#News: #Facebook’s #AI under testing broke containment and cracked some other companies’ #security
on 02026-08-10the Trinidad, Texas water quality post that got its author thrown in jail. #human-rights #censorship #USA #Facebook
on 02026-05-23Trinidad, Texas water quality. #human-rights #censorship #USA #Facebook
on 02026-05-23#News that #Facebook is shutting down #LGBT and #abortion information accounts, including in countries where they’re legal. #censorship #human-rights
on 02025-12-11January #news about #Facebook employees getting mad because people will be allowed to use Facebook to say LGBTQA+ people are “mentally ill” #censorship #human-rights #LGBT
on 02025-12-11#USA #politics of #Facebook providing communication for online #slavery markets. #human-rights
on 02025-11-27#Facebook created an #AI #PAC "META California" for #USA #politics
on 02025-10-21#Facebook eliminating its so-called “DEI” (“diversity, equity, and inclusion”) programs.
on 02025-01-10#News #video from #Al-Jazeera about #Facebook #censorship on #Israel, quoting Human Rights Watch, and also interviewing two ex-Facebook workers fired for their Palestinian advocacy (Saima Akhter and one other), as well as Palestinian photojournalist Motaz Azaiza, who says 40% of his #Instagram posts since October 02023 had been censored. Mostly #interview and stock footage. #human-rights
on 02024-10-20#Facebook #USA #censorship #politics of Hunter Biden’s laptop and #covid
on 02024-08-27How #Facebook disabled the #Chromium #JS console in 02013 (as an anti-self-xss #security measure) until the Chromium team fixed it
on 02023-12-06#video of a talk by #Facebook people about how they built Fecebutt Messenger with #Erlang
on 02023-07-04Singapore orders #Facebook #censorship of blogger Alex Tan.
on 02019-11-28Against #censorship of #Alex-Jones by #Facebook and others.
on 02018-08-12#Facebook #censorship of medical safety information about breast-cancer checks. #human-rights
on 02017-01-05#Facebook #advertising targeting controversially helps #racism to manipulate #USA #politics and discriminate in housing ads.
on 02016-11-21Vachani of Power Ventures is cleared of #spam charges from #Facebook by a #USA appeals court
on 02016-10-14#Facebook #censorship of the #USA Dakota Access protest livestreams. #human-rights
on 02016-10-06#pdf transcript of a discussion about whether #Facebook has a legal obligation to use #censorship against #terrorism.
on 02016-09-23why fighting #spam on #social-media is hard and leads to things like the #Facebook #censorship incidents, considered as “false positives”.
on 02016-09-23grauniad comments on #Facebook #censorship of aftenposten’s republication of the famous photo "the terror of war" of kim phúc running naked and burned by napalm in #Vietnam
on 02016-09-23Aftenposten on #Facebook #censorship of their republication of the famous photo "the terror of war" of kim phúc running naked and burned by napalm in #Vietnam
on 02016-09-23Brief #Facebook #censorship of #Wikileaks links last week
on 02016-08-01#Facebook #censorship of a #politics account that posts about #racism
on 02016-07-11#Facebook #censorship of #marijuana #journalism impairs #human-rights. “Your ad wasn’t approved because the body/title text used in the ad promotes the use or sale of illegal #drugs.”
on 02016-07-11#Facebook exercised #censorship against the video of the #Philando-Castile #Minneapolis #extrajudicial-execution, temporarily deleting the video and the entire account of his girlfriend, who filmed the #police killing him as his four-year-old daughter was in the back seat. “It’s okay mommy. It’s okay, I’m right here with you,” said the four-year-old. “We’re very sorry that the video was temporarily inaccessible. It was down due to a technical glitch and restored as soon as we were able to investigate,” a Facebook spokesperson said. #human-rights #right-to-record #death
on 02016-07-07Jillian York’s article about #Facebook #censorship and #outing. #human-rights
on 02016-06-29#Facebook is trying to discourage people from using the web
on 02016-06-29#Facebook uses #phone #geolocation information to suggest “friends”.
on 02016-06-28Violet Blue, commenting on the news that #Facebook uses #phone #geolocation information to suggest “friends,” says, “Seriously, I’ve had enough reporters ask me, freaked out, why Facebook is recommending their protected sources. Suck it up & stop using it.”
on 02016-06-27#Facebook exercises #censorship against English #neonazi anti-Muslim group Britain First.
on 02016-02-01#facebook in #nymwars (on #pseudonymity and #anonymity)
on 02015-12-16RU Sirius banned from #facebook for #pseudonymity.
on 02015-10-29A 2014 discussion about #reactive programming with #Facebook’s React and how it relates to #incremental computation and #FRP and #temporal #logic. Neel Krishnaswami (#neelk) links his paper on “higher-order reactive programming without spacetime leaks”.
on 02015-08-10#Zeynep’s comments on #Facebook’s #filter-bubble #paper. She says the most important finding is that newsfeed selection very strongly influenced click probability.
on 02015-08-10