#Facebook interns

[my-autism-adhd-blog]

Autistic Internal Monologue

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[allthebrazilianpolitics]

Musk, Zuckerberg and Trump all target Brazil in disinformation war

After Trump 2.0, these powerful men have eyes on Brazil next. Here’s what can be done to defend our democracy

“Latin American countries have secret courts that can order companies to quietly take things down.” Mark Zuckerberg’s mention of the region, in his announcement to end Meta’s fact-checking efforts in the US among other measures, was by no means a casualty. It’s a direct message to us and shows that the eyes of the most powerful men in the world are on our country – Brazil.

Last year, X was banned by the Brazilian Supreme Court for 40 days because of a law that Elon Musk refused to comply with: any international company operating here must have a legal representative in the country. When X felt the impact of losing one of the largest and most active user bases worldwide, Musk surrendered.

In addition to big tech moguls, Donald Trump also has his eyes on us. In the final days of 2024, he filed a request to the Supreme Court to pause a law that would ban TikTok in the US. Brazil once again emerged, this time to ground the president-elect's claim. Echoing Zuckerberg and Musk, Trump adopted the false censorship narrative spread by Brazilian far-right politicians linked to former president Jair Bolsonaro to distort the reasons that led to the temporary ban of X.

“Another major Western democracy – Brazil – shut down another entire social-media platform, X (formerly known as Twitter), for more than a month, apparently based on that government’s desire to suppress disfavored political speech,” says the petition issued in December 2024.

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[demon4dilfs]

Terrence Mann as Chauvelin in The Scarlet Pimpernel

[wheredidalltheusersgo]

Watching Don appear in the intern discord server and get SWARMED

He's going through it.

A few people have begged him to have their babies.

[kittyprincessofcats]

It's international women's day, so here are some facts:

According to UN estimates, 9000 women have been killed by Israel in Gaza in the last 5 months. (source)

70% of the people killed by Israel in Gaza are women and children.

Israel kills about 2 mothers per hour in Gaza. (source)

According to UN experts, women and girls are getting arbitarily exectued by the Israeli army in Gaza, some together with their family members and children, some while they were fleeing or holding white pieces of cloth. (source)

1.9 million people have been internally displaced in Gaza, 1 million of which are women and girls.

All 2.2 million of Gaza's inhabitants are suffering from food insecurlity, 26% of them from catastrophic levels of hunger. This also very often affects mothers who can no longer feed their children and babies. (source)

Menstruating people in Gaza don't have enough hygiene products, which is why some of them have been using tent scraps, risking infections. (source)

There are more than 50,000 pregnant people in Gaza and about 180 births per day. These births often happen without painkillers or anaesthetics, including c-sections without anaesthetics. (source)

Since 7.10. more and more Palestinian women from the Westbank and Gaza have been arbitarily detained in Israeli prisons without charges or a fair trial. In prison, they are often subjected to torture and sexual violence. (source)

Israeli soldiers in Gaza have been rummaging the closests of displaced Palestinian women and posting photos of those women's underwear online. (source - google it, the pics are everywhere)

Dear feminists of the world: If you're silent about Palestine, your feminism isn't good enough.

[brightlotusmoon]

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Judd Legum and Noel Sims at Popular Information:

On Tuesday morning, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced changes to how the company will handle content moderation across Facebook, Instagram, and Threads. Each aspect of Zuckerberg's announcement appeared designed to ingratiate the company with President-elect Donald Trump and his MAGA base.

For example, Zuckerberg said that Meta would "move its Trust and Safety and Content Moderation teams out of California and our U.S.-based content review is going to be based in Texas." According to Zuckerberg, "as we work to promote free expression, I think it will help us build trust to do this work in places where there is less concern about the bias of our teams." The only people who believe that people in California are inherently more biased than people in Texas are right-wing partisans. The reality is that there are millions of conservative people in California and millions of liberal people in Texas. And content moderators are only enforcing policies created by Zuckerberg and his executive team. But moving part of Meta to Texas allows Zuckerberg to follow the lead of Elon Musk, who has relocated the headquarters of Tesla and X to Texas.

The idea, advanced by Zuckerberg in his announcement, that Texas is a bastion of free speech is also a myth. Last month, for example, Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) "threatened to pull funding from Texas Children’s Hospital" because a doctor in Houston posted a viral TikTok video advising patients that they do not have to answer questions about their citizenship status. After Abbott's threats, the video was taken down. In 2021, Texas enacted a law censoring how teachers can discuss race and gender in the classroom. Since 2017, Texas has had a law requiring most companies doing business with the state to sign a statement about their views on Israel. Zuckerberg's announcement on Tuesday followed a series of other moves calculated to curry favor with Trump. Meta has donated $1 million to Trump's second inauguration celebration. Zuckerberg promoted Joel Kaplan, a Republican operative and close associate of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, as the Meta's Chief Global Affairs Officer. (Kaplan appeared on Fox & Friends on Tuesday morning to promote Meta's content moderation changes.) And on Monday, Zuckerberg announced that Dana White, the CEO of UFC and close friend of Trump, would join Meta's board of directors.

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Fact-checking Zuckerberg's claims about fact-checkers

Zuckerberg also announced that Meta will "get rid of fact-checkers and replace them with community notes similar to X, starting in the US." He justified this move by attacking the professional journalists that Meta has partnered with since 2016. Zuckerberg said that "fact-checkers have just been too politically biased and have destroyed more trust than they've created, especially in the U.S." Zuckerberg did not provide any examples or evidence to support his claim. Lead Stories, Facebook's most prolific fact-checking partner, said Tuesday that in "all the years we have been part of the partnership, we… never received any complaints from Meta about any political bias, so we were quite surprised by this statement." But Zuckerberg's new position is likely to please Trump, whose 2024 campaign "waged an aggressive campaign against fact-checking in recent months, pushing TV networks, journalism organizations and others to abandon the practice." Trump's pick to chair the FCC, Brendan Carr, sent a letter to Meta and other tech companies in November accusing them of participating in a "censorship cartel" by using fact-checkers.

Meta's fact-checking program was designed by the company, not journalists. It was intended to insulate the company from responsibility for misinformation that spread on the platform. As part of Meta's program, it partnered with and provided financial support to certain fact-checkers certified by the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN). Meta chose when and how to use these fact checks across its platforms.

Over the years, Meta took a number of steps that made its fact-checking program ineffective. For example, it banned all fact-checks of politicians. And, as Popular Information reported, Meta pressured the IFCN to certify low-quality right-wing websites, including the Daily Caller, as fact-checkers. The Daily Caller then used its position to downrank factually accurate articles that cast Trump in a negative light. Meta also used fact-checks produced by journalists to "inform their automated systems, sometimes leading to erroneous application of labels that fact-checkers were unfairly blamed for."

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A green light for hate speech

Zuckerberg also announced that Meta would "get rid of a bunch of content restrictions on immigration and gender that are just out of touch with mainstream discourse." The previous restrictions on immigration and gender content on Meta platforms involved hate speech. The new rules permit users to “call for exclusion or use insulting language in the context of discussing political or religious topics, such as when discussing transgender rights, immigration, or homosexuality.” Specifically, it is now permissible to describe people as feces or filth based on their immigration status or gender identity. Meta also now allows “allegations of mental illness or abnormality when based on gender or sexual orientation, given political and religious discourse about transgenderism and homosexuality.”

Mark Zuckerberg’s recent moves to end fact-checking and allow hate speech on Meta platform is a sickening caving into the right’s war on content moderation standards in the name of “protecting free speech”.

See Also:

The New Republic: Which Party Benefits From Zuckerberg’s Move? The One That Lies a Lot.

[battylite]

would love a horse tarot card deck but unfortunately the only one I know of was made by someone running a years long ana mardoll level grift and also it looks like shit

[infinitelytheheartexpands]

i’m sorry, los angeles opera, WHAT???????????????

[my-autism-adhd-blog]

Internalizing Autistic Meltdowns

Neurodivergent_lou

[stephen-barry]

Trump's mysterious relationship with Zuckerberg — and the real reason behind Meta's shift:

[orangerosebush]

"Little fanfare"? I mean, yeah, I guess, if we count the principal celebration here as being "a vicariously enjoyed memeing of the burning of the goat by Americans keeping up online", rather than being the celebration experienced after it burns by the people for whom this celebration is like... in their city. Look: the Gävle Goat has been burned to the ground most years since its first appearance in 1966 -- by 2021, 35 out of 55 goats had been destroyed or damaged in some way (and every year since, it has burned)! Even being generous to certain framings in this post, there have been deeply sincere -- not tongue-in-cheek -- viral news articles and posts by non-Swedish users about celebrating the burning of the goat for probably a decade!

[varahi-in]

Happy Vinayaka Chaturthi to all our lovely ones! 🎊⚜️

[alangreenstein]

Shalaine Stebner: Award-Winning Singer/Songwriter - Support Our #creatives® podcast - December 2, 2024

Mon. December 2, 2024, at 6pmMT/8pmET on Facebook and YouTube via StreamYard. The Award-Winning Support Our #creatives® podcast, hosted by Alan Greenstein. Special guest is is Shalaine Stebner: Award-winning singer/songwriter. We will talk about her [...]

Mon. December 2, 2024, at 6pmMT/8pmET on Facebook and YouTube via StreamYard. The Award-Winning Support Our #creatives® podcast, hosted by Alan Greenstein. Special guest is is Shalaine Stebner: Award-winning singer/songwriter. We will talk about her musical journey and focus on her current release “Dirt Road Raised.” We will also talk about the importance of the International Singer-Songwriters…

[brightlotusmoon]

[carlocarrasco]

More than 400 senior citizens vaccinated for pneumonia in Barangay BF International-CAA, Las Piñas City

Recently in the City of Las Piñas, over four hundred senior citizens availed of the free pneumonia vaccines during the local vaccination program held at Barangay BF International-CAA, the City Government announced via social media. To put things in perspective, posted below is an excerpt from the City Government’s announcement. Some parts in boldface… The City Health Office, under the…