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Meta's new board appointments include Trump ally UFC boss Dana White

Mark Zuckerberg, Meta's CEO, appears to be making moves to improve relations with president-elect Donald Trump.

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Meta to replace fact-checkers with 'community notes' system

Over the next months, Meta will phase in a community notes system and simplify its policies on fact-checking.

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What to know about the Meta glasses the New Orleans attacker wore

The man who drove a truck into a crowd of people in New Orleans on New Year's Day wore Meta glasses to scout the scene in October.

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Nick Clegg to step down as Meta's global affairs chief

Clegg, a former UK deputy prime minister, became in charge of all of Meta's policy matters in 2022.

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Facebook owner Meta hit with €251m in fines for 2018 data breach

European Union privacy watchdogs hit Facebook owner Meta with fines totaling €251 million on Monday after an investigation into a 2018 data breach on the social media platform that exposed millions of accounts.

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Amazon and Meta set to give whopping sum to Trump’s inauguration fund

Major tech companies are seeking to improve their relationship with the incoming president.

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Meta makes a seven-figure donation to Trump’s inaugural fund

Trump previously threatened Mark Zuckerberg with “the rest of his life in prison” but took him out to dinner last month instead.

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Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp back online after global outage

Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, all services owned by Meta, were down for a few hours on Wednesday night after experiencing a "technical issue".

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Meta didn't notice major disinformation in Romanian election

The Big Tech president Nick Clegg said the influence of AI in a year of many elections has been limited.

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Meta offers EU Commission online teen protection proposal

The call comes as several of the incoming Commissioners have named child safety online a top priority.

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News is shared on social media without being read, study finds

Seventy-five per cent of news-related social media posts were shared without being read, a new study has found.

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Consumer report finds Big Tech don't comply with digital market rules

European consumer association BEUC considered that Meta, Apple and Google still have to improve the interoperability of their platform to third party businesses to comply with the Digital Market Act.

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EU slaps Meta with €797 million fine

The European Commission slapped a €797, 72 million fine on Facebook’s owner Meta for abusing its dominant position in the market for personal social networks on Thursday, for preferencing its online classified ads service Facebook Marketplace.

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TikTok, X, Meta exposed to terrorist content: Irish regulator

The online platforms now have three months to report back about the measures they took to take down illegal content.

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Facebook and Instagram to have ‘less personalised’ ad option in EU

Meta made changes to its “pay or consent” model amid demands from EU regulators.

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'A decisive victory’: Tech leaders react to Trump’s US election win

Big Tech leaders came out on social media to congratulate or to accept president-elect Donald Trump’s election win.

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South Korea fines Meta €14 million for illegally collecting data

South Korea said Meta put the privacy of Facebook users at risk by failing to implement basic security measures.

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Meta bans political ads past US election day

Meta is extending a ban on new political ads on their platforms to “later this week,” according to an update from the social media giant.

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Why Meta’s ‘open source’ AI isn’t all it seems

The Open Source Initiative has just set a new international definition for AI that could throw a spanner in the works for tech companies.

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Meta's watchdog takes on two anti-immigration content moderation cases

Cases in Poland and Germany have raised alarm for Meta’s Oversight Board.