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Facebook Is Being Overrun With Stolen, AI-Generated Images That People Think Are Real
The once-prophesized future where cheap, AI-generated trash content floods out the hard work of real humans is already here, and is already taking over Facebook.

Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery
More than 50 offending image and video ads were published across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, or Threads, according to Meta’s ad library data. Some ran as recently as this week.

Meta's AI Profiles Are Indistinguishable From Terrible Spam That Took Over Facebook
The Meta AI profiles everyone is mad about are old, were a colossal failure, and many are already dead.

Meta Ramps Up Efforts to Disrupt Industrialized Scamming
Meta removed 10.9 million Facebook and Instagram accounts linked to “criminal scam centers” last year, the company announced on Wednesday.

Facebook did little to moderate posts in the world’s most violent countries
In some of the world’s most high-profile conflict zones, the tech giant invested few resources and failed to stem a steady stream of harmful posts, according to internal documents.

Do You Like These AI Images of Dying, Mutilated Children? Facebook Algorithm Wonders
Facebook's recommendation engine, which is core to the company's business model, is injecting grotesque images of AI-generated child gore into people's feeds.

Meta’s going to put AI-generated images in your Facebook and Instagram feeds
Facebook and Instagram feeds are about to get messier.

Facebook isn't just giving these agitators a platform: it's paying them
An ABC NEWS Verify investigation reveals Facebook is directly funding some controversial Australian content creators including a white nationalist and an anti-vaxxer influencer.
Once Again, Facebook Is Using Privacy As A Sword To Kill Independent
Facebook claims that their role as guardian of users’ privacy gives them the power to shut down apps that give users more control over their own social media experience. Facebook is wrong. The latest
Facebook loses users for the first time in its history
Facebook parent Meta’s stock nosedived in after-hours trading as the company refocuses on the "metaverse" and reports its hardware division bled more than $3 billion.

One Response to the Cambridge Analytica Scandal: Block Facebook's
With Facebook in a dominant position in hosting a huge portion of the world’s social conversation, we’ve been worried about the incredible power the company has accumulated and the risks that poses

Facebook’s Attack on Research is Everyone's Problem
Facebook recently banned the accounts of several New York University (NYU) researchers who run Ad Observer, an accountability project that tracks paid disinformation, from its platform. This has

Facebook’s AI Spam Isn’t the ‘Dead Internet’: It’s the Zombie Internet
Facebook is the zombie internet, where a mix of bots, humans, and accounts that were once humans but aren’t anymore interact to form a disastrous website where there is little social connection at all.

NEW: A TTP investigation found that Meta ran hundreds of ads containing AI-generated child sexual abuse material (CSAM) on Facebook and Instagram.
TTP - Meta Ran Hundreds of Paid Ads with Child Sexual Abuse Imagery
www.techtransparencyproject.orgNEW: In one of the most horrifying stories I've ever reported, I found that Facebook is hosting huge quantities of AI-generated videos of violent child abuse -- kids being beaten, burned, and far more But the genuinely shocking thing was how little Meta seems to care futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/faceb…
It's important to understand: social networks are not meant to be one-size-fits all! When Meta (which makes Threads, as well as Facebook and Instagram) creates platforms that have hundreds of millions of users, they do things like enable genocides, where tens of thousands of innocent people die.
Christopher Mims
So I guess either Bluesky becomes a nonprofit or we all start sharing our Threads handles on here…?