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In my case I like to take a nice shower, to take care of my beautiful hair. I have to stand under the shower for 15 minutes till it gets wet. It comes out drip, drip, drip. It’s ridiculous.

  • LIVE : Meta Whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams Explosive Claims | Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxhXllUcMUI

    In her Senate evidence, former Meta executive Sarah Wynn-Williams disclosed that Meta purposefully targeted emotionally sensitive teenagers with advertisements according to their emotional state. When consumers experienced depression or insecurity, the corporation allegedly exchanged data with advertising in an effort to promote weight-loss or cosmetic products. Her assertions are made in her book Careless People, which highlights Meta’s preference for financial gain over the emotional wellbeing of teenagers. Stay tuned for more.

    C’est glaçant : Meta repère quand une adolescente efface un selfie, pour qu’une marque puisse sauter sur l’occasion de lui proposer ses produits de beauté. Le principe étant plus généralement de cibler les gens (notamment les ados) en situation de détresse, parce qu’alors ils sont plus susceptibles d’acheter quelque chose.

    • https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/press/dem/releases/durbin-delivers-opening-statement-in-judiciary-subcommittee-hearin

      The hearing will highlight Wynn-Williams’s memoir documenting her tenure at Facebook (now known as Meta) from 2011 to 2017. In her memoir, Ms. Wynn-Williams highlighted Facebook’s efforts to access the Chinese market, as well as its roles in the Rohingya genocide in Myanmar and the 2016 presidential election and its targeting of vulnerable teens to increase their engagement with the platform and advertisers.

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      “In one chapter, Ms. Wynn-Williams describes a board meeting where the company discussed ways to head off regulation and change the narrative surrounding Facebook. She writes that the board, ‘gets into a conversation about what other companies or industries have navigated similar challenges, where they have to change a narrative that says that they’re a danger to society, extracting large profits, pushing all the negative externalities onto society and not giving back.’ Guess what model they chose? Big Tobacco. Like Big Tobacco, Big Tech tells us they can be trusted. And like Big Tobacco, they fight to prevent any regulation that might make them pay for the costs their products impose on society.”

      (…)

      “Thanks to people like Ms. Wynn-Williams, I believe we’re at a similar tipping point with Big Tech. The word is out. The shine has worn off. We can all see the harm Big Tech has caused, from enabling the spread of CSAM and harming teen mental health to facilitating repression in places like China and Myanmar.”

      Traque de l’état émotionnel #détresse #facebook #meta #Wynn-Williams #enfance

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      voir à propos du massacre des Rohingyas (2023)
      Myanmar. Il est temps que Meta indemnise les Rohingyas pour son rôle dans le nettoyage ethnique
      https://www.amnesty.org/fr/latest/news/2023/08/time-to-pay-up-meta