New York Times: Spam and Scams Proliferate in Facebook’s Political Ads. This link goes to a gift article. “The ads are a lucrative part of Facebook’s advertising revenue that, the project’s researchers and others say, has led the company to turn a blind eye to a flood of low-quality or deceptive content, spam and in some cases outright fraud on the platform.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/04/new-york-times-spam-and-scams-proliferate-in-facebooks-political-ads/

New York Times: Spam and Scams Proliferate in Facebook’s Political Ads. This link goes to a gift article. “The ads are a lucrative part of Facebook’s advertising revenue that, the project’s researchers and others say, has led the company to turn a blind eye to a flood of low-quality or deceptive content, spam and in some cases outright fraud on the platform.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/04/new-york-times-spam-and-scams-proliferate-in-facebooks-political-ads/

Facebook Begins Rolling Out Cambridge Analytica Settlement Payments

Users who filed claims in Meta’s $725 million Cambridge Analytica settlement are now receiving payments.

Anyone with an active account between May 24, 2007, - Dec 22, 2022, who filed by Aug 2023 is eligible.

Payments are based on “allocation points,” rewarding longer-term users more

Expect an average payout of around $29, with the top claimants receiving up to $38.36 over the next 10 weeks.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/facebook-privacy-settlement-payments-payout-user-2025-legit-email/
#Facebook

Facebook Begins Rolling Out Cambridge Analytica Settlement Payments

Users who filed claims in Meta’s $725 million Cambridge Analytica settlement are now receiving payments.

Anyone with an active account between May 24, 2007, - Dec 22, 2022, who filed by Aug 2023 is eligible.

Payments are based on “allocation points,” rewarding longer-term users more

Expect an average payout of around $29, with the top claimants receiving up to $38.36 over the next 10 weeks.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/facebook-privacy-settlement-payments-payout-user-2025-legit-email/
#Facebook

Small things that annoy me, a lighthearted rant/

STOP IT WITH THE NOTIFICATIONS.

I do not want my day to be interrupted by a device chiming because you have a sale, your partners have a sale, your computers are feeling lonely because I haven't visited them today and would like some attention (looking at you, #Facebook), you have some new feature I will never use because it's annoying.

Every time I get a new phone, I spend a couple days disabling bunches of notifications. LEAVE ME ALONE!

💡 Today is a perfect day to exercise your independence from #BigTech, and #GiveUpGitHub.

☣️ #GitHub is the equivalent of #Twitter and #Facebook for software development -- creators of the most enticing proprietary walled garden ever made for #FOSS developers.

Don't be stuck when Microsoft decides to change the rules on you.

Start today.

https://GiveUpGitHub.org

#FreeSoftware #OpenSource

💡 Unlike other #Fediverse servers, we didn't need to "wait and see" before preventing #Meta from using our community's content to train their #LLMs. When corporations show you who they are, believe them.

#Threads #Facebook#FediPact

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/meta-facebook-tech-copyright-privacy-whistleblower

💡 Unlike other #Fediverse servers, we didn't need to "wait and see" before preventing #Meta from using our community's content to train their #LLMs. When corporations show you who they are, believe them.

#Threads #Facebook#FediPact

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/meta-facebook-tech-copyright-privacy-whistleblower

Small things that annoy me, a lighthearted rant/

STOP IT WITH THE NOTIFICATIONS.

I do not want my day to be interrupted by a device chiming because you have a sale, your partners have a sale, your computers are feeling lonely because I haven't visited them today and would like some attention (looking at you, #Facebook), you have some new feature I will never use because it's annoying.

Every time I get a new phone, I spend a couple days disabling bunches of notifications. LEAVE ME ALONE!

"The 8-3 vote in Brazil’s top court orders tech giants like Google, Meta and TikTok to actively monitor content that involves hate speech, racism and incitation to violence and act to remove it."

After Bolsonaro's arrest for his attempted coup Brazil is showing us, again, how things should be done.

https://apnews.com/article/brazil-supreme-court-social-media-ruling-324b9d79caa9f9e063da8a4993e382e1

#tech#tiktok#meta#facebook#google#bigtech#justice#racism #hate #lgbtq#brazil#uspol

"The 8-3 vote in Brazil’s top court orders tech giants like Google, Meta and TikTok to actively monitor content that involves hate speech, racism and incitation to violence and act to remove it."

After Bolsonaro's arrest for his attempted coup Brazil is showing us, again, how things should be done.

https://apnews.com/article/brazil-supreme-court-social-media-ruling-324b9d79caa9f9e063da8a4993e382e1

#tech#tiktok#meta#facebook#google#bigtech#justice#racism #hate #lgbtq#brazil#uspol