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Meta’s Oversight Board expressed indignation at the social media giant for its January policy overhaul that axed fact-checking and eased restrictions on discussions about immigration and gender identity. The independent oversight board railed against the company for implementing the changes “hastily” with supposedly no transparency about “what, if any, prior human rights due diligence” was performed. Zuckerberg acknowledged that previous content moderation efforts had resulted in “too many mistakes and too much censorship.” President Trump had frequently criticized Facebook during his first term, culminating in his platform suspension following the January 6, 2021, Capitol events — a ban eventually lifted...

An illegal alien has been arrested in Tennessee after impregnating an 11-year-old girl he met on Facebook. Raymundo Juan Reyes Cornelio, 19, was arrested for the rape of a child on April 11 by the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department. According to reports, the young girl gave birth to a baby boy on February 14, prompting an investigation into who the father was. “The girl, who is now age 12, told detectives that she had one sexual encounter with a man in May of 2024,” the police department said in a statement. “She said she met the individual through Facebook. From...

Ok, sorry it has a paywall---this is only my review of it. Everyone needs to read this powerful book. It's DENSE, and took me about 4 hours to read, but the insight into how the big social tech companies are stealing our lives is important. Previously in my substacks I had written part 1, covering the first 1/3 of the book. This covers the last 2/3.

A former Meta executive turned whistleblower just dropped a political nuke that has rocked Capitol Hill and should terrify every American who values freedom, privacy, and national sovereignty. Sarah Wynn-Williams, once Facebook’s director of global public policy (now Meta), appeared before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism on Wednesday and leveled jaw-dropping allegations against her former employer. That Meta knowingly briefed the Chinese Communist Party on advanced U.S. technologies, including artificial intelligence, beginning in 2015—just to get a seat at Beijing’s lucrative tech table. “These briefings focused on critical emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence – explicit goal being...

The FTC is not suing Meta for its past leftism or current MAGA-ism but for its longstanding, documented monopolism. Even Big Tech’s toughest conservative critics must admit Mark Zuckerberg and Meta have had a good few months. In the wake of President Donald Trump’s reelection last November, the $1 trillion company finally scrapped its worst woke initiatives, from Facebook’s infamous “fact-checking” regime to its internal DEI programming. Its sites are apparently no longer throttling political content. And Zuckerberg has even rebranded himself — going “all-in on a MAGA-dominated Washington,” buying a $23 million home two miles from the White House,...

Dallas Mavericks minority owner Mark Cuban is facing calls from his own former employees to flee the Texas city following recent controversy. The NBA organization recently descended into a meltdown when the team traded away its biggest star, Luka Doncic, to the Los Angeles Lakers. And despite selling his majority stake in the Mavericks in 2023, Cuban, who has been outspoken critic of Donald Trump's agenda in Washington DC, has found himself in the firing line. Last week, a former Mavericks event manager, Gavin Mulloy, took aim at the billionaire on Facebook, claiming that he 'should be run out of...

EVERETT, Mass. (AP) — For years, the mayor of a Boston suburb dreaded Wednesdays. That was the day when a local weekly would publish shocking allegations that he was on the take, sexually harassing women or under investigation by the FBI. Friends trashed Everett Mayor Carlo DeMaria on Facebook over what the Everett Leader Herald printed. His father threatened to disown him — over stories the mayor knew were lies. “They labeled me as a ‘Kickback Carlo.’ Accusations that I was settling all kinds of sexual harassment lawsuits, that I put a knife to a girl’s throat and asked for...

Video is 60 minutes long This youtuber, Stephanie Soo, has an excellent way of telling true crime stories. Three Thai women escaped a “human egg farm” in the country of Georgia.

I confess that I had no intention of reading “Careless People,” the tell-all memoir from former Facebook executive Sarah Wynn-Williams. I figured I knew all I needed to know about the company’s history and its leader, Mark Zuckerberg, from following it for the better part of a decade.But then Zuckerberg, whose company changed its name to Meta Platforms in 2021, moved to suppress the book by obtaining an arbitrator’s ruling prohibiting Wynn-Williams from promoting it herself, whether through a book tour or other means, or from repeating the supposedly “disparaging, critical or otherwise detrimental comments” about him or his company...

Former Facebook executive Sheryl Sandberg has been accused of engaging in a steamy Italian work trip with a female intern, spending a staggering $13,000 on lingerie before asking her to 'come to bed' - a claim that Sheryl denies. The allegations came to light in a new book 'Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism,' written by ex-Facebook employee Sarah Wynn-Williams. Wynn-Williams, who served as director of global public policy at Facebook, writes about her experience after six years at the tech giant. She accused Sandberg of spending $13,000 on lingerie during a lavish European trip...

Meta Platforms (META), the company that owns Facebook and Instagram, is in discussions to construct a new data center campus for its artificial intelligence projects, with potential costs exceeding $200 billion, The Information reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter. Meta executives have informed data center developers that the company is considering building the campus in states including Louisiana, Wyoming or Texas, with senior leaders having visited potential sites this month, the report said. Since the launch of Microsoft (MSFT) backed OpenAI's ChatGPT in 2022, investment in AI has surged as companies across various sectors strive to incorporate...

A journalist with The Associated Press thought she had a big scoop. Little did she know she would have to be scooped off the ground after being obliterated in a fact-check by White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt.FAA staff fired over the weekend included personnel that worked radar, landing and navigational aid maintenance, among others. Hundreds were fired, just weeks after a fatal mid-air collision in DC killed 67. One employee said they were harassed on Facebook by @DOGE… — Tara Copp (@TaraCopp) February 17, 2025 More fake news from the @AP 1. DOGE doesn’t even have a Facebook page...

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After an internal Q&A with CEO Mark Zuckerberg made headlines over the tech tycoon’s pro-President Trump commentary, Meta threatened to fire staffers for leaking information to the media — in a memo that then also got leaked. Meta “will take appropriate action, including termination,” for any leakers, Meta’s chief information security officer, Guy Rosen, said in a memo obtained by the Verge. “When information is stolen or leaked, there are repercussions beyond the immediate security impact,” Rosen said. “Our teams become demoralized and we all waste time that is better spent working on our products and toward our goals and...

DeepSeek AI has disrupted the AI landscape in the US. In just a few weeks after the launch of its AI model, DeepSeek overtook ChatGPT to become the number one free app on the App Store. Not only this, DeepSeek's rise in popularity sent shockwaves to the tech industry, leading to a $400 billion in market cap loss for NVIDIA in the US. Recently, DeepSeek launched its Janus-Pro 7B, a groundbreaking image generation model that started making headlines, as it outperformed the likes of OpenAI's DALL-E, Stability AI's Stable Diffusion, and other image generation models in several benchmarks. The popularity...

...former Facebook diversity executive Bärí A. Williams criticizes Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to disband the company’s DEI programs, signaling a shift in priorities as he aligns with the incoming Trump administration. Williams, author of Seen Yet Unseen: A Black Woman Crashes the Tech Fraternity and the founder of Facebook's Supplier Diversity Program, published an opinion piece on MSNBC on the shutdown of Meta’s DEI initiatives. Williams expressed her disappointment in the abandonment of Meta’s Supplier Diversity Program, an initiative she spent countless hours developing. She writes, “From October 2014 to October 2016, I spent nights, weekends and even part...

Mark Zuckerberg’s announcement could encourage others to stop pretending they believe in the cultish ideology of “systemic racism” and race-based guilt. Last week, Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta, formerly Facebook, made a stunning announcement. He was abolishing the company’s DEI programs and discontinuing its relationship with fact-checking organizations, which he admitted had become a form of “censorship.” The left-wing media immediately attacked the decision, accused him of embracing the MAGA agenda, and predicted a dangerous rise in so-called disinformation. Zuckerberg’s move was carefully calculated and impeccably timed. The November elections, he said, felt like “a cultural tipping point towards...

The tech industry is on the verge of a major transformation, with artificial intelligence (AI) stepping into roles traditionally held by human software engineers. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently revealed that AI could soon take over coding tasks previously handled by mid-level engineers, signaling a dramatic change for the profession. During a conversation on The Joe Rogan Experience, Zuckerberg shared that Meta, along with other tech giants, is working on AI systems that will handle coding duties. He predicted that by 2025, AI would be capable of performing tasks typically done by mid-level engineers. This shift marks a major turning...