Facebook snooped on Snapchat, Amazon, and YouTube user data, documents reveal

Project 'Ghostbusters': Facebook secretly spied on Snapchat data, docs allege

New docs from a monopoly lawsuit shed light on Facebook's "Ghostbusters" project.

Facebook snooped on users' Snapchat traffic in secret project, documents reveal | TechCrunch

A secret program called "Project Ghostbusters" saw Facebook devise a way to intercept and decrypt the encrypted network traffic of Snapchat users to study their behavior.

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

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 pays teens to install VPN that spies on them | TechCrunch

Desperate for data on its competitors, Facebook has been secretly paying people to install a "Facebook Research" VPN that lets the company suck in all of

Apple bans Facebook's Research app that paid users for data | TechCrunch

In the wake of TechCrunch's investigation yesterday, Apple blocked Facebook's Research VPN app before the social network could voluntarily shut it down.

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.

Ghost's ActivityPub Integration Feels Half-Baked

Their work is far from over, but lack of development and progress is leaving me wanting.

bsky.app | WhoTracks.Me

Explore the tracking landscape of bsky.app on WhoTracks.Me, revealing the most common trackers like Sentry and their impact on privacy

553,000,000 Reasons Not to Let Facebook Make Decisions About Your

Another day, another horrific Facebook privacy scandal. We know what comes next: Facebook will argue that losing a lot of our data means bad third-party actors are the real problem that we should

Facebook's alleged use of APIs to crush competition is a warning to other data companies

Forget Instagram and WhatsApp. The real villains in the FTC lawsuit are Facebook's abuse of data and APIs.

The Feed Is Fake

That “viral” song, movie, influencer, and celebrity drama you scrolled by recently was likely the result of a stealth marketing campaign.

My thoughts on how Ghost might join Fediverse

The folks who make Ghost, the wonderful software that runs this site, and my comic site incredibledoom.com recently put up a poll asking how folks would like them to implement one of their most requested features: ActivityPub support. Here's what I told them.

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