Anti-social media
- www.theverge.com How to delete your Facebook account
If you want to leave Facebook, here’s how to get your data and delete your account.
- www.theatlantic.com The Anti-Social Century
Americans are now spending more time alone than ever. It’s changing our personalities, our politics, and even our relationship to reality.
-
Profit vs. ethics: the inherent conflict in large social media platforms
www.wrecka.ge Bad shapeThe idea I keep coming back to is that the big platforms, like Dickens' Marley, were dead to begin with, and are now something particularly bad, which is dead on their feet.
The evidence of the past decade and a half argues strongly that platform corporations are structurally incapable of good governance, primarily because most of their central aims (continuous growth, market dominance, profit via extraction) conflict with many basic human and societal needs.
-
Trump ally joins Facebook board
www.yahoo.com Trump ally joins Facebook board days after Nick Clegg’s exitCage fighting tycoon and close Donald Trump ally Dana White has joined the board of Mark Zuckerberg’s tech empire Meta.
Mr White’s appointment was announced on Monday and comes as Silicon Valley seeks to build closer links to Mr Trump
- www.inkl.com Facebook lifts restrictions on calling women ‘property’ and transgender people ‘freaks’
The social media giant Meta has loosened its public rules on hate speech as Mark Zuckerberg seeks to curry favour with Donald Trump
In an update to its hate speech policy on Tuesday, spotted first by The Independent, the apps' parent company Meta deleted numerous clauses banning specific derogatory statements about protected groups, while adding detailed exceptions for anti-trans speech.
- www.rnz.co.nz Meta donates $1.7 million to Trump's inaugural fund
The donation is a departure from past practice by CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who declined to endorse a candidate for the election.
The Wall Street Journal, which first reported the news, said the donation was a departure from past practice by CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Meta.
- www.404media.co Instagram Begins Randomly Showing Users AI-Generated Images of Themselves
Meta AI put a Redditor into "an endless maze of mirrors" as part of a new AI feature it is testing.
Instagram has begun testing a feature in which Meta’s AI will automatically generate images of users in various situations and put them into that user’s feed. One Redditor posted over the weekend that they were scrolling through Instagram and were presented an AI-generated slideshow of themselves standing in front of “an endless maze of mirrors,” for example.
-
One person's right to exist is more important than someone else's right to say that they shouldn't
notes.kvibber.com Post by Kelson, @[email protected]One person's right to exist is more important than someone else's right to say that they shouldn't. This should be *ahem* self-evident. A platform saying "you shouldn't advocate for whole classes of people to stop existing" is not taking sides, but is in fact taking the middl...
- www.rnz.co.nz Meta dumps fact checkers, Zuckerberg admits more harmful content on the way
Mark Zuckerberg admits more harmful content will appear on the platforms now.
"Fact checkers have been too politically biased and have destroyed more trust than they've created," Mark Zuckerberg says.
