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LWN.netAn investigation of the forces behind the age-verification bills
zyxhereðŸ’@lwn heres a privacy preserving redlib link to the thread https://redlib.nadeko.net/r/linux/comments/1rshc1f/i_traced_2_billion_in_nonprofit_grants_and_45/
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@lwn aand the post has been removed :/ because people were reporting it?? https://redlib.nadeko.net/r/linux/comments/1rshc1f/i_traced_2_billion_in_nonprofit_grants_and_45/oa8hln9/?context=3#oa8hln9
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mirabilosEdit: Update: the article is slop, cf https://hachyderm.io/@dalias/116230797990275355 😾🤬
↑ from the comments:
spoiler: it's meta/facebook
Reddit link down (maybe temporarily); archive.today has it
https://archive.ph/qP6kR- The author posted all his finding in https://github.com/upper-up/meta-lobbying-and-other-findings
Fakebook is doing lobbying in the EU too:
Meta’s former chief EU lobbyist was elected to the European Parliament (from a right-wing party) and is now working on the "Digital Omnibus" to deregulate the GDPR and the ePrivacy framework among other things…
Edit: Update: the article is slop, cf https://hachyderm.io/@dalias/116230797990275355 😾🤬
Cassandrich (@[email protected])
So it turns out the report on Facebook being behind the gigantic sudden push for "age verification" laws was LLM slop. 🤬 https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1rshc1f/i_traced_2_billion_in_nonprofit_grants_and_45/ The underlying facts are ~probably~ still true, but the doubt this casts are immensely harmful and delay action. This is one of the many ways LLMs destroy the ability to trust information: by undermining the credibility of likely well-meaning people who use them.