eicker.news ᳇ tech newsSep 21, 2025
#Meta used back-to-school photos of #schoolgirls, some as young as 13, to #advertise #Threads to a 37-year-old man. The images, posted by parents on Instagram, were used without their knowledge or consent. Parents and campaigners criticised the move as #exploitative and #potentiallyharmful to the #children’s #onlinesafety. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/20/parents-outraged-meta-uses-photos-schoolgirls-ads-man?eicker.news #tech #media #news
Parents outraged as Meta uses photos of schoolgirls in ads targeting man

Exclusive: Instagram pictures of girls as young as 13 were posted to promote Threads site ‘as bait’, campaigner says

The Guardian
Summer?Mar 16, 2023
Is this a bullet hole?? #mysteries #cars #jeep #potentiallyharmful #thatwasnotthereyesterday
Ben DiskinDec 16, 2022

Well, gee. I guess #ChiefTwit thinks #Mastodon is #PotentiallyHarmful. 🙄

Getting REAAAAL sick of the Bird App, lemme tell ya.....

Simon RickettsDec 16, 2022
I know that this desperate link-banning is old news, but, astonishing isn’t it? #PotentiallyHarmful 😂 😂
Adrian PolglaseDec 16, 2022

As some others have been saying, Twitter is currently not allowing links to at least some Mastodon instances, due to the content being identified "as being potential harmful"...

#Twitter #MastodonBan #TwitterCommunityGuidelines #PotentiallyHarmful