Facebook Moderation Problems

[Graybeard]

This article mainly addresses the problems with favored treatment to VIP users however the same applies towards the content of the larger spending advertisers.

This is probably at the core of Facebook's decline in ad revenue. The "little people" are sick and tired of the Facebook moderation crap and have moved to greener pastures with better access to viewers of their ads. Why do you think Facebook's stock tanked? d'Oh!

"Some critics have previously questioned the board’s independence and said its narrow content decisions seemed to distract from wider problems within Facebook and concerns about government regulation."

Ya Think?

Meta oversight board urges changes to VIP moderation system

LONDON (AP) — Facebook parent Meta's quasi-independent oversight board said Tuesday that an internal system that exempted high-profile users, including former U.S. President Donald Trump, from some or all of its content moderation rules needs a major overhaul.

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[Graybeard]

More Facebook problems in the EU
"Major privacy complaints targeting the legality of Meta's core advertising business model in Europe have finally been settled via a dispute resolution mechanism baked into the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The complaints, which date back to May 2018, take aim at the tech giant's so-called forced consent to continue tracking and targeting users by processing their personal data to build profiles for behavioral advertising, so the outcome could have major ramifications for how Meta operates "

Meta's Behavioral Ads Will Finally Face GDPR Privacy Reckoning In January - Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Major privacy complaints targeting the legality of Meta's core advertising business model in Europe have finally been settled via a dispute resolution mechanism baked into the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The complaints...

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[T J Tutor]

They (FB) have operated their business model, from the beginning, with the premise of asking for forgiveness instead of permission. Let's not forget though that the pendulum swings both ways. In the beginning they were super loose with advertisers and had few restrictions. Members caused them to swing the other direction more and more over the years as well as the onslaught of investigations and regulations. Now they are trying to find a path that satisfies all parties and I don't know that they have the capacity to successfully find that balance anymore. I'm thinking that time and that opportunity may have passed.