Instagram Videos Sexualizing Children Shown To Adults Who Follow Preteen Influencers ☞ ZeroHedge
“According to the the Wall Street Journal, Instagram allowed pedophiles to search for content with explicit hashtagssuch as #pedowhore and #preteensex, which were then used to connect them to accounts that advertise child-sex material for sale from users going under names such as “little slut for you.”
And according to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, Meta accounted for more than 85% of child pornography reports…”
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Russia’s bid to arrest Meta spokesperson revealed amid media crackdown ☞ Al Jazeera – Qatar
“Andy Stone, a spokesperson of US tech giant Meta Platforms Inc, the parent company of Instagram and Facebook, is wanted on unspecified criminal charges, Russian news wires reported late on Sunday, referring to an Interior Ministry database.
Russia added Meta to its list of “terrorists and extremist” organisations last year.”
Meta Downplayed Harmful Content on Its Platforms, According to Complaint ☞ Business Insider
“For example, Meta said that for every 10,000 content views on its platforms only 10 or 11 would contain hate speech, or about 0.10% to 0.11%, per data for July through September 2020 in its CSER report…”
“An average of 19.3% of users on Instagram and 17.6% of users on Facebook reported witnessing hate speech or discrimination on the platforms according to a TRIPS report from May 2020…”
Meta collected children’s data from Instagram accounts, unsealed court document alleges ☞ CNN
“Since at least 2019, Meta has knowingly refused to shut down the majority of accounts belonging to children under the age of 13 while collecting their personal information without their parents’ consent, a newly unsealed court document from an ongoing federal lawsuit against the social media giant alleges.”
Costco accused of sharing users’ health data with Meta ☞ The Seattle Times
“Costco represents to patients that its website, which includes its pharmacy webpages, is a secure platform. Yet, Costco fails to disclose or omits the fact that it shares patient online activities and personal health information with Meta via Pixel.”
Meta Nick Clegg says its AI trains on your Facebook and Instagram posts ☞ Axios
“Details: After Meta unveiled its new AI assistants last week, its president of global affairs, Nick Clegg, told Reuters that the ‘vast majority‘ of the training data used to develop them came from publicly available posts, including on Facebook and Instagram.
“We’ve tried to exclude datasets that have a heavy preponderance of personal information.”
A Burmese hip-hop artist is jailed for 20 years for criticizing Myanmar’s military leaders ☞ The Independent – UK
“In a livestream on his facebook page, he alleged they had failed to supply enough electricity to Yangon, Myanmar’s biggest city… he called Min Aung Hlaing ‘incompetent’ and the electricity minister a ‘fool’…
Five days after his arrest, state-run media announced he had been taken into custody for incitement and spreading propaganda that could destabilize the state.”
Meta’s Threads Is Already Unraveling ☞ Time
“It appeared that Zuckerberg, the once-and-future king of social media, had launched a legitimate challenge to Twitter’s dominance in the midst of ongoing turmoil at the Elon Musk-owned company.
Exactly six weeks later, Threads is fading fast.”
FBI agent lied about knowledge of Hunter Biden laptop, talks with Facebook ☞ New York Post
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“A Facebook employee said in an Oct. 15, 2020, message that he had spoken with Chan, who said he was ‘up to speed’ on the FBI’s probe of Hunter’s laptop and ‘that there was no current evidence to suggest any foreign connection or direction of the leak.’”
The Post’s FB traffic tanked after WH aide Rob Flaherty’s false claim of ‘churning out articles every day about people dying’ from COVID vax ☞ New York Post
“The suppression drive from the Biden White House came just five months after social media networks — including Facebook and Twitter — censored The Post’s coverage of Joe Biden’s links to his son Hunter’s business dealings in China and Ukraine that cited files on Hunter’s abandoned laptop.”