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Researchers paid people to deactivate their Facebook account and measured the impact on their mental health.
Dear friend, I bet you can guess the result
https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w33697/w33697.pdf
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You have the power to #StopStalkerAds.
Meta recently settled a case brought by Tanya O’Carroll, conceding that she has the right to object to her personal information being used for targeted advertising.
You can too. Use our tool to exercise your right to opt-out of this toxic advertising model 
Open Rights GroupMeta opt-outIn March 2025, there was a huge victory for your data rights! Meta settled a four year court case with human rights campaigner Tanya O’Carroll. She had taken legal action to force the social media giant to stop collecting and processing her personal data for advertising purposes. Meta have agreed to stop profiling Tanya – and now it’s your turn to say no to stalker ads! If you use any Meta products – Facebook, Instagram, Meta Quest or VR, Threads or WhatsApp – you can use our tool to request that they no longer collect or process your data for advertising.
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Meta sells ads that promote disinformation, fraud and division using your personal information.
Our report reveals the ways in which surveillance-based advertising both violates users’ privacy and causes harm. Meta profits at your expense.
Find out more
Open Rights GroupBad Ads: Targeted Disinformation, Division and Fraud on Meta’s PlatformsRead ORG’s report about Meta’s targeted disinformation, division and fraud on Meta’s platforms
Executive Summary
This report lays out clear evidence of how Meta enables bad actors to use its targeted advertising system to manipulate elections, spread disinformation, fuel division, and facilitate fraud.
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@cwicseolfor @hakfoo @futurebird @lnlyisol There was also the politics of it.
For a long time, Silicon Valley positioned itself as being the enlightened, socially-conscious, pro-freedom, pro-consumer alternative disrupting established cartels and vested interests.
Instead of believing what the old media barons tell you about the War in Iraq and Saddam's WMDs, our platforms let anyone be a publisher!
Instead of the RIAA's boy bands and lip syncing pop idols, we allow talented independent artists to be heard!
Instead of IBM, and later Microsoft, having a monopoly, buy our products instead! Think different! Don't be evil! It just works!
And then once everyone was locked into the walled gardens, the enshittification began.
Now.
What we really should have collectively been insisting on was a genuinely enlightened, socially-conscious, pro-freedom, pro-consumer alternative.
Member-owned, community-run non-profits. Creating open source software, based on open standards and protocols.
Where you own, and are free to repair, and are free to tweak or upgrade, your hardware. Which comes pre-installed with open source software from member-owned non-profits.
The Wikipedia/Wikimedia Foundation model works for encyclopaedias. So let's do that for search too.
And let's not leave the design of tech to just the computer science majors and MBAs. Let's get some social science and humanities folks in that design process too.
We can still do it.
But we need to start by recognising that tech, and who owns it, and who designs it, and who makes decisions about it, is a political issue.
We, the people, need to make those decisions. Not just the billionaire VCs and CEOs.
#OpenSource #FOSS #enshittification #Fediverse #OpenStandards #Linux #Wikimedia #deGoogle #Google #Meta #Facebook #Apple #Microsoft
Did anyone else get an email with as subject "Learn how we’ll use your information as we improve AI at Meta"?
#ai #meta #facebook #instagram #whatsapp #snapchat #chatgpt #gemini #plagiarism #artificialintelligence #socialmedia #activism #anarchism #ethic #fediverse #pixelfed #mastodon #bluesky
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#ai #meta #facebook #instagram #whatsapp #snapchat #chatgpt #gemini #plagiarism #artificialintelligence #socialmedia #activism #anarchism #ethic #fediverse #pixelfed #mastodon #bluesky
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The Effect of Deactivating Facebook and Instagram on Users' Emotional State
Link: https://www.nber.org/papers/w33697
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43748486
NBERThe Effect of Deactivating Facebook and Instagram on Users’ Emotional StateFounded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.
The effect of deactivating Facebook and Instagram on users' emotional state
NBERThe Effect of Deactivating Facebook and Instagram on Users’ Emotional StateFounded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.
#A7Radio > #Sport > #F1 
https://buff.ly/7aNbLPM
Le #GPArabieSaudite de Formule 1 ce dimanche à 19h !
Verstappen retrouve la pôle, Piastri est 2ème et Russel 3ème.
Un départ qui promet une grosse tension au premier virage ! 
On se connecte en #Music ! Subscribe NOW ! 
Dokkarisuositus: Googlen, Facebookin, Instagramin ja X:n (Twitter) kriittistä tarkastelua demokratiaa uhkaavina mainontajärjestelminä. Nämä palvelut keräävät käyttäjistään dataa: millainen kuluttajaprofiili juuri sinä olet? Vastaavasti mainostajat ostavat näiltä palveluilta mainostilaa. Mainokset välittää automaatio, joka ei piittaa, mitä mainoksissa on. Tulos: mainoksilla rahoitetaan valeuutisia ja aborttiklinikalla käyvät saavat kohdennettuja abortinvastaisia mainoksia.
Dokkarissa annetaan ymmärtää, että Yhdysvaltain kongressitalon valtauksen 6.1.2021 yhtenätaustatekijänä oli sosiaalinen media, jossa kasvoi äärioikeistolaisesti ajattelevaa, salaliittoteorioihin uskova kuplaa. Tähän taas vaikuttivat em. teknojättien mainosjärjestelmät, jotka välittävät koukuttavaa disinformaatiota, koska mainosjärjestelmien omistajat ja disinformaation tuottajat saavat siitä rahaa.
Yle AreenaDigimainonnan kääntöpuoliAlgoritmit päättävät mitä näemme digitaalisilla alustoilla. Maailmassa nämä pitkälle kehityt ja monimutkaiset ohjelmistot ovat vain muutaman teknologia- ja someyrityksen hallinnassa, ja niillä on digitaalisessa markkinoinnissa monipoliasema. Digitaalinen mainonta ruokkii myös huijauksia, väärää tietoa ja äärimmäistä vihaa verkossa - olisi korkea aika säännellä myös verkkomainontaa. (The Click Trap: The Dark Side of Digital Advertising, Ranska 2024)
Just discovered #Meta is using my purged #Facebook accounts (pre-2017) for #AI training. Getting emails about "account being used for AI" despite having terminated them years ago. Apparently "removing" just means they keep everything while locking you out. The kicker? To object to this use, they expect me to log into these nonexistent accounts! The audacity of exploiting data from accounts that should've been expunged years ago is infuriating. Meta's data practices remain as predatory as ever.
#handsoff2025 Protest today!!!!! Join up with others to say #HandsOff our democracy and fight for your freedom!!!! Find Your LOCAL PROTEST HERE; https://www.mobilize.us/handsoff/
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I finally finished reading Careless People. I read about 2/3 of it right after it came out, and then set it aside for a bit.
It's an interesting read. I already knew that Facebook is a despicable company which has done a lot of harm in the world, so a lot of the content itself isn't new. But the book does provide the inside view of the people behind it all. Let's just say "careless" is a very diplomatic term. "Reckless" and "dangerous" would be more accurate.
#A7Radio > #Sport > #Smackdown
https://buff.ly/sNJWvae
American Made fait face à la Lucha Crew, un match de préparation pour #Wrestlemania41. 
Durant le match, Rey Mysterio semble s'être blessé à la jambe et reste à l'écart.
Les Luchados parviennent quand même à remporter le match !
If you're a #facebook user, you can object to your information being used for #aItraining: https://www.facebook.com/help/contact/6359191084165019
UPDATE: Apparently, this form is only available for regions that have legislation protecting consumer privacy. If you're not from these regions you data is free for all for AI training.
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Bad ads aren’t just a failure of Meta to moderate content.
It’s a feature of their surveillance capitalism model that harvests your personal data and tracks your activity.
But you can say no to being profiled for ad sales!
Use our tool to #StopStalkerAds (UK residents)
Open Rights GroupMeta opt-outIn March 2025, there was a huge victory for your data rights! Meta settled a four year court case with human rights campaigner Tanya O’Carroll. She had taken legal action to force the social media giant to stop collecting and processing her personal data for advertising purposes. Meta have agreed to stop profiling Tanya – and now it’s your turn to say no to stalker ads! If you use any Meta products – Facebook, Instagram, Meta Quest or VR, Threads or WhatsApp – you can use our tool to request that they no longer collect or process your data for advertising.
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Meta’s business model is built on profiling users by harvesting personal and behavioural data.
There's no effective opt-out of surveillance and targeting for users to protect themselves from harms.
Users must have a clear and explicit OPT-IN option for targeted advertising.
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Meta’s moderation relies heavily on users reporting bad ads once they're up and running.
The largely automated approval process and lax moderation enable targeted disinformation and harm.
Meta must expand resourcing for pre-publication ad moderation to stop bad ads BEFORE they reach users.