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Norwegian Data Protection Authority orders Meta to stop tracking Facebook and Instagram users for targeted advertising

July 19, 2023 -

According to the DPA order sent to Meta on July 14, the temporary ban that will take effect in August and last for three months aims to protect the privacy and data rights of Norwegian users. (Related: EU authorities slap Meta with record $1.3B fine for data privacy law violations.)

Facebook and Instagram can still display customized ads to users but only based on the "about" section of their profiles. And if Meta fails to do so, the company would face daily fines of 1 ...

Zuckerberg’s Meta releases new censorship unit for upcoming elections

March 06, 2024 -

(Article by M Winger republished from WLTReport.com)

Meta, previously Facebook, claims it wants to protect the elections from ‘misinformation’.

And what do liberals use as an excuse to enforce censorship of wrongthought?

That it’s for our safety, that harm, violence and ‘potential threats’ is imminent without the censorship.

‘Our democracy’ is teetering over certain doom and destruction unless we force people to shut up! they claim.

Oh the irony ...

Meta BANS Instagram accounts of Iran’s Supreme Leader Khamenei

February 12, 2024 -

The company led by Mark Zuckerberg said it removed two of Khamenei's accounts on Feb. 8. The Iranian leader's Persian-language account had more than 5.1 million followers, while his English-language account had more than 204,000.

The Iranian leader reportedly praised Hamas' Oct. 7 attack against Israel on social media. Khamenei also reportedly backed Palestinian resistance against Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip, as well as the attacks on shipping in the Red Sea ...

Actress Sarah Silverman SUES Meta, OpenAI for copyright infringement

July 13, 2023 -

Silverman was joined by authors Richard Kadrey and Christopher Golden in two copyright infringement lawsuits filed July 7 in a San Francisco federal court. The three plaintiffs accused Meta and OpenAI of using copyrighted material to train their chat bots. According to them, the two defendants used their books without permission to develop their so-called large language models (LLMs).

The comedian alleged that ChatGPT is able to accurately summarize her 2010 autobiography, ...

Former Meta director says Instagram FAILED to protect teen users

November 27, 2023 -

Arturo Bejar worked on well-being for Instagram from 2019 to 2021. From 2009 to 2015, he said that he was a director of engineering for Facebook's Protect and Care team. Bejar testified before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law at a hearing about social media and its impact on teen mental health.

In written remarks made available before the hearing, Bejar said he is testifying because the public and parents must "understand the true ...

Former Meta COO Sheryl Sandberg to leave company board in May

February 29, 2024 -

"With a heart filled with gratitude and a mind filled with memories, I let the Meta board know that I will not stand for reelection this May," she wrote in a Facebook post. Sandberg left Google to join Meta (then called Facebook) in 2008, four years before Zuckerberg's company went public in 2012. She stepped down as COO in May 2022.

"The Meta business is strong and well-positioned for the future, so this feels like the right time to step away." Sandberg continued. ...

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta to launch classroom version of its VR Quest headset

15 days ago -

While the update seems beneficial for educators and young students, there's also the possibility that the technology can be abused to indoctrinate or spy on students using Meta's VR Quest headsets.

According to Meta, it will launch the classroom version of its Meta Quest late in 2024. The VR goggles will allegedly feature apps and controls aimed at classrooms.

In a blog post, Meta's President for Global Affairs Nick Clegg explained that with the upcoming VR headsets ...

EU authorities slap Meta with record $1.3B fine for data privacy law violations

May 26, 2023 -

The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) announced the decision to penalize Meta on May 22. It followed an extensive investigation into the operations of Facebook in the continent. The investigation was launched by the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) back in August 2020.

The DPC is in charge of regulating all of Meta's operations within Europe. Its May 22 ruling, however, alleged that the parent company of Facebook and Instagram violated Article 46(1) of the General ...

Rosemount, Minnesota trying to establish 15-minute city with the help of Zuckerberg’s Meta

December 20, 2023 -

The planning commission for the city of Rosemount has unanimously approved several measures for the Meta Platforms data center project to move forward despite objections from residents. It now heads to the city council, which is scheduled to consider approving the plan so it can begin construction on Dec. 21. (Related: The globalist vision: 15-Minute prison cities and the end of private property.)

Initially dubbed "Project Bigfoot," Meta's data center is set to be housed ...

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta struggling to remove child sexual abuse materials from Facebook and Instagram

December 07, 2023 -

Back in June, the Big Tech firm established a child safety task force responsible for taking down accounts and content linked to pedophilia. This followed a discovery by researchers from the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), Stanford University and the University of Massachusetts Amherst that Instagram's algorithms connected a web of accounts that engage in the spread of child sexual abuse material (CSAM).

According to the the nonprofit Canadian Center for Child Protection ...

Meta intentionally got children and teens ADDICTED to social media to exploit them for profit

November 15, 2023 -

This is the accusation levied against the Big Tech company several weeks ago by dozens of state attorneys general, who filed a lawsuit against Meta Platforms Inc. and three of its subsidiaries for allegedly harming children by getting them addicted to Meta's social media platforms, including Facebook and Instagram. (Related: 42 Attorneys general SUE Meta over "highly addictive" social media platforms they say harm young people.)

This bipartisan group of 42 states alleges ...

Twitter threatens to sue Meta over intellectual property theft allegations following its launch of Threads

July 11, 2023 -

In a letter addressed to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter lawyer Alex Spiro accused the company of engaging in the "systematic, willful, and unlawful misappropriation of Twitter's trade secrets and other intellectual property." (Related: Zuckerpunch: Meta launches new text-based app to rival Twitter, then immediately begins censoring "wrongthink.")

"Twitter intends to strictly enforce its intellectual property rights and demands that Meta take immediate steps to stop using ...

Meta launches Twitter rip-off “Threads” application, immediately starts censoring users for voicing unapproved thoughts

July 09, 2023 -

Shaney Yricch of "The Street Poller" was notified that a thread he posted on Threads was removed just moments after he shared it "because it goes against our Community Guidelines."

"Following our guidelines is the only way to prevent your account from being deleted, including your posts, archive, messages and followers," a prompt further threatened Yricch.

The post in question had to do with the recent discovery of a baggie of cocaine at the White House during a ...

Zuckerpunch: Meta launches new text-based app to rival Twitter, then immediately begins censoring “wrongthink”

July 07, 2023 -

Twitter has had to deal with many challenges since Elon Musk officially took over as the social media platform's owner, from mass layoffs late last year to frequent system outages and a problematic rollout of a new verification system. These challenges have prompted investors to repeatedly lower their estimations of the company's value since Musk's purchase. (Related: SHRINKING BIRD: Twitter now worth just one-third of what Elon Musk paid to purchase it.)

During the past ...

42 Attorneys general SUE Meta over “highly addictive” social media platforms they say harm young people

October 27, 2023 -

Of these 42 attorneys general, 33 filed a combined lawsuit in a federal court in northern California. Nine more attorneys general have filed individual cases against Meta in their own home states, including the District of Columbia.

The bipartisan suit was filed by attorneys general from Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, ...

Senate report: Meta has been harvesting personal and financial data from tax prep companies for years

July 14, 2023 -

A probe led by Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren has found that the tax prep companies had potentially violated privacy laws by sharing taxpayers' sensitive personal and financial data with Meta for years. Violating taxpayer privacy laws can lead to fines of up to $1,000 per violation and up to one year in prison.

The privacy breach was first reported last year by the nonprofit journalism outlet The Markup. (Related: Google and Meta caught harvesting your sensitive financial ...

Israel massacres civilians in Rafah while advertising its “victimhood” during Super Bowl

February 16, 2024 -

During the Super Bowl, several paid advertisements aired in support of Israel, including one that called for more support to bring home the over 100 Israeli hostages still held captive by Hamas in Gaza. (Related: While Americans were distracted by the Super Bowl, Israel conducted a MASS BOMBING of Rafah in southern Gaza.)

Moreover, the official account of Israel on X, managed by the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Digital Diplomacy team, used the platform to "gaslight" ...

New Mexico attorney general files lawsuit against Meta for allowing pedophiles on Facebook and Instagram to CONTACT CHILDREN

December 20, 2023 -

According to the civil lawsuit filed in a New Mexico state court, Meta has allowed the social media platforms Facebook and Instagram to become a marketplace for child abusers looking for children to prey on.

The lawsuit also argues that Meta failed to implement protections against usage by children younger than 13 and has targeted the age-related vulnerabilities of children to increase the company's advertising revenue.

Additionally, the suit argues that Chairman ...

SMOKING GUN: Rep. Jim Jordan presents evidence showing how the Biden administration pressured Zuckerberg’s Meta to censor Americans

August 02, 2023 -

According to Jordan, the documents outline how the Biden administration forced Facebook and Instagram to censor content and stifle open discourse on public issues. An email dating back to April 2021 addressed to Zuckerberg and Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg can prove that the White House is constantly pressuring the company to remove certain posts.

"These never-before-released internal documents prove that Facebook and Instagram censored posts and altered their content ...