Silicon Valley including Meta has embraced Maga politics, says Nick Clegg

Meta’s former head of global affairs says executives pivoted right in some cases for ‘rather more self-interested’ reasons

The Guardian

Meta decided to replace a lot of their tech support with a chatbot. Which meant giving that chatbot the power to manipulate data. Which meant, to the surprise of nobody whatsoever, that hackers tricked the chatbot into giving them access to other people's accounts.
Read more: https://danq.me/2026/06/02/hackers-simply-asked-meta-ai-to-give-them-access-to-high-profile-instagram-accounts-it-worked/

#repost #ai #chatbots #facebook #hacking #security #socialNetworking

Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked

Meta decided to replace a lot of their tech support with a chatbot. Which meant giving that chatbot the power to manipulate data. Which meant, to the surprise of nobody whatsoever, that hackers tricked the chatbot into giving them access to other people's accounts.

Dan Q

Stop Turning Private Facebook Groups Public

There is a trend on Facebook that drives me absolutely insane, and it seems to happen over and over again. A group starts out private. People join it because it is private. The privacy is literally part of the appeal. The group grows. The community develops. People become comfortable posting there. They share opinions, stories, frustrations, hobbies, interests, and sometimes personal experiences that they would never throw onto a fully public page. Then one day, out of nowhere, the admins […]

https://jaimedavid.blog/2026/05/30/17/27/33/analysis/jaimedavid327/11030/stop-turning-private-facebook-groups-public/

The Guardian | Who’s behind the Facebook page posting hateful AI slop about the UK? The answer might lie in south Asia | Niamh McIntyre by Niamh McIntyre

AI generated summary, Read the full article for complete information.

The investigation reveals that a cottage industry of young men in Sri Lanka and Pakistan is using generative AI to produce hateful, anti‑immigrant “slop” for Facebook audiences in the UK, masquerading as patriotic British pages while earning substantial ad revenue—one Pakistani creator claims $1,500 a month and a Sri Lankan creator says he has made $300,000—by exploiting Meta’s algorithm that rewards emotionally charged, extremist content; the boom is driven by easy‑to‑use AI tools for generating videos, captions, and images, and by Meta’s reduced content‑moderation staffing, which together allow these creators to spread Islamophobic and far‑right propaganda with little oversight despite community‑standard violations.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/may/19/social-media-facebook-ai-slop-hateful-south-asia

#Meta #SouthAsia #Islamophobia #aiartificialintelligence #socialnetworking #GeethSooriyapura

Who’s behind the Facebook page posting hateful AI slop about the UK? The answer might lie in south Asia

Our research has uncovered young entrepreneurs in Sri Lanka and Pakistan using AI tools to make deeply objectionable content – and money, says Niamh McIntyre of the Bureau for Investigative Journalism

The Guardian
Who’s behind the Facebook page posting hateful AI slop about the UK? The answer might lie in south Asia

Our research has uncovered young entrepreneurs in Sri Lanka and Pakistan using AI tools to make deeply objectionable content – and money, says Niamh McIntyre of the Bureau for Investigative Journalism

The Guardian

Q&A: Ditto says social media became sterile and the internet should be fun again

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://nerds.xyz/2026/05/ditto-qa-social-media-sterile/

How to Network as a Journalist

Journalist Alison Hill breaks down how (and why) to network as a journalist, including how to talk (and listen) as you network with others.

Writer's Digest

Ditto wants to bring back the weird customizable internet people actually loved

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://nerds.xyz/2026/05/ditto-decentralized-social-platform/