Facebook and misinformation

[SuperMatt]

Researchers trying to document how misinformation spreads on Facebook have had their accounts disabled. Facebook wants to hide what they are doing. If you have an account, you should cancel it immediately. Haven’t seen this level of blatant firing of whistleblowers and watchdogs since the Trump administration.

Opinion | We Research Misinformation on Facebook. It Just Disabled Our Accounts. (Published 2021)

Facebook is using privacy as a pretext to squelch inconvenient research about the political ads it delivers.

www.nytimes.com

 

[JayMysteri0]

Also if you are curious

https://www.twitter.com/i/web/status/1445054299520782341/

I went to Instagram to look at some posts from artists I like, and it was down for me. Just "5xx Server Error".

 

[Pumbaa]

Also if you are curious

https://www.twitter.com/i/web/status/1445054299520782341/

I went to Instagram to look at some posts from artists I like, and it was down for me. Just "5xx Server Error".

They’re deleting the evidence! Spread the word!

 

[fooferdoggie]

Also if you are curious

https://www.twitter.com/i/web/status/1445054299520782341/

I went to Instagram to look at some posts from artists I like, and it was down for me. Just "5xx Server Error".

someone forget to pay the power bill???

 

[Eric]

Also if you are curious

https://www.twitter.com/i/web/status/1445054299520782341/

I went to Instagram to look at some posts from artists I like, and it was down for me. Just "5xx Server Error".

Like IG for photography stuff but short of that FB is just a haven for misinformed people to spread their ignorance, I haven't had a personal account there for years.

 

[User.191]

Like IG for photography stuff but short of that FB is just a haven for misinformed people to spread their ignorance, I haven't had a personal account there for years.

I like my photography not interspersed with random posts about herbal supplements, new cars and Dell laptops - and also not having me tracked up the wazoo and associated with FB

 

[Runs For Fun]

Oh no, now where am I supposed to get my COVID and vaccine misinformation from?

 

[Pumbaa]

Oh no, now where am I supposed to get my COVID and vaccine misinformation from?

MR is still up.

 

[Thomas Veil]

I was gonna throw up a picture of Tucker Carlson, but I can't beat that.

 

[SuperMatt]

An explanation of why Facebook was inaccessible…

https://blog.cloudflare.com/october-2021-facebook-outage/

 

[Runs For Fun]

An explanation of why Facebook was inaccessible…

https://blog.cloudflare.com/october-2021-facebook-outage/

tl;dr

(or technically BGP in this case)

 

[lizkat]

Twitter was having a blast with its whole new crowd of folks checking in... hilarious thread followed its "hey there!" tweet when it realized what was happening.

https://www.twitter.com/i/web/status/1445078208190291973/


For example, lol

https://www.twitter.com/i/web/status/1445144968268431369/

 

[lizkat]

An explanation of why Facebook was inaccessible…

https://blog.cloudflare.com/october-2021-facebook-outage/

Heh, I prefer the plain English in a tweet relayed by a Reuters piece:

"Facebook basically locked its keys in its car."​

(Jonathan Zittrain, director of Harvard's Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society​

Facebook blames 'faulty configuration change' for nearly six-hour outage

Facebook Inc blamed a "faulty configuration change" for a nearly six-hour outage on Monday that prevented the company's 3.5 billion users from accessing its social media and messaging services such as WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger.

www.reuters.com

 

[Runs For Fun]

 

[Thomas Veil]

I saw this tweet last night:

Hey, if Twitter goes down too, everyone meet in the YT comments.

 

[JayMysteri0]

Found on Facebook

 

[lizkat]

Oh no, now where am I supposed to get my COVID and vaccine misinformation from?

Dunno, but Mickey D's knew where to try to scout up some business while FB was down.., and Twitter certainly went along with it.

 

[JayMysteri0]

https://www.twitter.com/i/web/status/1445094696028618754/

 

[Runs For Fun]

 

[Chew Toy McCoy]

I find this disturbing

"The Facebook outage on Monday was a planetary-scale demonstration of how essential the company's services have become to daily life," Raymond Zhong of the New York Times writes, adding that Facebook and its many apps "are critical platforms for doing business, arranging medical care, conducting virtual classes, carrying out political campaigns [and] responding to emergencies" around the entire planet."

It also echos silicon valley employment culture. "We put everything you could possibly need here. Why would you ever want to go home? Just stay here more hours. You know you want to."