ICYMI: A California man used Facebook to sell weapons stolen from the US military – and Meta didn’t notice. Instead, an FBI informant submitted a tip. Another example of Meta ignoring illegal activity on its platforms.
Read more from @iblametom: https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2024/10/18/facebook-user-sold-stolen-us-army-weapons-fbi-says/
“Meta has known sextortion is happening at scale for so long,” said @AnnieSeifullah, a lawyer who has worked on 100+ sextortion cases. “This feels like too little, too late.”
She’s absolutely right. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/10/17/sextortion-instagram-avoid-new-tools/
Apple CEO Tim Cook appears to be courting President Trump in a bid to crush regulations & protect his company’s outsized market power. Of course, this isn’t the first time Cook has taken government affairs into his own hands… https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/17/24272648/donald-trump-tim-cook-complain-european-union-fines
Adam Mosseri's words came back to haunt Meta yesterday, when a federal judge denied the company's motion to dismiss multiple social media addiction lawsuits.
Section 230 might help platforms get away with hurting users, but it doesn't give them the freedom to lie about it.
ICYMI: Meta takes in millions of dollars from ads capitalizing on political violence, write @colinlecher and Tomas Apodaca. Read more in @CalMatters, here:
How Meta brings in millions off political violence
Ads connected to the attempted assassination of Donald Trump and Israel’s war in Gaza brought Facebook millions.
calmatters.org
Sage Women’s Center isn’t an abortion clinic or a healthcare provider, but its “intake” forms ask women for sensitive information about their faith, finances, & relationships. Read more in @_abigailbrooks's piece on anti-abortion centers & data collection:
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/womens-health/crisis-pregnancy-centers-forms-privacy-abortion-rcna172566
Over a year ago, @RepSarbanes asked TikTok CEO Shou Chew if “time limits” actually worked for teens. It was a great question – and Chew dodged it.
Now, unredacted documents reveal that TikTok designed these easily-bypassed "limits" as an empty PR move.
TikTok built its time management tools with the goal of “improving public trust in the TikTok platform via media coverage,” rather than actually reducing time spent on the app, according to internal documents that were accidentally unredacted.
Oops! https://www.npr.org/2024/10/11/g-s1-27676/tiktok-redacted-documents-in-teen-safety-lawsuit-revealed
Remember when X provided Premium subscriptions to individuals on sanctions lists in violation of US law? Here's a now-deleted post from a Hassan Nasrallah account confirming it was subscribed – and complaining about losing its ability to make long posts.