“Fuck you Facebook. That was the first thought I had when I woke up this morning. Followed by: What ministry is Mark Zuckerberg volunteering to manage for the dictators of the world? All I could think of is how Orwell’s Ministry of Love is about hate. So what are we creating here? The Ministry of Empowerment to ensure the oppression of the most vulnerable? Lovely. But maybe you, dear reader, have a better Ministry name for their new organizational identity?”
Source : The Ministry of Empowerment
- “Starting in the US, we are ending our third party fact-checking program and moving to a Community Notes model.
- We will allow more speech by lifting restrictions on some topics that are part of mainstream discourse and focusing our enforcement on illegal and high-severity violations.
- We will take a more personalized approach to political content, so that people who want to see more of it in their feeds can.”
“Your glasses will be able to translate speech in real time between English and either Spanish, French, or Italian. When you’re talking to someone speaking one of those three languages, you’ll hear what they say in English through the glasses’ open-ear speakers or viewed as transcripts on your phone, and vice versa. Not only is this great for traveling, it should help break down language barriers and bring people closer together. ”
Source : Ray-Ban Meta Glasses Add Live AI, Live Translation, & Shazam Support | Blog Meta Quest | Meta Store
“During the ad campaign, first revealed in an FT investigation published in August, staff at Google were helping Meta bypass the search company’s policies on how online advertising can be directed to minors. While Google bans ad personalisation for teens, the campaign for Instagram on YouTube deliberately pushed messages to a group of users labelled as “unknown” in its system. Google employees told Meta that it had internal data that showed this group skewed towards under-18s and was a way of “hacking” the audience safeguards in their system.”
Source : Brussels probes Google and Meta secret ads deal to target teens
“There are a number of reasons why building subsea cables would appeal to Big Tech companies like Meta. First, sole ownership of the route and cable would give Meta first dibs in capacity to support traffic on its own properties. Meta, like Google, also plays up the lift it has provided to regions by way of its subsea investments, claiming that projects like Marea in Europe and others in Southeast Asia have contributed more than “half a trillion dollars” to economies in those areas. Yet there is a more pragmatic impetus for these investments: Tech companies — rather than telecoms carriers, traditional builders, and owners of these cables — want to have more direct ownership of the pipes needed to deliver content, advertising, and more to users around the world. According to its earnings reports, Meta makes more money outside of North America than in its home market itself. Having priority on dedicated subsea cabling can help ensure quality of service on that traffic.”
Source : Meta plans to build a $10B subsea cable spanning the world, sources say | TechCrunch
“First we had friends. Then we had influencers. And if Mark Zuckerberg is correct, the next big thing in our social media feeds will be AI generated content. Lots of it. Zuckerberg described our future feeds during Facebook-parent company Meta’s third quarter earnings conference call on Wednesday, describing it as a natural evolution. ”
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Source : Facebook
“On 27 October, the European Data Protection Board adopted an urgent binding decision instructing the Irish (IE) DPA as lead supervisory authority (LSA) to take, within two weeks, final measures regarding Meta Ireland Limited (Meta IE) and to impose a ban on the processing of personal data for behavioural advertising on the legal bases of contract and legitimate interest across the entire European Economic Area (EEA). The urgent binding decision followed a request from the Norwegian Data Protection Authority (NO DPA) to take final measures in this matter that would have effect in the entire European Economic Area (EEA).”
“It’s unusual for so many states to come together to sue a tech giant for consumer harms. The coordination shows states are prioritizing the issue of children and online safety and combining legal resources to fight Meta, just as states had previously done for cases against Big Tobacco and Big Pharma companies. “Just like Big Tobacco and vaping companies have done in years past, Meta chose to maximize its profits at the expense of public health, specifically harming the health of the youngest among us,” Phil Weiser, Colorado’s attorney general, said in a statement.
Lawmakers around the globe have been trying to rein in platforms like Instagram and TikTok on behalf of children. Over the past few years, Britain, followed by states like California and Utah, passed laws to require social media platforms to boost privacy and safety protections for minors online. The Utah law, among other things, would require social media apps to turn off notifications by default for minors overnight to reduce interruptions to children’s sleep.”
Source : Meta Sued Over Features That Hook Children to Instagram, Facebook – The New York Times
“Dr. Michael Rich, the director of the Digital Wellness Lab at Boston Children’s Hospital, said he discouraged the use of the word “addiction” because the internet, if used effectively and with limits, was not merely useful but also essential to everyday life. “I prefer the term ‘Problematic Internet Media Use,” he said, a term that has gained currency in recent years.
Dr. Greenfield agreed that there clearly are valuable uses for the internet and that the definition of how much is too much can vary. But he said there also were clearly cases where excessive use interferes with school, sleep and other vital aspects of a healthy life. Too many young consumers “can’t put it down,” he said. “The internet is a giant hypodermic, and the content, including social media like Meta, are the psychoactive drugs.””
Source : Is Social Media Addictive? Here’s What the Science Says. – The New York Times
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