The social media company is letting a two-year ban, imposed after Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol, expire.
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Meta Platforms, Inc., formerly known as Facebook, is a multinational technology conglomerate primarily known for its social media platforms, including Facebook,...
Meta Ramps Up Efforts to Disrupt Industrialized Scamming
Meta removed 10.9 million Facebook and Instagram accounts linked to “criminal scam centers” last year, the company announced on Wednesday.
Meta’s new commercial terms will allow the scraping of news sites, legal experts say
Starting October 30, business accounts will consent to Meta scraping their websites if they continue using Facebook, Instagram, or WhatsApp.
Meta Doesn’t Want to Be a Social Media Company Anymore
Despite an $18 billion settlement to end a nationwide child endangerment lawsuit, the firm clearly no longer sees social media as its main product—or its future.
Meta must face Massachusetts lawsuit over youth social media addiction, court rules
State’s top court alleges company deliberately designed features of platforms like Instagram to addict young users
Facebook lifts restrictions on calling women ‘property’ and trans people ‘freaks’
The social media giant Meta has loosened its public rules on hate speech as Mark Zuckerberg seeks to curry favour with Donald Trump
Facebook Is Hosting Huge Numbers of Horrifying AI-Generated Videos of Violent Child Abuse, and Meta Is Barely Even Pretending to Care About Taking Them Down
Facebook is hosting huge numbers of horrifying AI-generated videos of violent child abuse, and Meta is barely taking them down.
Meta Blocks President Lula’s Facebook Page and Campaign Ads
The page is now back online, but Lula's electoral coalition says Meta's actions harmed the president’s campaign.
Meta is limiting how much political content users see. Here's how to opt out of that
Meta is now limiting the amount of political content it recommends to Instagram and Threads users. Here's why it made the change — and how to opt out of it.
Facebook Said to Create Censorship Tool to Get Back Into China (Published 2016)
The social network, blocked in China since 2009, has developed software to keep posts from appearing in users’ news feeds in specific geographic areas, current and former employees said.
Meta Monetization Archive - WHAT TO FIX
Query all the Facebook and Instagram accounts that have been part of Meta’s revenue redistribution programs globally since 2019.
Meta Monetization Archive - WHAT TO FIX
Query all the Facebook and Instagram accounts that have been part of Meta’s revenue redistribution programs globally since 2019.
Scoop: Meta removes ads for social media addiction litigation
This comes just two weeks after Meta and YouTube were found negligent in a landmark case about social media addiction.
Criticism of Facebook
Facebook (and parent company Meta Platforms) has been the subject of criticism and legal action since it was founded in 2004.[1] Criticisms include the outsize influence Facebook has on the lives and health of its users and employees, as well as Facebook's influence on the way media, specifically news, is reported and distributed. Notable issues include Internet privacy, such as use of a widespread "like" button on third-party websites tracking users,[2][3] possible indefinite records of user information,[4] automatic facial recognition software,[5][6] and its role in the workplace, including employer-employee account disclosure.[7] The use of Facebook can have negative psychological and physiological effects[8] that include feelings of sexual jealousy,[9][10] stress,[11][12] lack of attention,[13] and social media addiction that in some cases is comparable to drug addiction.[14][15]
Trump bans CNN, MS NOW and Politico from White House over coverage
US President Donald Trump said the ban is due to reports of 'fiction and lies', and warned that other news organizations could face similar restrictions.
Facebook’s Attack on Research is Everyone's Problem
Facebook recently banned the accounts of several New York University (NYU) researchers who run Ad Observer, an accountability project that tracks paid disinformation, from its platform. This has
