Meta – FB, Insta, WhatsApp – will read your DMs and AI chats, rolling out from Dec

https://www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/2025/11/07/meta-ai-chats/

“That's funny.

More like: We need to admit we're doing it from December or we'll get sued.“

https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/s/bmpURx5tgV

#meta #whatsapp #privacy #ai

Meta Lobbies Government to Implement Broken Age Verification Into App Stores

Meta is pushing the Canadian government into putting age verification on app stores and take heat off of their platforms.

https://www.freezenet.ca/meta-lobbies-government-to-implement-broken-age-verification-into-app-stores/

#Censorship #News #AgeVerification #AppStore #Canada #Facebook #lobbying #Meta

On the Threads numbers, your theory that they're counting people on Instagram and get shown a Threads post is certainly plausible.

Details aside though the most likely explanation seems to me that Meta is lying (as they have about numnbers in the past -- remember the "pivot to video" lolsob).

@fediversereport

#meta #FediPact #threads

@AAKL @kdkorte @avuko @Reuters

The LLM models are constantly improving, literally from month to month.

While it was excusable to dismiss early (pre 2024) models as pure stochiastic ML
This is no longer the case.
As of May, most if the frontier models are reasoner models and ;

Markov Model
• Predicts next word based ONLY on last word(s)
• No memory, no context
• Like texting with autocomplete that forgets everything 3 words ago

Context LLM (GPT, Claude, etc.)
• Reads your ENTIRE prompt at once
• Remembers context across thousands of words
• Still just predicting next word, but way smarter about it
• Pattern-matching but on roids

Reasoner
• Actually does logic/math step by step
• Can verify if answers are correct
• Like a calculator vs a really good guesser
• Traditional AI = chess engines, theorem provers

Are LLMs "reasoning" or just really good at faking it?
No certainty either way.

If you can't tell the difference from outside, does the internal state matter? If the evil man's good deeds are indistinguishable from a good man's deeds, who cares about his "true nature"?

Maybe we're ALL just faking reasoning, sophisticated pattern matchers who learned to talk about "thinking" convincingly enough that we believe our own PR.

Does the distinction collapse if the performance is perfect enough? 🤔

#LLM #AI #philosophy #meta

Meta makes billions on frauds. When confronted with the documentation, Meta spokesperson said “nuh uh!”

Meta tries to protect the revenue it earns from fraud. In its official response, Meta says “I know you are, but what am I?”

Documents show Meta routinely ignores fraud reports. Meta’s spokesbro, who earns a 6-figure Silicon Valley salary, unlike the poor sod who has to report the bullshit replies, says “I’m rubber, you’re glue.”

All the people who used to do fraud work are either fired or working on AI. Meta’s spokesman says that’s totally not true, the media are evil, and here’s his mother’s Key Lime Pie recipe. Do the media really hate pies? What’s wrong with the media these days?

#meta #fraud #scam

https://www.reuters.com/investigations/meta-is-earning-fortune-deluge-fraudulent-ads-documents-show-2025-11-06/

https://get.mypost.to/8nAET4
Lawsuit alleges social media giants buried their own research on teen mental...
#socialmedia #meta #tiktok #cbsnews

#Meta ( #FB, #Insta #IG, #Threads, #WhatsApp, etc.) will read YOUR DMs & AI chats & accessing Your device’s Photo Library beginning December 1, 2025.
Anti-Fourth Amendment activist, Mark #Zuckerburg tells users (aka products) not to worry.
Independent journalists wonder if META will be explaining it’s selling & gifting your data to advertisers, PACs, & governments.
Sources include: https://www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/2025/11/07/meta-ai-chats/

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#Meta ( #FB, #Insta #IG, #Threads, #WhatsApp, etc.) will read YOUR DMs & AI chats & accessing Your device’s Photo Library beginning December 1, 2025. Anti-Fourth Amendment activist, Mark #Zuckerburg tells users (aka products) not to worry. Independent journalists wonder if META will be explaining it’s selling & gifting your data to advertisers, PACs, & governments. Sources include: https://www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/2025/11/07/meta-ai-chats/

#Meta ( #FB, #Insta #IG, #Threads, #WhatsApp, etc.) will read YOUR DMs & AI chats & accessing Your device’s Photo Library beginning December 1, 2025.
Anti-Fourth Amendment activist, Mark #Zuckerburg tells users (aka product) not to worry.
Independent journalists wonder if selling and reviewing your data is to expand data Meta sells to advertisers, PACs, & governments.
Sources include: https://www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/2025/11/07/meta-ai-chats/

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#Meta ( #FB, #Insta #IG, #Threads, #WhatsApp, etc.) will read YOUR DMs & AI chats & accessing Your device’s Photo Library beginning December 1, 2025. Anti-Fourth Amendment activist, Mark #Zuckerburg tells users (aka product) not to worry. Independent journalists wonder if selling and reviewing your data is to expand data Meta sells to advertisers, PACs, & governments. Sources include: https://www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/2025/11/07/meta-ai-chats/

ChatGPT and Copilot are being booted out of WhatsApp https://thever.ge/4tas #Microsoft #OpenAI #Meta #News #Tech #AI

The problem with both META and Twitter (I refuse to call it X, that's still a dumb name) is they make money with people being angry.

You're far more likely to remain online and remain talkative and engage with the site / service, when you're frustrated or upset about someone else's nonsense.

The more actively, the more ads they can sell and the more money they make.

This is why META (Facebook) and Twitter turned a blind eye for years.

#Meta #Facebook #Twitter #SocialMedia

It has been amusing watching everyone freak out to learn that many of those so-called MAGA supporters on Twitter are not actually American.

I have known this for years -- Facebook has had the exact same problem.

#Twitter #Facebook #Meta #MAGA #Trump

This is an alternative site where you can read about the leak also

#InfoSec #Meta #WhatsApp #Signal #Zangi #dataleak #GSM #numbers #billions #ignorance

https://www.univie.ac.at/en/news/detail/forscherinnen-entdecken-grosse-sicherheitsluecke-in-whatsapp

In other news a fantastic leak of monumental proportions, was blown off as non-critical by Meta

I just learned about it. I never use WhatsApp.

You can read about it here, not surprising, this has been going on for more than a year!

Use Signal use Zangi use anything secure not made by Meta

https://www.heise.de/en/news/3-5-Billion-Accounts-Complete-WhatsApp-Directory-Retrieved-and-Evaluated-11083244.html

#InfoSec #Meta #WhatsApp #Signal #Zangi #dataleak #GSM #numbers #billions #ignorance

Instagram Updates Camera So You Can Film 20 Minute Reels https://petapixel.com/2025/11/25/instagram-updates-camera-so-you-can-film-20-minute-reels/ #greenscreen #reelscamera #Technology #instagram #reels #News #meta

RE: https://mastodon.social/@verge/115605622200829318

It’s time to abandon all #Meta… anything.

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The Verge » 🌐 2025-11-24
@verge@mastodon.social

Meta had a 17-strike policy for sex trafficking, former safety leader claims https://www.theverge.com/news/827658/meta-17-strike-policy-sex-trafficking-testimony-lawsuit

Meta had a 17-strike policy for sex trafficking, former safety leader claims https://thever.ge/KAKj #SocialMedia #Policy #Meta #News #Tech #Law

Bitdefender (sales pitch included): How Kids Get Automatically Added Into WhatsApp Groups with Horrific Imagery Without Consent https://www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hotforsecurity/kids-automatically-added-whatsapp-groups-without-consent #Meta #WhatsApp #infosec

Mise à jour de la politique de confidentialité pour les abonnements mobiles #Migros.

Par défaut, on a :

Transfert de données à des plateformes tierces pour la publicité Migros

Oui, j'autorise Migros Mobile à transmettre mes données (notamment mon adresse e-mail et mon numéro de mobile) de manière chiffrée à des plateformes publicitaires telles que Instagram/Facebook (Meta) ou Google, et de cette manière, je vois des offres de Migros plus pertinentes lorsque j'utilise leurs sites web ou leurs applications.

Bah oui, pourquoi pas tiens…

Allez décocher ça tout de suite, vous ne voulez pas autoriser Migros à filer vos données à qui que ce soit pour faire de la pub, vous ne voulez pas de pub, et vous détestez le capitalisme !

#publicité #mobile #abonnement #Google #Facebook #Meta #Instagram

Trying out the @newsmast client! Adds another layer to picking a server and making an account, as an additional tailoring of the ways I consume, interact with and create content.

#Reddit #tiktok #x #disinformation #FacebookFediverse #bereal #Twitter #socialmediause #socialmedia #twitter #mastodon #threads #facebook #pinterest #instagram #Facebook #meta #algorithms #newsmast

Meta halted internal research suggesting social media harm, U.S. court filing alleges.

CNBC reports: "The legal brief is related to high-profile multidistrict litigation from plaintiffs such as school districts, parents and state attorneys general against companies like Meta, YouTube, Snap and TikTok."

https://flip.it/1qrsbX

#Meta #SocialMedia #Tech #Technology

According to internal documents reviewed by #Reuters, #Meta expected about 10% of its 2024 revenue to come from ads promoting scams or banned products – and it reportedly estimates that users see around 15 billion scam ads on its platforms each day.

it's truly insane #facebook

I've said again and again that I consider it to be of the utmost importance that the #Fediverse grows far beyond its present size. My reasoning is thus:

All major commercial social media platforms are either owned by #fascists , or by people who are only too happy to bend their knees to the fascists for the sake of profits - and thus are also fascists for all moral accounting purposes.

And they have used the power of these social media platforms to heavily promote fascists, or opened the door for fascists to promote their agenda. The resurgence of fascism we are seeing in the world these days was largely done with the aid of social media - outrage farming is an _extremly_ effective tactic for promoting fascism, especially when the social media algorithms actively support you.

I think we can all agree that fighting fascism is important (and if you _don't_ agree, go away - I don't want to talk to you). Thus, we need to attack the mechanisms that allow fascism to grow - i.e. commercial social media.

Now, maybe there is a future where we won't have any kind of online social media, but barring a complete collapse of civilization I am not seeing it - humans are a communicative species, and have always used the latest technology for that purpose. Thus, I don't see the concept of "social media" by itself to go away any time soon.

But replacing _commercial_ social media seems much more achievable - after all, the problem is #Capitalism, not #SocialMedia itself. Thus, we need to grow _noncommercial_ social media until can replace corporate social media. And as far as I can see, the Fediverse is the most viable noncommercial alternative out there.

The main objectiion to "growing the Fediverse" that I have heard is this:

"#X, #Facebook , #TikTok and the others are full of assholes. If the Fediverse grows as big as they are, all the assholes will come here as well!"

And I can understand that fear. We need to be careful about _how_ we grow the Fediverse, and there is much work to be done. Our moderation tools, for instance, could be much better than they are (just ask #BlackMastodon ...). However, of all the social media systems out there, the Fediverse alone actually has the potential to develop _better_ moderation in the long run - while commercial social media platforms see good moderation as _hostile_ to their business models (as recent revelations about #Meta have shown). Thus, fear of failure should not stop us from making the attempt.

Furthermore, while the (algorithm-boosted) fascists might be the loudest people on commercial social media right now, I believe that the majority of people using social media in the modern world are _not_ assholes, and we want to encourage these not-assholes to come to the Fediverse in large number. Or do you really think that the (predominantly white and European/North American) Fediverse bubble represents the only not-asshole group left on the planet?

And consider the stakes. Not only will the fascists become increasingly violent towards marginalized groups of people, they are actively hostile to any efforts to fight threats to Earth as a whole - #GlobalWarming first among them. We need to wrestle the microphone from them before they doom us all, and that means wrestling social media away from them - but we cannot do that without replacing commercial social media with non-commercial social media.

At least, that's what I think. If you have any better plans to fight the social media power of fascists, feel free to share them!

Guten Morgen - Tässle Kaffee ☕️?

#Meta verschleierte #Studie. Bestätige: Meine Lebensqualität stieg deutlich, nachdem ich ab 2019 meine Accounts bei Facebook, Instagram & #X löschte.Die algorithmischen #Konzernmedien sind toxisch.

„In dem Forschungsprojekt „Mercury“ aus dem Jahr 2020 hätten Nutzer, die eine Woche lang auf #Facebook und #Instagram verzichteten, über „geringere Gefühle von Depression, Angst, Einsamkeit und weniger sozialen Vergleichsdruck“ berichtet […]“ https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/gerichtsakten-meta-soll-studie-zu-psychischen-schaeden-gestoppt-haben-100.html

@cdarwin

17. Seventeen.

#Seventeen
#Wtf
#MetaPedo
#Meta
#Pedo

#meta buried 'causal' evidence of social media harm, US court filings allege | #reuters
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/meta-buried-causal-evidence-social-media-harm-us-court-filings-allege-2025-11-23/ #facebook

#Meta Downplayed Risks to #Children and Misled the Public

https://flatturtle.link/BnjC1

#Facebook #children #teens #addiction

Also, TikTok.

"TikTok allegedly influenced National PTA to publicly support its safety claims."

Reuters: US court filings allege Meta buried 'causal' evidence of social media harm https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/meta-buried-causal-evidence-social-media-harm-us-court-filings-allege-2025-11-23/ @Reuters #Meta #TikTok

https://get.mypost.to/zxebo9
Meta shut down internal research into the mental health effects of Facebook ...
#socialmedia #facebook #meta #reuters

Meta shut down internal research into the mental health effects of Facebook and Instagram after finding causal evidence that its products harmed users’ mental health, according to court filings. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/11/23/tech/meta-buried-social-media-harm/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #meta #facebook #instagram #socialmedia #mentalhealth #us

🇺🇸#SUA. Mai multe inspectorate școlare au deschis un proces împotriva #Meta, 🔎#Google, Spanchat și #TikTok, pe care le acuză că ascund intenționat studiile care dovedesc că platformele lor au un impact negativ asupra copiilor.

🔗 https://biziday.ro/?p=339663

#Știri #RețeleSociale #RețeleDeSocializare

And don’t get me wrong, #Meta is an evil empire and that wants to drain humanity of anything they can in order to turn a profit. I just want to be able to follow my friends and for them to be able to follow me. I scared too many people away from #Mastodon because I introduced them to it too soon (it was around 2017).

#Threads #ActivityPub