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- grafician-1
So Facebook just cancelled links in Instagram Messages for European users because the EU called on them to not merge their messenger apps...
Dicks...
- grafician0
- That's the head of instagram now, basically misleading/straight up lying lol
Disgustinggrafician - Everybody knows there were no small businesses before Facebook...inv
- For small businesses they basically killed organic growth so everybody pay them to show content to the users lolgrafician
- basic bribery and extortion from Facebookgrafician
- I recommend for small brands to just ignore Facebook as a platform, maybe just use Instagram - still, but not for long, as Zuck destroying the reach there toografician
- On instagram you get like under 10% organic reach! So if you have 1000 followers, only under 100 see your contentgrafician
- I see in my feed like literally basic normal people promoting their posts so others can see their painting or whatever art they makegrafician
- That's the head of instagram now, basically misleading/straight up lying lol
- 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
it isn't hard to figure out why are these ads in print
- jtb265
If Facebook wants to sell my data to small businesses, and let’s be clear that’s what their ad platform does, then they should cut me in. That’s a moral issue. I generate data for these monolithic corporations all day every day. As I live and breath I make data that is consumed by FB, Amazon, etc. they profit off of that data. They profit off my life.
If copyright laws were modernized, I would own all the data I generate. Apple is right to put that ownership in my hands as much as possible. Not Tim Cook. Not Marks. Not Elons.
Shareholders don’t care, but this is honestly theft. When Facebook profits off of recording 98% of all human speech and god knows how much else, they shouldn’t be protected from liability for broadcasting garbage to the progenitors of their wealth.
I say challenge FBs section 203. They shouldn’t have it both ways. They shouldn’t be able to steal my data and then claim no responsibility for what happens on their platform. Small businesses with young platforms deserve section 203. Mega conglomerates should be held to a higher standard. Using small businesses as a shield is a rank PR stunt.
- LOL
YOURE SERIOUS?!monospaced - They steal your data because you give it to them for FREE. I sorta agree with you but what would you get if the platform was $10 a month?Hayoth
- You generate data the same way a cow generates CO2, it's only a byproduct of your online activity. You are not creating data, it's not a copyright issue.palimpsest
- Facebook harvests our data/manure to sell to other companies which in turn propose to sell us shit. It's the circle of life.palimpsest
- i'm with jtb26, tho they don't steal your data, they do monetise it. and they should give us a cut of that income, after all without their users they're nothinhans_glib
- it doesn't need to be much, but it should be something to say "thanks mate for your contribution". until they do that they can fuck right off.hans_glib
- That would be the cherry on top. Get paid for your data that gets used to deliver ads to sell you shit that you end up buying in the end.palimpsest
- Your cut gets included in the cost. Everybody wins.palimpsest
- This is Apple allowing a user to simply opt in or opt out. Why would anyone argue with this? You opt in when you join Facebook and this is a reminder.ideaist
- It’s basic consumer rights.ideaist
- This is a more reasonable argument. Like what what they do with cookies. It should be your choice. We own, and should own up to, our choices.palimpsest
- I've always been pretty underwhelmed at the level of targeted advertising all this data collection produces. Maybe I just don't use social media enough, but Iyuekit
- feel like most of the ads I see are just basic retargeting based on ecommerce sites I've already visited.yuekit
- Only two years ago I started seeing ads targeted to my interests, and like you're saying they were based on products I had already seen.palimpsest
- It's only been this year that I have been offered products that I wasn't aware of and interest me. It's been a welcome change.palimpsest
- your analogy is bad and you should feel bad. no cattle farmer would give away manure.imbecile
- In my analogy we are the cows, not the farmer. Get hooked on phonics.palimpsest
- you've gone full trumptard. have a nice dayimbecile
- Touché.palimpsest
- Mono, I’m hyperbolic. shifting the Overton window.jtb26
- LOL
- sted0
- 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
- 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
- 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
- grafician0
BREAKING: FTC and 48 American states launch antitrust lawsuit against Facebook.
- 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
- sted4
entire platform is down in multiple locations.
ppl are reporting blank screens, dead api etc.
this page is a lie.
- BusterBoy4
The new layout looks shite.
- like twitter nowtrooperbill
- dumbed down it to a useless garbage
perfect.sted
- 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
- 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
- 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”
- sted1
Report reveals top ‘superspreaders’ of health misinformation on Facebook.
