Meta should be banned. Stop being fodder for its platforms.

"Starting Dec. 16, Meta would harvest interactions between users and its suite of AI chatbots across Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. These exchanges — meant to mimic casual, friendly conversations — would become training data for Meta’s algorithms and a new source of behavioral insight to fine-tune the ads users see."

Bitdefender (sales pitch included): Meta’s Chatbot Data Grab Sparks Privacy Alarm https://www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hotforsecurity/metas-chatbot-data-grab-privacy-what-it-means-for-you #Meta #privacy #cybersecurity #infosec #chatbots #WhatsApp #Facebook #Instagram

Meta Stock Had Its Worst Day In Three Years Due to AI Overspending Worries https://petapixel.com/2025/10/31/meta-stock-had-its-worst-day-in-three-years-due-to-ai-overspending-worries/ #artificialintelligence #stockmarket #Technology #Industry #business #economy #stock #News #meta #ai

I never really got the appeal of #Whatsapp. My phone can already call and text people. My family tried to get me to join, to which I said no way will I use a #Facebook product.

#Meta #privacy #boycottMeta

A Farewell to Facebook

#SocialMedia #Facebook #Meta

"By the time you get this note – assuming you find it – I’ll have moved on. And this time I won’t be coming back. I want you to know it isn’t me, it’s you. You’ve changed and I don’t like what you’ve become.

"To be honest, I’ve been thinking about breaking it off for a while now, but your latest little tantrum made up my mind for me. You slammed the door on me, and I guess you thought I’d come crawling back, desperate to win your approval."

https://www.phototimetunnel.com/farewell-my-lovely-the-end-of-the-affair

https://get.mypost.to/5ID1PN
Meta giant is preparing to feed users “yet another huge corpus of content...
#meta #socialmedia #aigeneratedcontent #technave

https://get.mypost.to/XQE2uO
Threads is now up to 150 million daily active users, rising from the 100 million
#socialmedia #threads #meta #socialmediatoday

META's platforms are such a joke I can't enable 2FA on the accounts or change the password because it send the code to an email address that is old and no longer on the account.

Again big companies shipping broken products to end users #meta #facebook #instagram

I used the LINE messenger for the very first time the other day. Downloaded from the official source, my goal was simple: a single, private chat with one person, which LINE claims is protected by End-to-End Encryption (E2EE).

Our "conversation" was minimal – mostly just test messages. One single contact.

A few days later, I log in to find my account has been temporarily (for how long? =)) blocked.

This raises a cognitive dissonance for me:

Promise vs. Reality: We're told E2EE means no one, not even the company, can read our chats. If that's true, on what basis was I blocked? I have to assume it's related to something in the chat, because I literally did nothing else in the app. But if it is E2EE, how could they know? Does this mean E2EE is just a marketing buzzword and monitoring is happening anyway? I'd genuinely like to know what the real factors are.

Absolute Opacity: This is the real issue. I received zero explanation. No email, no warning, not even a vague hint at which policy I "violated." And look, I'll be the first to admit I didn't read the 100-page Terms of Service – who does? But that's not the point. Even if I did technically violate some obscure rule, the core problem is the total lack of transparency. I was left with no idea, not even a guess, as to what happened. This opaque, black-box process is the real problem.

This situation is deeply concerning. What if I lived in a country like Japan, where LINE is the default, essential messenger? I'd just be cut off from my digital life without cause or appeal. And if this happens on LINE, what stops WhatsApp from doing the same? (And let's not even talk about Telegram, which is 100% cringe and a lost cause for privacy anyway).

My takeaway: To be honest, I went into this as an experiment, and this incident 100% confirmed my expectations.

This isn't just a LINE problem. We see it constantly from Big Tech like Meta and Google. They ban users, often with no explanation, because they have the full legal right to do so. We all agreed to this when we blindly clicked "accept" on their Terms of Service.

This is exactly why my advice is this: you must factor in this risk with all commercial messengers. When you use any private, centralized platform, you have to accept the fact that you can be denied service at any time, for any reason, and they don't even have to tell you why. That is the price of admission we all paid.

The promise of a "private chat" apparently doesn't include the guarantee of access to the platform itself.

#privacy #E2EE #LINE #messengers #transparency #BigTech #Meta #Google #ban #DigitalRights #PlatformRisk #ToS #experiment #FuckTelegram

Big Tech spending on Brussels lobbying hits record high, report claims | Euronews

https://www.euronews.com/next/2025/10/29/big-tech-spending-on-brussels-lobbying-hits-record-high-report-claims

#eu #europe #transparency #meta #microsoft #apple #tech

https://get.mypost.to/PiG3oB
U.S. lawsuits claim social media companies engineered addiction and concealed...
#tiktok #youtube #Meta #calcalistech

Threads Launches ‘Ghost Posts’ That Vanish After 24 Hours
https://particle.news/share/hx2eM

#Threads #Meta #SocialMedia

@krypt3ia

As a fan of alliteration, of go for "Pustulous Perineum"

#meta #alliteration

A handy reminder that your interactions with #AI tools are NOT private and WILL be used to manipulate you.

#LLM #Facebook #Meta #Privacy

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A screenshot from a META privacy policy update that reads "We’ll start using interactions with AIs to personalize experiences and ads. This update goes into effect on December 16, 2025."

@mekkaokereke

A question for the "The #Fediverse doesn't need to grow" crowd:

Do you _want_ commercial platforms to dominate social media around the world - and allow them to manipulate the algorithm in order to promote unchecked #Capitalism, #fascism, and everything else that is currently wrecking the planet? Not to mention handing over sensitive personal information to authoritarian regimes.

I don't see social media going away. But the Fediverse currently represents our best hope of getting away from _commercial_ social media, and thus we need it to grow.

Thus, if you don't want the Fediverse to grow, you want #Meta and #X to win. Unless you have a _better_ noncommercial social media alternative than the Fediverse, in which case I'd love to hear about it!

I will bet you five dollars this exploit code was written by an AI. It sure looked like it worked! Just ... not ... quite.

https://www.securityweek.com/1m-whatsapp-hack-flops-only-low-risk-bugs-disclosed-to-meta-after-pwn2own-withdrawal/

#meta #pwn2own

PS this is a real challenge with #federation - "just move to a new instance, it's easy!" often is NOT true unfortunately.

if the old instance cannot "see" the new instance, you're kinda hooped. can't move your followers over, can't set a redirect - it's like starting fresh and involves a lot of manual work.

which can be really difficult for small-time artists who are trying to make it work without the #instagram|s and #meta|s of the world 😪

#fediverse #mastodon

@AAKL @time
RE
#Microsoft, #Apple, #Google, #Meta, #Palantir, #HP, #TMobile, #Northrop, #Comcast, and more✨

#PaytopPlay is way different than Pay to View

#AmyKlobuchar is going to (with others) look into this CLEAR AS A GLASS #BALLROOM "pay to play" corruption
#Klobuchar

EU accuses Meta of violating content rules in move that could anger Trump https://arstechni.ca/xWyo #DigitalServicesAct #europeanunion #Instagram #Facebook #Policy #tiktok #meta

#BigTech Helped Bankroll the #EastWing Destruction

#Meta, #Amazon, #Microsoft, #Apple, & #Google have a lot riding on their relationships with the #Trump admin. They all cut checks for the ballroom.

#TechBros #plutocracy #billionaires #corporations #corruption
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/10/white-house-east-wing-destruction-google-meta-apple-microsoft-amazone/

Reuters: EU finds Meta, TikTok in breach of transparency obligations https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/eu-preliminarily-finds-meta-tiktok-breach-transparency-obligations-2025-10-24/ @Reuters #Meta #TikTok

EU accuses Meta and TikTok of breaching transparency rules.

@AssociatedPress reports: "The inquiry found both companies had violated the Digital Services Act, the EU’s trailblazing digital rule book that imposes a set of strict requirements designed to keep internet users safe online."

https://flip.it/vFO_wS

#EU #Meta #TikTok #SocialMedia #Tech

Did you ask yourself who's paying for the destruction of the house of the American people? Here's the answer. And you're addicted to most of them:

"The list of donors includes tech companies Apple, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft and Google; the defense contractors Booz Allen Hamilton, Lockheed Martin and Palantir; and the communication companies T-Mobile and Comcast, according to CNN."

The Guardian: Donors for Trump’s $300m White House ballroom include Google, Apple and Palantir https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/23/trump-white-house-ballroom-donors @theguardian_us_technology #Apple #Google #Amazon #Meta #Microsoft

https://disconnect.blog/meta-verified-is-a-sign-of-stagnation/

"Imagine a Facebook that limits the number of friends you can add unless you buy a subscription, offers an ad-free tier, or requires payment to create groups and pages."

Oh.. I so much would love Zuck making this move. That would immediately make people leave massively to alternatives!

Zuck! Zuck! Zuck! Zuck.. suck a coin, you're gonna be homeless soon! Zuck! Zuck! Zuck!

#meta #facebook #SocialMedia

🌐 ■ Bruselas acusa a TikTok y Meta de violar las obligaciones de transparencia y se exponen a multas del 6% de su facturación ■ La Comisión Europea considera que ha incumplido la Ley europea de Servicios Digitales por restringir a los investigadores acreditados el acceso a sus datos internos.
https://www.huffingtonpost.es/global/bruselas-acusa-tiktok-meta-violar-obligaciones-transparencia-exponen-multas-6-facturacion.html?int=MASTODON_WORLD

#tiktok #meta #global #comisioneuropea

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La aplicación de TikTok (dpa/picture alliance via Getty I)

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#科技新闻 #AI大爆发 #OpenAI #Microsoft #Meta #Intel #创业公司 #Sora更新

🗑️ Meta Layoffs Included Employees Who Monitored Risks to User Privacy / NYT

｢ While the company announced job cuts in artificial intelligence, it also expanded plans to replace privacy and risk auditors with more automated systems ｣

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/technology/meta-layoffs-user-privacy.html

#ai #meta #privacy #layoffs