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Facebook sued to allow a feed killer app!

Interesting case here where someone is suing Meta/Facebook to allow a tool that effectively turns off the newsfeed and makes Facebook how it originally behaved…. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/05/professor-sues-meta-to-allow-release-of-feed-killing-tool-for-facebook

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Japan calls for laws around Facebook scams

Japan has joined the hundreds of countries calling for legal action on Facebook/Meta scams with a threat to called Mark Zuckerberg to testify. This follows on from the many other legal battles the company is… 

US Media sees huge Meta drop in engagement

Whilst nothing new to me and many others, it is nice to see that everywhere people are reporting on the drop in engagement being seen across social media, especially on Meta owned platforms. I have… 

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Meta cannot rely on Pay or OK!

Seems that Meta is in big trouble again, for trying but at the moment failing in its legal obligations. It seems that Meta tried to use an unlawful method for consent requests…. read more in… 

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Facebook Review

Facebook is by far and away the largest social media platform in terms of numbers and engagement. Everybody knows about Facebook and what it offers – I don’t need to go over those again. But… 

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Facebook warning!

It appears that (at least in the UK) Facebook has removed the ability to download your photos from your facebook account right now. I know the feature was there but it isn’t now (well at… 

Netflix paid Facebook to access messages

Netflix paid Facebook $100 million to access private messages on the platform. This is a disgraceful abuse of privacy and is yet another massive reason why Meta should not be trusted… https://www.cyberkendra.com/2024/04/netflix-paid-facebook-to-access-users.html

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Fedipact – instances blocking threads

Here is a list of some main instances that block threads currently. You may or may not wish to choose your instance based on this data or perhaps move! https://fedipact.veganism.social/

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Facebook snooped on Snapchat data

It is articles like this one that people need to understand what kind of corporation Meta/Facebook is, snooping on data from another service to help them crush that service is just downright awful… https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/26/facebook-secret-project-snooped-snapchat-user-traffic/