This topic has been making the rounds for a couple of days. I wanted to watch the entire thing before I passed it along.
The Facebook Dilemma is two, 50+ minute videos of a PBS Frontline special. It is the story of the dangers of Facebook. The first video deals more about the dangers to individuals. The second is about the dangers Facebook presents to society and democracies around the world. It then circles back to the dangers to individuals.
You’ll learn not only about these topics but about the stunning greed, arrogance, tone deafness, and outright deceit on these issues from the highest levels of Facebook.
In the end the only solution is to #DeleteFacebook.
“The promise of Facebook was to create a more open and connected world. But from the company’s failure to protect millions of users’ data, to the proliferation of “fake news” and disinformation, mounting crises have raised the question: Is Facebook more harmful than helpful? On Monday, Oct. 29, and Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2018, FRONTLINE presents The Facebook Dilemma. This major, two-night event investigates a series of warnings to Facebook as the company grew from Mark Zuckerberg’s Harvard dorm room to a global empire. With dozens of original interviews and rare footage, The Facebook Dilemma examines the powerful social media platform’s impact on privacy and democracy in the U.S. and around the world.”
I really enjoyed last night’s episode. The current staff that were allowed to be interviewed really came off as incompetent children, in my opinion. It’s like the Peter Principle on steroids.
Quite a good PBS Frontline documentary that sets forth a good case against Facebook, the dangers Facebook’s policies and greed pose to the privacy of individuals and the, often negative, impact it has had on democracy. It’s a scary organization.
I’ve undertaken an effort to minimize my own (and my household’s) engagement with Facebook.
One also would be wise to take some measures to attempt to protect one’s privacy from FaceBook too. Not using FB seems best. Blocking Facebook domains at the router level, in a HOSTS file, or within an adblocker seems to add some level of protection. Using the Firefox browser with the Firefox Multi-Account Containers addon (or the Facebook Container by Mozilla addon) can help to isolate your other Web usage and prohibit the tracking of your other online activity.
It’s absolutely appalling that anyone would ever even consider believing anything posted on Facebook without verifying it at one, and preferrably more, of the reputable news sites. In advance of numerous elections around the world, including the 2016 USA elections, less-than-friendly nation-states have opted, apparently successfully, to use Facebook for disinformation campaigns with anti-democratic and disruptive consequences. Hello, Mr. Putin!
Whether it’s today or in the future, everyone owes it to themselves and others to read carefully, research thoroughly, verify, and only then, re-post content … whether it’s about a political candidate/campaign or the newest toaster that claims it’s also a drone.
If one is not on Facebook then why would one need Facebook Container?
Facebook tracks non-members. I get tracked through my bank, for example, because they link Facebook icons on their web pages.
Here is an old article about one of the things Facebook does:
https://www.theverge.com/2016/5/27/11795248/facebook-ad-network-non-users-cookies-plug-ins
So maybe container is useful.
Pretty sure not: https://blog.mozilla.org/firefox/facebook-container-extension/
I should have gotten the hint from your line of ‘If one is not on Facebook …’, previously.
Yeah, you are right. This is not helpful to non-members!