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| Mar 5, 2024 | When it comes to ketamine, Meta's posting policy is no party to decipher | What to know about ketamine, the drug tied to Matthew Perry's death
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People keep talking about ketamine. The drug has become a favorite of celebrities, billionaires an... |
| Feb 22, 2024 | Meta’s Oversight Board extends its scope to Threads | Meta’s external advisory group, its Oversight Board, announced today that it is expanding its scope to Threads along with Facebook and Instagram to scrutinize Meta’s content moderation decisions.
This means if users on Threads are unsatisfi... |
| Feb 9, 2024 | Instagram e Threads não vão mais recomendar conteúdo político | O melhor da tecnologia está no nosso canal no WhatsApp
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Instagram e Threads vão parar de recomendar conteúdo político de contas que o usuário não segue. Isso se aplica à seção Explorar, Reels, recomendações no próprio feed e usuá... |
| Feb 9, 2024 | Instagram and Threads will no longer ‘proactively’ recommend political content | Meta doesn’t want its new app Threads to become another Twitter, full of heated political debates and the resulting toxicity that entails. In an announcement today, the company detailed how it will approach the recommendation of political c... |
| Feb 9, 2024 | Meta will no longer prompt political content across apps | Meta is set to stop promoting political content across the company’s social apps.
In a report released on both Meta’s Transparency Centre and an Instagram blog post, the content-sharing giant made its approach clear.
“People have told us th... |
| Feb 5, 2024 | Fake Biden ‘Pedophile’ Video on Facebook Now Considered Malicious, Meta Oversight Board Rules | Isaiah Richard, Tech Times 05 February 2024, 06:02 pm |
| Feb 5, 2024 | Meta Oversight Board says manipulated video of Biden can stay on Facebook, recommends policy overhaul | A highly edited video of President Biden on Facebook will remain on the platform after an independent body that oversees Meta's content moderation determined that the post does not violate the company's policies, but the panel also criticiz... |
| Feb 5, 2024 | Oversight Board calls on Meta to rewrite ‘incoherent’ rules against faked videos | The Oversight Board, the external advisory group that Meta created to review its moderation decisions on Facebook and Instagram, issued a decision on Monday concerning a doctored seven-second video of President Biden that made the rounds on... |
| Jan 23, 2024 | Africa: Meta - Protect LGBT People From Digital Targeting | Beirut — New #SecureOurSocials Campaign Urges Transparency from Facebook, Instagram
Meta should do more to protect the safety of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people and all its users, in particular on Facebook and Instagra... |
| Dec 15, 2023 | Why Anthropic and OpenAI are obsessed with securing LLM model weights | Join leaders in San Francisco on January 10 for an exclusive night of networking, insights, and conversation. Request an invite here.
As chief information security officer at Anthropic, and one of only three senior leaders reporting to CEO ... |
| Nov 30, 2023 | Meta Exposes China’s Aggressive Use of Fake Accounts to Sway US Opinion | John Lopez, Tech Times 30 November 2023, 11:11 am
In a recent revelation by Meta, the parent company of social media giant Facebook, China has been identified as one of the most assertive entities endeavoring to manipulate US public opinion... |
| Nov 27, 2023 | Google is about to start purging old Gmail data and photos. Here's how you can keep it from happening to you. | Google's purge of inactive accounts is set to begin in December. Chesnot/Getty Images
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Google said it will begin purging the data of inactive Google accounts in December.
You can keep your account active by logging in at least onc... |
| Nov 10, 2023 | Meta and Snap latest to get EU request for info on child safety, as bloc shoots for ‘unprecedented’ transparency | Meta and Snap are the latest tech firms to get formal requests for information (RFI) from the European Commission about the steps they’re taking to safeguard minors on their platforms in line with requirements set out in the bloc’s Digital ... |
| Nov 7, 2023 | Meta Blocks Political Campaigns from Using New AI Advertising Tools | John Lopez, Tech Times 07 November 2023, 01:11 pm
Meta, the parent company of Facebook, has announced that it will prohibit political campaigns and advertisers in regulated industries from using its new generative AI advertising tools, Reut... |
| Oct 13, 2023 | Meta says it’s prioritizing livestreaming checks during Israel-Hamas war | Following a content moderation warning from European Union regulators earlier this week, Meta has published an overview of how its responding to risks on its social media platforms stemming from the Israel-Hamas war.
Its blog post covers wh... |
| Oct 9, 2023 | Indonesia demands Facebook, Instagram to remove online gambling content | NewsSocial Media
Jofie Yordan · 12 Oct 2023 · 2 min readIndonesia demands Facebook, Instagram to remove online gambling content
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Budi Arie Setiadi, the Indonesian minister of communication and information, has called ... |
| Oct 6, 2023 | Meta's Responsible AI team shrinks amid layoffs and restructuring, even as the company goes all-in on AI | Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg AP Photo/Nick Wass This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
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| Aug 22, 2023 | Meta confirms AI ‘off-switch’ incoming to Facebook, Instagram in Europe | Meta has confirmed that non-personalized content feeds are incoming on Facebook and Instagram in the European Union ahead of the August 25 deadline for compliance with the bloc’s rebooted digital rulebook, the Digital Services Act (DSA).
Me... |
| Aug 14, 2023 | Sudan Conflict - RSF and Hemedti's Wings Clipped On Facebook 'For Violating the Policy of Dangerous Organisations and Individuals' | Menlo Park, California — Facebook's owner Meta has removed the official pages of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), and its leader Lt Gen Mohamed 'Hemedti' Dagalo, as well as other accounts related to the paramilitary formation on Friday. The ... |
| Jul 17, 2023 | Women’s Health Ads Are Still Being Censored; The Center For Intimacy Justice Takes Action With FTC Complaint | “What is VMS?” During the 2023 Super Bowl, Astellas Pharma aired an ad featuring actress Carmella Riley asking women that very question. The 30-second spot (which likely cost around seven million dollars) helped educate women about vasomoto... |
| Jul 5, 2023 | Why Meta's Threads Could Be A Twitter-Killer | Updated, July 7, 2023: The piece includes information after the Threads app launch — including number of users. |
| Jun 29, 2023 | Meta really wants to explain its AI recommendation algorithms to you | Meta is publishing new material to explain how its recommendation engine works across different products. Along with that, it is also rolling out a new option called “Why am I seeing this?” for Instagram and Facebook Reels as well as Instag... |
| Jun 22, 2023 | Facebook's content-review black hole | Facebook still isn’t fully reviewing all the content users flag as potentially violating its rules, three years after a pandemic-related shift to rely more heavily — and in some cases exclusively — on automated systems for content moderatio... |
| May 31, 2023 | Meta and TikTok handed users' data to Aus authorities 3654 times last year | Meta and TikTok complied with 3654 of 4517 requests for user data from Australian authorities relating to 5338 accounts last year.
The statistics are included in the platforms’ latest biannual transparency reports.
Google and Microsoft are ... |
| May 26, 2023 | Gov-issued takedowns spiked after new eSafety laws came into force | A spike in the amount of online content Australian authorities removed last year coincided with the chief content moderator gaining new takedown powers.
Google and TikTok reported a sizeable increase in content items and accounts removed in... |
| May 22, 2023 | Facebook has a porn problem, and it’s live | Facebook, the world’s largest social network platform, has a porn problem.
Several Facebook handles are misusing the platform’s live streaming feature to broadcast pornographic content. These videos appear under the live category of the Wat... |
| May 16, 2023 | Addressing Media Capture | For years, industry, governments, and civil society have grappled with how to address the potential harm from state media while protecting people’s right to information in the digital domain. In some cases, the harm from state media can be ... |
| Apr 25, 2023 | What Facebook Does (and Doesn’t) Have to Do with Ethiopia’s Ethnic Violence | In December 2022, the son of slain Ethiopian professor Meareg Amare Abrha was among those who filed a lawsuit against Meta, the owner of Facebook. The constitutional petition, which was filed in Kenya – home to a Meta moderating hub – alleg... |
| Apr 18, 2023 | A professor was murdered after a Facebook post branded him a traitor. Was Facebook complicit in his death? | Redeem now
The first Facebook post about Professor Meareg Amare appeared five weeks before his murder.
The 60-year-old professor was known to be a pillar of his community in Bahir Dar, the capital of Ethiopia's Amhara region. He had authore... |
| Mar 16, 2023 | Use of Meta tracking tools found to breach EU rules on data transfers | Austria’s data protection authority has found that use of Meta’s tracking technologies violated EU data protection law as personal data was transferred to the US where the information was at risk from government surveillance.
The finding fl... |
| Mar 9, 2023 | Meta’s Oversight Board To Weigh In on Moderation of Election Content in Brazil | April Fowell, Tech Times 09 March 2023, 06:03 am
The Oversight Board will review a case regarding Meta's handling of election content in Brazil, according to Engadget.
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| Mar 5, 2023 | Facebook and Google are handing over user data to help police prosecute abortion seekers | Police make requests for social media user data to aid prosecution after a crime has been committed.
Sometimes, the crime is abortion and social apps are turning over user chat logs and search history.
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| Mar 5, 2023 | Facebook and Google are handing over user data to help police prosecute abortion seekers | Redeem now
Police make requests for social-media user data to aid prosecution after a crime has been committed.
Sometimes, the crime is abortion and social apps are turning over user chat logs and search history.
One legal expert said platf... |
| Feb 28, 2023 | India gets grievance appellate committee to resolve user disputes with social media platforms | Team TC 28 Feb, 2023
India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has announced the launch of the grievance appellate committees (GAC) to resolve disputes between users and social media companies and make them more acc... |
| Feb 22, 2023 | Instagram accidentally reinstated Pornhub’s banned account | After years of on-and-off temporary suspensions, Instagram permanently banned Pornhub’s account in September. Then, for a short period of time this weekend, the account was reinstated. By Tuesday, it was permanently banned again.
“This was ... |
| Jan 26, 2023 | Meta is letting Trump back onto Facebook and Instagram | In a post on Truth Social, Trump said Facebook had lost billions in value since his de-platforming. The company has been swept up in a downturn that has affected most major tech companies amid a slowing economy. Charles Laberge/LIV Golf via... |
| Jan 25, 2023 | Meta will restore Trump’s Facebook account ‘in the coming weeks’ | Two years after the company formerly known as Facebook suspended then-president Donald Trump’s account, it’s bringing him back. Meta announced its decision to restore former president Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts on Wednesday, ad... |
| Jan 17, 2023 | Oversight Board presses Meta to revise ‘convoluted and poorly defined’ nudity policy | Meta’s Oversight Board, which independently evaluates difficult content moderation decisions, has overturned the company’s takedown of two posts that depicted a nonbinary and transgender person’s bare chest. The case represents a failure of... |
| Dec 13, 2022 | Chad's Transition - Easing Tensions Online | Chadian's growing use of social media could prove a boon for the country's political transition, but it could also fuel violence offline. With donor's backing, authorities, civil society, online platforms and influencers should work to ensu... |
| Dec 5, 2022 | What Elon Musk Gets Wrong About Free Speech | Elon Musk’s chaotic takeover of Twitter has led to panic among prominent pundits and politicians horrified by prospect of Twitter amplifying the most radical voices of the unwashed online mob. But while elite panic may be directed at Big Te... |
| Nov 23, 2022 | Meta receives 55,497 data requests from Indian govt in H1 2022 | Team TC 23 Nov, 2022
The Indian government made 55,497 data requests to Facebook-parent Meta between January to June 2022, up from 45,275 requests a year ago, according to the social media company’s bi-annual Transparency Report for H1 2022... |
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| Nov 2, 2022 | Bullshit Reporting: The Intercept’s Story About Government Policing Disinfo Is Absolute Garbage | Do not believe everything you read. Even if it comes from more “respectable” publications. The Intercept had a big story this week that is making the rounds, suggesting that “leaked” documents prove the DHS has been coordinating with tech c... |
| Oct 31, 2022 | Meta Cracks The Whip On Spam & Nudity, Actions 33.78 Mn Content Pieces In Sep | More than 30.7 Mn pieces of content were actioned on Facebook for reasons ranging from adult nudity to graphic content
Meta actioned more than 3.08 Mn content pieces on its video-sharing platform Instagram, largely for items related to suic... |
| Oct 6, 2022 | Toward Greater Content Moderation Transparency Reporting | Freedom of expression is enshrined in almost every constitution globally. It is explicitly reflected in the U.N. Universal Declaration of Human Rights and is protected by the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. According t... |
| Oct 1, 2022 | Meta Actioned 23.78 Mn Content Pieces Across Facebook, Instagram In August 2022 | Facebook accounted for a majority of the actioned content in August 2022 at around 20.88 Mn pieces, largely for spam and nudity
Meta also acted on 2.9 Mn pieces of content on Instagram for violating norms under policy areas such as suicide,... |
| Sep 28, 2022 | 20-year-old who tracks Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg's private jets says Facebook took down his page because it violates their policy | Jack Sweeney said Facebook shut down his page that tracks Elon Musk's jets.
Sweeney made headlines earlier this year when Musk offered him $5,000 to shut down a Twitter account.
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| Sep 28, 2022 | Instagram permanently disabled Pornhub’s account | After a weeks-long suspension, Pornhub’s account has been permanently removed from Instagram.
Instagram told TechCrunch that Pornhub has repeatedly violated community guidelines, prompting the account’s removal. Meanwhile, Pornhub declared ... |
| Sep 23, 2022 | 20-year-old who tracks Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg's private jets says Facebook took down his page because it violates their policy | Mark Zuckerberg (left) and Elon Musk. Kevin Dietsch/Michael Gonzalez/Getty Images
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Jack Sweeney said Facebook shut down his page that tracks Elon Musk's jets.
Sweeney made headlines earlier this year when Musk offered him $5,000 t... |
| Sep 8, 2022 | India accounts for over 25% of videos removed by YouTube in June quarter | Team TC 8 Sep, 2022
India accounted for the highest number of videos removed by YouTube for violating community guidelines in the quarter ending June, shows YouTube’s Community Guidelines Enforcement report for Q2 2022, released September 8... |
| Sep 5, 2022 | TrafficGuard Extends Ad Protection to Facebook Ads with "TrafficGuard Social" | PERTH, Australia, Sept. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Leading omnichannel digital ad verification and fraud prevention platform, TrafficGuard, today launched TrafficGuard Social, aimed at helping brands eliminate invalid traffic (IVT) from Facebo... |
| Sep 1, 2022 | Meta takes action against 27 million posts in India in July | Abhijit Ahaskar 1 Sep, 2022
Facebook parent Meta cracked down on over 27 million posts across Facebook and Instagram in July for violating community guidelines, according to the latest monthly transparency report for India, published August... |
| Aug 19, 2022 | Man who intended to resell body parts on Facebook allegedly bought stolen human remains, police say | A Pennsylvania man was charged with abuse of a corpse, receiving stolen property and other charges after police say he allegedly tried to buy stolen human remains from an Arkansas woman for possible resale on Facebook.
A spokeswoman for the... |
| Aug 17, 2022 | How Unmoderated Platforms Became the Frontline for Russian Propaganda | The Russian invasion of Ukraine has highlighted the evolving complexities of platform governance challenges in an increasingly decentralized information environment. Russia’s war in Ukraine has killed, injured, and displaced thousands of ci... |
| Aug 16, 2022 | Why even discussing abortion can now get you arrested | The recent case of a Nebraska teenager facing felony charges over an alleged abortion — charges that prosecutors were able to bring thanks to messages they obtained from Facebook — is causing alarm in privacy and technology circles. Lawyers... |
| Aug 9, 2022 | Facebook helps cops prosecute 17-year-old for abortion | Meta provided user information to police in Nebraska that led directly to the prosecution of a 17-year-old girl for alleged crimes relating to an abortion, court documents show. The company could have challenged the legal order, but instead... |
| Jul 27, 2022 | Anti-Censorship Legislation: A Flawed Attempt to Address a Legitimate Problem | Editor’s Note: The authors have received support from Meta for their work examining the intersection of technology and national security.
Various malign actors have used social media to spread terrorist content, engage in hate speech and ha... |
| Jul 11, 2022 | Meta launches Sphere, an AI knowledge tool based on open web content, used initially to verify citations on Wikipedia | Facebook may be infamous for helping to usher in the era of “fake news”, but it’s also tried to find a place for itself in the follow-up: the never-ending battle to combat it. In the latest development on that front, Facebook parent Meta to... |
| Jun 30, 2022 | The EU Strikes Again As A Global Leader In Mindful Media | The EU announced an updated Code of Practice on Disinformation, aimed at combating the online spread of disinformation via regulatory measures, including “demonetizing the dissemination of disinformation.” Forrester’s research shows that th... |
| Jun 29, 2022 | Facebook Bans People For Simply Saying Abortion Pills Exist | On the one hand, content moderation at the scale modern social media companies operate at is an impossible nightmare. Companies are always going to lack the staff and resources to do it well (raising questions about the dangers of automatio... |
| Jun 28, 2022 | Facebook and Instagram are removing posts offering to mail abortion pills | In the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, some Facebook and Instagram users planning to help distribute legal abortion pills are finding themselves censored.
According to a Motherboard report, users on Friday... |
| Jun 13, 2022 | Why it’s time for legislation to make Meta, Google and Twitter more accountable for the spread of misinformation | Source: AP/Eric Risberg.
On May 30, Meta, Google and Twitter released their 2021 annual transparency reports, documenting their efforts to curb misinformation in Australia.
Despite their name, however, the reports offer a narrow view of the... |
| Jun 10, 2022 | Facebook users can get caught buying or selling guns on the platform up to 10 times in some cases before finally getting kicked off, report says | Facebook banned private gun sales in 2016 but allows buyers and sellers on its platform 10 strikes before booting them off, per WaPo.
The tech giant says nearly 90% of people who violate the policy don't get more than two strikes.
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| Jun 7, 2022 | Instagram’s ‘sensitive content’ controls will soon filter all recommended content | Last year, Instagram added a way for users to filter some kinds of “sensitive” content out of the Explore tab. Now, Instagram is expanding that setting, letting users turn off that content in recommendations throughout the app.
Instagram do... |
| May 31, 2022 | Facebook, Instagram Took Action On 20.95 Mn Content Pieces For Harassment, Hate Speech, Other Reasons | Facebook took action against 18.5 Mn content pieces on its platform between April 1-April 30, 2022
Instagram took action against 2.45 Mn pieces of content on its platform, mostly related to suicide and self-injury and graphic content
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| May 25, 2022 | Very, Very Little Of ‘Content Moderation’ Has Anything To Do With Politics | It’s truly amazing how focused people are, in discussions on content moderation, on the claims that “content moderation is censorship” and that it’s primarily “suppressing” political speech. That’s not how it works at all. Honestly, the ori... |
| May 18, 2022 | Facebook Nearly Doubled The Removal Of Violent Content In Q1 | Meta-owned social networking app, Facebook, has almost doubled the removal of violent content on the platform since last quarter. The company said it removed 21.7 million Facebook posts depicting or inciting violence in the first three mont... |
| May 2, 2022 | Meta Took Action Against 24.3 Mn Pieces Of Content In March | Meta took action against 14.9 Mn spam content on Facebook in the month
Facebook received 656 reports through the Indian grievance mechanism in March
On Instagram, Meta largely took action against content related to suicide and self-injury, ... |
| Apr 29, 2022 | Meta Sees “Strength In India”, Says Global Regulatory Framework Remains A Headwind | Social media giant Facebook’s parent Meta reported a profit of $7.5 Bn in Q1 2022, down 21% from the year-ago quarter. It also recorded its slowest revenue growth in a decade as global headwinds from the Ukraine war, changing regulatory env... |
| Apr 2, 2022 | Facebook & Instagram Parent Meta Actioned 23.4 Mn Pieces Of Content In Feb 2022 | In accordance with the new IT Rules, social media giant Meta has released its monthly data report for Instagram and facebook for the month of February.
As per the report, Facebook took action against more than 21.1 Mn pieces of content. Of ... |
| Apr 2, 2022 | 4 ideas for understanding and managing the power of algorithms on social media | Dean Eckles (upper left), a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, moderated a conversation with Daphne Keller, director of platform regulation at Stanford University, and Kartik Hosanagar, director of AI for Business at Wharton, ... |
| Mar 30, 2022 | Apple, Facebook fell for scam and gave user data away to hackers: report | More On: hackers
North Korean hacker group Lazarus linked to $615M cryptocurrency theft Google warns this dangerous hidden app lets strangers record you Why not updating Google’s Chrome browser exposes customers to hacks Hackers steal $615M... |
| Mar 30, 2022 | Apple, Facebook fell for scam and gave user data away to hackers: report | More On: hackers
Hackers steal $615M in one of largest crypto heists on record Personal data of 820,000 NYC students compromised in hack Grimes claims responsibility for infamous blog hack Lapsus$ hacker mastermind suspected to be UK teen l... |
| Mar 28, 2022 | Platforms at War | The Russian invasion of Ukraine triggered a flurry of diplomatic, political, economic and military responses. But more than in previous geopolitical crises, tech giants’ policies and sanctions have played a major role in the Ukraine conflic... |
| Mar 18, 2022 | Meta has a new scam ads problem down under | Australia’s Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has instigated proceedings against Facebook owner Meta for allowing the spread of scam ads on its platforms and — it alleges — not taking sufficient steps to tackle the issue.
The watch... |
| Mar 12, 2022 | Facebook and Instagram will temporarily permit posts that call for violence against invading Russians and Putin from users in certain countries like Ukraine and Poland, report says | Reuters reported Thursday that Meta would allow posts from certain users that called for violence against Russian invaders -- when related to the conflict in Ukraine.
The changes apply to users in certain countries.
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| Mar 1, 2022 | More Than 12.2 Mn Content Pieces Actioned By Facebook And Instagram In January | Social Media giant Meta (formerly Facebook) has published its monthly data report for Instagram and Facebook for the time period between January 1-January 31 , 2022.
According to the report, Facebook took action against more than 10.4 Mn pi... |
| Feb 8, 2022 | Meta Took Action Against 22.8 Mn Content Pieces On Facebook, Instagram In June 2022 | Facebook took action against 18.7 Mn content pieces, majority of them for being spam and for content related to violence
Instagram took action against 4.1 Mn pieces in June 2022, majority of them for being violent and graphic content
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| Feb 7, 2022 | Meta Actioned 21.6 Mn Content Pieces Across Facebook & Instagram In May | Facebook actioned 17.5 Mn pieces of content, majority of which were related to spam, violence and adult nudity
Instagram took action against 4.1 Mn pieces of content, primarily related to violence, sexual activity and harassment online
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| Jan 25, 2022 | Слив в соцсетях: как избежать «вирусного» распространения нежелательного контента | Слив года — звание неоднозначное, тем не менее, вопросов не вызывающее. В 2020 году его получил Артём Дзюба с интимным видео, в 2021 — Оксимирон, громко рассекретивший неприятную съемку 10-летней давности в клипе «Кто убил Марка?». Ни тот, ... |
| Jan 20, 2022 | Time for Transparency From Digital Platforms, But What Does That Really Mean? | U.S. lawmakers rarely agree these days. But across the political spectrum, most policymakers concur that digital platforms, including social media, messengers, and search engines, pose a problem. They might not agree on what the problem is ... |
| Dec 16, 2021 | Meta Platforms : Taking Action Against the Surveillance-For-Hire Industry | The global surveillance-for-hire industry targets people to collect intelligence, manipulate and compromise their devices and accounts across the internet.
While these "cyber mercenaries" often claim that their services only targe... |
| Dec 1, 2021 | Meta explains its approach to user safety following delayed rollout of end-to-end encryption | Meta (formerly Facebook) recently announced its plans to delay the rollout of end-to-end encryption across its messaging service until sometime in 2023, citing concerns from child safety advocates who warned the change would shield abusers ... |
| Nov 18, 2021 | Facebook : Following Through on Meta's Civil Rights Audit Progress | We're releasing a progress report on the recommendations from our Civil Rights Audit as a part of our commitment to move toward increased equity, safety and dignity on our platforms.
This report marks the beginning of the Civil Rights Team'... |
| Oct 26, 2021 | Instagram purposely curates anorexia images to teen girls who have eating disorders: docs | More On: instagram
I’ve turned my rental property into a multi-colored pad on the cheap Best bonus ever? CEO surprises all employees with free trip, $10K I’m a mom to 21 babies and have 16 live-in nannies Meager turnout marks second day of ... |
| Oct 16, 2021 | Facebook adopts new policies to combat coordinated intimidation and harassment of public figures | Facebook said the policy was created to prevent coordinated mass attacks against public figures.
New content violations like "severe sexualizing content" were added to Facebook's harassment policy.
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| Oct 12, 2021 | Facebook: 3-Tier System for Banning Groups, Pages, and MORE Appears Online as 4,000 Names Leak | Isaiah Richard, Tech Times 12 October 2021, 08:10 pm
Facebook has a three-tier banning system on its current operations, which categorizes individuals and organizations to whichever violation they have committed online. Recently, Facebook h... |
| Sep 28, 2021 | Facebook : Requesting Oversight Board Guidance on Our Cross-Check System | Facebook will ask the Oversight Board - in the form of a Policy Advisory Opinion- for recommendations about how we can continue to improve our cross-check system. Specifically, we will ask the board for guidance on the criteria we use to de... |
| Sep 20, 2021 | Troll farms peddling misinformation on Facebook reached 140 million Americans monthly ahead of the 2020 presidential election, report says | Troll farms were building massive audiences and peddling propaganda ahead of the 2020 presidential election, a report says.
Facebook's design and algorithms helped spread the troll farm content, MIT Technology Review said.
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| Aug 31, 2021 | Social Media News: The 5 Biggest Stories of the Week | We get it! You're busy scheduling content and engaging with your followers, so it can be difficult to make time to sit down and read about the latest Facebook algorithm update or how brands are leveraging TikTok. But, hey, it's also importa... |
| Aug 31, 2021 | Facebook Promises To Distinguish Takedowns From Governments; Whether They're For Illegal Content, Or Merely Site Rules Violations | There's an interesting discussion that happens in content moderation circles with regards to government requests for takedowns: are those requests about content that violates local laws or about the content violating website policies? Many ... |
| Aug 31, 2021 | Facebook Promises To Distinguish Takedowns From Governments; Whether They're For Illegal Content, Or Merely Site Rules Violations | There’s an interesting discussion that happens in content moderation circles with regards to government requests for takedowns: are those requests about content that violates local laws or about the content violating website policies? Many ... |
| Aug 28, 2021 | Исследование: самые популярные посты на Facebook — плагиат | Журналист The Verge подробнее изучил отчет Facebook о самых популярных постах. Выяснилось, что в топе рейтинга оказались материалы с заимствованным контентом.Топ самых популярных постов Facebook
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| Aug 25, 2021 | Social Media News: The 5 Biggest Stories of the Week | We get it! You're busy scheduling content and engaging with your followers, so it can be difficult to make time to sit down and read about the latest Facebook algorithm update or how brands are leveraging TikTok. But, hey, it's also importa... |
| Aug 23, 2021 | NY Times And Washington Post Criticize Facebook Because The Chicago Tribune Had A Terrible Headline | I'm going to try, once again, to do that stupid thing where I try to express a nuanced point on the internet, where there's a high likelihood of it being misunderstood. So, consider this opening a warning that you should read this entire ar... |
| Aug 23, 2021 | NY Times And Washington Post Criticize Facebook Because The Chicago Tribune Had A Terrible Headline | I’m going to try, once again, to do that stupid thing where I try to express a nuanced point on the internet, where there’s a high likelihood of it being misunderstood. So, consider this opening a warning that you should read this entire ar... |
| Aug 22, 2021 | Facebook said an article that suggested the COVID-19 vaccine could be deadly was the most popular link on the site from January to March | Facebook withheld a Q1 report on popular content for fear of backlash, The New York Times reported Friday.
On Saturday, Facebook released the report, which said the most popular article on the platform cast doubt on the COVID-19 vaccine.
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| Aug 22, 2021 | Facebook said an article that suggested the COVID-19 vaccine could be deadly was the most popular link on the site from January to March | Facebook withheld a Q1 report on popular content for fear of backlash, The New York Times reported Friday.
On Saturday, Facebook released the report, which said the most popular article on the platform cast doubt on the COVID-19 vaccine.
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| Aug 20, 2021 | Алгоритмы Facebook не любят посты с внешними ссылками | Николай Чикишев 20 августа 2021, 14:18 Алгоритмы Facebook не любят посты с внешними ссылками
В опубликованном ежеквартальном отчете Widely Viewed Content Report компания рассказала, как пользователи потребляют контент в соцсети.
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