Charles Johnson: Meta says “a bug” caused them to rapidly, throughout the entire Meta network, block every website that contained a link to an article about their suppression of climate change ads and posts. That’s one hell of a specific bug.

Meta says “a bug” caused them to rapidly, throughout the entire Meta network, block every website that contained a link to an article about their suppression of climate change ads and posts. That’s one hell of a specific bug.

WTF? Meta Cancels LGF #blogpost

WTF? Meta Cancels LGFlittlegreenfootballs.com The last thing I wanted to do today was write about Threads. I haven't been using it much, and the few times I've tried, I haven't liked it much either. For one thing, they're allowing some of the most toxic bigots from Twitter (e.g. LibsOfTikTok) to maintain a presence on Threads, and I didn't quit Twitter just so I could tolerate that same poisonous ...

Bug as in, “what bug crawled up your ass, Zuck?”

Always work from the assumption that if a tech company has done something...*off*, their press comms might not be outright lies, but they will NOT tell the unvarnished truth until forced.

Oh, yes. Any truth will only come out in discovery, under subpoena.

"Oh, we are very sorry. We have a team working on this now." Exec turns head to fellow Exec and says: "You know they all bought it; right?".

Certified software tester here. If it's truly a bug, there will be: - a bug report - an identification of the root cause - a course of resolution or mitigation - Additional test cases to verify the fix/mitigation in future builds. If they can't show all four, they are flat-out lying.

*And* Internet archive links, a repost, and links to the repost. That one has to have been done by hand.

Can they make a bug that deletes racist posts too? Because that would be awesome.

On Threads, the app deleted the link as soon as you posted it. Craziest bug I’ve ever seen.

It even deleted SCREENSHOTS of the link. That's a pretty powerful bug.

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It's not a bug. It's a feature.

I wonder if it the same bug that keeps sanctioning me for criticizing the Proud Boys etc al.

I am gonna laugh so hard if it turns out my friend Dave Kendall ends up breaking the whole Meta enterprise

Did you know that whenever I share LGF to Facebook, it gets taken down as malware? I don't think that's you. I notice they also do this with Blogger links, like my own blog. Like they're marking a whole swath of the Old Web as malware

“Uhh I got hacked”

Around these parts we have ash borer beetles that have killed every single ash tree in sight and only ash trees. Sounds like Meta has their own version of the ash borer beetle. Pretty impressive! Someone should study this curiosity.

At some point people will realize what a piece of shit, unethical and most likely criminal company Meta is, and stop using any of their products. What that point is, though, I don’t know.

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They're still at Twitter too!

Did everyone forget about Fb & Cambridge Analytica

Yes

SURE JAN DOT GIF

Ah… the fabled Streisand Bug.

that's one incredible inducement to not use their platform. You didn't even get a courtesy "we're working to fix that, thank you for giving us the specifics", instead they opted for "it's a bug, sucks to be you".

I just listened to yesterday's episode of the Ctrl-Alt-Speech podcast, and Mike & Ben were rather charmingly ready to give Meta a pass on conscious villainy, bless their innocence😄

Bullshit!

The dreaded Zuckerbug.

I'm gonna keep pointing out the fact that they have yet to deal with actual phishing attempts where accounts pretend to be part of FB (using cookie cutter messaging that should be easy to detect) as I call bullshit on their excuse.

someone set the --clowntown flag

It’s not a bug if it’s baked in 🫠

Rising temperatures and sea levels have been known to cause such anomalies.

In my country, every time, a government website is down because of overload (too many page loads or not enough infrastructure), the government shouts cyber attack! They can't able to admit they screwed up...

I'm going with.. They're liars and that's on brand af for fb

Threads < Twitter. Threads needs to die.

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