Notices tagged with facebook, page 63

ToniQ.es (coloco@quitter.es)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Oct-2017 16:16:38 EDT ToniQ.es

#Facebook niega activar micrófono de dispositivos de usuarios para espiarlos https://quitter.es/url/1270313
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  Facebook niega activar micrófono de dispositivos de usuarios para espiarlos - FayerWayer
  
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Maltimore (maltimore@masto.themimitoof.fr)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Oct-2017 15:13:02 EDT Maltimore

Well if y'all must know - I chickened out. I did not delete my #facebook account today, only "deactivated" it. In other words, I could reactivate it in one second.

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NYT invites various experts in journalism and other areas to comment on how to fix #facebook: http://qttr.at/1zig
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  How to Fix Facebook? We Asked 9 Experts
🎮 Advance Girl 🕹 (theadvancegirl@framapiaf.org)'s status on Sunday, 29-Oct-2017 10:44:55 EDT 🎮 Advance Girl 🕹

Bilan pour le moment de ma dégooglisation personelle (aucune idée de si ça se dit)
- Remplacement de #Tumblr et autre par #Grav #FramaSite
- Remplacement de #Facebook par #Diaspora #Framasphére
- Remplacement de #Twitter par #Mastodon #Framapiaf
Et d'autre petits truc
- Remplacement de #Google par #Searx #Framabee comme moteur de recherche par défaut
- Utiliser #LSTU #FramaLink #HuitRe plutôt que #BitLy
- Remplacement de #Chrome par #Firefox
etc...
#DégooglisonsInternet #Framasoft #GAFAM

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dcapeletti (dcapeletti@quitter.es)'s status on Friday, 27-Oct-2017 07:14:12 EDT dcapeletti

Mark Zuckerberg Called A "Dictator" By Pirate Bay's Peter Sunde
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6kGhk0fPhyY

#facebook
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  Mark Zuckerberg Called A "Dictator" By Pirate Bay's Peter Sunde
  
  By The Young Turks from YouTube
Matt Cropp 🌲🌲 (mattcropp@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Oct-2017 16:05:56 EDT Matt Cropp 🌲🌲

Relevant #TheOatmeal found on #birbsite today. #surveillancecapitalism #walledgarden #facebook

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Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) ✅ (schestowitz@mastodon.technology)'s status on Saturday, 21-Oct-2017 16:06:04 EDT Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) ✅

If you think #equifax or #opm breaches were bad, well... wait until #facebook with all the 'private' messages gets everything leaked! Wait.

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Jeff Cliff, BSc(CompSci) (jeffcliff@mamot.fr)'s status on Thursday, 19-Oct-2017 09:44:57 EDT Jeff Cliff, BSc(CompSci)

https://quitter.im/notice/2396227 #nsa #csec #facebook will be working together to keep canadians from being informed next election cycle.
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  Thu Oct 19 13:33:39 +0000 2017 (Qvitter)
  
  By zerohedge (zerohedge) from Quitter IM
  
  FACEBOOK REPORTS CANADIAN ELECTION INTEGRITY INITIATIVE
anonymiss (anonymiss@despora.de)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Oct-2017 17:49:22 EDT anonymiss

#WTF: Feel like a #victim in #PuertoRico with #Zuckerberg's #VR.

source: https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/10/zuckerberg-apologizes-for-his-tone-deaf-vr-cartoon-tour-of-puerto-rico-devastation/

#Facebook #PR #fail #news
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  Zuckerberg apologizes for his tone-deaf VR cartoon tour of Puerto Rico devastation
  
  By <a href="/author/lucas-matney/" title="Posts by Lucas Matney" onclick="s_objectID='river_author';" rel="author">Lucas Matney</a> from TechCrunch
  
  Mark Zuckerberg is apologizing today after his Facebook Live video discussing his company’s efforts to aid Puerto Rico’s recovery raised some serious eyebrows.
  
  Yesterday, Zuckerberg used the company’s VR app Spaces to tour through an NPR-produced 360 video of Puerto Rico. Zuck’s cartoon avatar directed attention towards various features of Puerto Rico’s destruction while another Facebook executive remarked “it’s crazy to feel like you’re in the middle of it.”
  
  The video induced quite a few cringes as the tech billionaire visited Puerto Rico’s destruction inside virtual reality as a cartoon.
  
  “Do you want to teleport somewhere else?” Zuckerberg’s VR avatar asked as he wrapped up his conversation about Puerto Rico. “Yeah maybe back to California?” another executive answered.
  
  Zuckerberg reacted to some of the backlash in a reply to a Facebook comment on the video.
  
  One of the most powerful features of VR is empathy. My goal here was to show how VR can raise awareness and help us see what’s happening in different parts of the world. I also wanted to share the news of our partnership with the Red Cross to help with the recovery. Reading some of the comments, I realize this wasn’t clear, and I’m sorry to anyone this offended.
  
  To be fair, it really is difficult to represent experiences in VR to third parties and all Zuckerberg was seeing was the harrowing video from NPR, not necessarily what it looked like as his cartoonish avatar grabbed the camera to peruse the damage. That being said, the tone-deafness of the video was pretty pronounced and even though the content of his video pointed to all of the positive work Facebook was doing in Puerto Rico, seeing a couple of cartoons chatting about it in VR have made the executives appear pretty out of touch.
  
  “When you’re in VR yourself, the surroundings feel quite real. But that sense of empathy doesn’t extend well to people watching you as a virtual character on a 2D screen. That’s something we’ll need to work on over time,” Zuckerberg said in another comment he left.
  
  Facebook is generally pretty careful to isolate its CEO from opportunities for bad press, Zuckerberg has an extensive team helping him maintain his manicured public image on the social media site. With tools like Facebook Live that demand less scripted moments, this level of media-training can stutter, especially when you don’t have the advantage of seeing an outside view of what exactly you look like while it’s all going down.
  
  Regardless, someone should’ve known better.
  
  Facebook specifically chose a fun, vibrant cartoon-like mood for their VR Spaces app so that users wouldn’t feel intimidated by the control scheme. That works fine for watching a movie preview or drawing something in VR but Facebook should probably save conversations of it being easier to “move bits than atoms” for segments that don’t feel an awful lot like disaster tourism.
Iwan Setiawan (stwn@quitter.se)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Oct-2017 21:17:10 EDT Iwan Setiawan

#Facebook lies? https://iain.learmonth.me/blog/2017/2017w402/
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  Facebook Lies · Iain R. Learmonth
  
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Enoch Balthasar (enochbalthasar@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 09-Oct-2017 06:21:23 EDT Enoch Balthasar

#Facebook chief of security has a tantrum. #Dumpfacebook #DumpBigData http://tcrn.ch/2gmy3BA
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  Facebook security chief rants about misguided “algorithm” backlash
  
  By <a href="/author/josh-constine/" title="Posts by Josh Constine" onclick="s_objectID='river_author';" rel="author">Josh Constine</a> from TechCrunch
  
  “I am seeing a ton of coverage of our recent issues driven by stereotypes of our employees and attacks against fantasy, strawman tech cos” wrote Facebook Chief Security Officer Alex Stamos on Saturday in a reeling tweetstorm. He claims journalists misunderstand the complexity of attacking fake news, deride Facebook for thinking algorithms are neutral when the company knows they aren’t, and encourages reporters to talk to engineers who actually deal with these problems and their consequences.
  
  Nobody of substance at the big companies thinks of algorithms as neutral. Nobody is not aware of the risks.
  
  — Alex Stamos (@alexstamos) October 7, 2017
  
  Yet this argument minimizes many of Facebook’s troubles. The issue isn’t that Facebook doesn’t know algorithms can be biased or that people don’t know these are tough problems, but that the company didn’t anticipate abuses of the platform and work harder to build algorithms or human moderation processes that could block fake news and fraudulent ad buys before they impacted the 2016 U.S. presidential election, instead of now. And his tweetstorm completely glosses over the fact that Facebook will fire employees that talk to the press without authorization.
  
  [Update: 3:30pm PT) I commend Stamos for speaking so candidly to the public about an issue where more transparency is appreciated. But simultaneously, Facebook holds the information and context he says journalists and by extension the public lack, and the company is free to bring in reporters for the necessary briefings. I’d certainly attend a “Whiteboard” session like Facebook has often held for reporters in the past on topics like News Feed sorting or privacy controls.]
  
  Stamos’ comments hold weight because he’s leading Facebook’s investigation into Russian election tampering. He was the Chief Information Security Officer as Yahoo before taking the CSO role at Facebook in mid-2015.
  
  The sprawling response to recent backlash comes right as Facebook starts making the changes it should have implemented before the election. Today, Axios reports that Facebook just emailed advertisers to inform them that ads targeted by “politics, religion, ethnicity or social issues” will have to be manually approved before they’re sold and distributed.
  
  And yesterday, Facebook updated an October 2nd blog post about disclosing Russian-bought election interference ads to congress to note that “Of the more than 3,000 ads that we have shared with Congress, 5% appeared on Instagram. About $6,700 was spent on these ads”, implicating Facebook’s photo-sharing acquisition in the scandal for the first time.
  
  Stamos’ tweetstorm was set off by Lawfare associate editor and Washington Post contributor Quinta Jurecic, who commented that Facebook’s shift towards human editors implies that saying “the algorithm is bad now, we’re going to have people do this” actually “just entrenches The Algorithm as a mythic entity beyond understanding rather than something that was designed poorly and irresponsibly and which could have been designed better.”
  
  Here’s my tweet-by-tweet interpretation of Stamos’ perspective:
  
  I appreciate Quinta's work (especially on Rational Security) but this thread demonstrates a real gap between academics/journalists and SV. https://t.co/CWulZrFaso
  
  — Alex Stamos (@alexstamos) October 7, 2017
  
  He starts by saying journalists and academics don’t get what it’s like to actually like to implement solutions to hard problems, yet clearly no one has the right answers yet.
  
  I am seeing a ton of coverage of our recent issues driven by stereotypes of our employees and attacks against fantasy, strawman tech cos.
  
  — Alex Stamos (@alexstamos) October 7, 2017
  
  Facebook’s team has supposedly been pigeonholed as naive of real-life consequences or too technical to see the human impact of its platform, but the outcomes speak for themselves about the team’s inadequacy to proactively protect against election abuse.
  
  Nobody of substance at the big companies thinks of algorithms as neutral. Nobody is not aware of the risks.
  
  — Alex Stamos (@alexstamos) October 7, 2017
  
  Facebook gets that people code their biases into algorithms, and works to stop that. But censorship that results from overzealous algorithms hasn’t been the real problem. Algorithmic negligence of worst-case scenarios for malicious usage of Facebook products is.
  
  In fact, an understanding of the risks of machine learning (ML) drives small-c conservatism in solving some issues.
  
  — Alex Stamos (@alexstamos) October 7, 2017
  
  Understanding of the risks of algorithms is what’s kept Facebook from over-aggressively implementing them in ways that could have led to censorship, which is responsible but doesn’t solve the urgent problem of abuse at hand.
  
  For example, lots of journalists have celebrated academics who have made wild claims of how easy it is to spot fake news and propaganda.
  
  — Alex Stamos (@alexstamos) October 7, 2017
  
  Now Facebook’s CSO is calling journalists’ demands for better algorithms fake news, because these algorithms are hard to build without becoming a dragnet that attacks innocent content too.
  
  Without considering the downside of training ML systems to classify something as fake based upon ideologically biased training data.
  
  — Alex Stamos (@alexstamos) October 7, 2017
  
  What is totally false might be somewhat easy to spot, but the polarizing, exaggerated, opinionated content many see as “fake” is tough to train AI to spot because of the nuance with which it’s separated from legitimate news, which is a valid point.
  
  A bunch of the public research really comes down to the feedback loop of "we believe this viewpoint is being pushed by bots" -> ML
  
  — Alex Stamos (@alexstamos) October 7, 2017
  
  Stamos says it’s not as simple as fighting bots with algorithms because…
  
  So if you don't worry about becoming the Ministry of Truth with ML systems trained on your personal biases, then it's easy!
  
  — Alex Stamos (@alexstamos) October 7, 2017
  
  …Facebook would end up becoming the truth police. That might lead to criticism from conservatives if their content is targeted for removal, which is why Facebook outsourced fact-checking to third-party organizations and reportedly delayed News Feed changes to address clickbait before the election.
  
  Likewise all the stories about "The Algorithm". In any situation where millions/billions/tens of Bs of items need to be sorted, need algos
  
  — Alex Stamos (@alexstamos) October 7, 2017
  
  Even though Facebook prints money, some datasets are still too big to hire enough people to review manually, so Stamos believes algorithms are an unavoidable tool.
  
  My suggestion for journalists is to try to talk to people who have actually had to solve these problems and live with the consequences.
  
  — Alex Stamos (@alexstamos) October 7, 2017
  
  Sure, journalists should do more of their homework, but Facebook employees or those at other tech companies can be fired for discussing work with reporters if they don’t have PR approval.
  
  And to be careful of their own biases when making leaps of judgment between facts.
  
  — Alex Stamos (@alexstamos) October 7, 2017
  
  It’s true that as journalists seek to fight for the public good, they may overstep the bounds of their knowledge. Though Facebook’s best strategy here is likely being more thick-skinned to criticism while making progress on the necessary work rather than complaining about the company’s treatment.
  
  If your piece ties together bad guys abusing platforms, algorithms and the Manifestbro into one grand theory of SV, then you might be biased
  
  — Alex Stamos (@alexstamos) October 7, 2017
  
  Journalists do sometimes tie everything up in a neat bow when they’re really messier, but that doesn’t mean we’re not at the start of a cultural shift about platform responsibility in Silicon Valley.
  
  If your piece assumes that a problem hasn't been addressed because everybody at these companies is a nerd, you are incorrect.
  
  — Alex Stamos (@alexstamos) October 7, 2017
  
  Stamos says it’s not a lack of empathy or understanding of the non-engineering elements to blame, though Facebook’s idealistic leadership did certainly fail to anticipate how significantly its products could be abused to interfere with elections, hence all the reactive changes happening now.
  
  If you call for less speech by the people you dislike but also complain when the people you like are censored, be careful. Really common.
  
  — Alex Stamos (@alexstamos) October 7, 2017
  
  Another fair point, as we often want aggressive protection against views we disagree with while fearing censorship of our own perspective when those things go hand in hand. But no one is calling for Facebook to be haphazard with the creation of these algorithms. We’re just saying it’s an urgent problem.
  
  If you call for some type of speech to be controlled, then think long and hard of how those rules/systems can be abused both here and abroad
  
  — Alex Stamos (@alexstamos) October 7, 2017
  
  This is true, but so is the inverse. Facebook neded to think long and hard about how its systems could be abused if speech wasn’t controlled in any way and fake news or ads were used to sway elections. Giving everyone a voice is a double-edged sword.
  
  Likewise if your call for data to be protected from governments is based upon who the person being protected is.
  
  — Alex Stamos (@alexstamos) October 7, 2017
  
  Yes, people should take a wholistic view of free speech and censorship, knowing both must fairly cross both sides of the aisle to have a coherent and enforceable policy.
  
  A lot of people aren't thinking hard about the world they are asking SV to build. When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.
  
  — Alex Stamos (@alexstamos) October 7, 2017
  
  This is a highly dramatic way of saying be careful what you wish for, as censorship of those you disagree with could bloat into censorship of those you support. But this actually positions Facebook as “the gods”. Yes, we want better protection, but no, that doesn’t mean we want overly aggressive censorship. It’s on Facebook, the platform owner, to strike this balance.
  
  Anyway, just a Saturday morning thought on how we can better discuss this. Off to Home Depot. FIN
  
  — Alex Stamos (@alexstamos) October 7, 2017
  
  Not sure if this was meant to lighten the mood, but it made it sound like his whole tweetstorm was flippantly produced on a whim, which seems like an odd way for the world’s largest social network to discuss its most pressing scandal ever.
  
  Overall, everyone needs to approach this discussion with more nuance. The public should know these are tough problems with potential unintended consequences for rash moves, and that Facebook is aware of the gravity now. Facebook employees should know that the public wants progress urgently, and while it might not understand all the complexities and sometimes makes its criticism personal, it’s still warranted to call for improvement.
Jeff Cliff, BSc(CompSci) (jeffcliff@mamot.fr)'s status on Friday, 06-Oct-2017 14:50:43 EDT Jeff Cliff, BSc(CompSci)

2010 : https://ia802503.us.archive.org/17/items/pirate_party_radio/piratepartyradio-029-20100520-64k.ogg #pakistan #islam #facebook #censorship

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Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) ✅ (schestowitz@mastodon.technology)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Oct-2017 12:15:21 EDT Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) ✅

#facebook profits from #russia https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/russians-took-a-page-from-corporate-america-by-using-facebook-tool-to-id-and-influence-voters/2017/10/02/681e40d8-a7c5-11e7-850e-2bdd1236be5d_story.html
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  Russians took a page from corporate America by using Facebook tool to ID and influence voters
  
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  People caught up in this web of tracking and disinformation would have had no indication that they had been singled out or that the ads came from Russians.
Enoch Balthasar (enochbalthasar@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 02-Oct-2017 06:21:42 EDT Enoch Balthasar

#Facebook vs #MeWe: moving into the wilderness. http://bit.ly/2yhTMoH
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  I Wish I Knew How to Quit You, Facebook
  
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  I Wish I Knew How to Quit You, Facebook
Enoch Balthasar (enochbalthasar@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 02-Oct-2017 06:04:56 EDT Enoch Balthasar

Interesting comments on #Zuckerberg's flaccid defence of #Facebook.

http://nyti.ms/2yRB4S7
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  Opinion | Zuckerberg’s Preposterous Defense of Facebook
ToniQ.es (coloco@quitter.es)'s status on Monday, 02-Oct-2017 04:49:31 EDT ToniQ.es

Dile tu tipo de #sangre a #Facebook y conviértete en un donante #geolocalizado https://quitter.es/url/1196082
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  Dile tu tipo de sangre a Facebook y conviértete en un donante geolocalizado
  
  Facebook inicia el 1 de octubre una nueva funcionalidad en India: los usuarios podrán indicar su tipo de sangre y recibir notificaciones cuando deban donar
Enoch Balthasar (enochbalthasar@quitter.se)'s status on Thursday, 28-Sep-2017 18:18:35 EDT Enoch Balthasar

#Facebook has few limits when it comes to #money. No surprises from this behemoth of hypocrisy. http://qttr.at/1yhb
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  Facebook Enabled Advertisers to Reach ‘Jew Haters’ — ProPublica
  
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  After being contacted by ProPublica, Facebook removed several anti-Semitic ad categories and promised to improve monitoring.
Enoch Balthasar (enochbalthasar@quitter.se)'s status on Thursday, 28-Sep-2017 18:16:49 EDT Enoch Balthasar

#Facebook busted taking money from Russian sources for advertising. #Ethics #Freedom #Politics http://qttr.at/1yha
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  Russian firm tied to pro-Kremlin propaganda advertised on Facebook during election
  
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  The company told congressional investigators that it has discovered it sold ads totaling $100,000 to a Russian “troll farm.”
Enoch Balthasar (enochbalthasar@quitter.se)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Sep-2017 22:53:41 EDT Enoch Balthasar

It is official: #Facebook banned me! That is an achievement, I think. No way I'm sending my license to them! #Privacy #SNS

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Ecologia Digital (josemurilo@ecodigital.social)'s status on Monday, 25-Sep-2017 10:41:31 EDT Ecologia Digital

Why #WordPress matters?
Because @Photomatt (Matt Mullenweg) is a principled guy.
#React is back to the project, along with other options (#Preact, #Polymer, or #Vue), after #Facebook u-turn on the patent clause issue.
(09/14/2017)
"On React and Wordpress"
https://ma.tt/2017/09/on-react-and-wordpress/
(09/24/2017)
"Facebook Dropping Patent Clause"
https://ma.tt/2017/09/facebook-dropping-patent-clause/ https://ecodigital.social/media/uHneeMYKmJ4ZBz_oqMg

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#WTF: Feel like a #victim in #PuertoRico with #Zuckerberg's #VR.