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Amazon founder and alleged environmentalist Jeff Bezos has purchased a $78 million 14-acre private estate in Hawaii surrounded by dormant lava fields. He joins Mark Zuckerberg in investing in Hawaiian real estate as the Masters of the Universe seemingly takes over paradise
Meta (formerly Facebook) announced that it will prevent advertisers from using detailed targeting options relating to “sensitive” areas such as race, ethnicity, religion, or sexual orientation across its Facebook and Instagram platforms.
In a recent article, New York Magazine outlines why Facebook (now “Meta”) may be overconfident in banking on its new Metaverse product. According to NY Mag, “In actuality, Facebook is basically spending $10 billion on a prayer that, in the short run, it might change the conversation.”
The Robinhood stock trading platform recently revealed that it was victim to a hack that exposed the personal details of seven million customers — but claims that no one lost any money as a result.
Google’s parent company Alphabet recently reached an astounding $2 trillion in market value for the first time this week. Google’s booming advertising business and stranglehold on internet searches have rocketed the company to all-time highs during the coronavirus pandemic.
Tesla shares fell by five percent in morning trading after CEO Elon Musk proposed selling 10 percent of his stock in a Twitter poll. His followers voted that they would “support” his idea of selling a big chunk of his ownership in protest of claims he is avoiding taxes with “unrealized gains.”
According to the latest report from the Wall Street Journal, Facebook researchers found in one survey that one in eight users reported engaging in compulsive use of social media that had a negative impact on their life. Researchers refer to this as “problematic use” of the platform.
Andy Yen, the CEO and founder of the encrypted email service ProtonMail recently warned against the privacy issues relating to Mark Zuckerberg’s digital “metaverse.” Yen didn’t hold back, saying: “Facebook talks about privacy because it’s a PR issue for them. At the end of the day, their business model revolves on taking your data and monetizing it. So there is fundamentally always going to be a conflict between what they say and what they actually have to do to make money.”
Microsoft’s recent Ignite conference provided insight into the future of woke capitalism as presenters apologized for working in an office that is built on land previously controlled by Native Americans and introduced themselves by describing not only their pronouns, but their race and physical appearance.
Tech giant Facebook is receiving backlash from yet another tech firm with the name Meta over attempts by Mark Zuckerberg’s company to take over the name with its recent Meta rebrand. A chicag0-based tech firm named Meta Company claims that the Silicon Valley Masters of the Universe are “fixated on domination.”
As further internal Facebook documents leak, internal company code words and terms used to refer to users and issues have been revealed. Some of the 35 internal terms revealed relate specifically to censoring and punishing users, such as “bouncer,” which is an internal tool used by the company’s “integrity team” to crack down on pages or lists of users.
Former Google boss Eric Schmidt claimed in a recent interview that tech giant Facebook “knew what it was doing,” by prioritizing profit over user health. According to Schmidt, who oversaw the growth of Google into a notoriously monopolistic giant intent on controlling the internet and censoring speech, Faceook “went a little too far on the revenue side and not enough on the judgment side.”
Jeff Bezos’ space exploration firm Blue origin has lost a lawsuit against NASA over a $2.9 billion lunar lander contract awarded to Elon Musk’s SpaceX.
At this year’s Web Summit conference, early Facebook investor and mentor to Mark Zuckerberg, Roger McNamee, called for a criminal probe into Facebook. One of McNamee’s six proposed criminal investigations of Mark Zuckerberg’s company is that the company “allowed human trafficking on its platform and was ‘paid to enable it to happen.'”
Google is reportedly attempting to win a new Pentagon cloud-computing contract but is receiving heavy internal criticism from the Alphabet Worker’s Union. Leftist employees have regularly fought their employer’s efforts to work with the government of the United States while mostly remaining silent about efforts like “Project Dragonfly,” which was to be a heavily censored search engine designed to please the Chinese communist government.
Facebook recently rebranded itself as “Meta,” but apparently failed to finalize the trademark on the name. Now, a small PC manufacturer that has been using the name for a year and recently filed for the trademark is willing to cancel its application — for $20 million.
Microsoft President Brad Smith recently told CNBC that efforts to build new climate tech remind him of the massive undertaking spearheaded by President John F. Kennedy in 1961 when he announced plans to land a man on the moon.
In a recent article, left-wing outlet Vice News outlines how Mark Zuckerberg’s “Meta” (formerly Facebook) plans to monetize human behavior using its new metaverse VR platform.
Tech giant Facebook, which has changed its name to “Meta,” recently claimed that it plans to shut down its facial recognition system this month and delete all of the face scan data of over one billion users it has collected from users for over a decade.
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk recently tweeted an ancient Chinese poem about two brothers fighting as Tesla works hard to further develop its business in China. The social media post, which was mirrored on Musk’s Chinese social media account, was met with widespread approval in China.
In a recent article, left-wing Slate notes that Facebook’s attempt to rebrand itself as “Meta” and focus on a digital “metaverse” does not change the fact that the company’s primary goal is to collect as much personal information about users as possible. The company promises freedom with its new technology, but according to Slate, it amounts to a “high-tech medical exam.”
A recent study has found that Apple’s consumer-friendly privacy standards for iPhones and other devices have cost social media giants including Meta (Facebook), Twiter, Snapchat, and YouTube $10 billion in revenue in the second half of 2021.
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk recently deleted a joke posted to Twitter proposing the name of a Texas university after being accused of sexism. Musk claimed that he would name his university the “Texas Institute of Technology & Science,” or T.I.T.S. for short. Musk claimed that the school would have “epic merch” and would be “universally admired.”
Billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos arrived at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, on a $65 million private jet recently where he met with Britain’s Prince Charles to discuss the issue of climate change.
According to recently leaked internal documents, tech giant Facebook has been hiring employees to develop products targeting children as young as six in an effort to expand the company’s userbase. The company remains defiant about its plan to target children with new products, saying in a statement: “Considering that our competitors are doing the same thing, it would actually be newsworthy if Facebook didn’t do this work.”
Following a 10-month investigation into the dark web’s largest illegal marketplace named “Dark HunTor,” 150 suspected drug vendors and buyers have been arrested.
The decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Cream Finance has reportedly suffered a major breach, losing $130 million to hackers in what might be one of the largest sums of money stolen in the growing DeFi field.
Tech giant Facebook has rebranded itself with a new name, calling itself “Meta,” in a move that shows the company’s new focus on virtual reality. The Internet is having a field day picking on the odd name and Mark Zuckerberg’s even odder announcement video.
A former Facebook employee reportedly told U.S. authorities recently that the social media giant’s efforts to remove child abuse material have been “inadequate” and “under-resourced.”
Facebook has reportedly enforced an internal “legal hold” ordering staff to preserve all messages dating back to 2016 as regulators and lawmakers launch inquiries into the social media Masters of the Universe.
Tech giant Google has once again reported record revenue for the second quarter in a row in 2021. The Masters of the Universe enjoyed revenue growth of 41 percent for the quarter while profits soared 69 percent.
Two individuals who worked for the household of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan have reportedly filed lawsuits against the couple and their family-related corporate entities alleging a series of incidents of sexual harassment and discrimination.
According to recent reports, staffers at the Federal Trade Commission have begun looking into disclosures that Facebook’s internal research identified negative effects from its products. In particular, company researchers found Instagram to be extremely toxic for teenage girls, with one researcher writing: “We make body image issues worse for one in three teen girls.”
Tech giant Facebook is reportedly threatening the producers of the upcoming Doomsday Machine TV show, which is based on the book An Ugly Truth, noted for its harsh criticism of Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg. The Masters of the Universe have hired Britney Spears’ lawyer to send the message that “Although our client is a public figure, the truth still matters.”
During its recent earnings call, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg stated that Apple’s privacy rules are “negatively affecting” the social media giant’s sales growth. Zuckerberg continued Facebook’s line of attack on Apple, reiterating his claim that consumer-friendly privacy policies don’t only impact the Masters of the Universe, but also small businesses.
Following recent reports that Facebook has been failing to attract younger users, Mark Zuckerberg has announced that the company will be refocusing on “serving young adults.”
In leaked internal messages, unhinged Facebook employees harshly criticized CEO Mark Zuckerberg for not censoring conservatives to the levels they feel are appropriate. One employee ominously wrote: “History will not judge us kindly.”
Far-left Facebook “whistleblower” Frances Haugen recently warned against Facebook’s plans to encrypt its Messenger app and Instagram direct messages, claiming that doing so will make it harder to censor content.