⚠️ IMPORTANT FEDIPACT ANNOUNCEMENT!!!⚠️

THREADS HAS CHANGED DOMAINS TO THREADS.COM!!!!!

in a deleted article techcrunch confirmed threads would be moving from threads.net to threads.com

zero clue why it was deleted because threads.net already redirects to threads.com as of right now

sooooo yeah!!! new domain to block. check out fedipact.online/why if you're wondering why

#fediblock #FediPact #meta #threads

"Mark #Zuckerberg Says #SocialMedia Is Over

During testimony at #Meta’s antitrust trial, the #Facebook founder’s argument was, in so many words, that platforms like his are not what they used to be"

Huh

That's so weird Mark

And who is one of those primarily responsible for the #enshittification of centralized corporate social media?

Do you have any idea who that might be?

🤔

newyorker.com/culture/infinite…

"According to Wynn-Williams, Facebook actually built an extensive censorship and surveillance system for the Chinese state – spies, cops and military – to use against Chinese Facebook users, and FB users globally. They promise to set up caches of global FB content in China that the Chinese state can use to monitor all Facebook activity, everywhere, with the implication that they'll be able to spy on private communications, and censor content for non-Chinese users.

Despite all of this, Facebook is never given access to China. However, the Chinese state is able to use the tools Facebook built for it to attack independence movements, the free press and dissident uprisings in Hong Kong and Taiwan."

pluralistic.net/2025/04/23/zuc…

#SocialMedia #Facebook #Meta #BigTech #Oligopolies #Surveillance #Censorship #Privacy #HumanRights

Hello Fediverse admins, Meta's platform Threads has now switched to a new domain so it's time to add this to your defederation list:

threads.com

Here's how to defederate a server from the Mastodon admin interface: fedi.tips/how-to-defederate-fe…

(via @TechCrunch)

#Meta #Threads #FreeFediverse #Zuckerberg #FediPact

How to block (defederate) a server on Mastodon | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse

An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediverse

^fedi.tips

Meta on tuonut vihdoin mainokset Threadsiin

Threads-pomon mukaan mainokset "parantavat palvelun käyttökokemusta".

Jos Meta toteuttaa mainokset samalla tavalla Threadsissa kuin ne on toteutettu Instagramissa ja Facebookissa, niitä on käytännössä mahdotonta estää, ainakaan kokonaan.

dawn.fi/uutiset/2025/04/23/thr…

#threads #sosiaalinenmedia #mainonta #uutiset #meta

Mainokset tulivat Threadsiin - "Parantavat käyttökokemusta"

Mainokset ovat saapuneet Metan omistamaan Threadsiin. Palvelu avattiin kesällä 2023, mutta se on ollut täysin mainoksista vapaa aina vuoden 2025 alkuun saakka.

^{Petteri Pyyny (AfterDawn)}

#EU fines #Apple €500M and #Meta €200M for breaking #Europe’s #digital rules

source: politico.eu/article/eu-fines-a…

Apple faces a €500 million fine for breaching the regulation’s rules for app stores, while Meta drew a penalty of €200 million for its "pay or consent" advertising model, which requires that European Union users pay to access ad-free versions of #Facebook and #Instagram.

#internet #online #news #law #economy #advertisement #monopoly #user

EU fines Apple €500M and Meta €200M for breaking Europe’s digital rules

The highly anticipated penalties are the first to be issued under the bloc’s Digital Markets Act.

^{Jacob Parry (POLITICO)}

Regulators telling people how to opt-out of data abuse instead of preventing this from happening. #dataprotection is going great in #Germany.

datenschutz-hamburg.de/news/me…

#DPA #Hamburg #GDPR #AI #LLM #MetaAI #Meta

Meta starts AI training with personal data - those who want to object must act quickly (english version)

Meta AI will be trained from May with posts, photos and comments from Facebook and Instagram users

^HmbBfDI

I frankly speaking didn't expect much from the FTC's case against Facebook. But reading through @pluralistic's piece, I think I should grab some popcorn and a cold beverage, sit back, and enjoy the show. #ftc #meta #monopoly

"Mark Zuckerberg personally lost the Facebook antitrust case" -
pluralistic.net/2025/04/18/cha…

#Meta Skips Consent, Breaches #GDPR with EU Data AI Training. 📊🚫

#DataProtectionMatters #MakePrivacyReality

Is your teenager on Instagram? 🙈 And are they using a Meta Teen's account? 🤔

If so, you should read this 👉 tuta.com/blog/instagram-teen-a…

#Meta #MetaTeens #InstagramTeens #DataPrivacy

#USpol #Media #UKpol #CANpoli #EUpol
#Meta #WhatsApp #MetaAI

"👉Meta AI: Jetzt kommt der Rechtsruck für den Whatsapp-Chatbot👈

(4/4)

... Videostatement als zu voreingenommen. Auch im Konzern selbst setzte Zuckerberg eine Reihe an Änderungen durch, etwa die Abschaffung von #Inklusionsprogrammen..."

//

Gesamter Artikel:

kn-online.de/wirtschaft/meta-a…

Meta AI: WhatsApp-Chatbot bekommt politischen Rechtsruck

Seit einigen Wochen ist die Künstliche Intelligenz von Meta in Diensten wie Whatsapp und Instagram verfügbar. Nun kündigt der Konzern an: der Chatbot soll bald politisch „ausgewogener“ sein.

^{Matthias Schwarzer (Kieler Nachrichten)}

#USpol #Media #UKpol #CANpoli #EUpol
#Meta #WhatsApp #MetaAI

"👉Meta AI: Jetzt kommt der Rechtsruck für den Whatsapp-Chatbot👈

(3/n)

... beleidigen. #LGBTQ-Personen dürften jetzt etwa als „psychisch krank“ bezeichnet werden - zudem wurde ein Paragraf gestrichen, der bislang verbot, Frauen als „Haushaltsobjekte“ zu bezeichnen.👈

Professionelle #Faktenchecks wurden in den #USA ebenfalls abgeschafft - auch diese bezeichnete #Zuckerberg in einem

#USpol #Media #UKpol #CANpoli #EUpol
#Meta #WhatsApp #MetaAI

"👉Meta AI: Jetzt kommt der Rechtsruck für den Whatsapp-Chatbot👈

(2/n)

... Wochen hatte der #Socialmedia-Konzern eine 180-Grad-Kehrtwende vollzogen und seine Plattformen mit großen Ankündigungen auf Linie des neuen #US-Präsidenten #DonaldTrump gebracht....

Auf #Facebook und #Instagram etwa wurden die #Communityregeln für die #USA angepasst. Demnach ist es 👉künftig erlaubt, bestimmte #Minderheiten zu...

#USpol #Media #UKpol #CANpoli #EUpol
#Meta #WhatsApp #MetaAI

"👉Meta AI: Jetzt kommt der Rechtsruck für den Whatsapp-Chatbot👈

(1/n)

Seit einigen Wochen ist die Künstliche Intelligenz von Meta in Diensten wie Whatsapp und Instagram verfügbar. Nun kündigt der Konzern an: der #Chatbot soll bald politisch „ausgewogener“ sein. Was zunächst harmlos klingt, könnte vor allem eines sein: ein neuer Kniefall vor der Politik #DonaldTrumps...
...
In den vergangenen...

kn-online.de/wirtschaft/meta-a…

Meta AI: WhatsApp-Chatbot bekommt politischen Rechtsruck

Seit einigen Wochen ist die Künstliche Intelligenz von Meta in Diensten wie Whatsapp und Instagram verfügbar. Nun kündigt der Konzern an: der Chatbot soll bald politisch „ausgewogener“ sein.

^{Matthias Schwarzer (Kieler Nachrichten)}

#FTC is expected to soon grill Mark #Zuckerberg in #Meta's #antitrust #trial

Source: businessinsider.com/meta-antit…

In the trial, FTC regulators want to force Meta to spin off the two services. If it succeeds, it would be a major blow to Meta's #business. #Instagram and #WhatsApp both have over 2 billion active users, according to the latest available data from those companies.

#usa #economy #politics #trump #news #facebook #internet #socialmedia

FTC to soon grill Mark Zuckerberg in Meta's antitrust trial

The FTC's case against Meta is the result of a yearslong probe into whether the social media behemoth violated US competition laws.

^{John L. Dorman (Business Insider)}

"Meta has removed over 90,000 posts since 7 October within 30 seconds of Israel making the request. In other words, no consideration was put into these decisions, the requests were just accepted. A whopping 38.8 million posts were acted upon in total, meaning they were either removed, suppressed, or the user was banned"

#Israel #Palestine #Meta #Censorship

Israel is working with Meta to censor pro-Palestinian posts across the world
councilestatemedia.uk/p/israel…

Israel is working with Meta to censor pro-Palestinian posts across the world

Did you vote for Israel to decide what you can and can't see?

^{Council Estate Media}

”Boken Mark Zuckerberg vill förbjuda”

dn.se/kultur/boken-mark-zucker…

Vi kommer nog få ny omgång rätt många fler nya kompisar till #Fediverse. Okey, långt ifrån alla som nu kommer ha fått nog, kommer hitta till #Mastodon.

Personligen är jag ännu lite mer glad att jag tog det beslutet redan 2021 - att radera mig från allting #Meta.

Vi miljoner som hittat hit bygger tillsammans på något bättre. Något som kommer visa sig vara ett hållbarare och användbarare alternativ för allt fler.

Ha en go söndag 🥰

Recension: Boken som Mark Zuckerberg försökte stoppa

Martin Jönsson läser en avslöjande insiderskildring från Facebook av Sarah Wynn-Williams.

^{Martin Jönsson (Dagens Nyheter)}

Need to find a copy of this.

Headline: 'Careless People' Is the Book About Facebook I've Wanted for a Decade

Subtitle: I've reported on #Facebook for years and have always wondered: Does Facebook care what it is doing to society? Careless People makes clear it does not.

Source: 404media.co/careless-people-is…

#Meta

'Careless People' Is the Book About Facebook I've Wanted for a Decade

I've reported on Facebook for years and have always wondered: Does Facebook care what it is doing to society? Careless People makes clear it does not.

^{Jason Koebler (404 Media)}

Analysis: Zuckerberg platforms & profits from Israel's illegal settlements

"Facebook has platformed more than 100 paid advertisements promoting illegal settlements & far-right settler activity in the occupied West Bank.

"Companies are selling homes in illegal settlements & individuals are fundraising to buy weapons for Israeli soldiers in Gaza."

aljazeera.com/features/2025/3/…

#ethniccleansing #westbanksettlements #israelicrimesagainsthumanity #uspol #facebook #meta #zuckerberg #boycottmeta #BDS .

Meta profits as ads promote illegal Israeli settlements in West Bank

Companies are selling homes in illegal settlements and individuals are fundraising to buy weapons for Israeli soldiers.

^{Caolan Magee (Al Jazeera)}