Investigation reveals Facebook promoting Deforestation

[OniriA]

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In February, the BBC Our World documentary Selling the Amazon revealed that plots of rainforest

as large as 1,000 football pitches were being listed on Facebook's classified ads service.

 

The social media giant changed its policy following a BBC investigation into the practice.

The new measures will apply only to conservation areas and not to publicly owned forest.

 

And the move will be limited to the Amazon, not other rainforests and wildlife habitats across the world.

According to a recent study from the think tank Ipam (Instituto de Pesquisa Ambental da Amazonia),

a third of all deforestation happens in publicly-owned forests in the Amazon.

 

Facebook said it would not reveal how it planned to find the illegal ads but said it would "seek to identify and block new listings"

in protected areas of the Amazon rainforest.

 

Full report at:

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-58843166

 

 

Edited October 8, 2021 by OniriA

[Apprentice]

The better question would be: what is Facebook NOT promoting !?

[Hawk of The Crystals]

Not really surprised to be honest.

[xX_Lol6_Xx]

Me neither

 

[Naarok0fkor]

...(barf)...(Throwing-up)...

[CBM]

Mark Z should never have created Facebook to begin with

[Naarok0fkor]

48 minutes ago, CBM said:

Mark Z should never have created Facebook to begin with

Creation is not the problem...management is...

[CBM]

4 hours ago, Naarok0fkor said:

Creation is not the problem...management is...

one would assume that management is doing what their lord and master, the great mark suckerperv is demanding of them...

[HavoX]

Those poor animals... that makes me sick to my stomach.

Edited October 10, 2021 by HavoX

[Gez]

4 hours ago, Naarok0fkor said:

Creation is not the problem...management is...

The problem is that people are using Facebook to begin with.

 

 

If it weren't Faceboook, it'd be something else. If it weren't Zuckerberg, it'd be someone else.

[CBM]

1 hour ago, Gez said:

The problem is that people are using Facebook to begin with.

 

 

If it weren't Faceboook, it'd be something else. If it weren't Zuckerberg, it'd be someone else.

well that could be said for any evil person in the world and used as an excuse to justify their actions

 

and yes, I view certain celebs as being evil, like zuckerberg, steve jobs, jeff bezos et.al. - just in a different way than hitler, stalin et.al. were evil

Edited October 10, 2021 by CBM

[Gez]

4 minutes ago, CBM said:

well that could be said for any evil person in the world and used as an excuse to justify their actions

I'm not justifying their actions, just lamenting that they get put in a position where they can execute them.

 

In a just world, social networks like Facebook and Twitter would simply not exist.

[CBM]

32 minutes ago, Gez said:

I'm not justifying their actions, just lamenting that they get put in a position where they can execute them.

 

In a just world, social networks like Facebook and Twitter would simply not exist.

I agree.

 

I just wish everybody knew by intuition how bad social networks like Facebook, Twitter et.al. are.

 

Then they wouldnt have survived for long.

 

Its the same with those questionable credit companies.

 

I sometimes fear the average intelligence of humans is way too low for our own good in the long run (too many falling for scams, sweettalkers etc).

Edited October 10, 2021 by CBM

[whatup876]

Sounds fucking awful but good thing journalists keep writing articles about how regular folks like us are the ones that need to change their habits instead of massive corporations, politicians or elite people.

[OniriA]

On 10/8/2021 at 11:56 PM, Apprentice said:

The better question would be: what is Facebook NOT promoting !?

 

Definitely no stroopwafels or oliebollen atleast ;)