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Facebook and Instagram Tighten Censorship Rules for Saying “Antifa”

Meta’s new rules let it ban users or suppress comments that include the word “antifa” alongside “content-level threat signals.”

First AI Model From Zuckerberg's Wildly Expensive Superintelligence Lab Flops Compared to Virtually All Rivals - Lemmy.World

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/45435884 [https://lemmy.world/post/45435884] > “the company admitted it likely won’t be able to keep up with competing models.” > > “As such, the announcement is a bit of an enigma: if it can’t keep up with the competition, why release it at all? There’s a good change Meta is just trying to get its foot in the door — or a “seat at the big kid’s table,” as Wired put it. The company has struggled to stay relevant in a rapidly changing landscape” > “Meta’s preceding Llama open source models largely failed to catch on, with a major controversy last year finding that Meta may have faked benchmark results to make its Llama 4 model seem more capable than it actually was.”

Facebook hosts Israeli ads promoting illegal activity - Lemmy

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/28349363 [https://lemmy.ml/post/28349363] > Facebook’s parent company Meta has been hosting paid Israeli adverts promoting activities including illegal settlement real estate, demolitions of Palestinian buildings and fundraising for Israeli forces in Gaza. Here’s what an Al Jazeera investigation discovered.

Facebook Stored Hundreds of Millions of User Passwords in Plain Text for Years – Krebs on Security

Full Q&A: Zucked author Roger McNamee on Recode Decode

McNamee was an adviser to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and helped recruit Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, but now he’s speaking out against the social giant.