Delete these fucking apps and stop watching cable news.
There have been way fewer Facebook posts on my feed since the election ended. I’m seeing almost as many ads as I am posts from friends. I’m not posting as much because I don’t have anything to say. I spend far more time on here than on social media now.
My sisters use it less and my mom uses it in spurts. Others post selfies every week or so to get reassurance from their friends that they’re beautiful.
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Apple and Facebook feuding over privacy.
Quick summary:
Apple finally implementing tools to allow user control over ad tracking. Facebook flips out, takes out crazy ads how this hurts small businesses. Lol Facebook.
This ongoing feud has split much of the tech industry into loose allegiances, though many players are still sitting on the sidelines. Groups that have publicly supported Apple include the Mozilla Foundation and numerous consumer-privacy advocacy groups, while several ad networks have backed Facebook.
Part of Tim Cook’s Speech yesterday
If a business is built on misleading users, on data exploitation, on choices that are no choices at all, then it does not deserve our praise. It deserves reform.
We should not look away from the bigger picture. At a moment of rampant disinformation and conspiracy theories juiced by algorithms, we can no longer turn a blind eye to a theory of technology that says all engagement is good engagement—the longer the better—and all with the goal of collecting as much data as possible.
Too many are still asking the question, “How much can we get away with?” when they need to be asking, “What are the consequences?”
What are the consequences of prioritizing conspiracy theories and violent incitement simply because of their high rates of engagement? What are the consequences of not just tolerating, but rewarding content that undermines public trust in life-saving vaccinations? What are the consequences of seeing thousands of users join extremist groups, and then perpetuating an algorithm that recommends even more?
It is long past time to stop pretending that this approach doesn’t come with a cost—of polarization, of lost trust and, yes, of violence. A social dilemma cannot be allowed to become a social catastrophe.
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- United Airlines
- Monsanto
- Uber
- The Trump Organization
- Vice Media
- University of Phoenix
- Fox Corp
- Wells Fargo
- The Weinstein Company
Don’t know why discourse changes my numbers.
Above is from 10 to 1.
I’m on team Apple here. Sure, they’re a profit maximizing near monopoly, but at least they kind of earned it by producing one of the greatest consumer products of all time. Facebook just wants to spy on you to more efficiently feed your natural born rage addiction and help Ron Paul sell gold coins.
Facebook is easily the #1 worst company in America. And that’s with some incredibly stiff competition.
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Yeah I am not disillusioned that a lot of apple’s behavior toward privacy is because they could afford to do so.
In the early days of IOS they launched Apple ads for their apps. It failed completely. If it had exploded and become a substantial line item for Apple I think their attitude would be slightly different.
But Facebook is just ridiculous. Unfortunately that article notes that while polls show people don’t like being the product, they dislike it less than paying for things directly. Lol humans.
Purdue Pharma laying low enough to avoid the top 10. Or even the awareness of the average person.
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Dead customers don’t complain.
Where do corporations rank these days compared to the past?
Would we put Facebook and Amazon up there with the Royal African Company and East India Company?
Probably about as insidious in the present as in the past, they just have PR departments now.
I have to believe there is room for Comcast on that list.
Facebook may be the gateway drug. But youtube is the deal-closer to radicalization.
I’ll delete my Facebook when you guys boycott youtube.
Or is it different when it’s something you get real value from?
Reminder that the rohinga genocide was instagated and organized on facebook. Up there with Facebooks worst crimes against humanity.
This is a good point and something I have not thought about. I love my YouTubes tho
The researchers told executives that “enthusiastic calls for violence every day” filled one 58,000-member Group, according to an internal presentation. Another top Group claimed it was set up by fans of Donald Trumpbut it was actually run by “financially motivated Albanians” directing a million views daily to fake news stories and other provocative content.
Roughly “70% of the top 100 most active US Civic Groups are considered non-recommendable for issues such as hate, misinfo, bullying and harassment,” the presentation concluded. “We need to do something to stop these conversations from happening and growing as quickly as they do,” the researchers wrote, suggesting measures to slow the growth of Groups at least long enough to give Facebook staffers time to address violations.
“Our existing integrity systems,” they wrote, “aren’t addressing these issues.”
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I’m not at the 30 day mark but I’m going to make it there ez. What helped alot i think is I took nearly a 3 week break from this forum, today is first day back and when I didn’t think about poltiics or read about it, I didn’t have a need to go to facebook and see what others were saying and then say shit myself about it or to them.
feels good
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The Marxist/Communist group I know is mad that their non-violent labor organizing efforts are routinely banned by Facebook. Stuff like this:
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Ha! I took about ten days off from this place too. Helped get me straight.
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