The picture, posted July 4 on the Facebook page “Love Shares 3.0” for 71,000 followers, appears to be an aerial view of St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican, with people gathered in the square. Overhead, dangling from a gigantic black helicopter, is what can only be a massive Bible, but …
Read More »Trump Threatens to Jail Mark Zuckerberg for Life
Donald Trump wrote a book, and true to form, it contains some deeply unbalanced textual musings. According to Politico, the coffee-table book — titled Saving America — accuses Mark Zuckerberg of plotting to usurp the 2020 election in favor of President Joe Biden, and warns that the Meta CEO will …
Read More »Meta Lifts 'Heightened Suspension Penalties' From Donald Trump's Accounts Ahead of RNC
Nearly four years after Meta suspended Donald Trump from their services — and 18 months after the ban was lifted with “guardrails” in place — the parent company of Facebook and Instagram announced Friday that it has lifted all remaining restrictions from the former president’s accounts ahead of the Republican …
Read More »Sex Workers Are Getting Scammed on Instagram. Meta Needs to Step In
Like any other morning, trans content creator Lana Madison woke up and grabbed her phone. She checked her OnlyFans income, where she ranked in the top 0.06 percent of earners, and then her Instagram direct messages. Since Meta, parent company to Facebook and Instagram, frequently deletes performers’ pages, Lana maintained …
Read More »Inside Snapchat's Teen Opioid Crisis
A lex Neville was one of those boys who was always in costume, wearing his obsessions on his sleeve. At three, he went around dressed as a mummy, earnestly explaining the embalming process to children in Aliso Viejo, a town in Orange County, California. At seven, he was SoCal’s shortest …
Read More »Parents Heckle Mark Zuckerberg at Child Exploitation Hearing
Parents of deceased and exploited children heckled Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday during a Senate hearing on the role tech companies play in online child sexual exploitation. Parents holding photos of their deceased children, many of whom died by suicide, audibly hissed at Zuckerberg as he entered the chamber. …
Read More »The Metaverse Flopped, So Mark Zuckerberg Is Pivoting to Empty AI Hype
Mark Zuckerberg bet tens of billions of dollars on the “metaverse” only to be mocked for the idea of an immersive virtual-reality social network at every turn. When all is said and done, his promise to add legs to users’ digital avatars (previously rendered as floating torsos) might be what …
Read More »Oversight Board Calls Out Meta for 'Failing' to Protect LGBTQ People Online
On social media, attacks on LGBTQ people aren’t always as direct as calling someone a name or threatening to hurt them — obscuring attacks in coded language, jokes, and dog whistles is a common method people use to try to get around the rules. “There are a lot of coded …
Read More »Blackpink Release Trailer for Virtual Reality Concert With Meta
Blackpink rolled out the trailer to their upcoming virtual concert BLACKPINK: A VR Encore on Tuesday. In partnership withMeta, the event will premiere on Dec. 26 at 5 p.m. P.T on Meta Horizon Worlds. Fans will be invited to take a virtual seat at the finale of their massive Born …
Read More »Dems Demand Twitter, Meta Rein in Rampant Abortion Misinformation
Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg are facing scrutiny from House Democrats over the spread of rampant abortion misinformation on Facebook, Instagram, and X (formerly Twitter). A pair of letters issued by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee, obtained exclusively by Rolling Stone, demand that Musk’s and Zuckerberg’s platforms take “immediate …
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