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- Morning_star1
If the service is free, YOU are the product.
This is a tired and laboured point but it's amazing how many people just don't seem to understand the concept. All those lovely likes and friend requests that make you feel like you actually mean something to someone come at a price and that's the deal.
It's a fantastic business concept that fundamentally exploits human insecurity in return for data. If you don't like it don't use them, pick up the phone, write a letter, have video call and maybe when all this plague shit is over we can meet people IRL.
- sted0
- Gardener7
I just got a 3 day posting ban on FB for posting this pic, fucking ridiculous
- I guess I should know better but I'm bad to the boneGardener
- this is revoltingbezoar
- it's a simple request godammitGardener
- Paging nudesAQUTE
- Meanwhile fake news, misinformation and disinformation runs rampant on Facebook, with no mechanisms to stop it – Fuck Zuck!utopian
- it's a sign... to delete facebookpedromendez
- but I use it to plug the show, it is handy but this sort of crap just winds me up... plus how will I keep in touch with all me ex's?!Gardener
- new justice system. run by botsBeeswax
- yep, it was pulled in under 3 seconds, quite impressive reallyGardener
- I feel you. I got banned from QBN for posting this:
https://i.imgur.com/…
Practically the same message.palimpsest - and where is chukkaphob?sted
- spooky, is the Hollywood sign taboo?!Gardener
- Haha, you should be banned from the internet and literally thrown in jail!Ianbolton
- I don't think people are literally THROWN in jail.
Excuse me, just being a cunt.palimpsest - I don’t see the big deal. What am I missing?monospaced
- it's a big deal to abuse the Hollywood sign, that's it, I... must... stop... abusing sign...Gardener
- how dare you post this on QBN? yoou must be banned from on here too!Krassy
- grafician1
"taurath 3 hours ago [–]
It’s you vs a team of 200 PhDs who’s entire job is to make you spend more time on the platform and make more clicks. It’s invasive marketing on a level that has never occurred in human history, and also happens to have the effect of amplifying the craziest voices. It’s hijacking people’s psychology, creating fights when peace would be better, because fights are less boring. And you pay for it, just with the dissolution of society where you might’ve talked to your neighbors. How many families have been split because of Facebook radicalization of conservatives? Mine for one.
I believe strongly that the social media and internet ad business models are at best amoral but responsible for the second order effects, much as coal plants are responsible for pollution. At worst they are making money off of making people crazy by giving every crazy person a megaphone and making sure you have to hear from them."
- it's easy enough to deal with all that bollocks, just don't use the fucking thing.hans_glib
- sted1
Report reveals top ‘superspreaders’ of health misinformation on Facebook.
- utopian2
A recently fired Facebook data scientist wrote a lengthy memo detailing the tech giant's failures to stop election interference in countries around the world, per a Buzzfeed report.
The employee, whose job was to find "inauthentic activity," wrote that the company was slow to take action against fake accounts used to manipulate political outcomes in nations like India, Ukraine, Bolivia, and many more.
Instead, Sophie Zhang wrote Facebook prioritized its public image in choosing which fake networks to investigate, even if the "disproportionate impact" of real-world problems would go ignored.
The report is the latest example of Facebook's long-standing struggle to stop the spread of misinformation and election interference and to prioritize content moderation on its platform.
- lolSalarrue
- LOL at the fingers.BusterBoy
- lollhelloeatbreathedrive
- grafician0
"Facebook must be broken up, the US government says in a groundbreaking lawsuit"
"Dozens of states and the federal government sued Facebook (FB) on Wednesday in twin antitrust lawsuits, alleging that the social media giant has abused its dominance in the digital marketplace and engaged in anticompetitive behavior.
The Federal Trade Commission, in particular, is seeking a permanent injunction in federal court that could, among other things, require the company to divest assets, including Instagram and WhatsApp, effectively breaking up Facebook as we know it. The agency also wants to require Facebook to seek prior notice and approval for future mergers and acquisitions.
"Personal social networking is central to the lives of millions of Americans," said Ian Conner, Director of the FTC's Bureau of Competition, in a statement. "Facebook's actions to entrench and maintain its monopoly deny consumers the benefits of competition. Our aim is to roll back Facebook's anticompetitive conduct and restore competition so that innovation and free competition can thrive.""- I would personally love to Facebook go belly up. Fuck Zuck, Facebook and their Fake News.utopian
- Yup, fuck Facebookbabydick
- So if they split Facebook, what company will Zuck be CEO of? The "old" Facebook? Hahahaha deservedgrafician
- also he will own only Fb stock? Instagram and Whatsapp will get IPOs? interesting timesgrafician
- utopian1
Bannon's beheading comments aren't enough to ban him from Facebook
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told staff at a company meeting on Thursday that Steve Bannon suggesting that Dr. Anthony Fauci and FBI Director Christopher Wray should be beheaded was not enough of a violation of Facebook's rules to permanently suspend the former White House chief strategist from the platform, according to a Facebook employee.
- You've really got to squint pretty hard to make this an open call for "beheadings". He didn't even use that word. He said 'Heads on Pikes" --a common metaphormonNom
- video: https://www.cnbc.com…monNom
- I have no opinion of Bannon, but come the fuck on. This is the line for deplatforming now?monNom
- (from youtube and twitter, not facebook, evidently)monNom
- Post something about beheading the president on Facebook. 1) You will be banned from Facebook 2) The Secret Service will be paying you a visit.utopian
- LOL@ that pic its awesomeBennn
- BusterBoy4
The new layout looks shite.
- like twitter nowtrooperbill
- dumbed down it to a useless garbage
perfect.sted
- sted4
entire platform is down in multiple locations.
ppl are reporting blank screens, dead api etc.
this page is a lie.
- Ramanisky20
Facebook initially refused to remove the video, saying it did not breach the company’s own Community Standards.
Now It's All Over TikTok.
- Ramanisky2-5
- He went out with a bang!utopian
- ffs utopian. "McNutt suffered from PTSD'tank02
- Not sure why I read that, or why you linked it. No benefit. Anyway - he killed himself in front of his Mother? Fuck him then.Nairn
- This is sad, definitely. RIP. But, on the other hand it’s also fucking brutal to kill yourself in front of your friends and family.nb
- Facebook Inc loves this shit, as well as the millions of Russian Botsutopian
- Fuck You Facebook!utopian
- #DeleteFacebookRamanisky2
- Yeah, I didn't need to see this at all.face_melter
- If this guy was in his right mind he would not have killed himself. Judging him for doing it in front of family is heartlessGnash
- ^ Exactly Gnash. I think the horror for family members seeing it remotely and not being able to do anything will haunt them for generations.PhanLo
- Have to agree with gnash 100% on thatfadein11
- I'm a fairly big supporter of one's right to suicide - and I don't think you necesarily need to be of 'right mind' (condescending?) to choose to do it.Nairn
- Desperation can be internalised and you write a note and fuck off to the woods to do it, alone. Doing it like this is.. well, I'm not going to waste time on it.Nairn
- If I'm being generous, i'd suggest he'd had a bit too much to drink and wasn't coherent. So, yeah - another win for the right to own guns.Nairn
- nngh "and I don't think you necesarily need NOT be of 'right mind' to do it". ffs.Nairn
- Sitting here calmly deciding how you would end your own life isn’t quite the situation he was in, though. People don’t rationally choose to die this wayGnash
- I might perhaps have considered things in greater detail elsetimes. He spent an hour online drinking and looking for attention.
He had it in mind, I suspect.Nairn - Sad.
R. Budd Dwyer was the first to do this.
"Hey. Man, Nice Shot".ideaist
- utopian4
Facebook Could Face $500 Billion in Fines For Illegally Collecting Biometric Data Through Instagram
- Ramanisky21
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/amp…
“An event by a Kenosha militia Facebook group calling for armed people to defend the city was flagged by users *455 times.*
That is a huge number — 66% of *all event reports* that day
But *four different* Facebook moderators decided not to take it down”
- sted0
Today, we’re announcing some important updates to how people log into Oculus devices, while still keeping their VR profile. Starting in October 2020:
Everyone using an Oculus device for the first time will need to log in with a Facebook account.
If you’re an existing user and already have an Oculus account, you’ll have the option to log in with Facebook and merge your Oculus and Facebook accounts.
If you’re an existing user and choose not to merge your accounts, you can continue using your Oculus account for two years.
- :Fsted
- I called this shit from day one.section_014
- Before we started VR dev work a while ago we debated which system to buy. Bosses wanted Oculus becasue of cost. I told them to fuck off for this precise reason.face_melter
- Anybody surprised? Didn't think so...grafician
- utopian2
A Facebook recruiter filed a federal complaint alleging the company is biased against Black employees and job candidates.
A Facebook recruiter and two rejected job applicants filed a complaint Thursday with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission accusing the company of discriminating against Black workers, as first reported by The Washington Post.
The three workers, all of whom are Black, alleged that Facebook has a pattern of "racial discrimination in hiring, evaluations, promotions, and pay" for Black employees and job applicants.
"There may be Black Lives Matter posters on Facebook's walls, but Black workers don't see that phrase reflecting how they are treated in Facebook's own workplace," the complaint says.
Facebook has faced accusations about racism within its walls previously, including from a Black former executive, anonymous Black employees, and other Black recruiters.
The company is also facing growing pressure from employees, civil rights groups, and more than 500 advertisers to take a stronger stance on moderating hate speech on its platform.
- shapesalad-4
redesigned, dark mode added:
- A screen filled with underinflated truck tires. Looks just as dated as the Apple iOS interface.utopian
- I never understood the obsession with dark mode.CyBrainX
- Keep the "old" version when you're asked, this new version looks dumb af on a big screengrafician
- Have they've used this opportunity to change all the page/event/profile image sizes again?webazoot
- can they go darker mode to where it disappears completely?Krassy
- Light mode looks like Twittermort_
- QBN still has no dark mode after a decade of begging. Thanks.NBQ00
- a decade of begging? pleasemonospaced
- eewwdbloc
- mg330
Anyone else have the latest FB desktop redesign rolled out to you?
It looks like a child designed this.
- not to mention is so clunky.. so so slowautoflavour
- yup, totally infantilerenderedred
- Browser or app?BusterBoy
- Yeah, I switched back to classic modepablo28
- it has a MySpace feel. LOLKrassy
- I had it about 2 weeks ago for one single day, and the next day it changed back. I hate it.elahon
- It's been around for a few months right? Does look a bit like MySpace lol.yuekit
- Seen it, haven't tried to use it. Impresive they've made it worse if thats the case.webazoot
- looks nonsense, and no one i know uses it.shapesalad
- Yeah, it's clunky but why are people so forgiving of Instagram?CyBrainX
- haha i think theyre trying to make it appealing to the kiddosmantrakid
- The kids like (or are used to) simplicity. This is a throwback to the days when web apps were like managing a spreadsheet.yuekit
- Who cares anymore? Facebook era is long gonemekk
