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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.
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.
Instagram copies... Myspace?
You can attach a 30 second song clip to your profile.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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."
Instagram makes its status update feature more interactive
Instagram has created Prompts, Likes and Mentions for Notes.
Meta caught an Israeli marketing firm running hundreds of fake Facebook accounts
Meta caught an Israeli marketing firm using fake Facebook accounts to run an influence campaign on its platform, the company said in its latest report on coordinated inauthentic behavior.
EU investigating Meta over addiction and safety concerns for minors
Meta faces an EU probe into its handling of addiction and safety for young people using its apps.