This is a developing story on what could be described as a substantial revelation concerning one of America’s most infamously harmful technology companies. A Meta whistleblower is appearing before Congress today with testimony that may shed new light on Facebook’s aggressive stance toward its competitor TikTok. According to prepared remarks obtained by reporters, the whistleblower … Continue reading Meta Whistleblower Says Facebook in Bed With China: TikTok Ban Was to Monopolize Selling Out US NatSec→
It’s important to remember that a social media empire founder was under investigation for using tech to intentionally violate women’s rights at Harvard (illegally scrape their personal data to intimidate and shame them) when he left and relaunched these harmful practices into the commercial success known as Facebook. Fast-forward to today and it seems not … Continue reading Facebook Censoring Staff Complaints About Abuse of Women in “Back to Roots” HR Putsch→
In the wake of Facebook’s massive 2021 outage, a concerning pattern emerged in public commentary: the tendency to trivialize engineering disasters through casual metaphors and resigned acceptance. When Harvard Law professor Jonathan Zittrain likened the incident to “locking keys in a car” and others described it as an “accidental suicide,” they fundamentally mischaracterized the nature … Continue reading Facebook Engineering Disasters Are Not Inevitable: Moving Past Casual Commentary to Real Change→
The company that insists humans must maintain an accurate identity and profile to use their services, has been stuffing its own platform with peculiar fakes. As users began to sniff out some of Meta’s AI accounts this week, the backlash grew, in part because of the way the AI accounts disingenuously described their racial and … Continue reading Meta Bug Draws Ire About Facebook Creating Fake (AI) Accounts→
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