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Zuckerberg says Meta's fact-checking was “something out of 1984” and criticized the media for hounding Facebook to clamp down on misinfo after the 2016 election (www.axios.com)
2025-1-11 Facebook Zuckerberg

Meta's new policies for contractors and staff moderating Facebook and Instagram allow dehumanizing speech, like “a trans person isn't a he or she, it's an it” (www.platformer.news)
2025-1-10 Facebook Instagram

Meta will launch a test in Germany, France and the US to publish eBay listings on Facebook Marketplace, after it was fined €798M by EU for abusing dominance (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-1-9 Germany France Facebook eBay

In a first, an EU court fines the EC €400 for breaching its own data protection law by transferring a user's data to the US via a Sign in with Facebook option (www.reuters.com)
2025-1-8 Facebook

Sources: Mark Zuckerberg demanded a review at Meta after his 2023 knee surgery post on Facebook initially got anemic attention; Meta downplays the significance (www.wsj.com)
2025-1-8 Facebook Zuckerberg

Ex-Facebook director Katie Harbath says Mark Zuckerberg's team uses elections to take stock of “where society is, to readjust how they're approaching content” (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-1-8 Facebook Zuckerberg

Meta Ends Fact-Checking on Facebook, Instagram in Free-Speech Pitch (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-1-8 Facebook Instagram

Meta's AI Profiles Are Indistinguishable From Terrible Spam That Took Over Facebook (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-1-4 Facebook AI

Meta says the viral AI profiles on Facebook and Instagram were created in 2023 as part of “an early experiment” with AI characters, and it is deleting them (www.404media.co)
2025-1-4 Facebook AI Instagram

Meta wants to flood Instagram and Facebook with AI bots: Report (indianexpress.com)
2025-1-2 Facebook AI Instagram

More Than 140 Kenya Facebook Moderators Diagnosed With Severe PTSD (tech.slashdot.org)
2024-12-25 Facebook

Malaysia says it has identified WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram, X, YouTube, Telegram, WeChat, and TikTok as platforms that need to obtain a license by next year (www.bloomberg.com)
2024-12-20 Facebook YouTube Instagram WhatsApp WeChat Malaysia

Ireland fines Meta $264 million over 2018 Facebook data breach (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2024-12-18 Facebook Ireland

The Irish Data Protection Commission fines Meta €251M over a Facebook breach that affected ~29M users globally and ~3M in the EU and EEA in September 2018 (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-18 Facebook

Australia's privacy watchdog says Meta agreed to a AU$50M settlement over a 2020 Cambridge Analytica lawsuit alleging 300K+ Facebook users' data was exposed (www.reuters.com)
2024-12-17 Australia Facebook

Facebook-parent Meta settles with Australia's privacy watchdog over Cambridge Analytica lawsuit (indianexpress.com)
2024-12-17 Australia Facebook

A survey of US teens aged 13 to 17 shows 73% use YouTube daily, 57% use TikTok daily, 50% use Instagram, and 20% use Facebook; 17% use X, down from 23% in 2022 (www.pewresearch.org)
2024-12-13 Facebook YouTube Instagram

Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp hit by massive worldwide outage (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2024-12-12 Facebook Instagram WhatsApp

Researchers: Meta let 25 Facebook Pages run 4K+ ads attacking Romania's pro-EU candidate and promoting far-right figures, hitting 199M+ views since August 2024 (www.bloomberg.com)
2024-12-9 Facebook Far-right Romania

Smith & Wesson De-Platformed From Facebook As Musk Welcomes Gun Industry To X (activistpost.com)
2024-12-2 Facebook

US Supreme Court tosses case involving securities fraud suit against Facebook (indianexpress.com)
2024-11-23 Facebook

SCOTUS dismisses Facebook's appeal of a lower court order reviving a shareholder lawsuit for allegedly misleading investors on Cambridge Analytica (www.cbsnews.com)
2024-11-23 Facebook

Fake Bitwarden ads on Facebook push info-stealing Chrome extension (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2024-11-19 Facebook Chrome

Facebook makes Views its primary metric for content, bringing it in line with Instagram; each time a piece of content appears on a screen, it counts as a View (www.theverge.com)
2024-11-16 Facebook Instagram

The EU fines Meta €797.72M for tying Facebook Marketplace to Facebook and “imposing unfair trading conditions” on rival websites, the first such fine for Meta (t.co)
2024-11-15 Facebook

Bowing to EU demands, Meta rolls out ‘less personalised ads' on Facebook and Instagram (indianexpress.com)
2024-11-13 Facebook Instagram

Sources: Meta plans to show Facebook and Instagram users in Europe an option to get “less personalized ads” in the coming days, a concession to EU regulators (www.wsj.com)
2024-11-12 Europe Facebook Instagram

Facebook Censors Gone Wild (activistpost.com)
2024-11-12 Facebook

A US judge dismisses Ethan Zuckerman's lawsuit against Meta; Zuckerman sought to stop Meta from suing him over a tool to let users unfollow everyone on Facebook (www.nytimes.com)
2024-11-8 Facebook

Facebook Asks US Supreme Court To Dismiss Fraud Suit Over Cambridge Analytica Scandal (yro.slashdot.org)
2024-11-7 Facebook

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