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dastardly45

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dastardly45··on Google researchers demand freedom to tell the world what they know about AI
NDAs will be void in the future when people wrestles back control from the corporate elite controlling so-called democracies
dastardly45··on Meta Employees Denounce Interference in Brazilian Elections
Here's a thousand (and a bit more) facts and reasons why you shouldn't trust Meta. https://paydayreport.com/meta-censors-over-1-080-pro-lula-ac...
dastardly45··on Meta Employees Denounce Interference in Brazilian Elections
International UN election observers are also reporting about the American platforms suppressing free speech.

But please, just go ahead and trust the company that was fined $25 billion dollars last week for lying and misleading the public about its involvement in the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2026/10/meta-must-pr...

dastardly45··on Meta Employees Denounce Interference in Brazilian Elections
Here's another AP and Reuters story not behind a pay wall https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2026/10/16/meta-employees-...
dastardly45··on Meta Employees Denounce Interference in Brazilian Elections
Meta itself has been describing the favouritism as caused by technical glitches - which for some reason always benefitted Bolsonaro. Searches for Lula on Instagram didn't show any results while searches for Bolsonaro worked. Restrictions on Lula's ad account was apparently also a technical glitch. Strangely enough, there was also some technical glitches that caused whatsapp searches for Lula's 7 million members whatsapp channel to bring up Bolsonaro's whatsapp channel instead. Did I mention that Meta was fined $25 billion dollars last week for lying and misleading the public?
dastardly45··on Meta Employees Denounce Interference in Brazilian Elections
"International election observers have raised concerns about Meta’s platforms. Incidents include temporary interruptions of one candidate’s campaign account; differences in audience engagement, user feeds, view counts and reach; restrictions on that campaign’s Instagram posts; and differences between the main political parties in AI image generation, WhatsApp channel search results, candidates’ Stories and the distribution of political content potentially benefiting the opposing candidate’s campaign."

https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2026/10/meta-must-pr...

dastardly45··on Meta Employees Denounce Interference in Brazilian Elections
The American propaganda platforms have for a long time been helping the US regime to undermine democracies around the world. More and more Europeans are realising that the Nerd Reich are supporting the far right movements in Europe, helping Trump and his friend Putin in destabilising European democracies. Hoping that Brazil and Lula will issue an international arrest warrant for Zuckerberg for being a foreign agent interfering in a sovereign state's election. Germany should do the same with Musk.
dastardly45··on Meta employees say Lula’s accounts restricted in Brazil election: Report
The American propaganda platforms (especially Meta and X) have been weaponised to interfere in foreign elections for a long time. Brazil is just the latest example from South America. It is also happening in Europe. It is a stated goal of the Trump regime to change European governments which are not aligned with Trumpism. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/12/donald...
dastardly45··on Elon Musk Just Gave Europe a Reason to Replace American Technology
External pressure in the form of disinformation disseminated by American propaganda platforms utilising Cambridge Analytica style techniques
dastardly45··on Elon Musk Just Gave Europe a Reason to Replace American Technology
Trump and his tech bros have alienated Europe and other democracies in the world. What the US is currently doing by openly supporting far right movements in Europe (and Brazil) while serving Putin's wishes have revealed a US on the wrong side of history. The remnants of American democracy is paralysed and US is sliding into fascism. Boycott US will be a fast growing movement in democracies all over the world.
dastardly45··on Claude Duet
Also see basic computer security which was not in place so Anthropic's buggy software (refusing to call it "rogue" agents) hacked into various websites
dastardly45··on Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face
There's a common denominator in the Israeli "security" company Irregular who was doing security testing for 4 AI labs https://thenextweb.com/news/irregular-four-labs-one-issue-di...