@heiseonline

Werte #Facebook #Instagram Nutzer, hört auf euch über die Methoden von #Zuckerberg zu beschweren. Dass ihr auf 'Facebook und Co. betrogen und abgezockt werdet ist wirklich nicht neu, und mich interessiert das wirklich nicht. Es war eure Entscheidung dort zu bleiben, ihr bekommt, das wofür ihr euch entschieden habt. Und aussteigen geht jederzeit,,,

I Am Mark Zuckerberg

https://iammarkzuckerberg.com/

#HackerNews #I #Am #Mark #Zuckerberg #MarkZuckerberg #TechNews #HackerNews #SocialMedia #Innovation

@dangillmor The Zucks' illegal private school looks all the worse when they abruptly pulled the plug on the charity school they funded in nearby East Palo Alto.

https://thecampanile.org/35308/editorial/closure-of-the-primary-school-betrays-its-mission-and-the-east-palo-alto-community/

#Zuckerberg

Everyone, meet the "partner" working with SWICG and Social Web Foundation on the next generation of ActivityPub:

> Meta internally projected late last year that it would earn about 10% of its overall annual revenue – or $16 billion – from running advertising for scams and banned goods, internal company documents show.

> …Meta’s own research suggests its products have become a pillar of the global fraud economy. A May 2025 presentation by its safety staff estimated that the company’s platforms were involved in a third of all successful scams in the U.S.

> According to a December 2024 presentation, Meta’s user base is exposed to 22 billion organic scam attempts every day. That’s on top of the 15 billion scam ads presented to users daily.

> Every six months, Meta earns $3.5 billion from just the portion of scam ads that “present higher legal risk” […] That figure almost certainly exceeds “the cost of any regulatory settlement involving scam ads.” Rather than voluntarily agreeing to do more to vet advertisers, the same document states, the company’s leadership decided to act only in response to impending regulatory action.

https://www.reuters.com/investigations/meta-is-earning-fortune-deluge-fraudulent-ads-documents-show-2025-11-06/

#MetaOutOfSWICG #DefederateMeta #FediPact #Meta #Zuckerberg #Threads #Facebook #Instagram #SocialWebFoundation #SWICG

Everyone, meet the "partner" working with SWICG and Social Web Foundation on the next generation of ActivityPub:

> Meta internally projected late last year that it would earn about 10% of its overall annual revenue – or $16 billion – from running advertising for scams and banned goods, internal company documents show.

> …Meta’s own research suggests its products have become a pillar of the global fraud economy. A May 2025 presentation by its safety staff estimated that the company’s platforms were involved in a third of all successful scams in the U.S.

> According to a December 2024 presentation, Meta’s user base is exposed to 22 billion organic scam attempts every day. That’s on top of the 15 billion scam ads presented to users daily.

> Every six months, Meta earns $3.5 billion from just the portion of scam ads that “present higher legal risk” […] That figure almost certainly exceeds “the cost of any regulatory settlement involving scam ads.” Rather than voluntarily agreeing to do more to vet advertisers, the same document states, the company’s leadership decided to act only in response to impending regulatory action.

https://www.reuters.com/investigations/meta-is-earning-fortune-deluge-fraudulent-ads-documents-show-2025-11-06/

#MetaOutOfSWICG #DefederateMeta #FediPact #Meta #Zuckerberg #Threads #Facebook #Instagram #SocialWebFoundation #SWICG

💰 The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative is pivoting from public education to make the rich immortal.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/technology/zuckerberg-chan-initiative-biohub.html

#zuckerberg #techbros #tescreal

@gleick NYT isn't immune to this. It had a bullshit ad from #Chevron in the middle of the article when I loaded it ("Energy for the Age of #Ai: Reliable power, around the clock").

#Zuckerberg is basically self-dealing by calling his funding of AI a type of philanthropy since he's just getting a tax write-off for indirectly investing in his own companies. One can arguably call LLM-type AI misanthropy.

@echo_pbreyer @signal Will stop. But #whatsapp #meta is very pleased to take full control of chat. They support #chatcontrol not only give them a monopoly on chat but also all Photos documents and text. The biggest #data grab in history. @EUCommission sells our data to #zuckerberg and destroys our privacy. #eu will fall soon in the hands of the fascist uprising supported by big tech and #tiktok

There's a certain kind around here who insists on referring to Zuckerberg's Threads as a "fediverse instance". OK, that "fediverse instance" is nonconsensually using the photos of real children in their schoolgirl uniforms to market itself to adult men. Do you think that "fediverse instance" should be defederated?

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/20/parents-outraged-meta-uses-photos-schoolgirls-ads-man

#DefederateMeta #FediPact #Meta #Zuckerberg #Threads #Facebook #Instagram

#zuckerberg #threads #fckthreads

https://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/meta-nutzte-offenbar-bilder-von-maedchen-in-schuluniform-um-fuer-threads-zu-werben-a-f76ebfff-4544-4e74-86f1-9abac29618b7

Zuckerberg's WhatsApp appear to have disabled group chat of Global Sumud Flotilla. https://xcancel.com/CraigMurrayOrg/status/1965431513320927706 #zuckerberg #complicit #meta#Gaza #genocide #globalsumudflotilla

Zuckerberg's WhatsApp appear to have disabled group chat of Global Sumud Flotilla. https://xcancel.com/CraigMurrayOrg/status/1965431513320927706 #zuckerberg #complicit #meta#Gaza #genocide #globalsumudflotilla

In just 9 months, #zuckerberg has cruised in his (super) #yacht so much that the $300M vessel has burned 2M liters of diesel and spewed 5,300 tons of CO₂

It emitted 6.2 tons of #CO2 over just 4 days, burning 2,394 liters of fuel.
When cruising it burns about 1k gallons every hour for 40 tons of CO₂ 🛥️💨

It's hourly CO₂ footprint is like driving a car for 99,000 miles around the 🌎, not once but 4 times.
And that doesn't include the helicopter and 'support ships'. #facebook
https://luxurylaunches.com/transport/mark-zuckerberg-superyacht-in-repairs-08052025.php

In his recent FediCon talk, Evan Prodromou implicitly rationalized his collaboration with Meta by proclaiming, "you don't negotiate with friends". Maybe not, but you don't hand enemies the keys to your kingdom either, which is exactly what he has done by giving Meta seats at the table of the ActivityPub working group. And for that matter, accepting a relatively significant sum of money from those enemies to fund your foundation goes rather beyond the negotiation phase as well, does it not?

As it stands, we have a hostile element enmeshed in the development process which undergirds the entire network, all the while systematically violating every last consent boundary the fedi has defined and defended over the course of its history. This is a power imbalance so egregious and amoral that it negates the raison d'etre of the fediverse altogether. Meta must be removed from SWICG

🧵 3/3 end

#DefederateMeta#FediPact#Meta#Zuckerberg#Threads#Facebook#Instagram#SocialWebFoundation#SWICG

The development process of the protocol is poisoned by the presence of Meta. Any significant revision the organization proposes will be perceived as an aspect of the Meta incursion, suspected and resisted, whatever its actual origin. The backlash to any perceived attempt by Meta to manipulate the backbone of the fedi could lead to an existential crisis.

Under these circumstances the only way to avoid such a backlash is to refrain from advancing protocol development at all, which is also unsustainable. The way out of this is the ejection of the Meta intruders from SWICG and any other working group which has an influence on the future of ActivityPub.

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#DefederateMeta#FediPact#Meta#Zuckerberg#Threads#Facebook#Instagram#SocialWebFoundation#SWICG

We already know that the Social Web Foundation and SWICG leadership will ignore the latest news of Meta's mass datacrime against the fediverse and continue enabling the parasitic Zuckerberg entity to influence the future of ActivityPub development by facilitating its presence on the W3C working group overseeing AP. This is not a sustainable arrangement.

There is absolutely no basis of trust whatsoever between the fediverse network of communities and Meta. The idea that representatives of this slimy fascist operation are insinuated into the organization shaping the next generation of the protocol underlying our network, while they simultaneously inflict nonconsenual predatory "AI" extractivism against us, is ludicrous and intolerable. This right here is the destruction of every single value the fediverse claims to stand for in one fell swoop.

🧵 1/3

#DefederateMeta#FediPact#Meta#Zuckerberg#Threads#Facebook#Instagram#SocialWebFoundation#SWICG

In his recent FediCon talk, Evan Prodromou implicitly rationalized his collaboration with Meta by proclaiming, "you don't negotiate with friends". Maybe not, but you don't hand enemies the keys to your kingdom either, which is exactly what he has done by giving Meta seats at the table of the ActivityPub working group. And for that matter, accepting a relatively significant sum of money from those enemies to fund your foundation goes rather beyond the negotiation phase as well, does it not?

As it stands, we have a hostile element enmeshed in the development process which undergirds the entire network, all the while systematically violating every last consent boundary the fedi has defined and defended over the course of its history. This is a power imbalance so egregious and amoral that it negates the raison d'etre of the fediverse altogether. Meta must be removed from SWICG

🧵 3/3 end

#DefederateMeta#FediPact#Meta#Zuckerberg#Threads#Facebook#Instagram#SocialWebFoundation#SWICG

The development process of the protocol is poisoned by the presence of Meta. Any significant revision the organization proposes will be perceived as an aspect of the Meta incursion, suspected and resisted, whatever its actual origin. The backlash to any perceived attempt by Meta to manipulate the backbone of the fedi could lead to an existential crisis.

Under these circumstances the only way to avoid such a backlash is to refrain from advancing protocol development at all, which is also unsustainable. The way out of this is the ejection of the Meta intruders from SWICG and any other working group which has an influence on the future of ActivityPub.

🧵 2/3

#DefederateMeta#FediPact#Meta#Zuckerberg#Threads#Facebook#Instagram#SocialWebFoundation#SWICG