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28 Sep, 4 tweets, 3 min read
New #FacebookFiles: Cultivating under 13 over-sharers is seen internally as a pivotal strategy to sustain long-term social media market dominance.
Here’s #FacebookFiles revealing Zuckerberg’s flimsy empire. It takes some imagination to resist the company’s gaslighting that Facebook is and must forever be the world’s “social infrastructure” aka “Life Coach for Adulting” wsj.com/articles/faceb…
More insights from #FacebookFiles on how the company feels the need to counteract wisdom about privacy bestowed from older siblings and ultimately undermine parental sovereignty as the final obstruction to a more sustainable market penetration. wsj.com/articles/faceb…
“knowingly attempt to recruit” is weasel-wording to score COPPA compliance points while justifying an internal business logic that knowingly attempts to recruit under-13 users, especially if channeled into and through COPPA compliant apps.
#FacebookFiles wsj.com/articles/faceb…

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17 Sep
Friday’s installment of #FacebookFiles based on leaked internal docs reveals how despite Facebook’s unconditional optimism, it has failed to prevent a few people from succeeding wildly at systematically pumping anti-vax content into post comments. wsj.com/articles/faceb…
Some highlights for the paywalled from today’s #FacebookFiles on its mega fail fighting anti-vax wsj.com/articles/faceb…. Via @JeffHorwitz and co
Despite virtually unlimited resources, the company finds itself unable to solve fundamental patterns of malfunction and social harm with seemingly obvious solutions: ban the bad actors and take the political fallout on the chin. #FacebookFiles
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17 Sep
Troll farms are still thriving on Facebook.
140M monthly users
100M weekly users (US)
360M weekly users (global)
Successfully targeting the same groups as RU IRA in 2016.
Facebook is too big to not fail.
REPORT: 8 of 12 top African American FB pages are troll farms technologyreview.com/2021/09/16/103… via @_KarenHao
REPORT: 2 of 8 Top Native American Facebook pages are troll farms. technologyreview.com/2021/09/16/103… via @_karenhao
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16 Sep
WSJ: Facebook Employees Flag Drug Cartels and Human Traffickers. The Company’s Response Is Weak, Documents Show.

This chart from the article visualizes the new digital colonialism epitomized by the ‘blue app’ as use steadily declines in US/EU.
wsj.com/articles/faceb…
A few excerpts from the article that do not require a trigger warning are offered below for a glimpse into the internal reporting on extreme human depravity and systemic violent oppression by bad actors using Facebook as it was designed. wsj.com/articles/faceb…
What if Facebook should not exist? What if Facebook is actually a terrible idea? What if extracting data and attention out of nations at any cost is causing a net harm to humanity despite executives paid generously to insist otherwise? What if Mark Zuckerberg is a failed emperor?
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16 Sep
Let’s talk about all the regulation in the automobile industry and traffic laws and taxpayer funded public infrastructure and on and on this metaphor is not as smart as they think it is!
There are literally rules about the placement of headlights and taillights and the colors they are allowed to be. Does IG want the government dictating the app UI/UX because it certainly sound like that to me if we are to take this metaphor seriously (which we really should not)?
In the galaxy brain of Menlo Park, FB/IG/WA is an automobile that you don’t need a license to operate, don’t need insurance for, don’t need to keep inspected, and if it crashes causing death, injury or destruction of property this is kept secret unless leaked to a journalist.
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31 Aug
The problem with “free (not actually free)” software like Facebook is that their negligence or malign cover-ups can be designated as “bugs” even if it’s total bullshit. How are we to know?
Don’t put it past Facebook to do malign cover-ups. Cambridge Analytica was a textbook cover-up until journalists and academics took Facebook to task. We were eventually vindicated by the authorities.
This is the argument to consciously seek to destroy Facebook. It is proven to be unaccountable and we don’t want unaccountable power. Period. It’s that simple. This is why Facebook is a malign force.
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31 Aug
So yeah this weekend I decided to break down and try NFTs to learn more not just naysay. Once I realized it would cost about $1400 in ETH to list/mint my 7 piece collection of rare Norman Jaffe blueprints, I discovered that this is for folks with a surplus of disposable income.
And then when I discovered that I could use Polygon instead of Ethereum to save on these truly exorbitant gas fees I realized that it would involve starting all over from scratch after deciphering a convoluted process of conversion and configuration. And so I lost interest.
Obviously the nascent NFT market prefers spending ludicrous amounts on garbage pail kids style characters over any actual art history with intrinsic value but in any event here’s what I thought about minting “for science.” opensea.io/collection/jaf…
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