Meta employees told to include more borderline content in Facebook feeds to compete with TikTok.
TikTok complaints team prioritising cases referring to politicians over harmful posts involving children.
The commercial social media cesspit is not just limited to X.
Meta is facing a new lawsuit over its AI smart glasses, after a news investigation found subcontractors are reviewing footage from customers' glasses, which "included sensitive content, like nudity, people having sex, and using the toilet."
Lawyers say Meta's marketing materials promised privacy and user control over sharing footage. But an investigation found that subcontractors are reviewing footage from customers' glasses.
Trump and Netanyahu launch their war and Canada, the Gulf States and Europe all sign up for it.
We are ruled by a bunch of pathetic criminals. Very single one of them.
In 2025, Meta paid an effective federal tax rate of 3.5%
https://bsky.app/profile/rbreich.bsky.social/post/3mfptlfeucn2i
In 2025, Meta paid an effective federal tax rate of 3.5% — its lowest on record. Meanwhile, Meta is pumping $65 million into elections this year to boost AI friendly candidates. Trickle-down economics isn't just a hoax, it's corrosive to democracy. Big Money is the root of our dysfunction.
Mark Zuckerberg Lied to Congress. We Can't Trust His Testimony
https://dispatch.techoversight.org/top-report-mark-zuckerberg-lied-to-congress-we-cant-trust-his-testimony/
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, The Tech Oversight Project issued the following report on the eve of Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony in the social media addiction trials. The report analyzes Zuckerberg’s testimony in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee in 2024 against newly unsealed documents that show Zuckerberg lied
Wow, I had been running out of patience with Yegge’s uncritical #GenAI boosterism, but this is epic: “The AI Vampire.”
As usual with Yegge, it could have been edited down to half its size, but go read it anyhow. I’m going to adopt that “AI Vampire” phrase and start using it, a lot.
Let's be clear. Republicans are passing the deceptively named SAVE Act not because they can point to any form of systemic voter or Election fraud, but because it will disenfranchise tens of millions of women and minorities.
Since 1992, women have voted blue by 4 to 13 points. So rather than changing their policies to earn women's votes, they're changing the rules to prevent women's votes.
That's not democracy. That's dictatorship. That's MAGA.
The SAVE Act has passed the House—we cannot let it pass the Senate On February 11, MAGA Republicans in the House passed the deceptively named SAVE Act. I warned about this ludicrous piece of legislation when MAGAs first introduced it in 2024, even though it had no chance of
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