Hatte dazu 👆 - zum Wutwende - Jahr 2012 - gesprochen & im Blogpost zu „Peak Pisa“ auch „Peak Child“ sowie die politischen Umbrüche in Russland, Iran, USA & Deutschland genommen.

TikTok wurde ab 2016 ausgerollt, aber in China selbst wohlweislich verboten. Es spielte eine große Rolle bei der rumänischen Präsidentschaftswahl, bei der deswegen sogar ein Wahlgang wiederholt werden musste.

Aktuell manipuliert insbesondere Meta die Wahlen (auch) in Brasilien.

Elon Musk unterstützt weltweit & insbesondere in den USA rechtsdualistische Kandidaten mit X-Reichweite & Millionenspenden.

#Wutwende #Algorithmen #TechBros #Putin #Trump #Musk #Thymotisierung #Russland #USA #China #TikTok #X #Meta #Brasilien

https://scilogs.spektrum.de/natur-des-glaubens/2012-das-jahr-der-wutwende-peak-pisa-algorithmischen-wutwende/

"Meta’s conduct during Brazil’s election has become a global warning sign. On Wednesday, U.N. special rapporteurs criticized the American company and called on the platform not to interfere in Brazil’s democratic process.

In their statement, the U.N. rapporteurs asked Meta to assess whether its moderation, recommendation and artificial intelligence systems had disproportionately restricted one side of Brazil’s election debate.

They also asked the company to provide adequate explanations and remedies, apply its rules consistently and without discrimination, maintain transparent dialogue with civil society, and ensure complaints can be addressed throughout the election period."

Read more: https://substack.com/home/post/p-221617247
#Meta #Brazil #UN #democracy #elections #bigTechs #humanrights #politics

Meta strikes deal with Mark Zuckerberg to help him foot billionaire tax bill | Meta | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/22/meta-mark-zuckerberg-california-wealth-tax

#Meta #Zuckerberg

#Meta încheie un acord cu #Zuckerberg pentru a-l menține în #California, pe fondul planului de impozitare a averilor miliardarilor.

🔗 https://wp.me/p9KpFA-5LpS

#Știri #SUA

Je ne peux pas être plus d'accord :

If you are using #Meta products, then you deserve what's coming.
Si vous utilisez les produits #Meta, alors vous méritez ce qui vous arrive.

Ceci étant valable pour beaucoup d'autres produits. 😎

#LuIci

If you are using Meta products, then you deserve what's coming. The story is from the 19th, but the changes will take effect on October 30.

Computerworld: Meta’s new commercial terms say if its AI makes a mistake, it will legally be the customer’s fault https://www.computerworld.com/article/4237414/metas-new-commercial-terms-say-if-its-ai-makes-a-mistake-it-will-legally-be-the-customers-fault.html #Meta

I thought that I could not possibly hate #meta any more, but I was wrong:

Meta strikes deal with Zuckerberg to help him foot billionaire tax bill

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/22/meta-mark-zuckerberg-california-wealth-tax

"Globally, people speak roughly 7,000 languages. But until recently, most automatic speech recognition (ASR) services with high-quality transcription only worked for a small number of them. Meta’s groundbreaking Omnilingual ASR is a major step in creating a universal transcription service. Using a suite of open-source models, it offers speech recognition for 1,600 languages, including 500 that can’t currently be transcribed by other AIs. Paired with Meta's new Omnilingual Machine Translation system, those transcripts can then be translated across more than 1,600 languages, too. “We’re very passionate about making sure technology supports as many languages as possible,” says Jean Maillard, a lead researcher on the project. Already, Nigerian health practitioners are using Omnilingual ASR to improve patient care in community clinics."

Source:
https://time.com/collection/best-inventions/2026/meta-omnilingual-asr/

#Omnilingual #Language #MachineTranslation #meta

Interesting. And this coincides with the news that Zuckerberg has made a deal to make sure he remains the CEO.

And this:

"The demonstration coincided with an order by Brazil’s Superior Electoral Court demanding that Meta release proof it was providing equitable treatment to both of Brazil’s presidential candidates."

Futurism: Hundreds of Protestors Descend on Meta's Corporate Office in Sao Paulo, Depicting Zuckerberg as the Devil https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/protestors-meta-corporate-office-brazil-zuckerberg-devil @Futurism #Meta #Zuckerberg

The Guardian: Meta strikes deal with Zuckerberg to help him foot billionaire tax bill https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/22/meta-mark-zuckerberg-california-wealth-tax @theguardian_us_technology #Meta #Zuckerberg #California #corruption

@techwire

hopefully just the start of many payouts for #meta

Ein „systemisches Muster der Irreführung im Kern des Geschäftsmodells Facebooks“ – so lässt sich zusammenfassen, was ein Gericht in New Mexico über Meta Platforms festgestellt hat. ⚖️

Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-11496252?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

#meta #facebook #datenschutz #cambridgeanalytica #newmexico

Alt...

Das Bild zeigt das Facebook-Logo und davor ein Smartphone, auf dem Facebook geöffnet ist. Im Bild steht: "25 Milliarden US-Dollar Strafe Gericht verurteilt Meta wegen jahrelanger Lügen"

Following the $25B judgment in New Mexico, Meta declares that consumer protections are incompatible with their business model:
“This ruling, and the Attorney General’s approach to this enforcement, makes it all but impossible to do business in the state of New Mexico,” said C.J. Mahoney, Meta’s Chief Legal Officer.

#Meta
#Facebook
#CorporateCrimes

PHP Fixes Land as Attacks Surge, Plus 2 Stories https://raymondtec.com/2026/10/php-security-update-attacks-surge-plus-2-stories/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=daily_brief

PHP fixes are available as exploitation attempts surge. Also: Meta faces a $25 billion privacy judgment, and data-center companies promise fewer secrets.

#TechNews #CVE2026109618 #CVE2026109619 #DataCenters #Meta #PHP #privacy

Alt...

Programmer at a laptop, illustrating the PHP security update.

Datenschutzskandal: Facebook-Konzern Meta soll Milliardenstrafe zahlen

Acht Jahre nach dem Skandal um den Missbrauch von Nutzerdaten ist der Facebookkonzern Meta in New Mexico zu einer Milliardenstrafe verurteilt worden. Der Fall solle anderen Tech-Unternehmen eine Warnung sein, sagte der Generalstaatsanwalt.

➡️ https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/meta-cambrigde-skandal-milliardenstrafe-100.html?at_medium=mastodon&at_campaign=tagesschau.de

#Meta #Datenschutz #USA

#Meta, obligată să plătească statului #NewMexico 25 de miliarde 💵#USD.
A fost găsită vinovată de înșelarea utilizatorilor cu privire la confidențialitatea datelor pe #Facebook.

🔗 https://wp.me/p9KpFA-5Lkn

#Știri #Mexic #SUA

Lies are “the heart of Facebook's core business practices". #Facebook #Meta #privacy #tech #law #EatTheRich

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqdr8zxrr3dxo

Judge orders Meta to pay $25bn in fines for Facebook privacy violations

"Last month, a jury found Meta responsible for more than 43 million violations of New Mexico’s consumer protection laws. New Mexico Attorney General Raul Torrez highlighted that the decision was one of the largest state verdicts against a company in US history."

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/21/judge-orders-meta-to-pay-25bn-in-fines-for-facebook-privacy-violations

#Meta #Privacy #HumanRights #News #Activism #Facebook #DataMining #AntiFascism

what the fuck
#WhatsApp #Meta #privacy #infosec #GDPR #AI
https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/whatsapp-hid-instructions-in-help-pages.html

This is how you do it.

Fairly certain it will be appealed and who knows where it goes from there but it's a strong signal nonetheless.

Europe, are you listening?

https://www.dw.com/en/meta-ordered-to-pay-25-billion-in-cambridge-analytica-case/a-79726486

#Meta #Facebook

#Meta a fost amendată cu 25 de miliarde 💵#USD pentru că, timp de ani de zile, a înșelat utilizatorii de #Facebook în legătură cu gestionarea datelor personale. Procesul a fost intentat de 🇺🇸#StatulAmerican #NewMexico și își are originea în scandalul #CambridgeAnalytica.

🔗 https://biziday.ro/?p=373230

#Știri #Mexic #SUA #America

Not only do users NOT control their #data (who would believe that anyway?) but what about the #shadowprofiles they keep?

I don't use #meta but they certainly have data on me.. and on my devices. I am nothing but a number on their system and there's nothing I can do about it. Am I meant to sign up to "control my data"?

Shadow profiles need to be universally illegal. It's yet another unconscionable action by #bigtech to surveil everyone.

You can't say no.

https://apnews.com/article/facebook-penalty-cambridge-analytica-new-mexico-b329f82c3d3db3758a159405acbd4d0e

META MUSE: TEILEN-FUNKTION NACH AUFFINDBAREN KI-CHATS AUSGESETZT

https://gadgetchecks.de/meta-muse-teilen-funktion-nach-auffindbaren-ki-chats-ausgesetzt/

#technikaktuell #meta #muse #ki #datenschutz #gadgetchecks

"More than 11 percent of the GPUs at Meta’s Prometheus supercluster in New Albany, Ohio, are either dead or sitting idle waiting to step in when the next drops out."

"But as anyone who has worked on a large scale compute cluster understands, whether for LLM training or traditional HPC workloads, more chips inevitably means more problems."

The Register: Tens of thousands of Nvidia GPUs sit idle in Meta's Prometheus supercluster, just waiting for a failure https://www.theregister.com/systems/2026/10/20/tens-of-thousands-of-nvidia-gpus-sit-idle-in-metas-prometheus-supercluster-just-waiting-for-a-failure/5304269 @theregister #Meta #Nvidia

I doubt it.

Engadget: Meta tweaks its new terms of service after backlash against scraping https://www.engadget.com/2291188/meta-tweaks-its-new-terms-of-service-after-backlash-against-scraping/ @Engadget

On October 15, Nieman Lab flagged the original plan:

Nieman Lab: Meta’s new commercial terms will allow the scraping of news sites, legal experts say https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/metas-new-commercial-terms-will-allow-the-scraping-of-news-sites-legal-experts-say/ @niemanlab #Meta #scraping

#DemocracyNow

#BRAZIL 🇧🇷: Protesters Rally Outside #Meta Offices Over Possible #ElectionInterference

Former Meta employee also speaks out

https://www.democracynow.org/2026/10/20/headlines/brazilian_protesters_rally_outside_meta_offices_over_alleged_election_interference

#tech #techbillionaires #UStech
#FuckBillionaires #Elections

🚨 #Meta schaltet #NoKings genau dann stumm, als Amerikaner:innen gegen Trump auf die Straße gehen.

Ein „automatisierter Fehler“, heißt es. Schon seltsam, wie oft die #Demokratie im #Algorithmus hängen bleibt. 🤔✊

Frag nicht um Erlaubnis. Schaff dir deinen eigenen Raum. Behalte deine Stimme. Just #Fediverse. 🌍🦣💥

🔗 https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000345052/meta-sperrte-no-kings-account-vor-den-massenprotesten-gegen-trump

Wired: WhatsApp Help Pages Leaked Hidden Instructions for a Meta Chatbot
Around 80 pages on WhatsApp’s website exposed instructions that were designed for its chatbot, including “WHAT NOT TO SAY.” Meta says a bug caused the issue.

https://www.wired.com/story/whatsapp-help-pages-leaked-hidden-instructions-for-a-meta-chatbot/

#AI #AIpocalypse #chatbots #meta

This is probably the only time I would ever agree with Meta.

The Record, from yesterday: Judge denies WhatsApp’s bid to hold spyware maker in contempt for allegedly targeting users https://therecord.media/whatsapp-denied-appeal-alleged-nso-group-violation-injunction @therecord_media #Meta #spyware #WhatsApp #infosec

Aina silloin tällöin tulee mieleen, pitäisikö poistua Facebookista kuten esimerkiksi Instagramista olen. Viimeksi tuli mieleen tänään tiistaina.

Tämänpäiväisen mieleentulemisen syy oli saamani Facebook-viesti: ”Meta-tilit tulevat Facebookiin. Sinut päivitetään pian Meta-tilillesi.”

Ja vähän enempi aihetta vilkaisten, tuollaisella Meta-tilillä sitten mm.: ”Käytä samoja sisäänkirjautumistietoja sovelluksissa, kuten Facebookissa ja Instagramissa.”

Ei siis minua suoranaisesti liikuta, mutta noin yleensä olen muistelevinani, että samojen tunnusten käyttöä eri systeemeissä ei pidetä ihan viisaana.

#Facebook #Instagram #Meta #MetaPlatforms #Some #SosiaalinenMedia #Tietoturva

Alt...

Ruutukaappauksen osa Facebookista: ”Ilmoitukset: Meta-tilit tulevat Facebookiin. Sinut päivitetään pian Meta-tilillesi.”

I'd completely missed this but apparently Meta are changing their T&Cs for business users of their platforms to force all companies to allow Meta to scrape and index their content. If you disagree, you have to stop using Meta platforms.
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/metas-new-commercial-terms-will-allow-the-scraping-of-news-sites-legal-experts-say/

Scraping starts October 30th apparently.

Yuk.

Anyone know which bot they'll use? Feels likely to be `meta-externalagent` from docs: https://developers.facebook.com/documentation/sharing/webmasters/web-crawlers/

#Meta #AI #Bots #WebDev

#Meta are 24 de ore la dispoziție să demonstreze că cei doi candidați la prezidențialele din 🇧🇷#Brazilia sunt tratați la fel.
Altfel, compania va plăti o amendă de 200.000 💵#USD pe zi.

🔗 https://wp.me/p9KpFA-5L0m

#Știri

Okay, I'm going to say it because I'm tired of keeping it in.

Like, I get that not many people know of alternatives besides big social media i.e. Bluesky, Meta Platforms, and Xcuseme (I'm not calling it X, nor am I calling it Twitter as it's not the Twitter I remember). Part of the fact that they still have a lot of users is that more people know about them and many don't know what they're really up to when you're on their platforms. That's all well and fine.

But is it really a surprise when they act like an overarching force and remove posts that they don't agree with? Like come on. That's not a surprise at all.

Part of it is because the fact that not many people know about the Fediverse/Mastodon (no, not Bluesky's fake Fediverse called AT).

But for the people who thought that they were fine on Bluesky as well because they were "also" supposedly "decentralised"? Yeah, we all know how that went. The point of decentralisation is that one group can't decide what you see. And that is what is effectively happening with Bluesky, despite their claims to the contrary. And they really lost my trust after the whole "Waffles" Singal controversy.

What's the takeaway here? We should really get more people onto decentralised systems.

#meta #MetaPlatforms #Bluesky

@Flowermob

Question: how do we convince people who claim to #Resist to ditch #Meta & its apps? (talking to you over there on #Threads )

Do people realize that when they give their $, data, & attention to these apps owned by these #ACO techbros, that they are helping fund this fascist regime & its agenda?

some tech is difficult to transition from, but not meta apps or ex-twitter. why is anyone who's #AntiFascist still on them?

let the fascists & their appeasers hang

out on them 😉

Meta's opt-out for AI scraping of your business website? Stop using Meta. That's not consent, that's the school bully taking your lunch and asking why you're in the canteen. Stay secure, my friends.

#Meta #AI #DataPrivacy #CyberSecurity #InfoSec

Source: https://securityaffairs.com/201300/ai/meta-wants-to-scrape-your-website-to-train-its-ai-and-you-cant-say-no.html

Brasil: #Meta restringió contenidos de @LulaOficial en Instagram mientras sus algoritmos recomendaban los de @flaviobolsonaro

La Justicia electoral le ordenó garantizar igualdad de condiciones antes del balotaje.

https://www.dhytecno.ar/brasil-meta-restringio-contenidos-de-lula-en-instagram-y-la-justicia-electoral-le-exigio-garantizar-igualdad-de-condiciones/

Reuters: Meta apologizes after suspending "No Kings" Instagram account https://www.reuters.com/technology/meta-apologizes-after-suspending-no-kings-instagram-account-2026-10-19/ @Reuters #Meta

schöne Grüße von der META-Ki: Die Älteren unter EUch werden sich an sporatische Töts von mir erinnern in denen ich berichtete, wie viele Lachgaskartuschen sich in meinem Wohnumfeld so finden und das ich sie regelmäßig zum Schrotti bringe. Zuckerbergs LLM hat in einem solchen Post erkannt das ich wohl mit Drogen handeln will. Sinnbegreifendes Lesen von Text uznd Bildbeschreibung kann ich hier natürlich nicht voraussetzen. #Meta #AI #LLM #Lachgas #Metall #Instagram

Alt...

screenshot einer Mitteilung, die ich auf Instagram erhalten habe: ' Wir haben dein Foto entfernt. Warum das passiert ist: Das Foto kauft oder verkauft möglicherweise illegale oder reglementierte Drogen oder betreibt damit Tauschhandel: Lachgas-Konsum in Dortmund nach wie vor stabil. Das ist die Beute eines Monats - bzw. das was ich so in Straßen und Parks finde wenn ich in der Stadt herum laufe. Der Kurs für Stahl liegt zur Zeit bei 18 Euro für 75 Kilo . Abzüglich der Trennscheiben zum Aufschneiden der Flaschen, habe ich damit den Mindestlohn von 15 Euro erreicht.. #Lachgas #Drogen #ModeDroge #N20 #Dortmund Du hast das in deinem Profil geteilt Dies verstößt gegen unsere Gemeinschaftsstandards gegen Drogen Was du wissen musst Wenn du oder jemand, den du kennst, eine schwere Zeit durchmacht, suche dir Hilfe. Das Originalfoto zeigt eine geöffneten Fahrradanhänger voller zersägter Lachgaskartuschen

#Meta wants to scrape your website to train its #AI, and you can't say no
https://securityaffairs.com/201300/ai/meta-wants-to-scrape-your-website-to-train-its-ai-and-you-cant-say-no.html
#securityaffairs #hacking

Meta shuts down "#NoKings" account during major anti-Trump #protest

https://popular.info/p/meta-shuts-down-no-kings-account/

#news #uspol #politics #activism #facebook #meta #progressive #vsn #radio #activism #elections #indivisible #SupportIndependentMedia #SupportPublicMedia #DiverseSpectrumOfTheLeft #resist #toobigtorig

🇪🇺 In times of international tension, digital sovereignty demands European leadership. Europe can’t remain dependent on US Big Tech and payment systems like Visa and Mastercard. Whatever the winds in Washington, it’s time to build our own alternatives, ambitiously, together, and without delay.

We can lead by example too: choose European alternatives to Microsoft, Meta and Google. That’s how we take control of our data and our digital future.
#privacy #eu #bigtech #meta #google #Microsoft

Brasilien: META greift zugunsten der extremen Rechten in den Wahlkampf ein
Präsident Lula zieht dagegen vor Gericht

USA: META behindert Accounts der No-Kings-Bewegung
Die US-Demokraten ziehen dagegen vor Gericht

Deutschland: METAs Algorithmen bevorzugen eine rechtsextreme Partei
Die Bundesregierung geht vor Gericht, um META weiter nutzen zu dürfen

#META #Zuckerberg #NoKings #Lula #Datenschutz #Fediverse #SaveSocial

Guten Morgen - Tässle Kaffee ☕️?

„In Brasilien bewegt eine mögliche Einflussnahme des Facebook-Konzerns Meta im Wahlkampf weiter die Öffentlichkeit. Die brasilianische Zeitung "Folha de S. Paulo" meldet unter Berufung auf ihr vorliegende interne Kommunikation, Mitarbeiter von Meta hätten eingeräumt, die Instagram-Konten des Präsdenten Luiz Inàcio Lula da Silva vorübergehend eingeschränkt zu haben. Stattdessen seien das Profil von Lulas Herausforderer Flávio Bolsonaro sowie dessen Kanal bei Metas Messengerdienst Whatsapp von der Plattform empfohlen worden.

Der Konzern selbst teilte hingegen mit, die in dem Bericht genannten technischen Probleme seien längst öffentlich bekannt.“

#Meta #Instagram #WhatsApp #Konzernmedien #USA #Brasilien #Wahlkampf #LuizInacioLuladaSilva #FlavioBolsonaro #Präsidentschaft #Manipulation #Algorithmen #Medien #Medienethik #Stichwahl

https://www.dw.com/de/meta-brasilien-luiz-ignacio-lula-da-silva-praesidentenwahl-flavio-bolsonaro-manipulation-instagram/a-79687056

Vielleicht sollte man das auch mal der Schulstreik Bewegung in Gelsenkirchen klarmachen die sich nur via Instagram organisiert. Aber ja es ist ja auch zu einfach. Man braucht nur ein Handy, keine technischen Kenntnisse und wenn man es halbwegs clever macht dann ist man auch noch einigermaßen anonym da unterwegs. Und man kriegt natürlich einen niedlichen QR Code.
Fediverse kennen zu wenige, eine Homepage kann heute kaum noch ein Oberschüler selber erstellen (obwohl da kann sicher die KI helfen) und Webspace kostet idR Geld und jemand muss dafür den Kopf hinhalten. Und es ist halt nicht so einfach.

#schulstreik #gelsenkirchen #instagram #meta #unplugbigtech
https://social.tchncs.de/@cark/117464388743769964

Sollte sich die #Wahlmanipulation durch #Meta in #Brasilien bestätigen, sollte die #EU sämtliche Meta-Services in Europa umgehend verbieten, da das Unternehmen als kriminelle Organisation einzustufen ist.

Aber wird irgendwas passieren?

Nein! Am Ende knickt die Politik auf allen Ebenen vor dieser ekelhaften Datenkrake wieder ein.

https://www.turi2.de/aktuell/meta-drosselt-laut-bericht-die-instagram-reichweite-von-brasiliens-praesident-lula-im-wahlkampf/

I feel like #Meta and #Twitter muting #NoKings is going to drive folks from their platform and to the fediverse. I'll be interested to see mastodon active user counts over the next several weeks.

More than 125 people opposing Meta's AI data centre's development permit went before the Alberta Land and Property Rights Tribunal last week.

Sturgeon County, the municipal county just outside Edmonton welcomed the project without any public input or hearing.

In fact, the whole thing was so secret that Meta's name could not even be used until after the permit was approved under the code name "Project Frost."

The county's lawyer argued it had done nothing wrong and those appealing had not provided evidence to justify going ahead with the hearing.

The quasi-judicial panel, increased from three to five members due to the scale of the project and the large number of appellants, heard arguments from both sides.

I was there reporting for The Energy Mix.

Read the story here for more details and links to documents outlining the reasons the residents are appealing.

https://www.theenergymix.com/alberta-tribunal-to-decide-whether-challenge-to-meta-data-centre-can-proceed/

#Meta #ableg #abpoli #AIDataCentres #cdnpoli

@indivisibleteam

Y'all can *chose* to stay on #instagram

There are folks who are *only* on there cuz of all y'all and the rest of the "we oppose #billionaires" #coalition.

ffs

#networkEffects #meta #bsky #x #substack

What we’re up against in the U.S. during this election.

Yesterday:

1. Meta closed the No Kings accounts on the day of the protest. Restored them later, saying “our bad.” But did not restore admin privileges.

2. We learned that millions of people had no idea about the protests because Meta suppressed posts about it.

3. Bluesky closed the Democracy Now account for “unusual activity.” (No idea if it has been restored.)

And for months we’ve been watching the fascists do everything in their power to restrict voting rights.

The billionaires know they’re the minority. Not economically (which is obvious) but ethically. Otherwise they wouldn’t be working so hard to stop democracy.

Most Americans are good people. We’re fighting for what’s right. But our enemy has massive resources and control. That what we need to quell.

Keep fighting. Stay vigilant. And for fuck’s sake, vote!

#EatTheRich #USPol #Elections #Fascism #Meta #Bluesky #Vote

@markwyner

i joined social media on #bluesky after the election to be part of the #Resistance against this fascist regime. after being kicked off for celebrating the death of a racist, fascist bigot, i decided #bsky is less the home of the resistance than a refuge for appeasers (certainly compared to #Mastodon)

but they're nowhere close to the fascists at #Meta (those of you on #threads & #instagram)

but i 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘺 disagree that "most Americans are good people." that fantasy died Nov 5, 2024

Why Hunterbrook is shorting Meta: https://hntrbrk.com/breaking-news/muse-tickertrends

A word of explanation: Hunterbrook is a team of investigative journalists in the employ of a private-capital fund. The journalists dig up dirt on some company or investment offering, Hunterbrook (the investment company) shorts it, then then Hunterbrook (the web site) publishes the dirt. While this sounds sketchy, it’s apparently legal.

#meta #muse #genAI

Alt...

Downloads of Meta’s Muse — the product CEO Mark Zuckerberg called “the centerpiece of our vision” — are down 8.1% week-over-week. Muse still has fewer than three million daily active users, far lower than Threads had at this point in its launch to compete with X. Growth in DAUs has slowed from an average daily net increase of 198,000 in late September to just 74,000 in the first week of October — a 62.4% slowdown. App-review volume also fell. Combined Android and iOS reviews averaged about 674 a day in the week ending October 7, down 11.6% from the prior week. Hunterbrook previously reported that Muse could endanger privacy, including systematically identifying members of vulnerable groups. Meta did not respond to a request for comment by the time of publication.

I just realized that the biggest stories in my world at the moment are war satellites being throttled by one billionaire in cooperation with a billionaire president to punish a democratic country and mass protest visibility being throttled by another billionaire who runs the world’s largest private electronic news platform and it’s like damn, I really am living in the future I always expected.

#nokings #musk #zuckerberberg #meta #trump #midterms #uspol #tech #siliconvalley

An alle Organisationen auf #Instagram:

Am #NoKings-Protesttag sperrte #Meta den Account der Bewegung. 90 Minuten offline, danach kein Admin-Zugang. Meta spricht von einem Fehler. Der Account ist wieder zugänglich.

Ob Absicht oder Fehler: Wer auf Instagram mobilisiert, überlässt einem Konzern den Ausschalter.

Hört auf, eure Reichweite zu mieten. Baut Beziehungen im #Fediverse auf!

https://meidasnews.com/news/zuckerbergs-meta-takes-down-no-kings-instagram-during-massive-protest-day

I have an account on Lemmy.ca but it feels like nobody is there

I have an account on BlueSky but it feels like nobody is there

I have an account on PixelFed.ca but feels like nobody is there

Even here on Mastodon, it feels like there is hardly anyone here posting fun content. It's all angry political and social justice content.

It's been frustrating trying to find healthier, active, alternative social media platforms. So many accounts with little to no posts just parked online. We can't move past Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, if we're not active on other platforms.

Where are you people posting?

#socialmedia #facebook #instagram #meta #reddit #mastodon

Man's Meta Muse Agent Sends Him Message So Bizarre That He Permanently Quits https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/man-quits-meta-muse-creepy #Meta #Muse #Agents #AI #AgenticAI

Cloud Backup Attack Disrupts Recovery, Plus 2 Stories https://raymondtec.com/2026/10/connectwise-cloud-backup-attack-plus-2-stories/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=daily_brief

ConnectWise suspends Cloud Backup after attackers enter Microsoft 365 tenants. Plus the truth about AI pricing and Meta’s disputed website terms.

#TechNews #ArtificialIntelligenceAI #Backups #ConnectWise #Meta #MicrosoftEntraID #privacy

Alt...

Engineer using a laptop beside server racks for infrastructure monitoring.

#Meta syas it took down #NoKings Instagram account 'in error'.

#MyArse!

#Meta pregătește un cablu submarin de aproape 7.000 de kilometri între 🇺🇸#SUA și 🇫🇷#Franța, cu o capacitate record de transfer al datelor.

🔗 https://wp.me/p9KpFA-5KMp

#Știri

It gets worse. Boycott #Meta

Alt...

@ezralevin.bsky.social A bad update: we're getting reports of pro-No Kings creators who have been suspended today as well. And we still lack backend access to the official No Kings account. Stay tuned, will report news when | have it. € Ezra Levin Xi ® @ezralevin.b... - 26m Full update from our team. We STILL do not have admin access to the account. JPDATE, OCT. 17, 3:29 PM ET The No Kings Instagram account has been reactivated, but administrators have not yet regained We now know that Meta pulled down the account. For approximately 90 minutes, Meta did not respond to our team, even as the account was offline at the peak of our national day of action and livestream. The account is now viewable again, and Meta told us in their response email that they made a bad call. However, administrators are still unable to access the account, blocking our ability to post about an ongoing day of mass action for early voting. Meta is currently not allowing the team to log in using the No Kings email address originally associated with the account. The team is troubleshooting that issue now. This is not OK. This is part of a much bigger concern: activists and movements around the world are increasingly vulnerable to decisions made by powerful technology platforms that can determine who gets heard and who gets silenced. ‘We will close the loop once our team is fully back in the account. This remains a developing situation. ALT 9:58 AM - Oct 17 2026 @ Fvervbodv can replv

RE: https://mastodon.art/@707Kat/117452990020664933

⚠️ META’s new terms may allow it to crawl all websites ‘associated’ with a business account.

The updated terms explicitly state that Meta can use the content it collects from associated websites to “train” Meta products. The company defines “AI at Meta” as one of those products 🪓

#META #AI #genAI #tech #technology #scraping #Facebook #Instagram #Whatsapp #Business #Commercial

707Kat » 🌐 2026-10-16 / 2026-10-16
@707Kat@mastodon.art

Are you still on METAs platforms and using a business account?

Per the 30th of October these new rules regarding scraping of affiliated links etc. will come into action.

#noAI #scraping #meta #facebook #instagram #whatsapp

Read more here:
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/metas-new-commercial-terms-will-allow-the-scraping-of-news-sites-legal-experts-say/

Alt...

You authorize us (or any entity acting on our behalf) to use automated software (such as web scrapers, bots, robots, spiders, crawlers, and user agents) and create test credentials to access, index, cache, analyze, collect, retrieve, or crawl the domains, web pages, or URLs (and any content available through them) that are associated with your products or services, or that are made available through your or users’ use of Meta Company Products and services, and to periodically pull updates from such domains, web pages, or URLs. Meta may use any content from such domains, web pages, or URLs to provide, develop, improve, research, train, and maintain the integrity of, the Meta Company Products, services, and features provided under these Commercial Terms and any other applicable supplemental terms.

Hello Americans,

Today Meta has deactivated the Instagram accounts of the "No Kings" protests on the very day they are happening in the US. You can avoid Meta's fascist-defending shenanigans by following one of the main No Kings organisers on here instead:

➡️ @indivisibleteam

This is a textbook example of why it's a bad idea to rely on billionaire-owned centralised social media.

(Thank you to @tchambers 🙏)

#NoKings #Meta #USA

Seems like at least the account back, but no word from Meta on why this happened. This is why they were so smart of @indivisibleteam build out on platforms like Bluesky and Mastodon & their own direct to their users newsletters too - that are not at the whim of giant big tech.

#Meta needs to give exact and full answer of what the Hell just happened on this critical day of action. #Nokings #NoKingsVoteEarly

Alt...

Norm Eisen posting about No Kings Instagram being taken down on #NoKingsDay by Meta

Beware of Meta.

"If a business uses Meta for any commercial purpose, Meta's new terms say it can do almost anything it wants with content from that business's website, like feeding it to Muse."

Gizmodo, from yesterday: Meta to Literally Every Business User: Nice Website You Got There https://gizmodo.com/meta-to-literally-every-business-user-nice-website-you-got-there-2000827266 @Gizmodo #Meta

RE: https://mastodon.com.pl/@kontrabanda/117452182047846560

Największą karą wobec Mety byłaby blokada ich ścierowo-usług na terenie Brazylii. Taka blokada mogłaby im wyjść tylko na dobre.
Sam blokuje ścierwo Mety na poziomie DNS. WhatsAppa oczywiście też nie mam.

ZUCK OFF 🖕

#facebook #meta #instagram #whatsapp
~

#Meta construiește un nou cablu submarin de fibră optică: Lung de 7.000 de kilometri, Petal ar putea transporta pe sub 🌊#Atlantic până la un milion de gigabiți pe secundă.

🔗 https://wp.me/p9KpFA-5KGX

#Știri

Ich sag es mal einfach so:

Seit 2012, der Verschmelzung von Smartphones & erstmals algorithmischen Konzernmedien wie Facebook & Instagram, werden Nutzende digital thymotisiert: Wütender, dümmer und einsamer.

Die Aufmerksamkeitsspannen sinken, Hass und Hetze, feindseliger Dualismus greifen um sich, denn Freund-Feind-Denken macht die reale Komplexität scheinbar (!) übersichtlich.

Und damit zerlegt sich nicht nur unsere sog. "westliche" Zivilisation, sondern auch schon manche Regierung vor den Augen der ganzen Welt.

China hat bei sich selbst Tiktok verboten und spottet über die US-Regierung - zu Recht...

#China #USA #Thymotisierung #Algorithmen #Facebook #Meta #Tiktok #Zacharia #KateZacharia #Trump #MAGA

https://www.n-tv.de/politik/Peking-laedt-Trump-Sprecherin-zur-Klobesichtigung-ein-id31425575.html

Ochelarii inteligenți Ray-Ban #Meta au înregistrat conversații fără știrea utilizatorilor.
#Meta a confirmat problema și susține că a rezolvat-o.

🔗 https://wp.me/p9KpFA-5JKf

#Știri

#Meta has blocked this graphic from being posted via WhatsApp and possibly other Meta platforms.
We don’t know why.

It says: “THE WORLD NEEDS #BRAZIL. THE WORLD STANDS WITH #LULA.”

Share it if you can.

Alt...

The image of a hand signing the “L” in Lula - “The world needs Brazil. The World stand with Lula.”

Are you still on METAs platforms and using a business account?

Per the 30th of October these new rules regarding scraping of affiliated links etc. will come into action.

#noAI #scraping #meta #facebook #instagram #whatsapp

Read more here:
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/metas-new-commercial-terms-will-allow-the-scraping-of-news-sites-legal-experts-say/

Alt...

You authorize us (or any entity acting on our behalf) to use automated software (such as web scrapers, bots, robots, spiders, crawlers, and user agents) and create test credentials to access, index, cache, analyze, collect, retrieve, or crawl the domains, web pages, or URLs (and any content available through them) that are associated with your products or services, or that are made available through your or users’ use of Meta Company Products and services, and to periodically pull updates from such domains, web pages, or URLs. Meta may use any content from such domains, web pages, or URLs to provide, develop, improve, research, train, and maintain the integrity of, the Meta Company Products, services, and features provided under these Commercial Terms and any other applicable supplemental terms.

Meta’s new Commercial Terms authorize it to crawl websites tied to business users, even creating test credentials, and use what it collects to train #Meta products, e.g., #Facebook, #Instagram, #WhatsApp. Legal experts say publisher sites could be swept in. The asymmetry is hard to miss: Meta tightly restricts others from scraping its platforms while claiming broad rights to scrape yours. #DigitalRights #AI #Privacy
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/metas-new-commercial-terms-will-allow-the-scraping-of-news-sites-legal-experts-say/

🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

"Our business ads were taken down for saying 'pregnancy' on Instagram"
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvj6jznp9ww9o

#censorship #shadowbanning #Meta

I need to put this long post I made on #meta here, because it is on independent media like the #Fediverse where I learned about those who were too strongly principled to vote in the 2024 US election, and why. In my rage at the election result, I was not nice to them. My apologies would fall on deaf ears if it were not posted here. I won't post the responses I got on FB as my continued "rebuttals" should basically explain what was said to me. Suffice it to say, it was NASTY. I was accused of many hateful things, simply for stating something that wasn't within somebody else's ideological viewpoint. This was my post:

Real story here, she ran as the "Top Cop" and running mate to "Genocide Joe". Americans wanted somebody unlike a Republican, not a lighter form of one! Democrats, like Liberals, think they can keep winning as Conservative-lite.

I still believe Bernie Sanders could have prevented the US from decending into chaos, had the party kept him instead of instilling "Genocide Joe" as the option.

Canada, our day of reckoning is coming too. Mark Carney is tearing up worker rights and environmental protections, and pushing through austerity budgets for the benefit of the wealthiest few.

But our country is not QUITE as two-party as the US. The NDP leadership race ovwewhelmingly REJECTED the idea of staying "Liberal-lite", and voted to forge a new path for the 99%.

(Edit to add the history for those who don't know it: Trump did not gain any votes in 2024, he lost votes from 2020. The USA didn't suddenly become more racist. What changed is that the Democrats lost over 6 million votes. Meanwhile, Democrats openly stated that they BOYCOTTED the election because, in their words, they could not in good conscious vote for Joe Biden or his administration because of genocidal policies. This was PLANNED. They obviously aren't voting for Trump, so they didn't vote at all. Polls showed that Democrats, both voters and Elected Representatives were strongly, by at least 85%, against the genocide that the Administration was supporting. In short, it was the ADMINISTRATION which Harris was a part of that got boycotted. This was NOT PERSONAL to her, and applied to Joe Biden even more than her. It was NOT sexist.

"Genocide Joe" was the nickname dubbed by these voters. "Top Cop" was the nickname that Kamala Harris took on HERSELF, through her own campaign. These are not my personal opinions, they are documented history.)

I also need to point out that I heard more about the voting boycott AFTER the vote than before it. That means that people were so strong in their moral convictions that they were willing to stand up and take the blame for Donald Trump, just to send a message that they will not accept the "second best" genocider. I don't think people who can simply ignore tens of thousands of children being murdered can understand such conviction. This is why I softened my feeling about what happened over time, and started to sympathize with them. We need to stand firm in solidarity, I'm learning this.

So let's TALK about what really happened here, because those 6 million voters (okay, maybe some had voter apathy and weren't taking a stand, but we'll say 6 million to keep it simple) put the country at great risk for one reason only: It was the only way they saw to end a continual downward spiral which would take both parties down with it. So people can know that we need REAL OPTIONS, NOT BONES. If you say that genocide support had nothing to do with what happened in the 2024 election, you are killing that voice, and supporting the status quo to continue dragging both parties to the right. In Canada, we are privileged because we can learn from this lesson, see how close we've come to it ourselves, without actually having to live through the worst case scenario (Trump or Poilievre in power). PLEASE do not let that lesson go to waste.

EDIT: I did not want this to be a long post, but some people have strong opinions that "people are just awful, so of course racism and misogyny is the answer" and can't separate the facts from opinions. So let's flesh this out, with verifiable fact as the foundation:

First, we need to understand that those who would not vote for Harris were DEMOCRAT voters, not Republican voters. The numbers show a shortfall of well over 6 million voters from the 2020 elections, and both Republicans and Democrats took a loss from the low voter turnout, but the Republicans barely lost any votes while the Democrats lost massively.

Those who wouldn't vote for Kamala Harris were not voting for Trump. They just weren't voting. That part we know as a fact. Where the opinions come in is in their reason for not voting.

Now everything I added in paranthesis is "fact-based". It's all observed history and opinions spoken by those involved at the time. Nobody interviewed 6 million voters and asked why did they not vote for Kamala Harris, though those who claim it was racism and misogyny seem to speak as if this survey was conducted. However, we DID have a large number of people who spoke out about their reasons and convictions, before and after the vote. This took tremendous courage to do so after the vote, as they were admitting to allowing Trump to win, and they were shamed and outcast for it. Nonetheless, they still spoke out because their convictions that they "could not in good conscience vote for another genocide-enabler" was much stronger than the shame and consequences. These are the facts.

So the opinions now are divided on two sides: Those who believe the voices of those who spoke out about their moral convicitions and principles, against those who believe that Democrats (not Republicans) are racists and misogynists, and there can be no other reason.

Looking at those facts, the answer is clear to me. However, that does not mean there couldn't be more evidence that hasn't been seen. Is there actually evidence of Democrats saying that "I can't vote for a Black woman"? Besides "we all know"? None that I have seen. However, there are many Democrats who DID, ON RECORD, state that "I cannot in good conscience vote for another genocide-enabler" or that "I did not show up to vote because... (same as above)". Many bravely spoke out to that effect. So from where I stand, there is only evidence for the one opinion, and only ideology to back the other. I choose an evidence-based informed opinion, and reject an opinion based on ideological stance.

If you have EVIDENCE to show that it was indeed misogyny and racism that made Kamala Harris lose the 2024 election and caused 6 million DEMOCRAT voters to not show up, then by all means share it. Until then, I stand with the position backed by facts and evidence, and will not condone personal attacks based on an ideological position.

I also have one last thing to add.... I AM SORRY! To those I was involved in shaming for their part in letting Trump win, I APOLOGIZE! I see your solidarity now. I understand it now. I have grown.

Seeing how vehemently people are trying to twist what you did, makes me realize its importance.

#uspol #cdnpoli #solidarity #freepalestine

Alt...

Democrats Think Kamala Lost in the 2024 Election Because She Was a Black Woman. That's Not True, She Lost Because She Was a ZIONIST GENOCIDER.

So I hear Facebook is officially rolling out its plan to charge people for sharing links.... 🙄 #Meta #SocialMedia

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@personalescrito/117441728006605885

Your occasional reminder that #Meta is evil and #MarkZuckerberg is not your friend.

🤖 KI-Briefing — 16.10.2026

1. Wie Künstliche Intelligenz beim gesunden Altern helfen soll
Am Deutschen Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz (DFKI) in Kaiserslautern leitet Professor Andreas Dengel ein ...

2. Meta lanciert neue Modellgeneration für KI-Agenten
Meta stellt mit Muse Wonder und Muse Wonder Full zwei Modelle für agentische Aufgaben im privaten und beruflichen Umfeld vor.

3. Künstliche Intelligenz: Nächster Debattenhalt: KI-Blase
Nicht nur wild gewordene Agenten sorgen für Angst in der Techbranche, sondern auch, dass zu wenig Geld verdient wird.

4. Neue Cybergefahr: Wenn ein KI-Wurm unsere Geräte infiltriert – und sich selbstständig ausbreitet
KI-Modelle könnten sich künftig wie Computerviren über Fernseher und andere vernetzte Haushaltsgeräte verbreiten. Ein ...

… weitere Meldungen auf Arint.info

Meta has officially launched Muse Spark Open, a groundbreaking 816-billion parameter open-weights AI model designed for advanced coding and multimodal tasks.

#Meta #AI #MuseSparkOpen #MachineLearning #OpenSource

https://dailytechnow.com/meta-muse-spark-open-ai-model/