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Nigeria fines Meta $220M after investigations showed data sharing on Facebook and WhatsApp violated local consumer, data protection, and privacy laws (www.reuters.com)
2024-7-20 Facebook WhatsApp Nigeria

Donald Trump says “I'm for TikTok, because you need competition”, and “if you don't have TikTok, you have Facebook and Instagram” and “that's Zuckerberg” (www.bloomberg.com)
2024-7-17 Trump Facebook Instagram Zuckerberg

Facebook Ads For Windows Desktop Themes Push Info-Stealing Malware (tech.slashdot.org)
2024-7-16 Facebook

X's trending topics surfaced conspiracy theories around Donald Trump's assassination attempt; YouTube and Facebook primarily directed users to news outlets (www.theverge.com)
2024-7-15 Trump Facebook YouTube Conspiracy

Trump's Facebook, Instagram restrictions rolled back (www.rt.com)
2024-7-14 Trump Facebook Instagram

Meta says it will soon roll back restrictions on Donald Trump's Instagram and Facebook accounts to ensure parity among candidates ahead of the 2024 election (www.axios.com)
2024-7-13 Trump Facebook Instagram

Meta plans to remove more Facebook and Instagram posts that attack “Zionism” or threaten “Zionists” when the term is conflated with Jewish people or Israelis (www.bloomberg.com)
2024-7-9 Facebook Instagram

Sources: the EU plans to charge Meta under the DMA this week, focusing on Meta's pay or consent model where users pay for an ad-free Facebook and Instagram (t.co)
2024-7-1 Facebook Instagram

Meta says it may block news from Facebook in Australia (indianexpress.com)
2024-6-30 Australia Facebook

Meta infuses AI into WhatsApp, Facebook, Messenger, and Instagram in India (indianexpress.com)
2024-6-24 India Facebook AI Instagram WhatsApp

Facebook PrestaShop module exploited to steal credit cards (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2024-6-24 Facebook Credit Card

How some Meta users in the US are turning to small claims court, often successfully, to recover their Facebook or Instagram accounts; some won financial damages (www.engadget.com)
2024-6-21 Facebook Instagram

Sources: the EU plans to charge Meta under the DMA, focusing on its pay or consent model where users pay a subscription for an ad-free Facebook and Instagram (www.reuters.com)
2024-6-15 Facebook Instagram

Meta will not launch Meta AI in Europe after the Irish DPC asked it to delay training its LLMs using the public Facebook and Instagram content of EU users (www.reuters.com)
2024-6-15 Europe Facebook AI Instagram

Facebook is scanning some users' faces to verify age. The Coalition wants laws that go further (www.smh.com.au)
2024-6-14 Facebook

A school parent discovered Charlotte was gay on Facebook. Days later, she was sacked (www.smh.com.au)
2024-6-13 Facebook

A survey of 10,287 US adults on Facebook, Instagram, X, and TikTok: most see news content, but fewer say news is why they are on the platforms, except for X (www.pewresearch.org)
2024-6-13 Facebook Instagram

Facebook Messenger gets WhatsApp like ‘Communities' (indianexpress.com)
2024-6-11 Facebook WhatsApp

“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

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