Dawid Rejowski

Facebook controversies reach my news feed so often this collection emerged. I tried to write an easy-to-share explanation of why someone won’t be able to reach me quickly if all their instant communication is captured by Meta platforms, but just the thought of having an account there is so absurd I never know where to start. Just type my name in the world’s most popular search box instead.

Privacy 👀

2025-06-28

• The Verge: Facebook is starting to feed its AI with private, unpublished photos

2025-06-22

• The Register: Meta pauses mobile port tracking tech on Android after researchers cry foul

2024-06-28

• The Journal: Facebook will soon use your photos, posts and other info to train its AI. You can opt out (but it’s complicated)

2024-04-11

• The Register: 96% of US hospital websites share visitor info with Meta, Google, data brokers

2024-03-26

• TechCrunch: Facebook snooped on users’ Snapchat traffic in secret project, documents reveal

2024-03-08

• CBC News: Lawsuit claiming fertility-tracking app shared intimate data with Facebook greenlit as Canadian class action

2024-01-17

• The Markup: Each Facebook User is Monitored by Thousands of Companies
• Consumer Reports: Each Facebook User Is Monitored by Thousands of Companies

2023-06-13

• The Markup: Suicide Hotlines Promise Anonymity. Dozens of Their Websites Send Sensitive Data to Facebook

2023-04-12

• Swedish Radio News: Facebook collects intimate customer data from over 100 European pharmacies

2023-03-02

• The Verge: BetterHelp shared customer data while promising it was private, says FTC

  Online counseling company BetterHelp has agreed to pay $7.8 million to settle charges from the Federal Trade Commission that it improperly shared customers’ sensitive data with companies like Facebook and Snapchat, even after promising to keep it private.

2022-10-13

• The Markup: “Out Of Control”: Dozens of Telehealth Startups Sent Sensitive Health Information to Big Tech Companies

2022-08-10

• The Verge: Facebook turns over mother and daughter’s chat history to police resulting in abortion charges

2022-04-28

• The Markup: Applied for Student Aid Online? Facebook Saw You

2019-11-21

• 🇵🇱 Amnesty International: Inwigilacja prowadzona przez Facebooka i Google’a to bezprecedensowe zagrożenie dla praw człowieka – raport Amnesty International

Social 👥

2025-11-06

• Reuters: Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show

2025-04-02

• Ars Technica: Meta pirated and seeded porn for years to train AI, lawsuit says
• Reuters: Meta CEO Zuckerberg lobbies Trump to avoid antitrust trial, WSJ reports

2025-02-08

• TechSpot: Meta used pirated books to train its AI models, and there are emails to prove it

2025-01-15

• euronews: Trump inauguration: Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg to co-host meeting with Republican billionaires

2023-06-23

• How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse)

2014-11-14

• The Guardian: I didn’t have enough Facebook friends to prove to Airbnb I was real

Absurd 🤡

2025-01-30

• 404media: ‘Everything I Say Leaks’, Zuckerberg Says in Leaked Meeting Audio

2016-05-25

• NBC News: Zuckerberg to Demolish $30M in Real Estate to Keep Things Private

2013-10-12

• NBC News: Mark Zuckerberg spends $30 million on four homes to ensure privacy

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• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jedi_Blue

Other lists

• https://consumerrights.wiki/w/Meta
• https://deletefacebook.com/
• https://stallman.org/facebook.html