Facebook will be changing its terms of service following discussions with the European Commission
The changes will clarify how consumer data is used and remove confusing legalistic jargon.
The activist group that campaigned for the banning of Faith Goldy from Facebook now want Yellow Vest group banned
The Yellow Vest group are a group that originated in France, motivated by rising fuel prices, the high cost of living, and claims that a disproportionate burden of the government’s tax reforms were falling on the working and middle classes.
The big tech free speech hearing will be on April 10th, 2019; titled “Stifling Free Speech: Technological Censorship and the Public Discourse”
It is hard to deny that Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube look more and more like public platforms rather than “publishers” who can censor content however they want.
Facebook used email passwords to harvest contact data from its users
Facebook was criticized for asking for passwords to user email accounts but this “feature” was actually being used to scoop up contact data from user’s email accounts.
Conservatives call on tech giants to cut ties with the biased and disgraced SPLC
Bozell argues the group is extremely biased, abusing the powerful status and role given to it by these companies to silence political and ideological opponents, rather than promote fair and responsible speech.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg vows to police “harmful content and hate speech” with AI and 30,000 content reviewers
This follows previous statements from the company indicating that it will be using AI to combat “hate.”
Facebook paid The Daily Telegraph to publish positive articles about itself
While Business Insider calls reaching for “sponsored content” a “novel solution” – it really isn’t
Linus Torvalds slams social media, calls Facebook and Instagram a “disease”
He stated that social media is all geared to the reverse of quality control… and to generate an emotional response, often one of moral outrage.
Facebook wants the password to your email account
“To continue using Facebook, you’ll need to confirm your email (…)” and then asking for their email password in a separate box underneath.
France shoots itself in the foot, gets blocked on Twitter because of their own dumb “fake news” law
Facebook and Google are reported to have already complied with the law by updating their services in France – but not Twitter.
Facebook screws up yet again: Private info from users is found on the cloud, accessible by anyone
The sad part is that handful equals to 540 million records or 146 gigabytes worth of private data.
How to see what your social media and browsing habits know about your psychology
The launch of a new tool means that those internet users eager to find out, in great depth and detail, how “others” see them.












