Facebook and genocide, can you name a better duo?
this post was submitted on 29 Apr 2024
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Aye, the closest thing to think of is Facebook and the NSA...
Gosh, Facebook is really a ghoul...
Whatapp has no backdoors 
Vault 7 they al have backdoors.
Israel gets a direct pipeline into everything. Social media apps share everything. Itxs in the EULA. If Israel requests the data explicitly Meta has to give access. Otherwise they just Pegasus that shit or tap it off their own data lines.
This is fucking horrible.
But the CPC can use your data for evil through TikTok!
Weird i thought tiktok was the scary spying app, and yet
Dropping another reminder to switch to Matrix! It's free, open-source, decentralized, and has end-to-end encryption.
Yeah, don't use NATO technology. Those who think they're in the good graces of the empire should not consider themselves safe either, even those who work on its behalf might step on the wrong toes.
1 - https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-spies-iran/
2 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Gareth_Williams
Briar is fully decentralized chat, not federated, only dependent on Tor. Session is probably pretty safe and worth checking out, though it's piggybacking on a cryptocurrency network called LOKI ("low-key") for its routing. More feature-complete, user-friendly alternatives like SimpleX unfortunately aren't trustworthy, having devs tied to Israel in particular.
Don't look up "Where's Daddy?".
Ugh, and I just got into a new WhatsApp chatroom, dammit...
Now I feel guilty using this damn app...
What even is Whatsapp's business model? Some articles say they make money from the business accounts and there's plans to add an advertising model to it, but how much money do those things really generate?
What even is Whatsapp's business model
To sell everyone's data by replacing text messaging in a lot of countries.
Not much, but I'd imagine Meta is reading messages to fuel their ads too
It's an app widely used by people outside the US. Like TikTok, it can serve as a good intelligence collection hub provided by a private entity, but unlike TikTok, the country of origin is using the data to further genocide.
Apparently it partially involves selling data to governments so you can get turned into a crater
Or so I'm told
Even more confirmation for my choice not to use whatsapp