The billionaires who control social media want to be clear about what’s OK to post online and what’s not.
For X (formerly Twitter), just about anything goes, including neo-Nazi propaganda, crypto scams and porn (as long as it’s labeled properly).
For Facebook and Instagram, the rules are a bit more restrictive, though it’s still not hard to find misinformation about the election (“they’re eating the dogs”), fake news about hurricane relief funds, fictional celebrity feuds, or AI-generated images purporting to show, for example, that Hurricane Milton destroyed Disney World (it didn’t).
But there’s one thing neither company will tolerate: Publicly tracking their owners’ private jet outings.
See here: On Monday, Meta suspended several Instagram and Threads accounts devoted to tracking — using publicly available data — the routes of various celebrities’ private jets, including one used by Meta’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg. Other accounts, all run by a Florida college student named Jack Sweeney, tracked Donald Trump, Ron DeSantis, Taylor Swift, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Kim Kardashian and Kylie Jenner.
“Given the risk of physical harm to individuals, and in keeping with the independent Oversight Board’s recommendation, we’ve disabled these accounts for violating our privacy policies,” a Meta spokesperson told CNN in an email. READ MORE from CNN
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