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Meta bans Russian state media outlets on Facebook and Instagram
Meta says it's banning Russian state media outlets from its platforms due to their foreign interference activities.
Mariella Moon19 hours ago
Meta hides warning labels for AI-edited images
Starting next week, Meta will no longer put an easy-to-see label on Facebook images that were edited using AI tools.
Mariella Moon09.13.2024
Australia’s Prime Minister wants to ban social media for children
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese wants to impose a nationwide age limit on social media.
Danny Gallagher09.10.2024
Meta’s Oversight Board says phrase ‘From the River to the Sea’ should not be banned
Meta's Oversight Board recommended that Meta open its Content Library to provide more transparency to journalists and researchers.
Danny Gallagher09.04.2024
Instagram copies... Myspace?
You can attach a 30 second song clip to your profile.
Sarah Fielding08.22.2024
Congress asks Mark Zuckerberg to explain why drug dealers are advertising on Facebook and Instagram
Nineteen members of Congress are pushing Mark Zuckerberg to explain why Meta has allowed ads for cocaine, ecstasy and other drugs to be shown on Facebook and Instagram.
Karissa Bell08.15.2024
A fake political group that recruited a real candidate in Montana got banned on Facebook
Meta’s latest round of account takedowns includes a fake political group that ran dozens of dummy accounts in an attempt to recruit Americans to run for office.
Karissa Bell08.15.2024
Meta killed CrowdTangle, an ‘invaluable’ research tool, because what it showed was inconvenient
Meta has shut down CrowdTangle, the analytics tool that for years helped tens of thousands of researchers, journalists and civil society groups understand how information was spreading on Facebook and Instagram.
Karissa Bell08.14.2024
Facebook will let creators remove account warnings if they complete ‘educational training’
Meta announced a new policy that will allow people with professional accounts to complete in-app “educational training” in order to avoid a strike on their account for first-time violations of the platform’s community standards.
Karissa Bell08.07.2024
Meta will pay $1.4 billion to Texas, settling biometric data collection suit
Meta to pay $1.4 billion to settle lawsuit involving the use of facial-recognition technology without consent. The company was accused of collecting the biometric data of millions of Texans.
Lawrence Bonk07.30.2024
Meta takes down 63,000 Instagram accounts linked to extortion scams
Meta has taken down tens of thousands of Instagram accounts from Nigeria as part of a massive crackdown on sextortion scams.
Karissa Bell07.24.2024
Meta gives researchers access to Instagram data for teen mental health study
Meta is letting a group of researchers examine Instagram data to determine if there's a link between social media and the state of a teenager's mental well-being.
Danny Gallagher07.17.2024
Meta rolls back restrictions on Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts
Meta announced it removed all of its extra guardrails on President Donald Trump's Facebook and Instagram accounts.
Danny Gallagher07.12.2024
How small claims court became Meta's customer service hotline
Frustrated Facebook and Instagram users are heading to small claims court in a last-ditch attempt to get help from Meta.
Karissa Bell06.20.2024
News on social media is a fractured mess, Pew study indicates
Pew Research and the Knight Institute just put out a pair of lengthy reports on how Americans are experiencing news and politics on social media.
Karissa Bell06.12.2024
Messenger's new community chats don't need to be connected to Facebook groups
Meta will now let you create massive community chats on Messenger with people you aren't connected to in any way.
Mariella Moon06.08.2024
Ex-Meta engineer sues company, claiming he was fired over handling of Palestine content
Ferras Hamad, who used to be an engineer working with Meta's machine learning team, has sued the company for firing him over his handling of Palestine-related Instagram posts.
Mariella Moon06.05.2024
Meta says the future of Facebook is young adults (again)
Meta is once again telling the world it intends to reorient its platform in order to appeal to younger users.
Karissa Bell05.31.2024
Spain blocks Facebook and Instagram from deploying election features
Spain has blocked Meta from rolling out election-focused features on Facebook and Instagram in the country, citing data protection concerns. A data protection agency called the company’s planned treatment of user information "unnecessary, disproportionate and excessive."
Kris Holt05.31.2024
Instagram makes its status update feature more interactive
Instagram has created Prompts, Likes and Mentions for Notes.
Sarah Fielding05.30.2024