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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 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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US Facebook Users Can Claim Share Of $725 Million Lawsuit Settlement
You only have until Friday.
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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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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'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 wins legal battle to force Europeans to use real names online
A German court today ruled in Facebook's favor after a data privacy watchdog tried to force the social network to drop its fake-name fight.
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Creepy Side of Search Emerges on Facebook
Facebook highlighted special privacy restrictions on its new Graph Search social discovery engine that filter young teens from some search results delivered to adults. The restrictions, pointed to after concerns about pedophiles, differ from other aspects of Graph Search, which generally has no special privacy controls beyond those already in place for the rest of Facebook.
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Creepy Side of Search Emerges on Facebook
Facebook Graph Search is getting its own privacy filters after it was shown that the social discovery service could be used to run creepy searches for children.
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You're not gonna Like it: Facebook's new search struggles with the real world
Mark Zuckerberg needs to rethink Likes before Graph Search can shine.
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Facebook to pay no tax for 2012 and will even get tax refund of $429m despite $1BN profits
Facebook claim they have a $559 million federal tax liability. But a huge tax break means the world's largest social media company will actually receive a refund.
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Facebook’s Never Had A Big User Data Breach, But May Never Recover When It Does
It's not if, but when. Between crooks, hackers, and foreign governments, Facebook probably can't avoid a serious user data breach forever. When it happens, Facebook may never be able to quiet fears that "personal data isn't safe there".
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Mark Zuckerberg, Sergey Brin, Yuri Milner Create $33 Million Breakthrough Prize For Medical Research
Three of Silicon Valley's most high-profile entrepreneurs are launching a new Foundation with designs on the Nobel Prizes. The Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences Foundation is to reward life-saving research with 11 annual awards, each with an individual reward of $3 million.
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The Most Terrifying Button On Facebook
Buried deep in your profile is a button that shows all your activity, including who you search for. Facebook knows your deepest secrets — and it's not letting you forget it.
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6 Things to Do Before You Delete Your Facebook Account
You've probably thought about deleting your Facebook account before, but for one reason or another you've been unable to commit.
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The age of the brag is over: why Facebook might be losing teens
One week ago, Facebook Director of Product Blake Ross announced that he’d leave the company in a goodbye letter he posted on his profile page.
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Man Lurks Facebook, Replicates Peoples Profile Pics Then Sends Friend Request
This man has become an expert at weirding people out on Facebook. First, he lurks Facebook for people with the same name as his. Once he finds his unsuspecting target, he replicates the person’s profile picture – this includes everything from the pose and facial expression to the background, clothing and even accessories. He then sends the person a friend request rocking their knockoff profile pic.
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How Facebook Gets Away With Being Broken On Purpose
At the New York Times, a trend is not a trend until it happens to a New York Times columnist. For roughly a year now--almost six months since I wrote a wildly popular column about it for The Observer--Facebook has been pushing an utterly duplicitous and embarrassing business model.
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Google, Microsoft Dominate Forbes’ List Of Tech Billionaires; Zuckerberg, Moskovitz Are The Youngest
Forbes has today published its annual list of the world's richest people -- and once again tech and its related tentacles continue to lead the top of the list. Coming in at number-one for the fourth year in a row is Carlos Slim Helu, the Mexico-based mogul who controls Latin American mobile c..
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Facebook Will Launch Content-Specific News Feeds, Bigger Photos And Ads On Thursday
At a big press event on Thursday, Facebook plans to launch new ways to filter the news feed. These include a Photos feed of Facebook and Instagram photos, as well as a revamped Music feed of what friends are listening to, concerts, and new albums.
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