
Facebook’s parent company Meta has been hosting paid Israeli adverts promoting illegal activity.

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Facebook’s parent company Meta has been hosting paid Israeli adverts promoting illegal activity.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/28349363
Facebook’s parent company Meta has been hosting paid Israeli adverts promoting activities including illegal settlement real estate, demolitions of Palestinian buildings and fundraising for Israeli forces in Gaza. Here’s what an Al Jazeera investigation discovered.
How does Facebook trap people? Is it just a social addiction or are there Facebook-only essential services?
cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/9930406
I have never used Facebook. I’m trying to understand the ways in which people are getting trapped in there. Obviously there is an addiction factor, but I’m more interested in how someone who is (hypothetically) immune to addiction might still be forced into #Facebook.
If someone needs Facebook to access something essential like healthcare, that’s what I want to hear about. To inspire a list of things that are “essential” I had a look at human rights law to derive this list:
- right to life
- healthcare
- freedom of expression
- freedom of assembly and of association
- right to education
- right to engage in work and access to placement services
- fair and just working conditions
- social security and social assistance
- consumer protection
- right to vote
- right to petition
- right of access to (government) documents
Regardless, right-wing Twitter users already hate Threads.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1898346
When Threads launched on Wednesday, numerous right-wing users shared(opens in a new tab) their dissatisfaction(opens in a new tab) with Twitter's biggest competitor — on Twitter of course — over having their accounts flagged for disinformation. As of Friday, however, it seems the warning label on accounts that reported the issue has since disappeared.
Unencrypted chat history is a prime target for police
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1874605
A 17-year-old from Nebraska and her mother are facing criminal charges including performing an illegal abortion and concealing a dead body after police obtained the pair’s private chat history from Facebook, court documents published by Motherboard show.
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