Don’t say ‘vote’: How Instagram hides your political posts WaPo #tech columnist Geoffrey A. Fowler investigates how #Meta’s #Instagram, #Facebook & #Threads suppress #content related to the #election. Even discussing how to #vote isn’t safe. …Fowler shows exactly how #democracy dies on Instagram.
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On their website, they're bragging about "industry support" (sic) by, and "advisors" (sic) from, #Meta and others.
Once again, this makes it clear that some people still allow that "industry" to live as their reference and benchmark in their heads.
Implicitly devaluing what can and should be created without interference by that "industry", and making it seem as if such "support" or "advice" is necessary for some kind of weird "validation" by the adults™. Their footer (see screenshot) merely lists their own Fediverse account - plus their accounts on #X (yes) and #Threads.
It's only a question of time when a few of these "advisors" will be proudly announced as new members "serving" on the team.
Instagram and Threads users are complaining about poor moderation that’s deleting accounts and posts. Instagram head Adam Mosseri says he’s “looking into it.”
OpenVibe, a new social networking client, looks to have serious potential! This "Write-once, Post-on-many" solution for Android works with: ✅ Mastodon ✅ Bluesky ✅ Nostr ☑️ Threads (coming soon) ...you can now send your post everywhere simultaneously with a single entry on OpenVibe. ...and you can have a single feed in OpenVibe with the feeds from ALL your social network accounts. #openvibe #bluesky #Mastodon #threads #nostr #socialNetworks
if again, that seems a little paranoid and hysterical: everyone needs an appreciation of what meta is, what it is driven by, and what it does. as fully evident
I forgot that Threads developed its own tagging system outside of more common hashtags used elsewhere.
I remember the back and forth about it when they rolled it out, and personally not being that bothered by it.
Most of the time, tags are used within a sentence so it isn't noticeable. However when added to the end of a post like this example and pushed to the Fediverse, the result can seem confusing.
WOW… und Meta nennt sich Hightech-Inovatiev?!?? Passwörter werden heutzutage doch mittels der Argon2 oder min. unter der bcrypt Funktion und nicht nur als Hash-String gespeichert.
«Wegen Passwörtern im Klartext – Meta muss 91 Millionen Euro zahlen: Die irische Datenschutzaufsichtsbehörde sanktioniert den hinter Facebook, Instagram, Threads und WhatsApp stehenden Konzern Meta.»
CEO of Meta, which recently joined the newly founded #SocialWebFoundation, thinks that "individual creators or publishers tend to overestimate the value of their specific content".
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says the company could strike partnerships for “valuable” content to train AI tools, but that it could walk away from paying others.
"I think the next logical jump on that is like [...] “Okay, and we’re also going to show you content that’s generated by an AI system that might be something that you’re interested in.”"
This is great, actually. We're soon going to be free from the oppression of social media.
CEO of Meta, which recently joined the newly founded #SocialWebFoundation, suggests that there is "no causal connection" between social media and teen mental health.
In an interview with The Verge, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says that existing research shows there isn’t a causal connection linking social media platforms and teen mental health.
