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5 Nov, 4 tweets, 2 min read
New💧from Haugen’s files: Facebook knows it makes a lot of people feel bad.
Somehow #Facebook manages to make people feel worse than other platforms. Could be that insulated mastermind micromanager behind the screen.
Facebook studies how to anticipate the types of users who may try to quit by sensing for the signals of addiction while Apple and Google respond with protections from Facebook’s manipulations. wsj.com/articles/faceb…
Do you sense the pattern unfolding across Haugen’s files? I’m seeing various instances of Facebook realizing that it needs to awkwardly kill its own features to reduce general harms. wsj.com/articles/faceb…

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23 Oct
Despite tech scandal information overload this weekend, here is a credit default swap collateralized debt obligation type story that journalism will struggle to explain. Adtech business is impenetrably abstruse but this could be unraveling the key criminal conduct at play.
With all the simultaneous tech scandals crashing together from multiple sources, people will tend to focus on the stories they can understand, cause emotional impulses, and comport with their understandings rather than the ones that are challenging to grasp but cut to the core.
Yes all of these scandals represent the various issues I shout about for years now. But this TX price fixing lawsuit is all about the alleged criminal conduct of the DUOPOLY. They have been illegally cheating virtually *all* advertisers and publishers, harming all of society.
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8 Oct
I was told nfts are the future tho and web3 and everything crypto is just so much more radically different than the fraud-filled shitshow we live amongst today
We still live in a world where very extremely rich people still take Ozy seriously. Stop making sense.
The analytics aren’t real and when we make them real with crypto it’s not gonna be a quick fix. It’s more likely a trap.
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8 Oct
Reminder! Download your data and delete your account, not just the app. It’s not as easy as the cover suggests, of course!
And after switching to iOS if necessary, download a device-level tracker blocker VPN like jumbo or disconnect.me torqued to the strictest settings to kill your shadow profile across all your apps and devices. It’s a lot of work to really delete Facebook from your life.
Residents of locales that grant #datarights to access your data under legal protections such as EU member states under #GDPR or other nations and US states such as California and Virginia granting their residents data rights in the wake of Cambridge Analytica, exercise ur rights!
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28 Sep
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…
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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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