Erasebook Updates

Facebook’s founding President Sean Parker is no fan of what the company he helped to create, has become. He’s been an outspoken critic since 2017, openly lamenting his role and calling out Mark Zuckerberg and his former colleagues for causing deliberate harm.

Irish regulators have started an inquiry into Facebook’s movement of data on European users to the United States.

Parler, the People-driven social platform, today issued the following statement on Facebook’s blocking across its platform—within minutes of it going live—the informational website www.Erasebook.info.

The speech blackout for his defense threatens due process.

Parler, the People-driven social platform, today announced the launch of a new grassroots campaign aimed at publisher and data leviathan Facebook.

Facebook is blocking searches for “Kyle Rittenhouse,” the gunman allegedly responsible for the killing of two protestors in Kenosha, Wisconsin Tuesday night.

The campaigns were created after his GoFundMe was shut down, but now Facebook is blocking them and even punishing users for sharing links.

Last month the House Judiciary subcommittee on antitrust heard testimony from the CEOs of four companies on whom we’ve all become more dependent lately: Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google. The irony of doing this in the midst of ongoing lockdowns was not lost on a friend who wrote, “Statist chutzpah reaches another low when the legislature that wants you to stay home grills Bezos, the man making this possible.”

Mitre Corp. runs some of the U.S. government's most hush-hush science and tech labs. The cloak-and-dagger R&D shop might just be the most important organization you've never heard of.

protecting privacy via property and contract

A U.S. district judge in the District of Columbia signed off on a historic settlement Thursday, putting an end to 8-year-old litigation between the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Facebook.

“Can I try the Cole Haans in a size 8?” Later that night on Facebook: An advertisement for Cole Haan pumps. OK, maybe a coincidence.

It's a given that Facebook is listening in on our conversations, right? That's how the social network can follow up on our real-world conversations about products with ads that show up in our News Feed.

Desperate for data on its competitors, Facebook  has been secretly paying people to install a “Facebook Research” VPN that lets the company suck in all of a user’s phone and web activity, similar to Facebook’s Onavo Protect app that Apple banned in June and that was removed in August.

Which tech companies are really doing the most harm? Here are the 30 most dangerous, ranked by the people who know.