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PostAuthor: Anthea » Thu Oct 14, 2021 10:09 pm

Facebook's removal list

A leaked document compiled by Facebook has revealed that the company considers mentions of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and 15 other affiliated individuals and organizations in posts as “dangerous” and warranting possible removal

The hundred-page internal document published by the Intercept contains the names of over 4,000 organizations, political parties, and individuals that are flagged by the social media company as “dangerous.”

There are 16 mentions of groups and individuals affiliated with the PKK in the document, most notably the armed group itself and the Free Life Party of Kurdistan (PJAK), as well as several other Kurdish organizations and individuals.

In an email interview with Rudaw, Facebook clarified their policy over who and why people ended up on the lists.

“We have rules prohibiting terrorists, hate groups or criminal organizations from using our platform and remove content that praises, represents or supports them whenever we find it,” a Facebook spokesperson told Rudaw, saying they have legal obligations related to US sanctions that guide their our Dangerous Organizations policies.

The social media mogul say it has over 350 specialists focused on implementing their policy.

“It should be noted that there is of course, no universal definition of terrorism among researchers, intra-government agencies, and certainly not between governments,” said the company spokesperson. “Our definitions were developed in close partnership with leading researchers and experts, and have a strong focus on off-platform instances of violence.”

Rudaw: Sakine Cansizs was assassinated in Paris in 2013. Why is she still in that list?

Facebook company spokesperson: Sakine Cansizs is a founding member of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). The PKK is designated by the United States as a Foreign Terrorist Organization. As we make clear in our Community Standards, under our Dangerous Individuals and Organisations policy, we do not allow entities designated by the United States government as foreign terrorist organisations (FTOs) or specially designated global terrorists (SDGTs) to use our platforms. Under this policy we also ban their leadership and prominent members. In addition, we do not allow content that praises, supports or represents designated individuals or groups, this includes historical figures.

Why so much focus on Kurdish individuals and entities both in Iraq and Turkey?

We have designated individuals and entities as terrorists all over the world, including organisations based in North America and Western Europe. Our definition of terrorism is public, detailed and was developed with significant input from outside experts and academics. Unlike some definitions of terrorism, our definition is agnostic to region, religion, political outlook or ideology -- it is based solely on organisational behaviour.

What would happen if a Facebook post related to those names appeared on the platform?

It depends on the context. Our policies are designed to allow people to discuss these groups and individuals neutrally -- to report on them and their activities, providing people clearly indicate their intent. However, we do not allow content that praises, supports or represents individuals or groups engaging in terrorist activity or organised hate. Facebook does not want violence organized or facilitated on its platform and the Dangerous Organisations and Individuals list is an effort to keep dangerous groups from doing that.

https://www.rudaw.net/english/world/14102021
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PostAuthor: Anthea » Wed Oct 20, 2021 10:45 pm

Own the internet

Is this Facebook and Google’s new plan?

These companies charge others for the amount of data they transmit through the cables they own, but also barter access to cables owned by others in exchange for free access to theirs – a quiet share-and-share-alike system behind huge telecoms companies, all behind the scenes.

The world’s biggest owner of cables is a household name, at least to Americans – it’s AT&T, which has a stake in around 230,000 kilometres of international internet cabling, or around one sixth of the total. But looking at others in the top ten reveals why both Big Tech and Western governments are starting to pay the apparently dull issue of cable ownership more attention: in second place is China Telecom, while Chunghwa Telecom (based in Taiwan) is third and China Unicorn is sixth.

In the tenth and eleventh spots, however, are some very familiar names: Facebook and Google. Big Tech is getting into big cables – and doing so in a big way. Over the past few years, 80 percent of investment in new cables has flowed from the two US tech giants.

As of today, Facebook owns or co-owns 99,399 kilometres of cables, Google 95,876 kilometres. And more investments are on their way: in August, Facebook and Google announced their plans for building a 12,000 kilometre undersea cable, Apricot, which will link Singapore, Japan, Guam, the Philippines, Taiwan and Indonesia when completed in 2024. For Google, that came hot on the heels of a previous announcement about the Echo subsea cable, which will connect California, Singapore, Guam and Indonesia.

For its part, Facebook has thrown its weight behind the coalition of telcos building what might turn out to be the longest subsea cable ever: 2Africa, a 45,000 kilometre-long cord planned to encompass the whole African continent and connect 33 countries in Africa, Europe and the Middle-East by 2024. In May 2020 Bloomberg reported that the project will cost under $1 billion – but that was before Facebook announced several expansions to the initial design.

The stated motivations for these efforts vary. Facebook especially frames part of its effort as being about improving internet access across the world – while admitting some advantage to itself through user growth if this succeeds. Google mostly highlights how greater connectivity will boost local economic prosperity.

Many internet cables follow the telecoms routes laid out in the early twentieth century, and so efforts to build huge new cables serving non-western countries (like, in a way, the 2Africa cable) are framed as an effort to decolonise the internet, albeit an uncomfortable one given the mix of companies and groups involved.

The tech giants have privacy and security reasons to get into cables, too. In 2013, when The Guardian and The Washington Post published revelations from NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, the story that most angered American tech firms (especially Google) was about how the agency was intercepting traffic sent internally between their data centres.

Google’s response to this was both to ratchet up its use of encryption, even for traffic travelling internally (which can still mean across continents), and to increase its reliance on entirely private fibre-optic cables for such communications. And when you think like Google and the other tech giants, once you’re in the cable game, you might as well get in properly.

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Re: Facebook's removal started - Kurdish groups/people vanis

PostAuthor: Anthea » Sat Oct 23, 2021 11:50 pm

GOING
    GOING
      GONE
Sadly, Kurdish groups/individuals are already vanishing

Some re-invent themselves and return several times before disappearing completely

Facebook is especially important for Kurds who have no home to call their own

Kurds need somewhere they can share their hopes and fears

A way to keep in contact with family and friends

To be able to share cultural events, information on forthcoming events such as book/film releases

Many Kurdish sites here share Kurdish history, something most Kurds know little about

Facebook, like everywhere else, is trying to make Kurds disappear X(
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PostAuthor: Anthea » Tue Oct 26, 2021 11:27 am

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What is in cache of internal documents?

Facebook has been at the centre of a wave of damaging revelations after a whistleblower released tens of thousands of internal documents and testified about the company’s inner workings to US senators

Frances Haugen left Facebook in May with a cache of memos and research that have exposed the inner workings of the company and the impact its platforms have on users. The first stories based on those documents were published by the Wall Street Journal in September.

Haugen gave further evidence about Facebook’s failure to act on harmful content in testimony to US senators on 5 October, in which she accused the company of putting “astronomical profits before people”. She also testified to MPs and peers in the UK on Monday, as a fresh wave of stories based on the documents was published by a consortium of news organisations.

Facebook’s products – the eponymous platform, the Instagram photo-sharing app, Facebook Messenger and the WhatsApp messaging service – are used by 2.8 billion people a day and the company generated a net income – a US measure of profit – of $29bn (£21bn) last year.

Here is what we have learned from the documents, and Haugen, since the revelations first broke last month.

Teenage mental health

The most damaging revelations focused on Instagram’s impact on the mental health and wellbeing of teenage girls. One piece of internal research showed that for teenage girls already having “hard moments”, one in three found Instagram made body issues worse. A further slide shows that one in three people who were finding social media use problematic found Instagram made it worse, with one in four saying it made issues with social comparison worse.

Facebook described reports on the research, by the WSJ in September, as a “mischaracterisation” of its internal work. Nonetheless, the Instagram research has galvanised politicians on both sides of the Atlantic seeking to rein in Facebook.

Violence in developing countries

Haugen has warned that Facebook is fanning ethnic violence in countries including Ethiopia and is not doing enough to stop it. She said that 87% of the spending on combating misinformation at Facebook is spent on English content when only 9% of users are English speakers. According to the news site Politico on Monday, just 6% of Arabic-language hate content was detected on Instagram before it made its way on to the platform.

Haugen told Congress on 5 October that Facebook’s use of engagement-based ranking – where the platform ranks a piece of content, and whether to put it in front of users, on the amount of interactions it gets off people – was endangering lives. “Facebook … knows, they have admitted in public, that engagement-based ranking is dangerous without integrity and security systems, but then not rolled out those integrity and security systems to most of the languages in the world. And that’s what is causing things like ethnic violence in Ethiopia,” she said.

Divisive algorithm changes

In 2018 Facebook changed the way it tailored content for users of its news feed feature, a key part of people’s experience of the platform. The emphasis on boosting “meaningful social interactions” between friends and family meant that the feed leant towards reshared material, which was often misinformed and toxic. “Misinformation, toxicity and violent content are inordinately prevalent among reshares,” said internal research. Facebook said it had an integrity team that was tackling the problematic content “as efficiently as possible”.

Tackling falsehoods about the US presidential election

The New York Times reported that internal research showed how, at one point after the US presidential election last year, 10% of all US views of political material on Facebook – a very high proportion for the platform – were of posts alleging that Joe Biden’s victory was fraudulent. One internal review criticised attempts to tackle “Stop the Steal” groups spreading claims that the election was rigged. “Enforcement was piecemeal,” said the research. The revelations have reignited concerns about Facebook’s role in the 6 January riots.

Facebook said: “The responsibility for the violence that occurred … lies with those who attacked our Capitol and those who encouraged them.” However, the WSJ has also reported that Facebook’s automated systems were taking down posts generating only an estimated 3-5% of total views of hate speech.

Disgruntled Facebook staff

Within the files disclosed by Haugen are testimonies from dozens of Facebook employees frustrated by the company’s failure to either acknowledge the harms it generates, or to properly support efforts to mitigate or prevent those harms. “We are FB, not some naive startup. With the unprecedented resources we have, we should do better,” wrote one employee quoted by Politico in the wake of the 6 January attack on the US capitol.

“Never forget the day Trump rode down the escalator in 2015, called for a ban on Muslims entering the US, we determined that it violated our policies, and yet we explicitly overrode the policy and didn’t take the video down,” wrote another. “There is a straight line that can be drawn from that day to today, one of the darkest days in the history of democracy … History will not judge us kindly.”

Facebook is struggling to recruit young users

A section of a complaint filed by Haugen’s lawyers with the US financial watchdog refers to young users in “more developed economies” using Facebook less. This is a problem for a company that relies on advertising for its income because young users, with unformed spending habits, can be lucrative to marketers. The complaint quotes an internal document stating that Facebook’s daily teenage and young adult (18-24) users have “been in decline since 2012-13” and “only users 25 and above are increasing their use of Facebook”. Further research reveals “engagement is declining for teens in most western, and several non-western, countries”.

Haugen said engagement was a key metric for Facebook, because it meant users spent longer on the platform, which in turn appealed to advertisers who targeted users with adverts that accounted for $84bn (£62bn) of the company’s $86bn annual revenue. On Monday, Bloomberg said “time spent” for US teenagers on Facebook was down 16% year-on-year, and that young adults in the US were also spending 5% less time on the platform.

Facebook is built for divisive content

On Monday the NYT reported an internal memo warning that Facebook’s “core product mechanics”, or its basic workings, had let hate speech and misinformation grow on the platform. The memo added that the basic functions of Facebook were “not neutral”. “We also have compelling evidence that our core product mechanics, such as vitality, recommendations and optimising for engagement, are a significant part of why these types of speech flourish on the platform,” said the 2019 memo.

A Facebook spokesperson said: “At the heart of these stories is a premise which is false. Yes, we are a business and we make profit, but the idea that we do so at the expense of people’s safety or wellbeing misunderstands where our own commercial interests lie. The truth is we have invested $13bn and have over 40,000 people to do one job: keep people safe on Facebook.”

Apple threatened to pull Facebook products from its app store over human trafficking content

According to another document in the cache, Apple threatened to remove Facebook and Instagram from its app store two years ago over concerns they were being used to trade in domestic servants, a sector that is high-risk for abuse and human slavery.

The threat was dropped after Facebook shared details of its attempts to tackle the problem. One internal document showed how Facebook removed over 1,000 accounts operating largely out of Saudi Arabia to recruit workers, who reported abuse and sexual violence.

“In our investigation, domestic workers frequently complained to their recruitment agencies of being locked in their homes, starved, forced to extend their contracts indefinitely, unpaid, and repeatedly sold to other employers without their consent,” one Facebook document read. “In response, agencies commonly told them to be more agreeable.”

Facebook’s crackdown seems to have had a limited effect, according to the AP, which found even today a quick search for “khadima”, or “maids” in Arabic, will bring up accounts featuring posed photographs of Africans and South Asians with ages and prices listed next to their images.

The company in a statement told the AP it took the problem seriously, despite the continued spread of ads exploiting foreign workers in the Middle East.

Facebook avoids confrontations with US politicians and rightwing news organisations

A document seen by the Financial Times showed a Facebook employee claiming Facebook’s public policy team blocked decisions to take down posts “when they see that they could harm powerful political actors”. The document said: “In multiple cases the final judgment about whether a prominent post violates a certain written policy are made by senior executives, sometimes Mark Zuckerberg.” The memo said moves to take down content by repeat offenders against Facebook’s guidelines, such as rightwing publishers, were often reversed because the publishers might retaliate.

The wave of stories on Monday were based on disclosures made to the Securities and Exchange Commission – the US financial watchdog – and provided to Congress in redacted form by Haugen’s legal counsel. The redacted versions were obtained by a consortium of news organisations including the NYT, Politico and Bloomberg.

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PostAuthor: Anthea » Fri Oct 29, 2021 3:11 pm

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What's in a name? Meta Materials soars after Facebook identity switch

Oct 29 (Reuters) - Facebook may have unveiled its new identity at a glitzy event on Thursday, but shares of a lesser-known Canadian industrial materials company surged in an apparent case of mistaken identity.

As Facebook metamorphosed into Meta, shares of Halifax, Nova Scotia-based Meta Materials Inc (MMAT.O) jumped 6% in opening trades on the Nasdaq on Friday, following a 26% rise in after-hours trading. Facebook shares were up 1.6%.

Meta Materials' stock has already been a favorite among retail investors using Reddit and social media, recording wild swings in recent months. It hit an all-time high of nearly $22 in June.

The company, which specializes in designing materials used in a variety of industries including consumer electronics and aerospace, has a market value of $1.3 billion, according to Refinitiv.

This is not the first instance of shares reacting because of mistaken identities — Zoom Technologies jumped at the height of the pandemic, when the world flocked to the similarly named video conferencing service.

But it was unclear whether just the similarity in names or a coordinated push by "meme-stock" investors — or both — was driving Meta Materials' shares higher.

"Is the (after-hours) price action real, or are people buying MMAT thinking they are getting Facebook for really cheap?" asked one user on a Reddit community dedicated to discussing Meta Materials' stock, that was created this March.

Meta Materials CEO George Palikaras also appeared to get in on the fun on Thursday, tweeting: "On behalf of @Metamaterialtec I would like to cordially welcome @Facebook to the #metaverse."

Palikaras pointed to a company announcement from Thursday about an upcoming online talk featuring executives from Meta Materials, Facebook's virtual reality (VR) division and other companies, when Reuters emailed Meta Materials for comment.

Facebook's name change was revealed at its virtual and augmented reality conference on Thursday. read more

Social media was abuzz with news of Facebook becoming Meta, with posts poking fun at the move receiving the most attention.

"Changing name to Meat," burger chain Wendy's said in a tweet liked by nearly 250,000 users. Twitter's official handle wrote: "BIG NEWS lol jk still Twitter", garnering some 226,000 likes.

https://www.reuters.com/business/whats- ... 021-10-29/

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