“LinkedIn ran experiments on more than 20 million users over five years that, while intended to improve how the platform worked for members, could have affected some people’s livelihoods, according to a new study.”
“After Apple updated its privacy rules in 2021 to easily allow iOS users to opt out of all tracking by third-party apps, so many people opted out that the Electronic Frontier Foundation reported that Meta lost $10 billion in revenue over the next year.”
“A Texas law that bans social media companies from censoring users’ viewpoints is constitutionally allowed, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Friday, in a blow to Facebook, Twitter and Google.”
“Under the FBI collaboration operation, somebody at Facebook red-flagged these supposedly subversive private messages over the past 19 months and transmitted them in redacted form to the domestic terrorism operational unit at FBI headquarters in Washington, DC, without a subpoena.”
“I’m reminded of one conversation with an executive when I said, ‘I am confident that we have a foreign agent,’ and their response was, ‘Well, since we already have one, what does it matter if we have more? Let’s keep growing the office,” Zatko said during the hearing.
“The judge concluded that Meta repeatedly and intentionally violated the law and must pay penalties. The exact amount of penalties will be determined at a later date. Under state law, the court can assess a civil penalty of up to $10,000 per violation. In addition, because Meta’s violations are found to have been intentional, the court may triple the amount of the judgment as punitive damages. By law, campaign finance penalties go to the State Public Disclosure Transparency Account.”
“Beyond DOJ, Meta identified 32 additional federal officials including White House Officials who communicated with them, and YouTube identified 11 federal officials including White House Officials who communicated with them, many of whom were not disclosed by DOJ.”
“Dozens of federal officials across multiple agencies within the Biden administration communicated extensively with social media companies to coordinate censorship of information, according to internal documents released by Republican Attorneys General Eric Schmitt of Missouri and Jeff Landry of Louisiana.”
“Sens. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Ron Johnson, R-Wis., are demanding Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg turn over all communications between Facebook and the FBI, Department of Justice, and other government agency employees relating to Hunter Biden.”
“We have built this from the ground up, brick-by-brick, so that we can’t be canceled. But the two companies that we have to work with specifically for the apps, which is the Google Play Store and Apple to be in their app store – everyone is beholden to them.”
“Meta Platforms Inc.’s Facebook has agreed in principle to settle a lawsuit in the San Francisco federal court seeking damages for letting third parties, including Cambridge Analytica, access the private data of users, a court filing showed.”
“Last week, TikTok boasted in a press release about the creation of its new Elections Center. The center will influence American elections on two fronts: by providing voter information and countering ‘misinformation’…
The first front means TikTok will have voting profiles on all American users who click through the Elections Center, and the second front means a Chinese company will be policing our political discourse on the single most popular social network.”
“TikTok’s latest censor blitz came just three weeks after the platform permanently banned MRCTV on May 26. TikTok reduced the initial sentence from a permanent ban to a weeklong suspension, but one week after the suspension ended, the Chinese-Communist Party-tied platform removed MRCTV. Between Aug. 25, 2021 and June 15, 2022, TikTok censored MRCTV a total of 45 times. Forty-two of those cases were in 2022 alone. When the platform banned MRCTV the second time, the account had amassed over 79,000 followers.”
“An analysis of the app’s source code reveals that it checks users’ location and insists on access to contacts.”
Delaware Court of Chancery Chancellor Kathaleen McCormick ruled in favor of an expedited five-day trial, to take place in October, after a hearing conducted via teleconference.
A sub-Reddit group moderator told its community last week that Reddit admins provided a “list of some things that will result in removals and possibly a ban,” including “misgendering a trans person,” “deadnaming a trans person,” “referring to being trans as a ‘mental illness,'” and using “‘Groomer’ to refer to LGBT.”
Now a judge in a specialized business court in Delaware must determine whether the world’s richest man can exit the $44 billion deal, despite a contract binding him to complete the acquisition barring a major change to the company’s business.
“Aaron is CIA. Or at least he was until July 2019, when he left his job as a senior analytic manager at the agency to become senior product policy manager for misinformation at Meta, the company that owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp.”
“Sometimes Twitter has ignored Mr. Musk’s requests, sometimes it has rejected them for reasons that appear to be unjustified, and sometimes it has claimed to comply while giving Mr. Musk incomplete or unusable information,” the letter continues.
“Elon Musk’s $44 billion acquisition of Twitter is a step closer to completion as the regulatory waiting period under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 officially expired on Friday.”
“The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday blocked a Texas law that bars large social media companies from banning or censoring users based on ‘viewpoint,’ siding with two technology industry groups that have argued that the Republican-backed measure would turn platforms into ‘havens of the vilest expression imaginable.’ “
“In response to government requests, Facebook states that it may produce any of the following data: Basic subscriber information such as name, length of service, payment information and email addresses; records pertaining to account activity such as message headers and IP addresses’; and the stored contents of an account such as messages, photos, videos, timeline posts and location information.”
“20% fake/spam accounts, while 4 times what Twitter claims, could be *much* higher. My offer was based on Twitter’s SEC filings being accurate. Yesterday, Twitter’s CEO publicly refused to show proof of <5%. This deal cannot move forward until he does." - Elon Musk - Twitter
“We’re actually censoring the right and not the left.”
– Twitter employee to undercover #ProjectVeritas journalist
“Needless to say, people on the left were not very happy about Musk’s comments.”
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“Independent journalist Alex Berenson sued Twitter after the platform banned him over what it said was Covid “misinformation.” On Friday, a judge ruled against Twitter’s motion to dismiss the case, meaning the lawsuit can proceed.”
“What was striking was the attitude of employees that the actual owners of the company were out of line in seeking a return to a free speech corporate philosophy.”
“Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter has revealed how terrified the elites are of freedom of speech.”
“Civics doesn’t exist anymore. They don’t know … ‘Free speech? What the f— does that mean? It hurt my feelings.’ That’s what matters to them.
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