Fury Increases In Latin America Against Facebook Instagram After It Fails To Notify Artists About Using Their Data To Train AI. One illustrator in the EU has explained how Facebook Instagram marketed her hand-painted crafts featuring everyday life without consent as she was not an artist and therefore Facebook Instagram didn’t feel the need to ask her before using her material. Facebook Instagram has a long history of violating users’ to make money, in 2023 Facebook Instagram made more than $130,000,000,000.
https://www.digitalinformationworld.com/2024/07/fury-increases-in-latin-america-against.html?m=1
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Voters in 11 states could decide on abortion ballot measures in November, with measures confirmed in six states, and signature verification pending in another five🇺🇸
AI and Deepfakes Played a Big Role in India’s 2024 Elections. From resurrecting dead politicians to creating satirical content and translating speeches, campaigns experimented in multiple ways
https://newlinesmag.com/spotlight/ai-and-deepfakes-played-a-big-role-in-indias-elections/
Facebook Instagram seems to be trying to hide the fact that their algorithms amplify extremist & polarizing election related misinformation as they are getting rid of CrowdTangle & its replacement isn’t as transparent or accessible. The social media monitoring tool, which has been used to track misinformation, is set to disappear as elections take place worldwide. The DOJ should investigate Facebook Instagram for election fraud as their intentional use of algorithms to amplify polarizing misinformation seems to have been going on for ~10 years.🇺🇸
https://www.cjr.org/tow_center/meta-is-getting-rid-of-crowdtangle.php
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Supporters of scaling back Arkansas abortion ban sue state for rejecting ballot measure petitions for November election despite having the needed signatures 🇺🇸
The United States' economy is at risk by not allowing more migrants to work, leading to a widening gap in the workforce. The National Immigration Forum said there are currently around 10 million jobs open across the skill spectrum, but with more Boomers leaving the workforce and a lower birth rate, American citizens alone cannot fill those roles. 🇺🇸
https://www.newsweek.com/immigration-job-market-labor-shortage-1926043
Former Governor Mike Huckabee has filed a legal complaint against Facebook Instagram for approving, posting, and profiting from "false and deceptive advertisements" that depict Huckabee. Facebook Instagram algorithms have a history of amplifying misinformation ads because this makes Facebook Instagram more money, in 2023 they made > $130,000,000,000 mostly from advertising. 🇺🇸
Make strategic stops in air conditioned stores like walgreens/cvs 😅
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Extremely dangerous climate change related heat wave grips eastern, central states. Human-caused climate change, largely from burning fossil fuels such as coal and natural gas, has greatly increased the odds of heat waves and led them to become more intense and longer lasting, research shows.
https://www.axios.com/2024/07/15/dangerous-heat-wave-grips-east-coast
What Facebook knew about how it radicalized users. Internal documents suggest Facebook has long known its algorithms and recommendation systems push some users to extremes, extreme-left and extreme-right, but they have done nothing to change it because this makes Facebook Instagram a lot of money. This has obviously proven to be dangerous to Americans, the FTC should break up Facebook Instagram’s dangerous monopoly 🇺🇸
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Young adults 20-40 years old with probable sleep apnea showed higher prevalence rates of heart disease study shows
https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.1161/JAHA.123.033810
Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen says the company’s algorithms incentivize extreme-left and extreme-right angry, polarizing, divisive content because this makes Facebook Instagram more money. This clearly makes Americans’ lives more dangerous given that more than 80% of Americans use Facebook Instagram, the FTC should break up their dangerous monopoly. 🇺🇸