Whoa. A super late Fri night unsealed doc in lawsuit Facebook is trying to settle for record $700+ million. It includes this long-hidden Sep '18 "Status and Re-scoped Approach" from the unprecedented audit Mark Zuckerberg promised Congress during Cambridge Analytica scandal. /1
NEW: For months now I’ve been working on a big story about Peter Thiel. What started as a piece about why he left Facebook morphed into an examination of his ambitions to be an architect of the new American right. Lots of new reporting here. https://t.co/1YCR4KrFkg
“About 30 minutes before arriving at the school, the gunman posted on Facebook that he was going to shoot his grandmother, Gov. Abbott said. In a second post on Facebook, the gunman said he had shot his grandmother, the governor said.” (1/2)
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Mark Zuckerberg is telling Facebook shareholders that safety is the top priority of their development of Metaverse. I've witnessed absolutely no basis to trust a single word he is saying including track record on impact to global civil society, privacy and safety.
If Facebook can guarantee user specific personal ads to sell to advertisers then Facebook knows what content users are posting & engaging with aka they know which users are extremists & they can stop the spread of violent extremism FB just wont bc it makes $$$
Wait. Facebook blocked RT across the EU BUT NOT in the UK, US, and - in particular - not Russia. So their social media tools will continue to amplify and spread RT propaganda to the Russian public? 🤦🏻♂️ someone owes an explanation on this logic tree. For once. https://t.co/R6KVwMazEL
I’m back from my book leave with a story about a wild, multimillion-dollar Google ads scheme promoting completely made-up government handouts to tens of millions of Americans. https://t.co/1t21o3IfmW
ok, it's started. if you're interested in Facebook accountability, you don't want to miss this. Judge already just told the plaintiffs to "file a motion for sanctions" because "Facebook's discovery conduct has been sanctionable." More coming... /1
This is fun! Facebook still moderating the same as they always have. Allowing posts that are clearly targeting black & brown people. The comments under this are just as disgusting as youd guess they are too
Today the NYT published my op-ed about all the global elections happening the next few years and how I worry we aren’t ready - Facebook Is Not Ready for the 2022 Election Wave https://t.co/GaH5MoGB7e
Facebook uses free internet access to boost user growth in poor countries. But many people end up with charges, a problem the company knows about. It “breaches our transparency principle,” according to internal documents. https://t.co/d9ybDSEvRL via @WSJ
Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook's COO, has never had to testify under oath about a major scandal but has 4 career-defining, very damaging matters hitting concurrently. *Allegations* involve #1 collusion (with Google), #2 insurrection, #3 cover-up of breach, #4 fraud. Here we go...
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NEW: After the Facebook whistleblower went public, FB’s Washington team told some Republicans that she was trying to help Democrats. They told Dems that Rs would use this as a chance to talk about censorship. Their goal: divide Congress. https://t.co/Yn0sPpPQ3i
NEW: Facebook has sold ads promoting anti-vaccine messages, comparing the US government's response to Covid-19 to Nazi Germany, casting doubt on the result of the 2020 election, and even pushing political violence.
https://t.co/cF21oqFnaF @AC360
This story has a lot, but the biggest takeaway has to be that Facebook lied to an independent investigator that sought to do a civil rights audit.
I'm not sure anything surprises me about FB any more, but this shows the limits of self regulation.
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