Notices tagged with facebook, page 15

Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) (schestowitz@pleroma.site)'s status on Thursday, 28-May-2020 06:19:45 EDT Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊)
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● NEWS ● #techdirt #israel #cracking #facebook ☞ Former #NSOGroup Employees Says The Company Impersonated Facebook To Deploy Malware https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200523/10360544560/former-nso-employees-says-company-impersonated-facebook-to-deploy-malware.shtml
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  Former NSO Employees Says The Company Impersonated Facebook To Deploy Malware
  
  from Techdirt.
  
  As Facebook's lawsuit against Israeli malware purveyor, NSO Group, continues, more facts are coming to light that undercut the spyware vendor's claims that it's just a simple software developer that can't be blamed for the...
Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) (schestowitz@pleroma.site)'s status on Thursday, 28-May-2020 05:15:47 EDT Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊)
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#facebook profits more when people fight, get addicted, feel insecure etc. https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-knows-it-encourages-division-top-executives-nixed-solutions-11590507499
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  Facebook Executives Shut Down Efforts to Make the Site Less Divisive
  
  from WSJ
  
  The social-media giant internally studied how it polarizes users and how it might address the resulting harms, then largely shelved the research.
Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) (schestowitz@pleroma.site)'s status on Thursday, 28-May-2020 04:16:01 EDT Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊)
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● NEWS ● #commondreams #socialcontrolmedia ☞ #Facebook Under Fire After Its Response to #Coronavirus# Misinformation Makes Clear Company Could Do More to Combat Political Lies https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/05/27/facebook-under-fire-after-its-response-coronavirus-misinformation-makes-clear
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  Facebook Under Fire After Its Response to Coronavirus Misinformation Makes Clear Company Could Do More to Combat Political Lies
  
  from Common Dreams
  
  "It's not about free speech. It's about money."
Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) (schestowitz@pleroma.site)'s status on Wednesday, 27-May-2020 11:34:34 EDT Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊)
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● NEWS ● #commondreams ☞ #Facebook Ignored Internal Warnings Its Algorithms Were Intensifying Divisiveness: Report https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/05/26/facebook-ignored-internal-warnings-its-algorithms-were-intensifying-divisiveness
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  Facebook Ignored Internal Warnings Its Algorithms Were Intensifying Divisiveness: Report
  
  from Common Dreams
  
  "Facebook knows what it's doing, intentionally continues to cause harm to increase engagement and profit, and will never fix these problems themselves."
Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) (schestowitz@pleroma.site)'s status on Wednesday, 27-May-2020 04:14:50 EDT Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊)
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● NEWS ● #vice #Surveillance ☞ #NSOGroup Impersonated #Facebook to Help Clients Hack Targets https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qj4p3w/nso-group-hack-fake-facebook-domain
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  NSO Group Impersonated Facebook to Help Clients Hack Targets
  
  from Vice
  
  Motherboard uncovered more evidence that NSO Group ran hacking infrastructure in the United States.
Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) (schestowitz@pleroma.site)'s status on Friday, 22-May-2020 14:45:18 EDT Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊)
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#FACEBOOK code developed on #MICROSOFT servers creeps into #gnu #linux distros at every runlevel https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Zstd-1.4.5-Released

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Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Monday, 18-May-2020 08:34:01 EDT Hypolite Petovan

Today is #Fediverse12, the 12th birthday of the first post published on the #Fediverse by @Evan Prodromou on #Identica.

Back in late 2016 I'm glad the #Fediverse (comprising OStatus/ActivityPub-compatible social networks) and the #Federation (comprising Diaspora-compatible social networks) welcomed me when my #Facebook account was frozen and I was (and still am) too stubborn to give in to their demand to give me back access to it.

I've been contributing to #Friendica ever since, mostly through dogfooding through my own single-user node.

Happy Birthday to us and thank you to everyone who has contributed or still is contributing to this mind-boggling common project.

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Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Saturday, 16-May-2020 00:53:47 EDT Hypolite Petovan

Guess who has two thumbs and won't be using #Giphy anymore because it was bought by #Facebook?

👍😞👍
www.theverge.com/2020/5/15/212…

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Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) (schestowitz@pleroma.site)'s status on Tuesday, 12-May-2020 08:30:03 EDT Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊)
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● NEWS ● #techdirt #NorTheOnion ☞ Facebook's Supreme Court Is In Place... And Everyone Hates It, Because #Facebook Makes Everyone Hate Everything https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200511/10162544475/facebooks-supreme-court-is-place-everyone-hates-it-because-facebook-makes-everyone-hate-everything.shtml
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  Facebook's Supreme Court Is In Place... And Everyone Hates It, Because Facebook Makes Everyone Hate Everything
  
  from Techdirt.
  
  Facebook seems to really dislike it when people refer to its Oversight Board as the Facebook Supreme Court, but it's just too good a name not to use. The company announced plans a while back to create this Oversight Board to review a narrow slice...
Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) (schestowitz@pleroma.site)'s status on Friday, 17-Apr-2020 07:13:36 EDT Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊)
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● NEWS ● #nbcnews #Facebook #socialcontrol #socialcontrolmedia ☞ Facebook will steer users who interact with #coronavirus misinformation to WHO https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/facebook-will-start-notifying-users-who-interact-coronavirus-misinformation-n1185146
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  Facebook will steer users who interact with coronavirus misinformation to WHO
  
  from NBC News
  
  The move is just the most recent step in an aggressive and coordinated response by Facebook and other tech companies to promote facts and guidance from reputable sources.
Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) (schestowitz@pleroma.site)'s status on Thursday, 16-Apr-2020 12:37:06 EDT Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊)
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Oh dear. Doing #gnu #linux events through #facebook is like doing climate activism on a cruise ship. https://lleksah.wordpress.com/2020/04/15/gnome-peru-fest-2020/
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  GNOME PERU FEST 2020
  
  By Julita Inca from Sólo para Mí!
  
  Hello world again! I am thrilled to announce that I am organizing the GNOME PERU FEST 2020 via online. Thanks to Maricielo, one of the designer team of the company Tunqui Creativo, we have published our event in the Facebook page of GNOME PERU.
  You might take a look into the slides I am planning to present for my first introductory part of GNOME of the event. In case you have suggestions to improve, they are so welcomed! Sorry if the information is in Spanish, but we mostly talk in Spanish in Peru.
  
  We are getting ready to introduce GNOME to the world in this quarantine:
  
  P.S.: During this quarantine, please stay at home, stay safe, motivated and educated.
Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) (schestowitz@pleroma.site)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Apr-2020 21:39:56 EDT Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊)
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#pycon controlled by #microsoft #facebook #google etc.

Pretends to care about "startups"

https://pycon.blogspot.com/2020/04/announcing-startup-row-lineup-at-pycon.html
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  Announcing The Startup Row Lineup At PyCon 2020
  
  Each year since 2011, PyCon has reserved a special place for early-stage startups to show off what they're working on to the Python communi...
Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) (schestowitz@pleroma.site)'s status on Friday, 10-Apr-2020 17:50:45 EDT Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊)
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#systemd will kill #linux processes without asking you, based on #facebook code hosted and controlled by #microsoft https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Systemd-OOMD-April-WIP

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Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) (schestowitz@pleroma.site)'s status on Friday, 10-Apr-2020 10:25:38 EDT Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊)
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#technologyreview turned to worse than crap; it keeps promoting #socialcontrolmedia and #surveillance like #facebook https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/04/08/998726/facebook-has-a-new-social-network-thats-just-for-couples/
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  Facebook has launched a couples-only social network
  
  from MIT Technology Review
  
  The news: Facebook has launched a new app called Tuned, which lets couples message each other, swap music, share their mood, keep a daily shared diary, and send photos and voice memos. It can be used without a Facebook profile and is pitched as a “private space” for couples to connect. However, it isn’t end-to-end…
Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) (schestowitz@pleroma.site)'s status on Friday, 10-Apr-2020 09:55:15 EDT Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊)
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#facebook #disinformation #covid19 #coronavirus
https://www.wired.com/story/the-rise-and-spread-of-a-5g-coronavirus-conspiracy-theory/
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  The Rise and Spread of a 5G Coronavirus Conspiracy Theory
  
  from Wired
  
  From an interview with an obscure Belgian doctor to apparent arson attacks in the UK, the unfounded claim that the pandemic is linked to 5G has spread unlike any other.
Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) (schestowitz@pleroma.site)'s status on Friday, 10-Apr-2020 09:52:07 EDT Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊)
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● NEWS ● #techdirt #israel ☞ #NSOGroup Fires Back At #Facebook , Says It's Not Responsible For #Malware Deployments By Foreign Governments https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200407/13114244256/nso-fires-back-facebook-says-not-responsible-malware-deployments-foreign-governments.shtml
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  NSO Fires Back At Facebook, Says It's Not Responsible For Malware Deployments By Foreign Governments
  
  from Techdirt.
  
  NSO Group has finally decided to engage in the lawsuit Facebook filed against it late last year. The Israeli surveillance tech company has shown itself to be pretty cavalier about its market expansion plans. Despite being located in a country...
Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) (schestowitz@pleroma.site)'s status on Friday, 10-Apr-2020 06:26:02 EDT Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊)
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● NEWS ● #newstatesman #facebook ☞ #WhatsApp has made it harder to forward texts. But why not remove #misinformation entirely? https://www.newstatesman.com/science-tech/coronavirus/2020/04/whatsapp-harder-forward-messages-why-not-remove-misinformation
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  WhatsApp has made it harder to forward texts. But why not remove misinformation entirely?
  
  For those of us who have returned to live with boomer parents during lockdown, we're being faced with the fact they are suddenly incredibly online. While Gen-Z and millennials may be spending their quarantine on TikTok, YouTube and Instagram, boomers are obsessively sharing Facebook memes, beefing on community pages and above all else obsessively sending each other messages that they were forwarded on WhatsApp. A Twitter keyword search yields thousands of complaints over the past month from adult children who have received misinformation from their parents on WhatsApp. The messages being forwarded range from suggestions to microwave your money to rid it of coronavirus to clearly fake messages from medical staff that begin “this is a text from an NHS worker”. WhatsApp, which is owned by Facebook, announced on Tuesday that it would be limiting the way in which users can forward messages amid the Covid-19 outbreak. “In recent weeks, people have also used WhatsApp to organise public moments of support for frontline health workers,” it said in a press release. “However, we’ve seen a significant increase in the amount of forwarding which users have told us can feel overwhelming and can contribute to the spread of misinformation. We believe it’s important to slow the spread of these messages down to keep WhatsApp a place for personal conversation.” So, as of now, if you are sent a message on WhatsApp that has already been forwarded five different times, then you will only be able to forward it to one chat at a time (previous rules would have allowed users to forward such messages to five chats with a single click). The idea is to mitigate misinformation from being shared rapidly, since it is more work for users to individually forward messages to every chat they are in than simply sending them in one mass forward. This rule follows previous limits on forwarding that WhatsApp rolled out globally in 2019, after misinformation spread via the app in India was later linked to mob violence. The question you might be asking yourself now is: wait – WhatsApp already knew it had a forwarding problem? And after answering that question with a resounding “yes”, you might ask: is making it slightly more difficult to forward misinformation really the best that WhatsApp could do? This is where we have a problem. WhatsApp knows when messages are being forwarded. That heavily forwarded messages will now set off a “stop mass forwarding” switch means that the platform has the capacity to start flagging messages that are being forwarded frequently, ie the ones that might contain misinformation. These messages could be automatically sent to fact-checkers or moderators who could then take down those found to contain misinformation or conspiracy theories – and such messages could even be deleted across the app. It may seem baffling that WhatsApp isn’t doing this, but it’s likely that there would be a backlash if it did so. With all conspiracy theories, and misinformation more generally, people want to believe that this information is true – that microwaving your cash will save you from catching coronavirus and that a reassuring (or even nonreassuring) message from an NHS worker will give you a greater sense of control over an out-of-control reality. It’s inevitable that people would accuse WhatsApp of “silencing” truth and that it could even be accused of dangerous behaviour for removing medical information amid a pandemic. WhatsApp also brands itself as ultra-secure through its end-to-end encryption – something that would have to be sacrificed temporarily to remove misinformation. That said, though, WhatsApp should not be let off for this light-touch approach. Now more than ever, heavy-handedness and aggressive new policies are necessary to tackle misinformation that could put people at risk. WhatsApp already has the tools available to start making itself a safer platform. Simply making it trickier to forward misinformation is far from the best it could do. This piece was updated to highlight the issues with end-to-end encryption.
Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) (schestowitz@pleroma.site)'s status on Thursday, 09-Apr-2020 16:04:01 EDT Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊)
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#surveillance companies #microsoft and #facebook grab #gentoo by the compressor https://www.mpagano.com/blog/?p=297
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  Zstandard (zstd) Coming to >= gentoo-sources-5.6.4 (use=experimental)
  
  By admin from Mike Pagano's Weblog
  
  Zstandard (zstd) Coming to >= gentoo-sources-5.6.4 (use=experimental)
Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) (schestowitz@pleroma.site)'s status on Thursday, 09-Apr-2020 07:58:43 EDT Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊)
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● NEWS ● #techdirt #facebook #fb #censorship #covid19 ☞ Content Moderation Is Impossible: Facebook's Attempts To Block Mask Gouging Took Down DIY Face Mask Instructions https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200405/23414344241/content-moderation-is-impossible-facebooks-attempts-to-block-mask-gouging-took-down-diy-face-mask-instructions.shtml
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  Content Moderation Is Impossible: Facebook's Attempts To Block Mask Gouging Took Down DIY Face Mask Instructions
  
  from Techdirt.
  
  Content moderation at scale is impossible to do well. The latest example? Facebook's rules to takedown content deemed to be people trying to price gouge medical supplies like face masks resulted in tutorials on how to make your own face masks...
Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) (schestowitz@pleroma.site)'s status on Thursday, 09-Apr-2020 07:14:21 EDT Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊)
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● NEWS ● #techdirt #facebook #censorship ☞ It Will Take A Hell Of A Lot More Than #Whatsapp Tweaks To Fix Our Global #Disinformation Problem https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200407/08360044249/it-will-take-hell-lot-more-than-whatsapp-tweaks-to-fix-our-global-disinformation-problem.shtml
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  It Will Take A Hell Of A Lot More Than Whatsapp Tweaks To Fix Our Global Disinformation Problem
  
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  With increased regulatory pressure surrounding the platform's ability to help distribute disinformation (often to bloody and disastrous effect), Facebook owned Whatsapp this week announced it would be more tightly restricting how app messages can...

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