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#Meta will analyze all your posts (and images, videos) in detail to find clues about your age.
"This includes using AI technology to analyze entire profiles for contextual clues — such as birthday celebrations or mentions of school grades — to determine if an account likely belongs to someone underage."
Instead of removing known scam which is harmful to all ages.

La oficina del fiscal general de Texas ha abierto una investigación contra #meta #whatsapp por la posible capacidad de Meta de saltarse el cifrado y acceder al contenido de los mensajes supuestamente cifrados

Colour me skeptical, but #Meta potentially faces USD 1.2 trillion damages in a #California trial that could change #SocialMedia forever.

No more doom scrolling or Instagram Stories? A Meta trial loss could end the social media we know
"These trials are often compared to the Big Tobacco lawsuits of the 90s, and the outcome will likely be analogous as well," one analyst told CNBC.

Real-time GPU-accelerated assistive navigation using Meta Aria smart glasses #Meta

Real-Time GPU-Accelerated Assistive Navigation Using Meta Aria Smart Glasses
For the 2.2 billion people worldwide affected by visual impairment, navigating a sidewalk, crossing a street, or entering an unfamiliar building remain daily challenges that erode independence and quality of life. Existing assistive systems either lack real-time...

"The problem isn't one bad actor with one pair of glasses. It's the combination: hardware engineered for unobtrusiveness, a platform that monetizes engagement, and comment sections that stay open like wounds. Until product design and platform enforcement treat that persistence as their problem to solve — not the subject's — the "#RizzCam" ecosystem keeps running."
#Meta

Schon wieder einen #ColdCall von Elina, der digitalen Assistentin von #Meta bekommen.
Kann man das nicht abstellen. Es ist rechtswidrig.
Wenn ein kleines Geschäft das macht, dann wird es sofert nach TKG mit einem Bußgeld überzogen. wenn Meta das macht, dann macht es damit einfach weiter - weil es kein…

Hackers Simply Asked #MetaAI to Give Them Access to High-Profile #Instagram Accounts. It Worked

Hundreds #protest #Meta ’s plan for massive data centre in northern #Alberta county

US-Techkonzerne wie #Microsoft und #Meta haben laut Medienberichten Namen niederländischer Beamtinnen, #Wissenschaftler und Regulierer an einen US-Senatsausschuss weitergegeben.
Die niederl…

US tech firms share Dutch regulator officials’ names with senate - DutchNews.nl
Companies such as Microsoft and Meta have shared the names of civil servants and academics working on European tech regulation with a senate committee investigating “tech censorship” or “jawboning”, news magazine Vrij Nederland reported on Friday. The cabinet has described the news as “extremely worrying”, given that the named officials could now face travel bans or even sanctions, Vrij Nederland said. “If you want to discuss policy, then you do it with us, not over the backs of c…

"When Mark Lanier and his young client Kaley faced the tech giants in an LA courtroom earlier this year, it seemed a bigger battle than David v Goliath. But they scored a landmark victory, proving that the social media giants had created ‘addiction machines’ that harmed mental health. How did they pull it off?"
Dragon Slaying. David and Goliath
#Meta

#Meta permanently suspended my #Facebook account for no specific reason, other very general messaging, just because I shared devices with my partner whose account also got suspended out of the blue.
I only keep my FB account since it's my only line of communication for my IRL people and vast m…

Wie viel Macht haben Techkonzerne heute über unseren Alltag? Plattformen wie #Google, #Meta oder #Amazon steuern nicht nur Informationsflüsse, sondern prägen auch Wahrnehmung, Verhalten und Entscheidungen.
Das Ge…

Gerade eben habe ich einen Anruf der "Digitalen Assistentin von #Instagram" erhalten, also von #Meta - ein eigentlich verbotener cold call. Aber Meta hat es ja ohnehin nicht so mit Regeln und Gesetzen.
Die Assistentin war nicht zu bremsen. Ich legte auf.
Es scheint Meta doch schlechter zu …

"The discovery of #NameTag in the live #MetaAI app shows that Meta had begun shipping face-recognition code to users' phones while publicly describing it as something the company was still “thinking through.” In April, Meta said if it were to utilize face recognition, it wouldn't be ro…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Metallica:
🎵 Seek & Destroy
#Metallica
https://zyrian.bandcamp.com/track/metallica-seek-destroy-zyrian-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/28WmNsclKsrVmdv3tDmoYU

Your reminder of what Mark Zuckerberg really is.
☑️ Zuckerberg Boasts He Exploited Staff For AI Training Before Firings
https://kotaku.com/mark-zuckerberg-meta-ai-training-firings-data-2000699185

RE: #meta

deeply conflicted to see this new "who to follow" widget pop up on mastodon.
Seems potentially useful, but feels dangerously non-fedi in that it's sort of an algorithmic recommendation. And that way leads to *gestures at various hell-sites*
#meta #mastodon

Post copied from Robin Evans @… but without the AI-generated image:
"""
LEAVING META
WITHOUT LEAVING YOUR LIFE 💎
After my posting about Meta over the past two days, one thing became very clear.
A lot of people would LIKE to leave Facebook, Instagram, or both. But parts of their actual lives are all tangled up in them.
So don’t make leaving a purity test. Start somewhere. Remove Facebook from your phone and use it only on your laptop, or better still, only on your desktop when you genuinely need it.
STOP POSTING TO META. STOP FEEDING THE TIMELINE.
Move conversations with real friends to your email, text, Signal, phone calls, Mastodon account, or wherever works for you, away from Meta.
TELL PEOPLE WHERE ELSE THEY CAN EASILY FIND YOU.
If you run a business, start putting your email address and/or website URL everywhere you promote your business so Facebook is not your only front door.
Download anything you actually want to keep. Then, when you’re ready, deactivate or delete what you no longer need.
Maybe you keep Messenger for Aunt Doris. Maybe you keep Instagram because your local café apparently believes websites were abolished in 2014.
Fine.
The point isn’t ideological cleanliness.
THE POINT IS REDUCING YOUR DEPENDENCE.
Every conversation you move elsewhere is one conversation Meta no longer owns the doorway to.
YOU DON'T HAVE TO ESCAPE THE META CAGE IN ONE HEROIC LEAP.
Just start opening the door.
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#Meta #Facebook #Instagram #SocialMedia #Fediverse #people #DEPENDENCE #Messenger
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> Rund 27 Millionen US-Dollar zahlen [#Meta #TikTok #Youtube #Snap und Co.], um den ersten US-Prozess einer #Schule gegen #SocialMedia-Plattformen abzuwenden.
> Ein kleiner Schulbezirk … wirft den Konzernen vor … eine psychische #Gesundheitskrise unter #Schülern mitverursacht zu haben.
30.05.2026 @…: #Bildung #Instagram #Lehrer #Schule #Hochschule #education #school

@… reports:
> #Meta Contractors Posed as Teens to Prompt Rival Chatbots About Suicide, Sex, and Drugs
> Hundreds of contractors working on a project for Meta pretended to be kids in order to see how other chatbots like #Gemini and #ChatGPT would respond to high-risk subjects, #WIRED found.
Jun 29, 2026 #Instagram #SocialMedia #ChildProtection #Kinderschutz

it makes me sad that i grew up all my life with the core knowledge that Nazis are bad.... and that seemed to be a universally held - and upheld - truth.
But then everyone got addicted to social media platforms and now it's fine if those companies pay Nazis to post rage bait. People will just keep scrolling anyway.
#socialmedia #facebook #meta #morality #laziness #memory #nazi #neonazi #corporateMedia #Fascism

Research Paper: »Off-Platform #Tracking and Data Externalities: Evidence from #Facebook«
> Digital platforms increasingly observe individuals' browsing behavior beyond the boundaries of their own services.
Luis Aguiar, University of Zurich
Christian Peukert, University of Lausanne
Max Schäfer, University of Bologna
Hannes Ullrich, #DIW Berlin
June 05, 2026:
👉 #SocialMedia #Meta #DataProtection #GDPR #Datenschutz #TeamDatenschutz #privacy

Oh now this is the best tech news I have heard for awhile…. Is a Mega-Enron situation about to happen to a bunch of the Magnificient Seven?
“Like Enron, they’re using special purpose vehicles, or off-balance sheet arrangements such as legally distinct subsidiaries, as a way to make their financial reporting look healthier than it actually is — often a glaring sign that something is deeply amiss behind the scenes.”
Also… is this why Apple effectively outsourced its AI, rather than build its own. If so, it could be the smartest tech hedge of the century.
#apple #microsoft #meta #google #alphabet #amazon #oracle #AI #hedge #enron #debt

Aktualisierter #SocialMedia -Handlungsrahmen für öffentliche Stellen 👍 vom @…:
✅ #Kommunikation mit BürgerInnen gehört zu Aufgabenerfüllung
✅ gesellschaftl. Vorbildfunktion
✅ Verantwortlichkeit für #Datenschutz
✅ Behörden benötigen #Nutzungskonzept
✅ Cross-Media-Gebot: alternative Informations- & Kommunikationswege
👉 Stand 3. Juni 2026: #2MR #Verwaltung #DigitaleSouveranitat #Demokratie #Meta #Instagram