Mashable: Instagram reportedly deletes Bellesa sex toy shop account for using the word ‘clitoris’. “The sex toy shop Bellesa Boutique said today that Instagram ‘permanently deleted’ its account for using the word ‘clitoris.'”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/03/mashable-instagram-reportedly-deletes-bellesa-sex-toy-shop-account-for-using-the-word-clitoris/#Facebook #Instagram #women #SexualContent
'The sex toy shop Bellesa Boutique said today that Instagram "permanently deleted" its account for using the word "clitoris."'
https://mashable.com/article/instagram-deletes-bellesa-shop-account-with-700000-followers
The Guardian: Two-thirds of under-16s with accounts on Instagram, Snapchat or TikTok kept access despite ban. “The Australian government has accused big tech firms like Meta, TikTok and Google of disobeying the landmark ban on under-16s using social media, after the country’s online safety office warned many children had accounts.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/03/the-guardian-two-thirds-of-under-16s-with-accounts-on-instagram-snapchat-or-tiktok-kept-access-despite-ban/
The Guardian: Two-thirds of under-16s with accounts on Instagram, Snapchat or TikTok kept access despite ban. “The Australian government has accused big tech firms like Meta, TikTok and Googl…
Automatic Textbook Formalization
https://github.com/facebookresearch/repoprover
#HackerNews #Automatic #Textbook #Formalization #Facebook #Research #Textbooks #AI #Education #Technology
The #Facebook, #Instagram, #WhatsApp company is collaborating on criminal activity, even charging premium for ads by fraudsters. How is this not a #conspiracy?
https://80000hours.org/2026/03/robs-meta-leaked-documents-scams/ #Meta #BigTech
An overarching question that matters for governance of artificial intelligence is how much we can trust technology companies to do the right thing in cases where it becomes seriously costly for them to do so. Well, some internal documents leaked from Meta (the company behind Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp) are a really important piece of evidence in this debate -- and one that, in my opinion, far too few people have heard anything about. These documents, which were leaked to Reuters by a frustrated staff member, show that Meta itself estimated that 10% of all its revenue was coming from running ads for scams and goods that they themselves had banned: around $16 billion a year. That's 10% of all revenue coming quite often from, fundamentally, enabling crimes.
TorrentFreak: Judge Allows BitTorrent Seeding Claims Against Meta, Despite Lawyers ‘Lame Excuses’. “In an effort to gather material for its LLM training, Meta used BitTorrent to download pirated books from Anna’s Archive and other shadow libraries. According to several authors, Meta facilitated the infringement of others by ‘seeding’ these torrents. This week, the court granted the […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/03/torrentfreak-judge-allows-bittorrent-seeding-claims-against-meta-despite-lawyers-lame-excuses/
TorrentFreak: Judge Allows BitTorrent Seeding Claims Against Meta, Despite Lawyers ‘Lame Excuses’. “In an effort to gather material for its LLM training, Meta used BitTorrent to download pira…
My somewhat-loud-voice:
🗣️ it's very frustrating most nonprofit orgs continue to use #Facebook / #Twitter / #Instagram for outreach!
I am aware of only a few nonprofit orgs on Mastodon. And I have had ZERO success trying to convince any to use Mastodon.
❓ Although #Mastodon shows much love for prosocial *causes* there's not nearly as much for *orgs* doing that work. Why?
📰 Divieto dei social per gli under 14, ora l’Italia vuole fare sul serio: dall’Australia alla Francia, come si sta muovendo il resto del mondo
#️⃣ #ATTUALIT #Australia #Facebook #Francia #Instagram #Italia #Meta #Socialmedia #TikTok #Veneto #WhatsApp #OpenOnline #TheLabSocial #News #Notizie #Italia
🔗 https://www.open.online/2026/04/03/divieto-social-under-14-italia-europa-mondo/
Just like many other social media corporations #Reddit is planning to require biometric / ID verification* of some users.
To get ahead of this, I have prepared an alternative for everyone :)
🎉 ...and just launched our rapidly growing #DeMeta Reddit community on a journey into the #Fediverse!
People can now also DeMeta on #Lemmy:
#Privacy #News #Happy #SocialMedia #celebration #Meta #Facebook #Instagram #MetaAI #Threads #Announcement #verification #Internet
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