Ah, they made it private on Facebook, but not on Threads. Which they didn't know it was also being posted to, but that's by-the-by.

Teshnikully, you waive a LOT of rights on anything you post on their service. I'm not sure the "private post" thing would hold against sending your pictures to a third party in the first place.

Of course, it's shitty. But they put that provision in their TOS a long time ago.

I'm not trying to defend Meta, but where in the article does it say that private posts were shared publicly? I'm only seeing that public posts made by adults were used this way. The main rub is Facebook being accused of intentionally serving these publicly posted photos of children in school uniforms (by parents) as bait to join another one of their platforms. Like, a grown man was sent multiple advertisements where this was the exact content, no back to school pictures of young men, or any other type of photo. That they sexualized children algorithmically to bait men into using Threads, and are justifying it's ok because the parents shared the photo publicly and didn't opt out of the advertising settings (which seem to be a way to gain followers?).

One of the men was like, I've no idea why they keep sending me these pictures, I don't engage with them. That might be an even more interesting story, because either Facebook is trying to offer sexualized children to uninterested men, or they know exactly which men are interested in sexualized children and instead of using it to push intervention ads, ban them from seeing the content their AI can definitely classify as enticing, or anything else, they use it to try to make more money.

I have a lot of college and HS friends on thier. I like to follow thier lives, but I don't live anywhere near them. I dislike it greatly. But it is impossible to expect them all to move to a less worse platform. Of course, I don't click on ads, or follow random people... I don't even have it on my phone. But they sure do splash images if hot chicks as often as they can. Shows how desperate they are. Oh, and I rarely post anything. Guess I am kind of a leech.

I never started. From the beginning, I thought that posting ALL your personal info on a website was a profoundly STUPID thing to do.

So I registered my name, just so nobody else could, but I've never posted a single thing on it, and never will.

I only keep mine around for marketplace and our neighborhood group chat (which is handy because our city councilman is in it). I can't remember the last time I actually browsed it, though.

The daycare only has a Facebook. So I have to have one to check for closures.

Don't blame the people for being psychologically manipulated by revenue and shareholder profits. Never blame people for mass marketing psychological manipulation practices.

I think the algorithm knew just enough to guess "hey that's a skirt and hey that's an exposed leg, and images with those things in them do really with certain customers, and since this was posted by an adult's account I should auto generate an ad with these images and show it to those customers" but not enough to realize "this is a picture of a child posted by their adult parent's account"

There is this repeating ad on Sync for Lemmy which pisses me off to no end. They are for various women's jewelry and the angle of the pictures make the image look very different than what it actually is.

Stopped using it recently just now because of this.

Him: What is with these creephounds?!? Me: They creeps!

I hope you both mean Facebook and not the targeted men.

I very rarely use them but when I do I am targeted non-stop by FB and especially Insta with pictures of young girls. It's absolutely disgusting and embarrassing (if someone sees it.) The search page is the worst. I don't click on any of them, I scroll past them as fast as possible in my feed, I don't like or follow anything like that, and yet it never stops. And that's one of the main reasons I won't use them other than to communicate with specific family members or friends.

Isn't that description just the article author describing the pictures, not the captions that the parents used? There are no quotes around that part.

One of my sons didn't care my wife (used to) post his pics. The other at times, nearly violently, opposed having his pix online since he was about five or six years old.

Kind of sounds like you're making excuses for Meta and for pedophiles at the same time.

When I give pictures of my children to data mining company and data mining company uses them for weird stuff.

STOP POSTING PICTURES OF YOUR CHILDREN ON THE INTERNET.

Stop using Facebook/Instagram.

There are a shocking number of people who still think Facebook is a good way for Grandma to see back-to-school photos, and either are unaware or don't care that ceased to be central to the platform while Obama was in office. Inertia is a bitch. And so is Zuck.

"Rules for thee, but not for me."

Don't use Facebook.

Thats the same vibe as: Don't drive your kids to school, you might get hit by a drunk driver. Meta will take any image, per previous claims, they don't care if it was public or not

They don’t even acknowledge that it is a problem.

I was in trade school just when Facebook started, plenty of my classmates got on it, I never did.