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“A First Victory Against Big Tech!” – Belgian Lawmaker Awarded €27k From Meta For Unfair Facebook ‘Shadowban' (www.activistpost.com)
2024-6-11 Facebook Belgium

SCOTUS agrees to hear Facebook's bid to scuttle a private securities fraud lawsuit over allegedly misleading investors on Cambridge Analytica in 2017 and 2018 (www.reuters.com)
2024-6-11 Facebook

Trump judge flags Facebook post suggesting possible mistrial (www.rt.com)
2024-6-9 Trump Facebook

WhatsApp Channels, which has 500M+ MAUs, relies on community guidelines to tackle election interference, instead of specific rules like on Facebook or Threads (www.politico.com)
2024-6-8 Facebook WhatsApp

Meta's Facebook says it is attracting most young adults in 3 years (indianexpress.com)
2024-6-2 Facebook

Meta is notifying Instagram and Facebook EU users that it's using their data to train its AI models, and users can opt out, “if your objection is honoured” (9to5mac.com)
2024-6-1 Facebook AI Instagram

Spain's data watchdog blocks two EU election tools from Meta's Instagram, Facebook (indianexpress.com)
2024-6-1 Facebook Instagram Spain

How Meta revamped Facebook's feed to show more posts from outside a person's network of friends and family, in a move to fight TikTok and win back younger users (www.bloomberg.com)
2024-5-31 Facebook

Spain's data protection regulator AEPD bans Meta from launching election features on Facebook and Instagram in the country, citing GDPR concerns (techcrunch.com)
2024-5-31 Facebook Instagram Spain GDPR

How the Integrity Institute, a nonprofit founded by two ex-Facebook staff to help tech companies create more welcoming spaces, lost control of its own culture (www.wired.com)
2024-5-30 Facebook

Meta removed hundreds of Facebook accounts linked to influence campaigns from China, Israel, Iran, and more, some of which used AI to generate disinformation (www.bloomberg.com)
2024-5-30 China Israel Facebook AI Iran

Meta approved AI-manipulated Facebook ads during India's election that spread disinfo and incited religious violence; civil groups submitted them as a test (www.theguardian.com)
2024-5-21 India Facebook AI

EU Opens Child Safety Probes of Facebook and Instagram, Citing Addictive Design Concerns (meta.slashdot.org)
2024-5-17 Facebook Instagram

The EU opens a formal DSA investigation into Meta, to assess if Facebook, Instagram, and its other apps were reinforcing “rabbit hole” effects and other issues (t.co)
2024-5-16 Facebook Instagram

Adam Mosseri says Threads “recently rolled out” its own fact-checking program after piggybacking on Instagram and Facebook's network for a few months (techcrunch.com)
2024-5-15 Facebook Instagram

A probe finds a black market for Facebook accounts that have received approval to run political ads during India's general election, raising interference fears (www.techtransparencyproject.org)
2024-5-7 India Facebook

Extremist Militias Are Coordinating In More Than 100 Facebook Groups (tech.slashdot.org)
2024-5-4 Facebook

‘Meta will play hardball. So will the government': Facebook threatens Canadian option (www.smh.com.au)
2024-5-3 Facebook Canada

Tech Transparency Project: US extremist militias are quietly coordinating across ~200 Facebook groups and profiles, after lying low since the January 6 riot (www.wired.com)
2024-5-2 Facebook

Ethan Zuckerman sues to stop Meta from blocking his planned Unfollow Everything 2.0 extension that would let Facebook users effectively turn off their newsfeed (www.wired.com)
2024-5-2 Facebook

The Facebook trick online gambling is using to target Australians (pursuit.unimelb.edu.au)
2024-5-1 Australia Facebook

The EU opens a DSA investigation into Facebook and Instagram over deceptive ad and political content; sources say the move relates to a pro-Kremlin campaign (www.bloomberg.com)
2024-4-30 Facebook Instagram

AI is making Meta's apps basically unusable, as the company adds Meta AI everywhere and viral user-generated AI images proliferate on Facebook and Instagram (www.fastcompany.com)
2024-4-29 Facebook AI Instagram

Analysis: the 25 most-cited US news organizations lost 75% of their Facebook engagement and 58% of their Instagram interactions between Q1 2022 and Q1 2024 (wapo.st)
2024-4-22 Facebook Instagram

Dutch Privacy Watchdog Recommends Government Organizations Stop Using Facebook (tech.slashdot.org)
2024-4-20 Facebook Netherlands

Meta plans to add its Meta AI chatbot to Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, and Facebook in the US and 12+ other countries, and announces two Llama 3 models (www.nytimes.com)
2024-4-19 Facebook AI chatbot Instagram WhatsApp

Cerebral to pay $7 million settlement in Facebook pixel data leak case (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2024-4-17 Facebook

Meta's Oversight Board probes explicit AI-generated images posted on Instagram and Facebook (techcrunch.com)
2024-4-17 Facebook AI Instagram

Facebook censors Auschwitz Museum photograph and flags images of death camp victims for 'promoting adult nudity and sexual activity': Historians blast move as 'hurtful and absurd' (www.dailymail.co.uk)
2024-4-16 Facebook

When Facebook blocks news, studies show the political risks that follow (indianexpress.com)
2024-4-15 Facebook

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