While reporting this story, a 404 Media article about AI-generated porn was deleted by Facebook.
"The LGBTQ+ advocacy group claims that the social media company fails to remove anti-trans content in violation of its own policies, leading to ‘well-documented real-world harms.’"
Mastodon is interoperable, decentralized, operated by a nonprofit, lively, and, ACTUALLY, isn't hard to use. So why is everyone championing Threads as the main Twitter alternative?
‘The classic Facebook will no longer be available’
Nord and OnePlus 8 series phones are saddled with Facebook services that can't be uninstalled
Ahead of the election year, we polled Americans about which big tech companies they trust with their personal information — and which ones should be broken up
If you're on the other side of the mobile divide, iOS 8 is also being canned. WhatsApp officially supports Android 4.0.3+ and iOS 9+ now.
All major social networks are financed by advertising and thus free to users who trade access to their data for cat videos and sometimes questionable news content. Wikipedia co-founder and internet entrepreneur Jimmy Wales wants to change that.
It’s part of his New Year’s resolution
Apple has shut down Facebook’s ability to distribute internal iOS apps, from early releases of the Facebook app to basic tools like a lunch menu. A person familiar with the situation tells The Verge that early versions of Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and other pre-release “dogfood” (beta) apps have stopped working, as have other employee apps, like one for transportation. Facebook is treating this as a critical problem internally, we’re told, as the affected apps simply don’t launch on employees’ phones anymore.
Elon Musk apparently wasn’t aware that his company SpaceX had a Facebook page. The SpaceX and Tesla CEO has responded to a comment on Twitter calling for him to take down the SpaceX, Tesla and Elon Musk official pages in support of the #deletefacebook movement by first acknowledging he didn’t know one existed, and then following up with promises that he would indeed take them down.
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - France’s data privacy watchdog may fine messaging app WhatsApp if it does not comply with an order to bring its sharing of user data with parent company Facebook into line with French privacy law.
How Americans really feel about Facebook, Apple, and more