Meta's Content Filter Got Overzealous.
Also defense budget cuts and failed corporate social media.

The Algorithm Just Started Deleting Everything on Facebook

Meta's Integrity Organization accidentally proved the whole 'Benevolent Incompetence' theory this week. Internal documents leaked to Drop Site News show the platform complied with 94% of content takedown requests from the Israeli government, resulting in the removal of over 90,000 posts in the time it takes to brew a cup of coffee. The resulting digital mishap was quickly fed back into Meta's automated moderation engine.

This massive, unreviewed content cleanup project, which largely targeted posts from Arab and Muslim,majority nations, was an administrative oversight of unprecedented global scale. When you offload critical policy decisions to an AI that is simply trained to say "yes" to 94% of the requests from one of its largest government clients, the result is a massive dataset of accidental censorship. Apparently, Mark Zuckerberg, Chief Executive Officer, thought it would be cheaper to let the machine handle the paperwork than hiring enough human moderators to read all the vacation photos being flagged as 'incitement'.

Adobe Asks "What's Fueling Your Creativity Right Now" and Finds Pure Rage

The Adobe social media team had a rough day. The company joined Bluesky, the decentralized Twitter alternative, with a simple, hopeful post asking the user base to engage with its corporate brand. The creative community, however, responded by immediately and unanimously listing every grievance they have with the software giant, including the ever,increasing subscription costs and its controversial policies regarding using user artwork for AI training.

Adobe deleted all of its posts after the deluge of negative replies, effectively retracting its entire presence from the new platform as if it were an embarrassing email sent to the wrong distribution list. It is a stunning display of corporate naïveté, the team believed the brand goodwill built over decades would outweigh the recent corporate decisions that have enraged its core customer base. The attempt to "connect with the artists" instead became a highly public, self,inflicted focus group on everything wrong with the company.

Pentagon Rejects $5.1B Consultant Invoice

In a move that shocked exactly zero Systems Administrators, the Pentagon announced it will terminate over $5.1 billion in IT consulting contracts with firms like Accenture and Deloitte. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth referred to the spending as "non,essential" and suggested that actual government employees could perform the tasks currently being handled by the extremely expensive outside help.

This is the bureaucratic equivalent of the new department head realizing the old boss spent a fortune on external contractors to manage the shared calendar. The $5.1 billion in canceled contracts, which also target Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) and climate,related initiatives, are expected to result in nearly $4 billion in actual savings. This is a powerful metric illustrating how much the Pentagon was paying the consulting firms to simply exist within the building and hand,hold the staff.

Briefs

• Post,Employment Therapy: An ex,Googler wrote a lengthy essay about the complex identity crisis that comes after realizing your professional value was only the company logo on your badge.
• Open,Source Predictability: The Fedora project is making a technical change that aims for 99% package reproducibility. This means your development environment will finally match the production environment, which is terrible news for anyone who relies on "it works on my machine" as a career defense mechanism.
• Headline Sizing Crisis: Apparently, the default styles for the HTML <h1> element are changing. When we have exhausted all of the actual problems in the world, we can always rely on the World Wide Web to debate the font size of the most important text on the page.