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2 tech companies control >50% of the world’s online advertising market; Google & Facebook tortoisemedia.com/2021/10/27/ins… not as sexy as #TheFacebookPapers but 🔥 the unsealed previously redacted docs in the antitrust lawsuit against Google tortoisemedia.com/2021/10/27/ins… (some key points)
Some jawdropping quotes:

“As internal documents reveal, Google sought to kill competition and has done so through an array of exclusionary tactics, including an unlawful agreement with Facebook, it's largest potential competitive threat, to manipulate advertising actions."
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THREAD: Facebook once faced the threat of being removed from Apple's app store over maids being bought and traded on its websites, documents obtained by the @AP show.

#TheFacebookPapers

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A Filipina housemaid in Kuwait, who described being “sold” to another family through an Instagram post, told the @AP that she knew of others being “traded online like merchandise.”
Labor abuse on Facebook is such a problem that the Philippines has a team that does nothing but scour posts each day to try to protect desperate job seekers from criminal gangs and unscrupulous recruiters.

#TheFacebookPapers

apnews.com/article/the-fa…
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Hoy decenas de medios publican #TheFacebookPapers, un análisis de los documentos internos filtrados que prueban la toxicidad de la red social, como su algoritmo alienta el odio y como su directiva ha mirado hacia otro lado.

Aquí va un breve hilo de recopilación👇🏽
1) Facebook no actuó contra los grupos supremacistas y conspiranoicos que asaltaron el Capitolio de EEUU hasta después del ataque.

La plataforma engañó a los inversores y al público sobre su papel en la propagación de desinformación.
washingtonpost.com/technology/202…
2) Traficantes de personas usan Facebook para comercializar con mujeres maltratadas, a las que se esclaviza como empleadas domésticas.

La plataforma lo sabe desde 2018 pero no ha logrado frenarlo. Apple incluso amenazó con sacar FB e IG de la App Store. edition.cnn.com/2021/10/25/tec…
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THREAD: What are #TheFacebookPapers?

The papers are redacted versions of disclosures made by whistleblower Frances Haugen to the SEC, alleging Facebook was prioritizing profits over safety and hiding its own research from investors and the public.

apnews.com/hub/the-facebo…
The @AP joined with 16 other American news organizations who worked together to gain access to the thousands of pages of internal company documents. Each member of the consortium pursued its own independent reporting.
Among the stories published by @AP, our journalists are reporting on the conflict between profit and people within Facebook, and maids being bought and traded on the site in the Mideast.

apnews.com/hub/the-facebo…
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It is going to be one busy week!

Join us here as we keep up with the latest revelations about #Facebook.

An ongoing🧵on all the latest news on whistleblower testimonies and the leaked Facebook Files. All in one place.

#OnlineSafetyBill
#FacebookFiles
🚨BREAKING

@CNN has now released some of the leaked Facebook documents

#TheFacebookPapers

edition.cnn.com/business/live-…
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🔴Today's a big day in a week filled with testimonies on the harms done by Big Tech, specifically FB.

The courageous whistleblower @FrancesHaugen testifies before the @OnlineSafetyCom at 14:30pm BST

Catch her speak here: parliamentlive.tv/event/index/cd…

We'll be here tweeting live!
As we prepare for @FrancesHaugen's testimony later this afternoon, let us take a dive into the revelations she has already made!

"When we live in an information environment that is full of angry, polarizing content, it erodes our civic trust", @FrancesHaugen, when she spoke to @CBSNews earlier this month.

Facebook has been breeding such an ecosystem.

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