2024-06-25
Well.... Where there is no accountability, there is no incentive.
404 Media
Meta has seemingly stopped trying as hard to moderate its services, overrun with AI spam and scams; X gutting safety staff may have lowered the industry's bar
2024-02-02
Watching Meta stock holders—including lots of current and former employees—celebrate their huge stock bump ONE DAY after a hearing where Zuckerberg faced parents of children harmed by his company is...well...everything that's wrong with our current incentive structures.
Meta
Meta reports Q4 revenue up 25% YoY to $40.1B, net income up 201% YoY to $14B, and family daily active people up 8% YoY to 3.19B for December 2023
Meta Platforms (META Quick Quote META - Free Report) … Salvador Rodriguez / Wall Street Journal : Facebook Parent Meta Initiates Dividend as Growth Continues Jonathan Vanian / CNBC...
2023-06-29
Hate & harassment online ⬆️ sharply for both adults & teens. Joined @MSNBC @Morning_Joe to discuss our findings and what can be done to reverse this normalization of hate. Social media companies must do better. And lawmakers have a role to play too. Watch: https://www.msnbc.com/...
Axios
ADL survey of 2,139 US people: 33% of adults and 51% of teens aged 13 to 17 reported being harassed online in 2023, up from 23% and 36%, respectively, in 2022
More than half of Americans say they have experienced hate or harassment online, according to a new survey from the Anti-Defamation League …
2023-05-31
Sad news for those seeking tools to keep themselves safe(r) from online hate and harassment. This was an innovative solution to protect people against hate while not “censoring” the haters per se. https://twitter.com/...
TechCrunch
Block Party says its anti-harassment tool for Twitter is going on an indefinite hiatus starting May 31 due to Twitter API changes, and announces Privacy Party
Now that Twitter's API access is locked behind a tall paywall, long beloved third-party apps are shutting down.
2022-11-07
@samidh He very well knows it is not. In fact, that was one of the things he told us he agreed with when I specifically said all policies and enforcement should stay in place until well after Election Day.
New York Times
Internal post and sources: Twitter delays rolling out verification checkmarks to Blue subscribers until November 9, the day after the US midterm elections
New York Times :
2022-09-15
Cox says he will be happy to follow up. How many times have Facebook/Meta executives said they would follow up on these questions, and how often do they actually do so? The public deserves to know how much hate speech and other violating content Meta's own tools recommend. 2/
TechCrunch
In a US Senate committee hearing, Meta, YouTube, TikTok, and Twitter executives defended their platforms and dodged security, privacy, and moderation questions
Executives from four of the biggest social media companies testified before the Senate Homeland Security Committee Wednesday …
.@SenPadilla asks Meta's Chris Cox how much hate speech Facebook RECOMMENDED. He responds w/ prevalence. Not the same thing & he knows it. Recommendation gets to the heart of debunking the “mirror to society” myth & showing accountability for how FB's own tools amplify content.1/
TechCrunch
In a US Senate committee hearing, Meta, YouTube, TikTok, and Twitter executives defended their platforms and dodged security, privacy, and moderation questions
Executives from four of the biggest social media companies testified before the Senate Homeland Security Committee Wednesday …
2022-07-27
@mosseri Isn't that because Instagram has pushed us to post more in stories (and reels)? If people are getting less engagement on their posts than their reels and stories, then that is where they are going to post. Are you saying your engagement algorithms have nothing to do with that?
CNBC
Responding to criticism, Adam Mosseri says Instagram's full-screen feed is “a test” that is “not yet good” and that the app has to lean into the shift to video
2022-03-30
@CraigSilverman Meta's spokesperson Andy Stone's comment shows just how little they care about being caught red handed doing nefarious shit. Next level arrogance, coming from a company that continues to get away with pretty much anything. No accountability breeds this type of brazenness. https://twitter.com/...
Washington Post
Meta paid Republican consulting firm Targeted Victory to orchestrate a campaign against TikTok in the US, including placing op-eds in regional news outlets
Facebook parent company Meta is paying one of the biggest Republican consulting firms in the country to orchestrate a nationwide campaign seeking …
2022-03-13
🔥🔥 piece by @BenWoffordDC on Joel Kaplan. His team's heavy influence over policy enforcement & ALL elections-related work stunned me when I was at FB, & I raised those alarms publicly several years ago. Joel, Mark, Sheryl & others made decisions that... 1/https://www.wired.com/...
Wired
Profile of Joel Kaplan, who has built one of the most powerful lobbying operations in Washington DC, as he helps Meta navigate the Biden administration
2022-02-16
1/Why bother fixing things today if you can just “live in the future”? Zuckerberg's new “company values” perfectly prove @nils_gilman+my point in our recent piece: the promise of what we call “futurity at scale” is used to indemnify against today's harms. Evading accountability. https://twitter.com/...
Washington Post
Mark Zuckerberg outlines changes to Meta's corporate values, including “Move Fast Together”, “Live in the Future”, and “Meta, Metamates, Me”
Meta. Metamates. Me. — At a virtual all-hands meeting on Tuesday, Facebook escalated its attempts …
2/ As we wrote, the “tech exceptionalism” argument in part “hinges on the idea that as-yet-unrealized, perhaps-undreamed-of future innovations will more than offset any harms of today's technology.” Clearly Zuckerberg believes this. Full @NoemaMag piece: https://www.noemamag.com/...
Washington Post
Mark Zuckerberg outlines changes to Meta's corporate values, including “Move Fast Together”, “Live in the Future”, and “Meta, Metamates, Me”
Meta. Metamates. Me. — At a virtual all-hands meeting on Tuesday, Facebook escalated its attempts …
2021-10-26
@WillOremus So now can we finally put to rest the false notion that Zuckerberg is a champion of free speech & that Facebook has ever been about a deep desire to promote free expression? Power, growth, domination are his ideologies. Time to stop diagnosing & start figuring out real solutions.
Associated Press
Facebook docs detail issues with moderating non-English speech, leading to inflammatory language in Afghanistan, bans on common words in Palestine, and more
but Facebook doesn't have people who speak all those languages to adequately monitor for hate speech and harassment. https://www.cnn.com/... DK Shivakumar / @dkshivakumar : This is...
2021-10-21
@alexeheath The article describes funding/support to this one person. Your tweet implies that many of us shouldn't be trusted. As someone who didn't receive funding from any of these orgs, and knowing the personal and financial risks others have taken, I find this comment to be a stretch.
Politico
Source: Pierre Omidyar's philanthropic organization Luminate handles Frances Haugen's PR in Europe; Omidyar donated $150K to Whistleblower Aid in 2020
Emily Birnbaum / Politico :
2021-10-12
I don't believe press should invite Clegg again until he agrees to share the interview w/ one of FB's “critics”, but at least @DanaBashCNN pressed him on this crucial point. Frankly, it's time to stop giving PR time & insist on data access for Congress & academics to investigate. https://twitter.com/...
Axios
Whistleblower Frances Haugen accepts an invitation to brief Facebook's Oversight Board, which she claims Facebook has lied to “repeatedly”
Ivana Saric / Axios : Source: Oversight Board .
@RMac18 @FrancesHaugen “Disparaging her personally is not right, it's not allowed, and it's not who we are as a company,” Ms. Saul wrote. Did Andy Stone get that memo? 🤣
New York Times
Internal messages, documents, and a Zuckerberg Q&A show Facebook's attempts to calm staff, including sending out talking points and holding briefing sessions
“good! Bad! So-so!” — and how company execs are attempting to contain it https://www.nytimes.com/... Jason Kint / @jason_kint : This is Facebook comms sending a message to employee...
@RMac18 @FrancesHaugen “Disparaging her personally is not right, it's not allowed, and it's not who we are as a company,” Ms. Saul wrote. Did Andy Stone get that memo? 🤣
Axios
Whistleblower Frances Haugen accepts an invitation to brief Facebook's Oversight Board, which she claims Facebook has lied to “repeatedly”
Ivana Saric / Axios : Source: Oversight Board .
I don't believe press should invite Clegg again until he agrees to share the interview w/ one of FB's “critics”, but at least @DanaBashCNN pressed him on this crucial point. Frankly, it's time to stop giving PR time & insist on data access for Congress & academics to investigate. https://twitter.com/...
Deadline
Nick Clegg says that Facebook will put “more friends, less politics” in News Feed and will “nudge” teens away from toxic Instagram content
2021-10-11
I don't believe press should invite Clegg again until he agrees to share the interview w/ one of FB's “critics”, but at least @DanaBashCNN pressed him on this crucial point. Frankly, it's time to stop giving PR time & insist on data access for Congress & academics to investigate. https://twitter.com/...
Deadline
Nick Clegg says that Facebook will put “more friends, less politics” in News Feed and will “nudge” teens away from toxic Instagram content
Fighting back after a whistleblower's damning testimony earlier this week before a Congressional committee …
2021-10-09
@IfeomaOzoma YESSSS!!!! You are the shining example of how to take what happened to you and turn it into true action. Bravo!
The Verge
Gov. Newsom signs Silenced No More Act, which ex-Pinterest employee Ifeoma Ozoma helped draft, to protect CA workers who call out discrimination despite NDAs
if they so wish—when they are a victim of any type of harassment or discrimination in the workplace. #EmpowerSurvivors Release: https://sd20.senate.ca.gov/... https://twitter.com/....