 years. You all have been in a #FINTECH #AOL_Prison LIKE #GAZA since 1999.

You got caught in a AOL BOX PRISON FOR THE LAST 2 DECADES CALLED #SOCIAL_NETWORKS.

Just another #Version of #AMERICA_ONLINE = bigtech AND APP ADDICTION now been Weaponized aka SURVEILLANCE by #Jew_Terrorists and #Roman_Pagan.gov to not only steal your livelihoods..??

✝️ ..but also your #FREEDOMS, #PROTECTION OF PERSONS, #PRIVACY AS WELL!?? and they will 🩸 #Murder you if you #do_not take a #knee 🧎 🧎‍♂️ to 👹 #satanism by a #CONVICTED_FELON of 34 #Sexual_Immoral Related #Felonies?

👹 🐍 💩 ..that has been CONCEALED by (JEWS, KKK, NAZI'S PAGAN.GOV, CENTRALIZED BANKS, SOCIAL NETWORKS, BIGTECH, SUCH AS #GOOGLE, #MICROSOFT, #AMAZON, #APPLE, #META, #FACEBOOK, #INSTAGRAM, #TWITTER AND #YOUTUBE =

ALL Centralized #Social_Networking and CENTRALIZED #APP_STORES. are #ILLEGAL #Surveillance_Tracking_Beacon_Hubs for further 🛰️ 📡 Triangulation #GPS connections.

🎯 YOU HAVE BEEN CAPTURED IN ANOTHER #AOL_BOX SINCE 1999 VIA YOUR DUMB PHONES. (a Glorified FAKE Camera, a dedicated tracking device in your pocket that costs $1000’s to purchase and $100’s in monthly expenses to maintain??)

YOU ARE 🤣 #PAYING FOR YOUR OWN# ILLEGAL 🛰️ 📡 #SURVEILLANCE??

Part 1/3 See Part 2 & 3.

MATERIAL PARA SER DIVULGADO NAS REDES SOCIAIS

Diante de um momento político crítico como estamos vivendo agora, resolvi disponibilizar um material com textos e imagens no intuito de alertar a sociedade sobre o grande risco que estamos passando devido a grande ameaça para a nossa democracia caso a extrema-direita volte à governar esse país novamente.

A ideia é que as pessoas possam tomar consciência do mal que pode ocorrer com o Brasil e assim ajudar a conscientizar outras pessoas que ainda não conseguem enxergar a gravidade dessa situação. Quem puder ajudar divulgando esse material fazendo postagens nas redes sociais, além de pedir para que todos compartilhem essas postagens com esse material nas principais redes sociais do mercado como WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook, X e TikTok.

As devidas explicações sobre as ameaças estão nesse material que estou disponibilizando no link logo abaixo para download:
https://drive.proton.me/urls/BBMMMXR610#GbV3NuO3c5Pw
( basta clicar no botão "Baixar" )

Algumas orientações de como utilizar esse material:

1- Todas as imagens devem ser inseridas na postagem;

2- O texto por ser um pouco longo é melhor colocar no Instagram e Facebook. No WhatsApp, X e TikTok é melhor usar apenas as imagens.
Nome do arquivo: 'Em Defesa da Democracia.rtf';

3- As marcações que fiz com o perfil de vários canais de imprensa foi para o Instagram, no Facebook essas marcações funcionam de outra forma. Ao digitar o "@" seguido do nome do canal abre-se uma lista de opções e a partir daí você tem que escolher o perfil e dar , ou seja, pelo Facebook essas marcações devem ser refeitas, se quiser; caso não queira basta excluir essas marcações.

Espero ter contribuído de alguma forma pra democracia!

Cada um de nós temos o dever de nos posicionar-mos em defesa da nossa democracia e da nossa soberania.

Viva a Democracia! Democracia Sempre!

#Eleição2026 #Democracia #ExtremaDireita #Meta #MarkZuckerberg
#RedesSociais #WhatsApp #Instagram #Facebook #X #TikTok

Haha, the first reply on zuck zuck is just genius

https://www.threads.com/@zuck/post/DVrwsE5EdSz

"Cropped and uncropped:"

#Meta #Epstein #AI

Decades upon decades of cryptography research, countless algorithms, encryption, 2 factor authentication, all to keep accounts safe

And #Meta decided it's a good idea to give a program from what you cannot predict the outcome access to such features

It doesn't matter how great your security is, if AI implementations just ignore it all and use the access they got from the company

Terrible decisions by a terrible company

"A new class action lawsuit accuses OpenAI of sharing data including user chat queries and personal identifying information like emails and user IDs with the tech giants — and targeted advertising behemoths — Meta and Google, without obtaining proper user consent.

Filed yesterday in California, the lawsuit claims that OpenAI’s data-sharing with Google and Meta violates the California Invasion of Privacy Act, known as CIPA, as well as the Electronic Communications Privacy Act. It points specifically to OpenAI’s integrations with Meta Pixel and Google Analytics, which are data-tracking and collection tools that facilitate targeted advertisements.

The data-tracking model described in the lawsuit — often referred to as “surveillance capitalism” — is the business that the modern internet is built on today. And OpenAI, like countless other tech companies, does include language in its privacy policy noting that it does collect, store, and share a range of consumer inputs and personal information."

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-personal-information-meta-google

#AI #GenerativeAI #OpenAI #Surveillance #Meta #Google #DataProtection #Privacy

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Tutanota/116577868496509025

Zuckerberg admitted creating #Facebook to stalk ivy league women. #Meta takes money from fascist #psyops that spred disinfo about Russia in #Ukraine, parseltongued #Brexit and ended in #genocide in #Myanmar and #Gaza. all the while supporting a fascist revival in USA, led by a #FriendOfEpstein and accused rapist of girls and women.

so #tech journalists should be asking:

how can a company Protect The Children when it makes stalkerware, used by fascists & the CEO supports an accused pedophile.

My dear ol' Mum might have said "If you can't say anything nice about {XXX}, then don't say anything at all."

Thought of that when I read a piece about Sarah Wynn-Williams sitting mute at the Hay Book-Festival after being forced to sign a No Disparagement Clause with #Meta. Far from being an alpha male, it seems Mark Zuckerberg must have the most fragile of egos...

Which is why I went out and immediately bought Wynn-William's audiobook, 'Careless People':

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Careless_People

It should be an illuminating, if not a comfortable, listen.

#CarelessPeople #CarefulLawyers

New, by me: A number of high-profile and/or valuable Instagram accounts, including those of the Obama White House and the Chief Master Sergeant for the U.S. Space Force, got hacked and defaced with pro-Iran messaging in the past 24h after people figured out that Meta's AI support assistant could be tricked into resetting account passwords.

From the story:

"A video released on Telegram by pro-Iran hackers claimed to document a remarkably simple exploit that appears to have involved using a VPN connection with an IP address that is in or near the target's usual hometown, requesting a password reset for the account, and then choosing to chat with Meta's AI support assistant. From there, the video shows the attacker told the bot to link the account in question to a new email address, after which the bot dutifully sent that address a one-time code that allowed a password reset."

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/06/hackers-used-metas-ai-support-bot-to-seize-instagram-accounts/

#meta #instagram #hack #ai #security

OK: here's a question that I don't expect anyone to really answer, but:

How is it that #Instagram (AKA #Facebook, AKA #Meta -- which I have not logged into in probably eight years) is sending me legit emails (I can and do check the full headers for the chain of authority) telling me that one of the #Twitch streamers I follow has just posted a new "story" to Instagram?

I have not ever been associated with that person on Insta / Facebook / or any other Meta property in any way

Is Dan Clancy (Twitch) / Jeff Bezos (Amazon -- Twitch owner) selling off email lists to #Zuckerberg / Instagram?

Wowzers...

No place is safe...

And not by any means the first time this has happened, either...

"Thirty-three states have banded together to sue Meta, alleging that the company was exploiting its young users on Instagram and Facebook for profit, including by collecting data from children without parental consent."

The damages could be as high as $1.4 trillion, nearly the same as Meta's market capitalization at just above $1.5 trillion.

https://gizmodo.com/metas-teen-safety-case-just-became-a-1-4-trillion-existential-threat-2000782306

Via https://flipboard.com/@thenewsdesk/technology-shjum1jiz/-/a-CHwwNHlfS-GTffJivjlDbA%3Aa%3A43591897-%2F0

#news #technology #TechNews #meta #facebook #instagram #SocialMedia