Facebook to buy back shares to prop up share price
FB is increasing its share buy back program to address this years sharp drop in their share price.
Facebook might be in trouble – it’s domestic spying operation is out in the open
For a company built on “friends”, Facebook is not a nice company. They’ve operated the largest invasive spying operation in history scooping up everything from users and then re-selling their insights to whoever would pay.
1984: Google patents massive home spying system
Google patents product concepts to use cameras to scan every room and person in your home, to identify the types of clothing you wear, to associate that with potential products, and to understand the types of furniture you own, and using that to estimate your income. Google also patents a system to monitor your children, and which would detect the use of foul language or engaged in other inappropriate behavior in your own home.
It’s 1984 in America and the world.
#Facebook’s head of PR propaganda has quit #Fakebook
Facebook’s head of PR admits to developing a program to slime others with negative propaganda messaging. He had already submitted his resignation.
World’s largest propaganda platform blames public relations propaganda for their negative public image
Zuckerberg blames negative propaganda for Facebook’s problems.
#Facebook #FB falls to $133 per share
The world’s largest propaganda platform sees its share price in free fall.
Seagate wants your photo and social media ID to register a product you’ve purchased from them
I bought two external Seagate hard drives. Seagate wants me to “register” my product (the sole purpose of which is to gather information about me). You are presented several items to which you are to agree – but you have to click through a few levels to discover that they will attempt to collect the following information about you: “Personal Information” is information that identifies you as an individual or relates to an identifiable individual. We collect the following types…
Next Congress may regulate social media companies
Next Congress is likely to regulate social media companies.
“The job of reporters in 2017” is to publish fake news, says news editor
‘“Publishing this dossier reflects how we see the job of reporters in 2017,” Smith writes. This is an amazing thing to say, because if you think it through, it means publishing open libels and slanders is the job of reporters in 2017. “Fake news will become more sophisticated, and fake, ambiguous, and spun-up stories will spread widely,” warned an important American editor at the end of December 2016. His name: Ben Smith. His publication: BuzzFeed.’ Source: Buzzfeed’s Trump report takes…
Official, provable, corporate funded marketing lies from Code.org
Code.org is a lobbying organization funded by high tech industrial giants. They are lobbying to have more kids K-12 studying computer science and less time spent studying other subjects in school. One of their methods is to straight up lie about the size of the job market, as you’ll see on the attached post. And its not a little lie, but being off by a factor of ten. This is a great example of corporate funded propaganda that turns into “facts” quoted in media news stories and then likely gets quoted by politicians.
TripAdvisor has credibility problems
The problem with user generated content web sites -a.k.a. social media – is that much of the content is fake, incorrect or even fraudulent. TripAdvisor has a history of censoring bad reviews while letting businesses write fake bad reviews of their competitors.
Employers targeting Facebook job ads exclusively at men
Facebook ad network still being used to target ads based on gender, and in the past, on race, language spoken, age and more discriminators. It is likely all of these discriminators continue to be used.
Apparently, AI will not fix social media problems for us
Facebook and Twitter largely admit that artificial intelligence is not going to fix the problems with their platforms. The problem, of course, is that social media was designed as a propaganda platform and surprise! Lots of people are using it for propaganda!
Twitter displays fake “your friend liked” tweets in your timeline
You’ve seen those tweets that show up in your Twitter feed telling you that your friend “Liked” someone else’s tweet. Turns out that your friend didn’t Like those tweets, Twitter just made those up and now blames a “bug”.