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Instagram Being Sued as a Hotbed for Child Exploitation and Pedophilia, Calls for International BAN
Shocking new reports show that Facebook’s parent company, Meta, knew that parents were monetizing photos of their own children for pedophiles and even went so far as to actively promote accounts with “underage modeling” to people who were under suspicion of inappropriate behavior toward children online. Activists are calling for the international permanent BAN of Instagram or at least being...
US Senator Denounces Widespread Child Predation on Meta's Platforms
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) exposed Facebook, Instagram and parent company Meta’s lack of tools to protect minors from being preyed upon and exposed to sexualized content.
In a Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law congressional hearing last week, Sen. Josh Hawley addressed Meta whistleblower Arturo Béjar, questioning him about a 2021 memo in which Béjar...
Facebook's Zuckerberg Launches Twitter Clone
Mark Zuckerberg, the owner of Facebook and Instagram is expected to soon launch a new app similar to Twitter.
The app is said to have been tested by celebrities and influencers in secret and is expected to be available to the public in June.
The new addition will be different from Instagram and users will be able to link their accounts in the different apps.
A social media marketing professor named...
Facebook and Instagram Unbans Donald Trump after 2 Years
After a two-year suspension, the ownership company Meta has now restored former US President Donald Trump’s access to Facebook and Instagram, reports Reuters.
Trump was suspended from the platforms after the so-called storming of Capitol Hill on January 6, 2021.
Meta said in January that it would lift Trump’s suspension “in the coming weeks” but block the ex-president again...
Meta fined for data leak
In response to a data breach that exposed the personal information of more than 500 million Facebook users, Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) fined Meta $275 million on Monday. The Irish authority, tasked with upholding EU privacy legislation, has fined Meta more than $945 million since last October.
The DPC announced the fine in a statement, noting that between May 2018 and September...
Facebook: Any Religious or Political Views Shared on Your Profile Will Be Removed
Facebook has announced that it will begin policing people’s personal profiles and remove any references to religious or political beliefs.
Facebook is changing the information users are allowed to post as part of their profile beginning Dec. 1, according to reports.
Westernjournal.com reports: A representative of Facebook then confirmed the news via a statement to TechCrunch.
“As part of our...
Facebook Fires Thousands of Woke Employees As Mass Censorship Campaign Backfires
Facebook (Meta) has announced large-scale layoffs this week of thousands of ‘woke’ employees amid a severe drop in revenue.
Meta currently has over 87,000 employees.
According to the WSJ:
Inc. META 2.11%increase; green up pointing triangle is planning to begin large-scale layoffs this week, according to people familiar with the matter, in what could be the largest round in a recent spate of tech...
Hundreds of Woke Twitter Employees Flee to Facebook and Google so They Can Continue Censoring Users
Hundreds of woke Twitter employees have deserted the company and gone to work for Google and Meta over the past few months in anticipation of Elon Musk taking over the company, according to a Business Insider report.
The piece notes that in the past three months, a total of 530 Twitter employees have left, with many running directly to the tech giant’s direct competitors.
Over 1,100 employees have...
Facebook Parent Company Meta Fined With Largest Campaign Finance Penalty In U.S. History
Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, was fined $24.7 million on Wednesday for “repeatedly and intentionally” violating campaign finance disclosure law.
King County Superior Court Judge Douglass North in Washington state ruled Meta be fined the maximum amount allowed for over 800 violations of Washington’s Fair Campaign Practices Act the company committed.
The ruling is said to...
Facebook's own AI turns against the boss Mark Zuckerberg
Blenderbot, a new AI-driven chatbot from Facebook owner Meta, definitely did not turn out the way the firm had hoped. According to the Jerusalem Post, among other things, the robot started “talking sh*t” about its CEO Mark Zuckerberg and said that Jews “control the economy” in the United States.
Blenderbot remembers previous interactions and gets information from the internet,...
Meta announces the World Economic Forum will have a leadership role in the metaverse
The World Economic Forum (WEF) is on track to be at the center of defining what the future metaverse will look like by inserting itself in the metaverse’s creation early on.
WEF’s “multistakeholder initiative” wants to assume a leadership role in defining and building the metaverse, Facebook (Meta) President of Global Affairs and former British Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has announced.
The...
Mark Zuckerberg Found Guilty of Using Tax-Exempt Foundation To Help Biden Rig the 2020 Election
Facebook/Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg illegally funnelled millions of dollars of tax-exempt money to help Biden rig the 2020 election, according to a bombshell investigation.
Tax-exempt foundations are banned from contributing money to election campaigns. The law is crystal clear:
Under the Internal Revenue Code, all section 501(c)(3) organizations are absolutely prohibited from directly or indirectly...
EU and UK Open Antitrust Probes against Google and Facebook
EU and UK regulators have opened antitrust probes into a 2018 deal between tech giants Google and Facebook owner Meta, which allegedly aimed to strengthen their dominance in the online advertising market.
The parallel probes will look at whether the so-called “Jedi Blue” agreement between the two companies hampered competition in markets for online display advertising services. Online display...
Meta asks users to send nudes
Meta, the new name for Facebook Inc., has co-developed a platform that asks people to submit their intimate photos and videos in order to prevent them from being used as ‘revenge porn’ on Facebook or Instagram.
The tool is for “adults over 18 years old who think an intimate image of them may be shared, or has already been shared, without their consent,” Meta said in a blogpost on Thursday.
The...
Facebook changes its name to Meta after Scandals and People starting to abandon the platform
Facebook has announced that, going forward, it will be known as Meta. Beset by numerous scandals in recent weeks, the firm is aiming to transition to become “a metaverse company” rather than a social media firm.
Mired in numerous antitrust probes, battling investigations in multiple countries, and desperately trying to defuse the revelations from an explosive series of internal document leaks,...