Linux Is Best<p><span>Someone check my post history. A few days ago, I talk about how we're already helping the government.<br><br>An example, I gave, was how the word "protest" is now being monitored. <br><br></span><a href="https://mk.absturztau.be/tags/Meta" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Meta</a> <a href="https://mk.absturztau.be/tags/Facebook" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Facebook</a> <a href="https://mk.absturztau.be/tags/Threads" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Threads</a> <a href="https://mk.absturztau.be/tags/Instagram" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Instagram</a> <a href="https://mk.absturztau.be/tags/WhatsApp" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WhatsApp</a><span><br><br>RE: </span><a href="https://mastodon.social/users/violetblue/statuses/114202455632251492" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://mastodon.social/users/violetblue/statuses/114202455632251492</a></p>
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IT News<p>Meta Spotted Testing AI-Generated Comments on Instagram - Meta is testing an AI feature that generates comment suggestions for Instagram pos... - <a href="https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/03/21/2246239/meta-spotted-testing-ai-generated-comments-on-instagram?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">tech.slashdot.org/story/25/03/</span><span class="invisible">21/2246239/meta-spotted-testing-ai-generated-comments-on-instagram?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/facebook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>facebook</span></a></p>
heise online<p>Threads erlaubt Feed-Auswahl jetzt als Standard-Einstellung</p><p>Das soziale Netzwerk Threads hat einige Erweiterungen erhalten. Dazu zählt unter anderem die von Nutzern herbeigesehnte Standard-Auswahl für den Feed.</p><p><a href="https://www.heise.de/news/Threads-erlaubt-Feed-Auswahl-jetzt-als-Standard-Einstellung-10324206.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">heise.de/news/Threads-erlaubt-</span><span class="invisible">Feed-Auswahl-jetzt-als-Standard-Einstellung-10324206.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon</span></a></p><p><a href="https://social.heise.de/tags/IT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IT</span></a> <a href="https://social.heise.de/tags/Facebook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Facebook</span></a> <a href="https://social.heise.de/tags/Threads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Threads</span></a> <a href="https://social.heise.de/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>news</span></a></p>
Aral Balkan<p>My “not a book review” of Careless People – the book Facebook doesn’t want you to read.</p><p>With highlights on Ireland’s complicity and the lengths people farmers (as I call them) will go to to appease authoritarian regimes like China.</p><p><a href="https://ar.al/2025/03/21/careless-people/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ar.al/2025/03/21/careless-peop</span><span class="invisible">le/</span></a></p><p>It’s clear from this that Ireland should be stripped of the authority to enforce GDPR and, really, people farmers – and the business model of people farming in general – should be banned in the EU.</p><p>(Don’t hold your breaths.)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/carelessPeople" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>carelessPeople</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/facebook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>facebook</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/peopleFarming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>peopleFarming</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/surveillance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>surveillance</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/surveillanceCapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>surveillanceCapitalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BigTech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/SiliconValley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SiliconValley</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/ventureCapital" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ventureCapital</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/technofascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>technofascism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/EU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EU</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/Ireland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ireland</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/tax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tax</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/GDPR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GDPR</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/humanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>humanRights</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a></p>
Tesla Takedown UK<p>There are many lowlights to administering our <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23Facebook" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Facebook</a> page, but the bewildering range of blatantly AI-generated boomer clickbait we get served is a particular low point.
<a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23BoycottTesla" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BoycottTesla</a>
<a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23TeslaTakedown" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TeslaTakedown</a>
<a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23WTF" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WTF</a></p>
💡𝚂𝗆𝖺𝗋𝗍𝗆𝖺𝗇 𝙰𝗉𝗉𝗌📱<p>Anyone aware of any way for <a href="https://dotnet.social/tags/scammers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>scammers</span></a> to <a href="https://dotnet.social/tags/hack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hack</span></a> into a private <a href="https://dotnet.social/tags/Facebook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Facebook</span></a> group? I just had a couple of scam posts appear in a group I admin, and I didn't let them in! There's only 1 other admin, and the only thing I can think of is their FB account got hacked and they allowed themselves in. I've done some searching, but not seeing any recent news stories about this.<br><a href="https://dotnet.social/tags/AskFedi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AskFedi</span></a></p>
David Fleetwood<p>If you claim to be a leftist and you are trying to convince people to move to <a href="https://social.legionworlds.net/tags/BlueSky" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BlueSky</a> rather than the community driven <a href="https://social.legionworlds.net/tags/ActivityPub" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ActivityPub</a> options (<a href="https://social.legionworlds.net/tags/mastodon" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mastodon</a> / <a href="https://social.legionworlds.net/tags/PixelFed" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PixelFed</a><span> / etc) I cannot take you seriously as a leftist.<br><br>A major component of leftist thought is community organizing and defense. It is opposition to centralized power and control. Intentionally helping people move or set up on centralized systems, regardless of what their CEO's claim about them, is directly in opposition to leftist ideals.<br><br>Yes some people are sometimes confused by the </span><a href="https://social.legionworlds.net/tags/Fediverse" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fediverse</a> options. It's your job to help them find an appropriate community and work through the technical hurdles. The platforms they are moving away from, such as <a href="https://social.legionworlds.net/tags/Twitter" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Twitter</a>, <a href="https://social.legionworlds.net/tags/Facebook" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Facebook</a> & <a href="https://social.legionworlds.net/tags/Instagram" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Instagram</a><span> were all confusing and overwhelming for people when they first joined. This is no different, it's always a learning curve.<br><br>Actually help and protect your communities by helping them not only escape corporate controlled networks but also by helping them find and utilize networks that are community run, moderated and controlled.</span></p>
Calishat<p><a href="https://researchbuzz.masto.host/tags/Facebook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Facebook</span></a> <a href="https://researchbuzz.masto.host/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://researchbuzz.masto.host/tags/CarelessPeople" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CarelessPeople</span></a> <a href="https://researchbuzz.masto.host/tags/BarbraStreisand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BarbraStreisand</span></a> </p><p>'Careless People has debuted at number one on the New York Times bestseller list. It’s also spent much of the week in the number three position on Amazon’s bestseller list. That’s despite the fact that Sarah Wynn-Williams, a former policy director at Facebook, has been barred from promoting or publicly discussing the book following legal action by Meta.'</p><p><a href="https://www.engadget.com/social-media/careless-people-hits-the-top-of-the-new-york-times-bestseller-list-235008451.html?src=rss" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">engadget.com/social-media/care</span><span class="invisible">less-people-hits-the-top-of-the-new-york-times-bestseller-list-235008451.html?src=rss</span></a></p>
Jason Howard :sdf:<p>About half way through <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/CarelessPeople" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CarelessPeople</span></a> .. wouldn't have normally read it, but since Zuckerberg felt I shouldn't, I had no choice really...</p><p>And wow. <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/Facebook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Facebook</span></a> and its executives are exactly the type of awful I had expected they'd be.</p>
Linux Is Best<p><span>"Protest"<br><br>This is one of the new keywords that Meta (Facebook) is helping monitor. <br><br>Everyone is so focused on Elon Musk, that they've forgotten that Mark Zuckerberg controls a social media platform larger and more widely used, and recently started becoming closer to Donald Trump's regime.<br><br></span><a href="https://mk.absturztau.be/tags/Meta" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Meta</a> <a href="https://mk.absturztau.be/tags/WhatsApp" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WhatsApp</a> <a href="https://mk.absturztau.be/tags/Facebook" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Facebook</a> <a href="https://mk.absturztau.be/tags/Instagram" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Instagram</a> <a href="https://mk.absturztau.be/tags/Threads" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Threads</a> <a href="https://mk.absturztau.be/tags/MarkZuckerberg" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MarkZuckerberg</a> <a href="https://mk.absturztau.be/tags/Zuckerberg" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Zuckerberg</a> <a href="https://mk.absturztau.be/tags/ElonMusk" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ElonMusk</a> <a href="https://mk.absturztau.be/tags/Musk" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Musk</a> <a href="https://mk.absturztau.be/tags/Protest" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Protest</a></p>
wendinoakland :bc:<p>Nearly halfway through the Facebook thing, Careless People. Hooeey, it’s quite a read. <a href="https://beige.party/tags/FaceBook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FaceBook</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/CarelessPeople" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CarelessPeople</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/WTF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WTF</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a></p>
Bryce Belcher<p>OK, I just realized something. The <a href="https://convo.casa/tags/Accessibility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Accessibility</span></a> on <a href="https://convo.casa/tags/Facebook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Facebook</span></a> got bad again, and this time it has something to do with interacting in the comment section, I was just replying to someone in a group, and I can't go swipe up and down to read what I wrote, but at least it will read the whole thing, but if I want to edit it it's more difficult. At least the problems on voiceover when making a post has been fixed, but we have this issue now. <a href="https://convo.casa/tags/Blind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Blind</span></a>.</p>
martina schimbach<p>wenn du wolle suchst oder stricknadeln<br>wenn du gemeinsame kal oder cal magst<br>wenn du ......</p><p>komm doch mal vorbei</p><p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/bastelundhobbykiste.de" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">facebook.com/groups/bastelundh</span><span class="invisible">obbykiste.de</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/handmade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>handmade</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/knitting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>knitting</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/facebook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>facebook</span></a></p>
IT News<p>Meta's Llama AI Models Hit 1 Billion Downloads, Zuckerberg Says - Meta's open AI model family Llama has reached 1 billion downloads, CEO Mark Zucker... - <a href="https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/03/18/161237/metas-llama-ai-models-hit-1-billion-downloads-zuckerberg-says?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">tech.slashdot.org/story/25/03/</span><span class="invisible">18/161237/metas-llama-ai-models-hit-1-billion-downloads-zuckerberg-says?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/facebook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>facebook</span></a></p>
Pony Lark<p>Sometime soon we're going to learn about activists being terrorized and blackmailed because Musk or Zuckerberg handed their private information directly over to Trump's goons.</p><p>And not one user will leave.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.party/tags/SocialMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocialMedia</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.party/tags/Facebook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Facebook</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.party/tags/meta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>meta</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.party/tags/twitter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>twitter</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.party/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uspol</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.party/tags/uspolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uspolitics</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.party/tags/usa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>usa</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.party/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trump</span></a></p>
Robin Frost<p>Interesting, when did they break the ability to post comments in the <a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/Facebook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Facebook</span></a> app for <a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/iOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>iOS</span></a> when using <a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/VoiceOver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VoiceOver</span></a>? Any work around for this?</p>
Ike<p>Is this what they call the Streisand Effect?</p><p>My local library has ~1200 holds on copies of Careless People: <br>A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism<br>by Wynn-Williams, Sarah</p><p>👍 Good Job, Meta / Facebook</p><p><a href="https://pkm.social/tags/Meta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Meta</span></a> <a href="https://pkm.social/tags/Facebook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Facebook</span></a> <a href="https://pkm.social/tags/StreisandEffect" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StreisandEffect</span></a> <a href="https://pkm.social/tags/CarelessPeople" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CarelessPeople</span></a> <a href="https://pkm.social/tags/Library" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Library</span></a></p>
Mark Ohe<p>“Superficial processing of headlines and blurbs can be dangerous if false data are being shared and not investigated.” Social media users may feel content has already been vetted by those in their network sharing it, but that is unlikely. However, this still wouldn’t stop intentional misinformation campaigns.</p><p>“Disinformation or misinformation campaigns aim to sow the seeds of doubt or dissent in a democracy — the scope of these efforts came to light in the 2016 and 2020 elections.” <a href="https://mastodon.energy/tags/Facebook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Facebook</span></a></p>
Mark Ohe<p>New research: 75% of news items shared on Facebook are made without posters reading or even clicking the link first.</p><p>Facebook users simply forward things that appear to agree with their political ideology, not realizing that they may sometimes be sharing flat-out lies.</p><p>Of these, 77% came from conservative <a href="https://mastodon.energy/tags/Facebook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Facebook</span></a> users and 14% from liberal users. The vast majority — up to 82% — of the links to false information originated from conservative/right wing news sources.</p><p><a href="https://www.psu.edu/news/research/story/social-media-users-probably-wont-read-beyond-headline-researchers-say" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">psu.edu/news/research/story/so</span><span class="invisible">cial-media-users-probably-wont-read-beyond-headline-researchers-say</span></a></p>
Hacker News 50<p>A Facebook Insider's Exposé Alleges Bad Behavior at the Top</p><p>Link: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20250310221013/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/books/review/careless-people-sarah-wynn-williams.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">web.archive.org/web/2025031022</span><span class="invisible">1013/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/books/review/careless-people-sarah-wynn-williams.html</span></a><br>Discussion: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43386253" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4</span><span class="invisible">3386253</span></a></p><p><a href="https://social.lansky.name/tags/facebook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>facebook</span></a></p>
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