Hackernews posts about Facebook

Facebook is a social media giant and parent company of several popular platforms, including WhatsApp, Instagram, and others.

1. Facebook scraped every Australian adult user's public posts to train AI (www.abc.net.au)
   272 points by elashri 5 days ago | 250 comments
2. Facebook Banned Me for Life Because I Help People Use It Less (2021) (slate.com)
   227 points by dotcoma 24 days ago | 165 comments
3. Company Says It Uses Your Phones Mic to Serve Ads for Facebook, Google, etc. (news.itsfoss.com)
   115 points by IronWolve 16 days ago | 63 comments
4. In Leak, Facebook Partner Brags About Listening to Your Phone's Microphone to S (futurism.com)
   93 points by todsacerdoti 17 days ago | 45 comments
5. Facebook uses Australian adults public photos/posts to train AI, without opt-out (www.abc.net.au)
   83 points by nreece 8 days ago | 79 comments
6. Facebook Helped the FBI Exploit Vulnerability in a Secure Linux Distro (2020) (gizmodo.com)
   60 points by paravirtualized 27 days ago | 23 comments
7. Zuckerberg says the White House pressured Facebook over some Covid-19 content (apnews.com)
   40 points by typeofhuman 22 days ago | 47 comments
8. Mark Zuckerberg Says White House Was 'Wrong' to Pressure Facebook on Covid (www.wsj.com)
   34 points by diegoholiveira 23 days ago | 18 comments
9. Facebook uses 10k Blu-ray discs to store 'cold' data (2014) (www.pcworld.com)
   19 points by padthai 21 days ago | 9 comments
10. Reasons not to be used by Facebook [2011-2019] (stallman.org)
    12 points by Bluestein 23 days ago | 2 comments
11. Google/Facebook partner admits it can listen to device microphone to serve ads (www.dexerto.com)
    9 points by GrumpyNl 14 days ago | 1 comments
12. Meta to start using public posts on Facebook, Instagram in UK to train AI (www.reuters.com)
    8 points by ColinWright 3 days ago | discuss
13. Trump Threatens Mark Zuckerberg with Life in Prison If He Uses Facebook to Cheat (www.mediaite.com)
    5 points by mdhb 20 days ago | 2 comments
14. Fool Me Once: Russian Influence Operation Doppelganger Continues on X, Facebook (alliance4europe.eu)
    5 points by doener 14 days ago | 1 comments
15. We can have democracy or we can have Facebook, but we can't have both (2020) (the.ink)
    5 points by colinprince 18 days ago | 1 comments
16. Ask HN: Facebook suspended our page after posting about our Leads integration
    5 points by dazoot 29 days ago | discuss
17. Suspicious Facebook Behavior
    4 points by supr_strudl 10 days ago | 3 comments
18. Meta back at it, harvesting Britons' public Facebook Insta feeds for AI training (www.theregister.com)
    4 points by LinuxBender 5 days ago | 1 comments
19. Facebook is blocking emergency warnings as wildfires roar through West (www.washingtonpost.com)
    4 points by petethomas 8 days ago | 1 comments
20. Ask HN: Facebook blocked our Ayreon tribute band's page, how to contact staff?
    4 points by emeijer 3 days ago | discuss
21. Govt Pressured Facebook to Suppress Covid Info (www.reuters.com)
    3 points by ddgflorida 22 days ago | 1 comments
22. Scam 'Funeral Streaming' Groups Thrive on Facebook (krebsonsecurity.com)
    3 points by todsacerdoti about 12 hours ago | discuss
23. MySpace CEO: Facebook Didn't Kill MySpace, Google Did – For Music (petapixel.com)
    3 points by mikece 19 days ago | discuss
24. Facebook Looks to a New Type of Geothermal (www.nytimes.com)
    3 points by lxm 22 days ago | discuss
25. How Does Facebook Manage to Serve Billions of Users Daily? (favtutor.com)
    3 points by fagnerbrack 30 days ago | discuss
26. Show HN: Like Facebook Marketplace, AI-native (www.shopseen.com)
    2 points by proletarian 17 days ago | 2 comments
27. Parents 'don't use' parental controls on Facebook and Instagram (www.theguardian.com)
    2 points by howard941 6 days ago | 1 comments
28. Meta showcases the hardware that will power recommendations for Facebook and IG (www.techradar.com)
    2 points by ivewonyoung 1 day ago | discuss
29. Will facial recognition be the next Facebook?
    2 points by quantum2022 15 days ago | discuss
30. Flashback: Facebook accepted Microsoft's investment of $240M (2007) (sini.net)
    2 points by saomcomrad56 23 days ago | discuss