iyo did facebook ruin the internet?

i'd be happier if i didn't suspect that the only two consequences of this will be: 1) layoffs; 2) an even shittier product

software engineers could do with some layoffs

It's official: Facebook posts largest one-day loss in market value by ANY company in the HISTORY of the United States stock market

a great time for a better government than we will ever have to scoop it up for a bargain and establish a usable social media platform scrubbed of all the profit-seeking shadiness, oh well

their only good employee quit

I am very excited to say that I have accepted a teaching and research role at Stanford starting in September. My last day at Facebook will be Aug 17.

Stanford students can sign up for my Fall class here: https://t.co/6qIhS4gXA2

— Alex Stamos (@alexstamos) August 1, 2018

Hooray!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2018/08/21/facebook-is-rating-trustworthiness-its-users-scale-zero-one/

0.51'd

uh

I hope you will make time for our story today:https://t.co/jSHzsN68IU pic.twitter.com/I9moH26iOk

— Max Fisher (@Max_Fisher) August 21, 2018

Their reams of data converged on a breathtaking statistic: Wherever per-person Facebook use rose to one standard deviation above the national average, attacks on refugees increased by about 50 percent.

iyo did facebook ruin the world?

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/xwk9zd/how-facebook-content-moderation-works

A training questionnaire offers some examples: A photo of Taylor Swift with anus eyes: OK. A photo of Donald Trump with an anus mouth: OK. A photo of Kim Jong Un with an anus mouth and anal beads being removed from it: Not OK.

oh god there's also a photo

As here, where Facebook treats its facilitation of genocide as an unfortunate shortcoming of Unicode rather than a result of its conscious decision to expand into a country where it would have no ability to screen content pic.twitter.com/WNGMLeqFi5

— Tom Scocca (@tomscocca) August 23, 2018

Oh anus eyes
Am I deceived
Or did you sigh?

/A training questionnaire offers some examples: A photo of Taylor Swift with anus eyes: OK. A photo of Donald Trump with an anus mouth: OK. A photo of Kim Jong Un with an anus mouth and anal beads being removed from it: Not OK./

lmao my friend said the same thing

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/on-demand/2017/02/28/brass-new_trans_NvBQzQNjv4Bq_01geUMvhhqXYj_tJM1bT68t64MxvceK5RTDA1NR8Pk.jpg

https://scontent-lax3-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/fr/cp0/e15/q65/39753161_415274175667009_6698603729836310528_o.jpg?_nc_cat=1&efg=eyJpIjoidCJ9&oh=fb11aaa88836b9b47fb516c7ba9a7f41&oe=5C098FE1

Their targeted ads sometimes make me feel like at some point I must have crossed a line between decent human being and pure sociopath in one of my status updates.

zut alors

oops https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/how-serious-is-the-new-facebook-breach

zut alors

I have always thought of facebook as "The Next America Online" - like a dumbed-down version of the internet for those who have no time to give a shit about things

hanle y otm

but instead of giving you coasters through your letterbox a couple of times a month they accidentally usher in fascist governments

on Friday, Joel Kaplan spent the morning apologizing for a “thoughtless” appearance supporting kavanaugh in last weeks senate hearing.

by Saturday evening, the Kaplan’s were throwing the judge a victory party.https://t.co/lEtCCNZgtE

— rat king (@MikeIsaac) October 7, 2018

yup

was super depressed when i read 45% of americans got their news from facebook during the pre-election, fuck

really wish facebook would take the same approach to data breaches that google+ has

This post in my neighborhood FB group is getting absolutely destroyed pic.twitter.com/8i0wAGP0qO

— Alex (@alex_cono) October 9, 2018

xp rushomancy otm

lmao at the acorns

The biggest publisher on Facebook has just gone bust. What does that say for traditional news brands with higher production costs that are still pursuing digital scale? Reach, Mailonline, the Sun. Hint: nothing good. https://t.co/ff0COWU4lI

— Chris Williams (@cg_williams) October 11, 2018

post lads itt when u want to post lads in another thread

also :(

https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2018/10/11/viral-competitive-barefoot-runner-facebook-post-fake-made-up/

i'm not clicking thaaaaaaat nanananananana

lads

As part of its purge, Facebook has removed the pages of several police accountability/watchdog/critic groups, including Cop Block, the Free Thought Project, and Police the Police. They've also apparently severely restricted activity for the Photography Is Not a Crime page.

— Radley Balko (@radleybalko) October 12, 2018

who could have predicted this

If you missed it: today it was confirmed that Facebook massively & knowingly inflated its video-view statistics, which had the DIRECT consequence of 90% of media orgs firing writers in favor of expensive video producers, who also got fired when it turned out video was worthless https://t.co/WqdAUBIe6L

— Chris Conroy (@dyfl) October 17, 2018

Free Thought Project doesn't come across as a watchdog group, more a misguided bunch of old bollocks

not a status, but a close friend of mine, whose wedding I've been to, whose kids I have bonded with, whose house I watch frequently, just decided to pick a fight with me at 9 in the morning over Skype at work for spoiling Halloween for him.

Oh, wait, let me clarify - I don't mean spoiling the actual movie. I mean posting two sentences in the comments section of my FB check-in regarding what I thought about the movie ("Underwhelming. Some cool moments but didn't feel like a homerun.") in direct response to my brother asking me what I thought about it.

His only request in advance is that he didn't want to know anything about the movie, so I deliberately didn't talk to him about it, post anything about it other than I went and the comment above. purposefully didn't give any specific details about anything as pedestrian as pacing or anything. and the killer is I invited him to go w/ me but he opted not to.

this site is toxic af - we never get in real big arguments, so this is mega weird. I only visit to check on events and my friends' wellbeing now.

the whole concept/cult of "spoilers" is bizarre

I mean, "spoilers" is one thing, I will never post "OMG I CAN'T BELIEVE DEXTER GAVE BIRTH TO AN ALIEN BABY" on FB, even avoid it in the comments.

but like...not even being able to share a vague opinion on the quality of the movie, buried in the comments, in direct response to a question?

it's a stupid nothing thing, in 12 years we've known each other none of our arguments ever go beyond like, a day, but he's not the first person I've seen cry "SPOILER" at something not even remotely spoilery.

if the appeal of prestige tv is that it can be boiled down to a handful of 'gotcha' moments then maybe that explains why i keep bouncing off of the shows that people like

i'd be pretty annoyed if i had the solution to a whodunnit spoiled on me when i was halfway through but that's more of a puzzle thing than a tv/film thing

since we haven't mentioned it here uh facebook lied to publishers and got an entire generation of 'print'/word journalists fired

I posted it 6 posts ago, but yes I agree it should be bigger news

oh you sure did and i even reacted to it sorry

<3

tbf if web publishers actually believed facebook’s numbers about video then they were too stupid to survive much longer anyway

the problem is that hundreds of ppl who worked at those publishers knew it was bullshit but it only takes one executive idiot to trash 90 years of a publication out of FOMO