Meta is encouraging users to verify themselves to unlock more features or engagement with their posts.
Facebook is testing a link-posting limit for professional accounts and pages | TechCrunch
Meta said that the test impacts professional accounts and pages on Facebook.
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.
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.
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Wages for Facebook - Dissent Magazine
The art campaign Wages for Facebook is an attempt to unsettle the digital marketization of our relationships that many of us have already come to accept as normal.
2021 Facebook leak
In 2021, an internal document leak from the company then known as Facebook (now Meta Platforms, or Meta) showed it was aware of harmful societal effects from its platforms, yet persisted in prioritizing profit over addressing these harms. The leak, released by whistleblower Frances Haugen, resulted in reporting from The Wall Street Journal in September, as The Facebook Files series, as well as the Facebook Papers, by a consortium of news outlets the next months.
Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions, with more to come, including AI plans | TechCrunch
Meta is rolling out paid subscription plans for Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp worldwide, while also testing new AI, creator, and business-focused offerings under its broader “Meta One” subscription brand.
Nobody clicks your share buttons — Ankur Sethi
I've always wondered if anyone actually used the social sharing buttons embedded on news sites and (some) WordPress blogs.
Facebook's Big Move Toward the AfterWeb
Blow up your browser! The Next Big Thing is the AfterWeb. Facebook made a monumental announcement Monday that seemed as though it was designed to...
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Facebook Fact Checks Were Never Going to Save Us. They Just Made Liberals Feel Better.
Billionaires gonna billionaire — and lick the boots of whoever will bring them more riches and impunity.
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
Hundreds of free open access journals to receive significant financial support! @ojcollective.bsky.social, which launched in January, has already raised £1.56 million of its £2.65 million target and will start to financially support 297 journals.
How collective funding supports sustainable publishing
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