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FACEBOOK USERS UNITE- We are building user power to hold Facebook accountable. Together we can WIN changes for our communities and beyond

[FUU People Power @Facebook_Users]

#Facebook appears to have learned nothing from January 6th and fails to listen to their #OversightBoard. "Doing so would “not be consistent with our policies, including our protocol on restricting accounts of public figures during civil unrest.” https://t.co/yx5l3heQzV

[FUU People Power @Facebook_Users]

404Media, the new home of what was Vice-Motherboard, has a podcast. This week's edition focuses on criminal ads on #Instagram. https://t.co/sZtRepbjEb

[FUU People Power @Facebook_Users]

"I blame #Facebook, its parent company #Meta, and the man behind it all, Mark Zuckerberg, for helping create the conditions that allowed the Myanmar military to unleash hell upon us." #Rohingya https://t.co/vXDWPRrdNj

[FUU People Power @Facebook_Users]

Sign this petition demanding that #Meta encrypt direct messages on the platform so not one more young person is charged with seeking to get an abortion. https://t.co/JYHH6yBecU

[FUU People Power @Facebook_Users]

#Facebook had allowed a video to remain viewable in which authoritarian Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen called on political opponents to choose between “the legal system” and “a bat.” https://t.co/RaxKJ5ie3u

[Real Facebook Oversight Board @FBoversight]

🔴BREAKING: Meta Tries to Silence a Critic: Us; Suspends RFOB Instagram Account After Critical Post on Meta’s Threats to Freedom of Press in Canada
https://t.co/YqCZOU7EQl

[FUU People Power @Facebook_Users]

Think tech platforms should have FEWER moderators? Yeah, we don't either.

https://t.co/6UOrwlBib1

[FUU People Power @Facebook_Users]

ICYM: Facebook parent company @Meta is paying a record $1.3 billion fine in the EU for privacy violations
couldn't have happened to a nicer company
https://t.co/UXVDPLA3Oa

[FUU People Power @Facebook_Users]

Content moderation is absolutely horrific for the people tasked with keeping social media platforms free of the worst of the worst. Now, the people doing this work are suing @Meta

From @FT

https://t.co/BLpashbaX6

[@openmicmedia.bsky.social @openmicmedia]

1/3 This week @axon_enterprise shareholders can vote to stop the development of AI-powered Taser drones. People are not comic book characters, and Taser drones have no place in our schools.

#AxonEthics #NoTaserDrones

https://t.co/cF1ikWg1EC

[FUU People Power @Facebook_Users]

Read this!

[Tech Transparency Project @TTP_updates]

NEW: Tech executives don’t want their *own* kids on social media, writes TTP Director Katie Paul. Here’s what that should tell us about the safety of their products: https://t.co/QR1WpJKdeq

[Tech Transparency Project @TTP_updates]

In a 30-day period, YouTube pushed 382 real firearms videos to the 9-year-old account that engaged with its recommendations—an average of more than 12 per day.

The 14-year-old engagement account was served 1,325 real firearms videos—an average of more than 44 per day.

[Tech Transparency Project @TTP_updates]

TTP found that YouTube recommended weapons & shooting videos to all of the accounts, but the “engagement” accounts that clicked on those recommendations got a much higher volume of firearms-related content – sometimes up to 10x more.

[Tech Transparency Project @TTP_updates]

TTP researchers created four accounts—two for 9-year-old boys and two for 14-year-old boys. To establish them as gamers, each watched playlists composed entirely of gaming videos. Then, one account from each age group engaged with YT recommendations, while the other didn’t.

[Tech Transparency Project @TTP_updates]

NEW: The latest TTP study finds that YouTube’s algorithms are pushing boys interested in video games to content promoting real-life firearm use, gun modification tutorials, and even graphic depictions of mass shootings. https://t.co/XltCr0xb9m

[FUU People Power @Facebook_Users]

Some news about the Facebook user base:

https://t.co/IMRj5KaVWB

[FUU People Power @Facebook_Users]

We don't think social media platforms should be used as accelerators of hate speech, genocide, and violence. It's as simple as that.

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

BREAKING: Workers at a Starbucks in Ithaca, NY have walked out to protest the company’s plan to close all the stores in the city.

Every single store happens to be union.

The strike is happening at The Commons. They do not plan to return to work until their jobs are saved.

[Accountable Tech @accountabletech]

#HeyGoogle, stop collecting and retaining location data and aiding abortion prosecutors.

Add your name to demand @Google, @sundarpichai, and @WittedNote protect our privacy and safety: https://t.co/w8t7xXCvEz

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

“Let’s stop treating the GOP as the party of law and order and treat them, more accurately, as the party of gun violence, of school shootings, of mall massacres... For God’s sake, ban the damn AR-15.”

From my @MSNBC opening monologue last night: