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Multiple Facebook users have reported being banned, or having their posts censored, after sharing an investigation by The Grayzone’s Kit Klarenberg into CIA and MI6 involvement in the creation of ISIS. Readers who post links to the piece on the social network find themselves frozen out of their accounts, on the apparent grounds that Facebook has classified Klarenberg as a “dangerous individual.”
cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/9930406 > I have never used Facebook. I’m trying to understand the ways in which people are getting trapped in there. Obviously there is an [addiction factor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Facebook#Facebook_addiction), but I’m more interested in how someone who is (hypothetically) immune to addiction might still be forced into #Facebook. > > If someone ***needs*** Facebook to access something essential like healthcare, that’s what I want to hear about. To inspire a list of things that are “essential” I had a look at human rights law to derive this list: > > * right to life > * healthcare > * freedom of expression > * freedom of assembly and of association > * right to education > * right to engage in work and access to placement services > * fair and just working conditions > * social security and social assistance > * consumer protection > * right to vote > * right to petition > * right of access to (government) documents > * right to a nationality (passport acquisition) > * right of equal access to public service in his country > > I don’t imagine that Facebook has an essential role in supporting people’s human rights. I assume most gov offices have a Facebook presence, but there is always a way to access the same services outside of FB, correct? > > I can think of a couple situations where FB access is important to reaching something essential. E.g. > > * A police department recovered stolen bicycles and announced that theft victims could visit the FB page of the police dept. to see if their bicycle appears in the photos. Non-FB users were blocked from the page and there was no other means to reach the photos. Effectively, non-FB users were denied equal access to public services. > > * A Danish university has a Facebook page as well as just about every single student. Facebook was used exclusively to announce campus social events and even some optional classes. Students without FB were excluded. In a sense, they were being excluded from some aspects to public education, although strictly speaking the FB exclusive events were not required to obtain a degree. > > * Regarding freedom of assembly, there is an activist group in my local area fighting for the right to be offline. I wanted to join the group, but their sole presence is on Facebook, ironically. So my freedom of assembly in this case is conditioned on being trapped in Facebook. > > In any case, I would like to hear more examples of what essential information or services is compromised by leaving or neglecting to join Facebook.
mashable.com
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1898346 > When Threads launched on Wednesday, numerous right-wing users shared(opens in a new tab) their dissatisfaction(opens in a new tab) with Twitter's biggest competitor — on Twitter of course — over having their accounts flagged for disinformation. As of Friday, however, it seems the warning label on accounts that reported the issue has since disappeared.
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1874605 > A 17-year-old from Nebraska and her mother are facing criminal charges including performing an illegal abortion and concealing a dead body after police obtained the pair’s private chat history from Facebook, court documents published by Motherboard show.
These instructions used to work, but now they don't: https://www.facebook.com/help/110612466380218
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.perthchat.org/post/185690 > I cant. How'd you do it?
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Zuck Bucks is a conceptualized digital currency by Meta Platforms for the users of Metaverse named on the CEO of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg.[1][2][3]
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