Meta Mistake - Social Media Is Sucio

[Cail]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/techn...use-lawmakers/

House lawmakers plan a sweeping review of Facebook, Google and other technology giants to determine if they’ve become so large and powerful that they stifle competition and harm consumers, marking a new, unprecedented antitrust threat for an industry that’s increasingly under siege by Congress, the White House and 2020 presidential candidates.


The probe, announced Monday by Rep. David Cicilline (R.I.), the leader of the House’s top anti-trust subcommittee, is expected to be far reaching and comes at a moment when Democrats and Republicans find themselves in rare alignment on the idea that the tech industry has been too unregulated for too long. The sentiment spurred a sharp sell-off in tech stocks to start the week.

[6souls]

https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/18/facebook-libra/
https://libra.org/en-US/wp-content/u...ibra_en_US.pdf
https://libra.org/en-US/white-paper/
https://developers.libra.org/

Facebook to introduce their own cryptocurrency in 2020.

Facebook has finally revealed the details of its cryptocurrency Libra, which will let you buy things or send money to people with nearly zero fees. You’ll pseudonymously buy or cash out your Libra online or at local exchange points like grocery stores, and spend it using interoperable third-party wallet apps or Facebook’s own Calibra wallet that will be built into WhatsApp, Messenger, and its own app.

Facebook won’t fully control Libra, but instead get just a single vote in its governance like other founding members of the Libra Association including Visa, Uber, and Andreessen Horowitz who’ve invested at least $10 million each into the project’s operations. The association will promote the open-sourced Libra blockchain and developer platform with its own Move programming language plus sign up businesses to accept Libra for payment and even give customers discounts or rewards.

Your real identity won’t be tied to your publicly visible transactions. But Facebook/Calibra and other founding members of the Libra Association will earn interest on the money users cash in that is held in reserve to keep the value of Libra stable.

[kuronosan]

Lmao okay.

[Salodin]

Its smart, and being used in the way people expected blockchain technology to be used. A lot of people will use it to send money or gifts internationally for very little in fees.

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[6souls]

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2019/0...-warning-label

Twitter to apply warnings to controversial tweets made by accounts that have 100k+ followers, even Trump's, and to provide context as to why they aren't being removed.

Starting Thursday, tweets that Twitter deems to involve matters of public interest, but which violate the service's rules, will be obscured by a warning explaining the violation and Twitter's reasons for publishing it anyway. Users will have to tap through the warning to see the underlying message.

Twitter said the new policy applies to all government officials, candidates, and similar public figures with more than 100,000 followers.

Twitter's rules prohibit threatening violence against a person or group, engaging in "targeted harassment of someone," or inciting others to do so, such as wishing a person is harmed. It prohibits hate speech against a group based on race, ethnicity, gender or other categories, and disallows the threatening or promoting of terrorism.

The company has long exempted public figures from many of its usual rules, contending that publishing controversial tweets from politicians encourages discussion and helps hold leaders accountable.

Twitter's new policy doesn't apply to past tweets.

Twitter said it is still possible for a government official or other figure to tweet something so egregious that it warrants removal. A direct threat of violence against an individual, for instance, would qualify.

[6souls]

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-48916828
https://instagram-press.com/blog/201...line-bullying/

Spoiler: show

Insta is rolling out anti-bullying detection measures where it will give users warnings about posting hateful comments on other people's posts. It's also giving account holders a tool where they can restrict a user's posts to where that user can still post, but only that user will be able to see what they posted until the account holder approves their comment. Restricted accounts also will no longer be able to see when the user who gave the status is online nor will it mark DM's being read.

[6souls]

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2019/0...rivacy-mishaps

The FTC has fined Facebook $5B for "privacy mishaps" over the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

As part of the agency's settlement with Facebook, Zuckerberg will have to personally certify his company's compliance with its privacy programs. The FTC said that false certifications could expose him to civil or criminal penalties.

Facebook does not admit any wrongdoing as part of the settlement.

The FTC said Facebook's deceptive disclosures about privacy settings allowed it to share users' personal information with third-party apps that their friends downloaded but the users themselves did not give permissions to.

Three Republican commissioners voted for the fine while two Democrats opposed it, a clear sign that the restrictions on Facebook don't go as far as critics and privacy advocates had hoped. That wish list included specific punishment for Zuckerberg, strict limits on what data Facebook can collect and possibly even breaking off subsidiaries such as WhatsApp and Instagram.

The FTC's new 20-year settlement with Facebook establishes an "independent privacy committee" of Facebook directors. The committee's members must be independent, will be appointed by an independent nominating committee and can only be fired by a "supermajority" of Facebook's board of directors. The idea is to remove "unfettered control" by Zuckerberg, the FTC said.

[archibaldcrane]

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2019/0...rivacy-mishaps

The FTC has fined Facebook $5B for "privacy mishaps" over the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

https://twitter.com/ewarren/status/1...092460544?s=19

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[6souls]

https://twitter.com/ewarren/status/1...092460544?s=19

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k. From the second paragraph in the article I posted;

The fine is the largest the Federal Trade Commission has levied on a tech company, though it won't make much of a dent for a company that had nearly $56 billion in revenue last year.

[archibaldcrane]

I'm just pointing out the reaction by a prominent Dem, not refuting something you wrote or anything.

[6souls]

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-49165713
https://tech.fb.com/imagining-a-new-...saying-a-word/

Facebook is funding an AI mind-reading project.

It has funded a study that developed machine-learning algorithms capable of turning brain activity into speech

It worked on epilepsy patients who had already had recording electrodes placed on their brains to asses the origins of their seizures, ahead of surgery.

Facebook hopes it will pave the way for a "fully non-invasive, wearable device" that can process 100 words per minute.

"Most previous approaches have focused on decoding speech alone," Prof Eddie Chang said, "but here we show the value of decoding both sides of a conversation - both the questions someone hears and what they say in response."

"This reinforces our intuition that speech is not something that occurs in a vacuum and that any attempt to decode what patients with speech impairments are trying to say will be improved by taking into account the full context in which they are trying to communicate."

"Currently, patients with speech loss due to paralysis are limited to spelling words out very slowly using residual eye movements or muscle twitches to control a computer interface."

"But, in many cases, information needed to produce fluent speech is still there in their brains."

[AoE]

These motherfuckers...

[kuronosan]

....

....sigh.

[6souls]

https://www.npr.org/2019/08/03/74708...-with-new-bill
https://www.hawley.senate.gov/sites/...nology-Act.pdf

Anti-loot box senator Josh Hawley is now targeting social media addiction.

Most social media platforms are known for their infinite scrolling effect, which allows users to see all of the content on their newsfeeds in one visit to the site if they continue to scroll to the bottom of the page. If the bill was passed, users would have to actively refresh their Twitter and Facebook newsfeeds after a scrolling limit is exceeded.

Similarly, instead of having YouTube videos load automatically one after the other with autoplay, users would have to find and click on the next video themselves. The "Snapstreak" on Snapchat, which requires users to send photos to each other at least once every 24 hours in order to maintain the "streak," is another "addictive" feature that Hawley's bill would prohibit.

The senator's goal is to discourage users from continuously engaging with social media products. His bill also proposes new features that would be part of a "user-friendly interface," including time limits for each app of 30 minutes per day and frequent reminders of how long a user has been browsing a certain platform. Individuals could change the time limit, but it would reset to 30 minutes every month.

[Outlaw]

As Facebook launches "Facebook Dating" in U.S., a blog finds 400 million exposed user phone numbers

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/faceboo...ating-service/

[6souls]

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-49647239
https://www.privacyinternational.org...ring-your-data

Researchers discover a number of "period-tracking" apps have been sharing user's personal data with Facebook which then FB uses to influence their advertising.

Menstruation apps collect some of the most intimate data imaginable - from general health, to information about sex, moods, what the user eats, drinks and even what sanitary products she uses.

In exchange for this, the app will offer the user the dates of the month she is most fertile or when to expect her next period.

Sharing to Facebook happens via the social network's software development kit (SDK), tools that can be used by apps to help them make money by reaching advertisers who, in turn, provide users with personalized ads.

PI found the most popular apps in this category - Period Tracker, Period Track Flo and Clue Period Tracker did not share data with Facebook.

But others - such as Maya by Plackal Tech (which has 5 million downloads on Google Play), MIA by Mobapp Development Limited (1 million downloads) and My Period Tracker by Linchpin Health (more than 1 million downloads) - did.

[Cail]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/techn...gation-google/

Attorneys general for 50 U.S. states and territories on Monday officially announced an antitrust investigation of Google, embarking on a wide-ranging review of a tech giant that Democrats and Republicans said may threaten competition, consumers and the continued growth of the web.


Appearing on the steps of the Supreme Court, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton charged that Google “dominates all aspects of advertising on the Internet and searching on the Internet,” though he cautioned that despite his criticism the states had launched an investigation for now and not a lawsuit.


Paxton said the probe’s initial focus is online advertising. Google is expected to rake in more than $48 billion in U.S. digital ad revenue this year, far rivaling its peers, while capturing 75 percent of all spending on U.S. search ads, according to eMarketer.

[6souls]

Time to install nets.

https://time.com/5681815/facebook-em...arent-suicide/
https://www.cnet.com/news/facebook-e...arent-suicide/
https://www.menlopark.org/civicalerts.aspx?AID=446

Software engineer kills self after jumping off of the 4th floor of Facebook's headquarters in Menlo Park, CA.

[Buffy]

This is why Amazon is better, our employees survive falls from greater heights: https://nypost.com/2016/11/29/amazon...mail-to-staff/

[Outlaw]

Twelve stories? Damn, he must have landed on something.