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Meta: Systemic Censorship of Palestine Content
Meta’s content moderation policies and systems have increasingly silenced voices in support of Palestine on Instagram and Facebook in the wake of the hostilities between Israeli forces and Palestinian armed groups.
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Meta's new AI assistant trained on public Facebook and Instagram posts
Meta Platforms used public Facebook and Instagram posts to train parts of its new Meta AI virtual assistant, but excluded private posts shared only with family and friends in an effort to respect consumers' privacy, the company's top policy executive told Reuters in an interview.
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Facebook is getting rid of the News tab in Europe
Meta plans to deprecate the Facebook News tab in early December for users in the U.K., France and Germany.
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Meta uses your Facebook data to train its AI. Here's how to opt out (sort of)
Meta will use your personal data in its large language model Llama 2. But you can fine-tune what data it can access.
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US Facebook Users Can Claim Share Of $725 Million Lawsuit Settlement
You only have until Friday.
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Meta Begins The Process Of Ending News Links In Canada
This is not a surprise, because the company made it clear it planned to do exactly this, but Meta has now begun the process of stopping links to news sources from appearing in Canada, something tha…
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Facebook Users Must Act Fast To Get Cash From $725 Million Privacy Settlement
Facebook users have until August 25 to claim their share of cash from a class-action lawsuit settlement. The claims process takes just a couple of minutes.
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Meta Launches Threads, And It’s Important For Reasons That Most People Won’t Care About
As you may have heard, yesterday Meta finally launched Threads, its Twitter-like microblogging service, built on ActivityPub, but using Instagram account credentials for login. The reaction from ac…
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Facebook will need permission to show personalized ads in the EU
Meta will have to limit the reach of its personalized ads in the European Union. The region's Court of Justice has ruled that Meta's Facebook brand will need to obtain consent before delivering at least some personalized ads in the EU. The custom ads "cannot justify" processing that volume of data without users' permission, according to the ruling.
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Threads gained 10 million new users in seven hours
Meta's Twitter rival Threads just went live and has already exceeded 10 million signups within the first seven hours, according to CEO Mark Zuckerberg..
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Facebook could be tracking your online Plan B or HIV test purchases
Twelve of the largest drug stores in the U.S. sent shoppers’ sensitive health information to Facebook or other platforms.
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Visual misinformation is widespread on Facebook, and often undercounted by researchers
How much misinformation is on Facebook? Several studies have found that the amount of misinformation on Facebook is low or that the problem has declined over time.
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Facebook content moderators in Kenya call the work 'torture.' Their lawsuit may ripple worldwide
The former employees from several African countries allege poor working conditions including low pay and insufficient mental health support.
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Facebook Marketplace tops list of most complained-about online retail platforms
More than half of respondents representing about 50 local authorities in the UK identified Facebook as the most complained-about online marketplace.
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The Massive Fine The EU Hit Meta With… Is Really About The NSA, Not Meta
You may have heard the news that the EU hit Meta with a $1.3 billion fine for violating EU “data privacy rules” and assumed that this was just Meta being Meta and being bad about your privacy. But …
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Meta conducts yet another round of layoffs
Meta is waging its latest round of layoffs on Wednesday, estimated to impact about 6,000 people. These cuts are part of the company’s so-called “Year of Efficiency,” in which Meta is being massively restructured to save money and flatten the organization structure.
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Meta's Record-Breaking Fine: A Deep Dive into the $1.3 Billion EU Privacy Violation
In a landmark ruling, Meta, the parent company of Facebook, was slapped with a record-breaking fine of €1.2 billion (approximately $1.3 billion) by the European Union for violating its stringent privacy policies. This fine is the largest ever imposed under the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR), a set of rules designed to protect customer privacy in the European Union.
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Meta hit with a record-breaking $1.3 billion fine over data privacy breaches
Meta failed to comply with the EU's warning about transferring users' data to US servers, and the fine eclipses Amazon's $807 million fine in 2021.
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Meta fixed a Facebook bug that sent automatic friend requests to users
Meta has patched a Facebook bug that saw the social network send automatic friend requests when users would visit any profile. In a statement the company shared with The Daily Beast on Friday, Meta apologized for the glitch. “We fixed a bug related to a recent app update that caused some Facebook friend requests to be sent mistakenly,” a Meta spokesperson told the outlet.
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RIP Metaverse, we hardly knew ye
Mark Zuckerberg spent years trying to make the Metaverse happen, but now it has been replaced by AI and is headed to the tech industry idea graveyard.
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