Three main focus points.
1) Steps against anti-vaxxers.
2) Emulating China's WeChat…. first I have heard of… worthy of diggz
3) introduction of supposed privacy plan and/or concerns about privacy, data sharing etc.
A couple interesting ones:
>U.S. users are leaving Facebook, new study shows
>Facebook Can Still Snoop On You Even If You Don't Have An Account
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WeChat
>eChat is a Chinese multi-purpose messaging, social media and mobile payment app developed by Tencent. It was first released in 2011, and by 2018 it was one of the world's largest standalone mobile apps by monthly active users, with over 1 billion monthly active users (902 million daily active users). Described as one of the world's most powerful apps by Forbes, it is also known as China's "app for everything" and a "super app" because of its wide range of functions and platforms. In addition to China, it is also the most popular messaging app in Bhutan.
>WeChat has been accused of censoring politically important topics in China.
>In the 2018 Berkshire Hathaway annual shareholders meeting, Charlie Munger identified WeChat as one of the few potential competitors to Visa, Mastercard and American Express.
Holy mackerel.
If Facebook, Google, Twatter etc. is the culmination of years of planning and development by [clowns], can you imagine the kind of wet dream they would have to have all that PLUS access and control over all of your financial transactions??
And Nellie was using a Ham radio to try and escape surveillance, for God's sake.
Quads confirm – chickenpox "survivor" that was surprised to find out was mandatory vaccine for my kids. (And I am not an anti-vaxxer.)
Conversely, when we were kids, stuff like peanut butter was a non-issue, whereas today God forbid you should send your kids to school with something that was even made in the same building as another product with nuts.
Now now, in the internet of things there is plenty of fuckery to go around!
You are both right!
(although the correct answer is "you don't really need that beer in there, do you?")
FB push to control the vaxx narrative is a way to win favor over the majority of the public that believes in vaxes but is not feeling all that comfy about the privacy issues (the other part of the news coverage).
FB TRYING TO CHANGE THE NARRATIVE
Comes down to whether they are a publisher or a platform.
Are they responsible for what their users post or do they take a laissez-faire approach that they only provide space for communication and the users are solely responsible.