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Instagram hides search results for 'Democrats'
(www.bbc.com)
Ditch all meta ‘products’
Just travelled through Chile. All bus schedules in the south are exclusively on Facebook and Instagram, and literally the only way to book a ticket is Whatsapp.
I wish I was exaggerating.
What! Bus schedules on Facebook exclusively? Facebook does not scream "repository of information", that's never, ever, been the purpose of the site.
That sounds awful
I currently work for a company that does contractual support for some meta products. I'll be doing my part to slow work there until I move
Just need the rest of the world to ditch WhatsApp and that will be the last meta app that I use
Haven't logged into my facebook since covid. Don't have Instagram, WhatsApp or other social media crap. Lemmy (sometimes reddit, I have to admit) and Discord are the only "social networks" (I hate this term, it should be para-social network) I use.
And block or (better) poison all their trackers. Just because you're not using a Meta product doesn't mean they're not spying on you.
Any tips on how to do this?
“Back to our roots around free expression”
Tip of the iceberg. Even if this was a mistake, we don't know what any engines are hiding if they don't display results.
The mistake was that they got caught. Going forward they will be sure to shadow ban any content the orange turd doesn't want.
Meanwhile in another thread, I am attempting to explain to someone who wants Signal to be able to directly interface with WhatsApp, someone who has no understanding of why metadata security is a big deal... why purely on technical, privacy / security level, that's not workable.
Well, here's another arrow in my quiver if that discussion continues, jesus fucking christ.
Isn't that legally required in the EU?
Ah yes, the censoring.
Threatening billionaires with jail apparently works. I wonder if it could be used to make them pay taxes.
The current administration:
Didn't work with trump
Let's be real, he was never really threatened with jail time.
Remember when the Facebook Graph API first launched and people used it to find all the gay people in their city?
This is why privacy matters.
Wouldn’t it be funny if a country inserted its agents into the US tech job market to gain access to code in order to manipulate the public with little tweaks to algorithms?
I just got rid of Instagram fuck you Zuckerberg
I read this as "fascists are querying Instagram to build a list of people to attack, so Meta is defending these people by blocking such queries"
I don't read it like that
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