Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Friday, September 17th, 2021. I'm Brian McCullough.

Today, a deep dive summary of the Rolling Facebook controversies this week from the ongoing Wall Street

Journal reporting.

Apple and Google remove an app from Russian opposition after their employees were threatened

in that country. And of of course the weekend long read

suggestions this time with extra NFT goodness here's what you miss today in the world

of tech. I've mentioned already this week that Facebook has had a hell of a week with the Wall Street Journal dropping a bombshell story about them seemingly every day, often using internal Facebook documents.

For example, yesterday the headlines were about how internal docs allegedly revealed

Facebook's weak response after staff flagged human traffickers and drug

cartels using its platforms for recruitment in developing countries.

Quote, employees flagged that human traffickers in the Middle East had used the site to lure women into abusive employment situations in which they were treated like slaves or forced to perform sex work.

They warned that armed groups in Ethiopia use the site to incite violence against

ethnic minorities. They sent alerts to their bosses on organ selling, pornography,

and government action against political dissent, according to the

documents.

Facebook removes some pages, though many more operate openly according to the documents.

In some countries where Facebook operates, it has few or no people who speak the dialects needed to identify dangerous or criminal uses of the

platform the documents show.

When problems have surfaced publicly, Facebook has said it addressed them by taking down offending

post but it hasn't fixed the systems that allowed offenders to repeat the

bad behavior. Instead priority is given to retaining users helping business partners and at times placating authoritarian

governments whose support Facebook sometimes needs to operate within their

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