Meta releases its Q4 Widely Viewed Content report, showing the most viewed Facebook Page comes from a banned account; Meta would not reveal the account
Safe to say that Meta's efforts to refute the idea that Facebook amplifies divisive political content are not going exactly as it would have hoped.
Facebook says their data shows a 50% decline in vaccine hesitancy among US users, refuting Biden's claim that it's “killing people” by allowing COVID-19 misinfo
At a time when COVID-19 cases are rising in America, the Biden administration has chosen to blame a handful of American social media companies.
Facebook says it won't be “distracted by accusations which aren't supported by the facts” in response to Biden's comment that social media is “killing people”
Facebook fired back on Friday evening after President Biden earlier said that social media platforms are …
Facebook expands policies to take down more posts with vaccine-related misinformation, including assertions that vaccines cause autism
Facebook said on Monday that it plans to remove posts with erroneous claims about vaccines from across its platform, including taking down assertions …
Facebook says it will give researchers targeting data on 1.3M social issue, electoral, and political ads from August 3 through November 3, 2020
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Facebook's QAnon ban left some high-profile Australians who are linked to the conspiracy theory untouched because the ban does not extend to individual profiles
I spoke to Trump supporters in Minnesota last week who had already become believers, many of them were getting their QAnon information from Facebook and Instagram. https://www.cnn....
Facebook says it will ban QAnon across its platforms, removing all Facebook Pages, Groups, and Instagram accounts that represent QAnon
Facebook said Tuesday that it is banning all QAnon accounts from its platforms, a significant escalation over its previous action and one of the broadest rules …
Instagram's search remains a haven of vaccine misinformation, a year after Facebook said it wouldn't show such content on Instagram Explore or hashtag pages
Jesselyn Cook / HuffPost : Tweets: @jessreports , @mosseri , and @tonyajoriley Tweets: Jesselyn Cook / @jessreports : Respectfully, people *do* search for vaccine info on Instagra...
Facebook simplifies Groups' privacy settings, to public and private; “secret” Groups are now private and hidden, and “closed” Groups are now private and visible
now it's looking to clean them up Mikael Thalen / The Daily Dot : You can no longer label your Facebook groups as ‘secret’ Napier Lopez / The Next Web : Facebook's group privacy se...