Legal expert: Meta's FTC antitrust trial, where Mark Zuckerberg could take the stand as early as today, is set to be more grueling than Congressional hearings
Meta's chief has grown accustomed to tough questioning in courts and hearings, but an antitrust trial starting Monday could be more grueling, experts said.
FTC v. Meta: in opening arguments, FTC lawyers accuse Meta of a “buy-or-bury strategy” to cement a social networking monopoly by buying Instagram and WhatsApp
The tech giant went to court on Monday in an antitrust trial focused on its acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp.
Meta restarts training its AI systems on UK users' public Facebook and Instagram posts, having “incorporated regulatory feedback” to be “even more transparent”
Paul Sawers / TechCrunch :
The Mozilla Foundation and 90+ research and advocacy groups urge Meta to keep CrowdTangle online until January 2025 to track election misinformation globally
Karissa Bell / Engadget :
Meta plans to deprecate the Facebook News tab in the US and Australia in early April 2024 and stop signing deals for traditional news content in those countries
it was begun for hookups, parties, and puppies but readers and publishers added news in their own posts. News came to depend on Facebook for links and audience — that's why publis...
Meta plans to deprecate the Facebook News tab in the US and Australia in early April 2024 and stop signing deals for traditional news content in those countries
Meta Platforms Inc. is winding down its news feature in the US and Australia, part of a broader shift away from the category for the social media giant.
Microsoft and X say they support the Kids Online Safety Act; Meta, Discord, and TikTok demur, citing criticism from groups or supporting only some parts of KOSA
how much they care & the promises—are empty. It is the voices & stories of the advocates who joined me today that will create real change. We will win this fight for the Kids Onlin...
Microsoft and X say they support the Kids Online Safety Act; Meta, Discord, and TikTok demur, citing criticism from groups or supporting only some parts of KOSA
how much they care & the promises—are empty. It is the voices & stories of the advocates who joined me today that will create real change. We will win this fight for the Kids Onlin...
How Google, Meta, and other tech giants ramped up university donations over the years, giving them influence over AI, social media, and disinformation research
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The BEUC and its members follow noyb in filing a complaint against Meta's €9.99+/month subscriptions in the EU, saying the tier amounts to charging for privacy
branding it ‘unfair’ and ‘illegal’ Théophane Hartmann / Euractiv : Consumer groups file complaint against Meta's ‘pay-or-consent’ model X: Robert Bateman / @robertjbateman : If Met...
The BEUC and its members follow noyb in filing a complaint against Meta's €9.99+/month subscriptions in the EU, saying the tier amounts to charging for privacy
Meta Platforms' (META.O) advertising-free subscription service, a fee-based offering rolled out in Europe this month …
Meta plans to bar political advertisers from using its new generative AI advertising products, after US lawmakers warn against the spread of misinformation
Facebook owner Meta (META.O) is barring political advertisers from using its new generative AI advertising products …
Letter: European regulator Thierry Breton urges Mark Zuckerberg to be “vigilant” about removing disinformation from Meta's platforms during the Israel-Hamas war
and on tackling disinformation in elections in the EU ⤵️ [image] Jakub Simek / @jakubsimek : @ThierryBreton @Meta I think the EU has bigger problems to worry about than lecturing t...
In a letter to Thierry Breton, X CEO Linda Yaccarino says X has removed hundreds of Hamas-linked accounts, labeled tens of thousands of posts, and more
The X social media platform has removed hundreds of Hamas-affiliated accounts and taken action to remove or label tens of thousands …
Sources: Meta plans to release AI chatbots with personalities, internally called Gen AI Personas, across its apps at this week's Connect, to attract young users
Facebook parent is developing bots with personalities, including a ‘sassmaster general’ robot that answers questions
Evacuees from the wildfires threatening Yellowknife say that Meta's news fight with Canada's government makes it harder for them to share lifesaving information
Meta notes government sources not blocked as northerners duck ban by sharing screenshots of information
A last-minute amendment to an Irish bill would let the Data Protection Commission declare some info in privacy complaints as “confidential”, sparking an uproar
given the lack of public discussion it may have simply been overlooked what this really means for freedom of speech and journalism. https://twitter.com/... Forums: Hacker News : Ir...
Nick Clegg reiterates that Meta will end news content in Canada if C-18 passes and says he pulled out of a committee hearing after a session title changed
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The FTC proposes barring Meta from monetizing kids' data, accusing the company of violating a 2020 order with its privacy program and COPPA with Messenger Kids
In an announcement today, the agency said that, on top of … Jamey Kistner : 🔒 The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has proposed changes to its 2020 privacy order with Facebook, accus...
A study of 13M+ Facebook posts in the run-up to the 2020 US elections found that 23% of the sampled posts with political images contained misinformation
the most common post type, accounting for 40% of posts by US politics pages and groups. Matthew Hindman / @matthindman : Other studies have suggested that misinformation posts gene...