NEW: Meta reviewed, approved, and ran more than 50 ads containing AI-generated child sexual abuse material across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and Threads. They ran for nine months. Some were live this week. After WIRED asked about them, researchers found ~30 more

Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery

More than 50 offending image and video ads were published across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, or Threads, according to Meta’s ad library data. Some ran as recently as this week.

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Swima, the "green bomber" worm, swims the deep sea trailing glowing green globes it can detach and drop when threatened, like tossing a flare to distract a predator and flee into the dark. A worm that throws light bombs. 🧪 #WormWednesday #marinelife www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUqY...

Weird and Wonderful: Green bomber worms drop bioluminescent "bombs"

YouTube video by MBARI (Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute)

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This is the second time in as many months when Meta's ads have been linked to child sexual abuse material—a BBC investigation last month looked at Instagram ads www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Reports *today* suggest Zuckerberg apologized to officials about this www.scmp.com/news/asia/so...

Zuckerberg apologises to India over child sexual abuse content on Meta platforms

The Meta Platforms ⁠CEO also apologised for deepfake content and operational ‌lapses on the company’s platforms, according to a report.

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I'd love to hear why my book White Flight -- which won prizes from the Southern Historical Association and the American Political Science Association -- was deemed not good enough for students at Texas A&M.

King Algamemnon@adamrothman.bsky.social · 16h ago

Only a matter of time before Texas forces @kevinmkruse.bsky.social to drink hemlock. www.aclutx.org/press-releas...

I carry no water for the DSA. But all the solemn intoning about "is their candidate too extreme for the general?" is funny to me given the opponent is always Grifter McGreenbacks who has vowed to declare Trump god emperor on day one and mandate testosterone supplements in baby food.

My hot take is that Texans really do need civic education

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Cornyn: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"

Marco Rubio is ostensibly neglecting his State Department duties to stay close to Trump and focus on the important stuff… except for the most important foreign policy quagmire of the day. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/why-isnt-m...

Why Isn't Marco Rubio Doing His Job?

The allegedly competent Trump advisor sure seems to be avoiding giving advice on the most important foreign policy issue of the day.

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What's funny about this is "Make it Make Sense" is a Bezos-branded knockoff of the NYT's "The Daily." And it's light years more dogshit. Which I would have told you was an impossible achievement. More dogshit than "The Daily?" Impossible. bsky.app/profile/did:...

Derek Smith@positivelytonsils.bsky.social · 22h ago

When you're just trying to make it make sense.

We have to go deeper

When you're just trying to make it make sense.

Who is this “we”?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 14h ago

Trump on Venezuela: "We're taking out hundreds of billions of dollars"

Decision Desk HQ projects Fred Wellman wins the MO US House 2 Democratic Primary #DecisionMade: 11:21 PM EDT

Hey, you ever heard me (constantly) going on about Babylon 5? It's starting to air, in its entirety, on YouTube.

Midnight on the Firing Line | S1 E1 | Babylon 5

YouTube video by Babylon 5

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Nome@nome.bsky.social · last yr.

Broke: Star Trek says humans will abandon all religion in the future. Woke: Dune says religion will continue to be both a source of strength and a tool of control for oppressed peoples. Bespoke: Babylon 5 says we'll get MORE religions, and Jews will have to sort out what alien foods are kosher.

In St. Louis city. We are a real place and a big enough city that you can name the city. And also there are other things about them.

This is your periodic reminder that the National School Lunch Program feeds 30M children for $18B a year.

Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 17h ago

Brown University has a widget that tracks the cost of the Iran war to American consumers (as contrasted to whatever the Pentagon is spending). Per-household cost now exceeds $600. iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu

Babylon 5 is now free on YouTube! There’s a great subplot about the rise of fascism back on Earth. I thought it was overblown in the 90s, but it could have been ripped out of today’s headlines. Some of the best writing in science fiction television.

Nome@nome.bsky.social · yesterday

Hey, you ever heard me (constantly) going on about Babylon 5? It's starting to air, in its entirety, on YouTube.

Bryton Shang (L) and Tyler Hassen (R)

Dan Murphy@bungdan.bsky.social · last yr.

The Musklets who "turned on the water." The map even has contours! x.com/DOGE/status/...

Fun fact: The last time a Cabinet pick failed on the Senate floor was 1989. John Tower. No Cabinet pick has been defeated on the Senate floor in Susan Collins’ nearly 30 years as a senator.

Bombshell new report out from my investigators this morning spanning our four year investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s financial records. This report shows exactly how Wall Street protected Epstein and enabled his sex trafficking for decades. Mega thread following with some key points:

Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan, BofA Enabled Epstein, Wyden Report Says

Democrat Ron Wyden cited nonpublic documents held by the US Treasury in a report that says banks delayed reporting suspicious financial transactions and calls for tougher anti-money-laundering rules, ...

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In addition to having no experience in immigration, their website shows Ilya Shapiro (!) and disgraced former law prof Joshua Wright (!) as Senior Counsel. I don't think this massive contract was awarded to give immigrant children effective, zealous advocacy. burkegroup.law/our-team/

Our Team - BURKE LAW GROUP, PLLC

Our Team

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Politico@politico.com · 19h ago

26-employee Texas law firm gets $150M to represent 24,000 children in immigration court

"Engineering team." Mein gott.

The Musklets who "turned on the water." The map even has contours! x.com/DOGE/status/...

What amazes me about this is the group pathology of Trump and Musk world. It would take minutes to explain to a 5-year old that dumping water on farmland 100 miles and a mountain range away from a fire does not put out the fire. Yet they insisted. bsky.app/profile/ella...

Ella Nilsen@ellanilsen.bsky.social · last yr.

NEW: Fresh details on the chaos leading up to the WH ordering the US Army Corps to release billions of gallons of water from 2 CA dams in Jan. Included DOGE reps demanding to “turn on the pumps” themselves at a federal water plant, while getting their picture taken. www.cnn.com/2025/03/07/c...

Yeah, I'm totally over-reacting to think these folks would happily throw people in camps.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 21h ago

Sen. Jim Banks refers to American citizens as "the babies of invaders" and compares them to Nazi spies and terrorists

MAX MILLER: She's 2.5 years old. She doesn't have the ability to articulate what you just said. TAPPER: But you just told me that she said she was scared to go to mommy's house. Now you're saying she's not capable of saying "Daddy kill you"? MILLER: What about due process?

"Reluctantly," a federal judge dismisses the Oath Keepers seditious conspiracy cases. Trump DOJ "excuses criminal acts that caused a centuries-long pillar of our democracy—the peaceful transfer of presidential power—to buckle." "The court cannot write a different ending," he adds. buff.ly/NvVKnaW

Just say no. Say no. You say no. That's all you say. "No." Jesus Christ.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Francesca Hong was asked last night by Kaitlin Collins if she still believes Thanksgiving should be canceled. Her answer was not 'no.'

Revisiting some of this because Trump is coming to California this week. Remember when he sent his elite republican nerds to dump millions of gallons of water on farmland to stop the Malibu fires, nearly 200 miles away? bsky.app/profile/bung...

Dan Murphy@bungdan.bsky.social · 2y ago

(To the uninitiated: Emptying reservoirs onto Tulare County farmland in winter, so that there isn't water in the reservoirs during the peak growing season, which coincides with the dry season, is bad. And doesn't stop fires in the Malibu chaparral, 190 miles away.)

If I was running a news channel, the marching orders would be: "Our response to president-elect Trump blaming black people and democrats for the LA fires is to cut through the BS. I want a wildland urban interface expert and a climate expert on every panel." A boy can dream.

Gavin Newsom deprived SoCal of NoCal water and that caused the Malibu fires? For the smooth-brained so called reporters on the radio and TV: 1. Jerry Brown (D) fought for years to have the delta tunnels built. He was bankrolled in this by SoCal real estate investors (R)./1