https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/may/06/facebook-donald-trump-ruling-oversight-board
Links
Instagram trying to scare users into giving up privacy, allow continued access to track & resell private user data
The Verge: https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/2/22415824/facebook-instagram-notice-ios-apps-free-privacy-tracking
Advocates say kids’ Instagram product would ‘put young users at great risk’
Source: The Guardian, April 15, 2021
Campaign for Commercial Free Childhood sends letter to Mark Zuckerberg to stop Instagram for Kids
Campaign for Commercial Free Childhood, a youth advocacy non-profit, sent a letter signed by over 20 organizations, researchers, and advocates asking Mark Zuckerberg to stop development of Instagram for Kids. Read the letter, attached as a PDF to the page linked here.
Instagram making Instagram for Kids despite experts’ advice that doing so endangers children.
Instagram’s algorithm favors thin, white, cisgendered people and effectively censors the rest; blames “algorithmic bias”, apologizes but nothing changes
Published in The Guardian, October 19, 2020.
Instagram and Facebook let neo-nazis run clothing brands on their platforms—until this article was published.
…then they deleted a few. Huffington Post: https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/facebook-nazi-clothing-extremism_n_5b5b5cb3e4b0fd5c73cf2986
Instagram “accidentally removed” Rupi Kaur’s photos showing menstruation. Twice.
Huffington Post: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/rupi-kaur-period-instagram_n_6954898