These residents in Georgia next to a Meta (Facebook) data center have had their tap waters run dry.
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Just stop trying to organize via facebook groups.
If you use Facebook to find people, I get it, but at least have a separate email list and some way people can find your group outside of Facebook.
Isn’t posing as a therapist against the law already?
If it’s not, it should be illegal for a company to deploy chatbots that pretend to be licensed therapists.
People’s personal facebook chatbot chats are being published publicly.
What could possibly go wrong? Meta AI posts your personal chats to a public feed Pivot to AI Jun 14, 2025 My letter to reps: META and other platforms running chatbots should have to at least inform people that their chatbot chat messages are being put in a public feed complete with stuff that’s probably […]
Shadowbanning is happening and communities are definitely messed with on social media.
This is not just about shitposting. Do not rely on one platform for communicating with people who you would like to stay in touch with. Will Sam Altman and His AI Kill Us All? The Bulwark May 23, 2025 Karen Hao: “she consistently felt like she was being shadowbanned and when I talked with um researchers […]
Facebook is censoring articles about tech tycoons plans for monarchy.
Same memo that I included in my February 7th newsletter.
Don’t listen to bad advice on civic engagement.
If you want to engage in democracy, consider carefully about where you get advice.
No social media platform is a safe space – people need to diversify.
I’ve been saying this for years, that people are foolish if there’s only one social media platform where they say something or publish important information. But even among the people who’ve heard me, most have never listened to me. I think mainly because people fall in love with a platform, they are habit forming. They […]
Tiktok is dead, long live tiktok.
All the platforms with their black box manipulative algorithms are problematic.
Community notes is not freedom and social media algorithms do not make for a community center.
Almost any flawed org, coffee klatch, or chat group is going to have more social ROI and less disinformation than mixing it up with fake accounts and targeted marketing on the big platforms.
Communities have been, and continue to be, manipulated.
Public health isn’t about a niche group with special or secret practices, and community care shouldn’t be gate kept away from people who for whatever reason haven’t been afforded information or opportunity.
Twitter was just a tool, a tavern that’s changed hands.
It’s not the world, it never was – even at its height, only a small percentage of Americans were ever even on Twitter.














