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Social media CEOs testify in heated US Senate hearing on child safety

Social media CEOs testified this week in a heated US Senate hearing on child exploitation.

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Meta lays out its ‘future roadmap’ for human-like AI

At the heart of the project is Llama 3, a large language model (LLM) which is the technology that can comprehend and generate human language text.

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Meta’s Sheryl Sandberg steps down from the company’s board

With a heart filled with gratitude and a mind filled with memories, I let the Meta board know that I will not stand for reelection this May,” Sandberg wrote in a Facebook post.

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Court documents highlight Meta's 'reluctance' to protect children

Court documents highlighted Meta's "historical reluctance" to protect children on Instagram.

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Meta to hide some posts from teen social media accounts

Meta plans to hide posts about suicide and eating disorders from teens' Instagram and Facebook feeds.

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Italy's €870 million tax case against Meta heads to EU scrutiny

An audit by Italy's financial police claims that Meta user registrations could be seen as a taxable transaction since they imply the non-monetary exchange of a membership account for the user's personal data.

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Meta is systematically silencing pro-Palestine voices

Human Rights Watch found evidence that Meta's Instagram and Facebook have muted pro-Palestine voices on its social media platforms since the beginning of Israel's war against Hamas.

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Meta's Threads is finally available to users in the EU

The EU's Digital Markets Act is reportedly the reason why it took five months longer for the platform to launch in Europe.

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Meta rolls out end-to-end encryption on Facebook Messenger

Meta's CEO Mark Zuckerberg first promised to bring encryption to all the company's platforms in 2019 after a string of high profile scandals.

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Disinformation scholar accuses Harvard of being influenced by Meta

One of the world's leading experts on social media disinformation has filed a whistleblower disclosure to investigate Meta's influence at Harvard.

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Meta's ad-free subscription service targeted by EU consumer groups

Consumer groups say Meta's ad-free service, starting at €9.99 per month, is "an unfair choice for users".

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Russia adds the spokesman for Facebook owner Meta to a wanted list

The move - which means spokesman Andy Stone now faces charges - comes weeks after Russia classified Meta as a "terrorist and extremist" organisation.

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Amazon and Meta settle UK antitrust investigations

Amazon and Meta have settled separate UK antitrust investigations by agreeing to stop practices that give them an unfair advantage over merchants and customers using their platforms.

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European officials extend ban on Meta's behavioural advertising

Privacy officials said they were concerned about the illegal processing of personal data by Meta.

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Israel-Hamas war threatens to derail Meta’s ad revenue turnaround

Meta is enjoying a profit turnaround. But the Israel-Hamas war could dampen that as it experiments in augmented and virtual reality.

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Social media platforms are being sued for harmful effect on children

Lawyers claim social media uses addictive algorithms to hook young people on potentially harmful content, putting profits before mental health.

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EU demands Meta, Tiktok detail efforts to curb disinformation

The European Commission asked Meta and TikTok to explain the measures they have taken to reduce the risk of spreading and amplifying terrorist and violent content, hate speech and disinformation.

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‘It scars you’: Facebook workers claim brutal videos caused trauma

More than 20% of the staff Meta hired to check the violent content of Facebook and Instagram are on sick leave due to psychological trauma.

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I'm not a teenager, so what does the metaverse have to do with me?

There are over 400 million users in metaverses according to recent figures. However, 80% of them are under the age of 16 and primarily engage in video games.

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Meta to dismiss employees in metaverse silicon unit

Reuters reports that Meta is planning to lay off employees on Wednesday, in a move that could affect the company's plans to build augmented and virtual reality products.