Category: meta

Google, Meta Fined for Collecting Personal Data Illegally in South Korea

The South Korean government on Wednesday fined Google and Meta Platforms, the parent company of Facebook, billions of won for allegedly collecting personal data without users’ consent. The Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC) fined Google ₩69.2 billion ($50 million) and Meta ₩30.8 billion ($22 million), the highest amount ever levied for alleged data privacy violations…


Social Media Firms to Testify at Senate Homeland Security Hearing

WASHINGTON—The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee will hold a hearing on Sept. 14 with Facebook parent Meta Platforms, Alphabet’s YouTube, Twitter, and short video app TikTok on social media’s impact on homeland security. The panel led by Sen. Gary Peters (D-Mich.) will also hear from a panel of former executives including from Twitter…


Australia Orders Tech Giants Apple, Microsoft, Snap and Meta to Step Up Actions Against Child Abuse Material

Australian authorities have ordered global tech giants to report on the actions they have taken to stop the spread of child sexual exploitation materials on their platforms and will impose penalties on non-compliant companies. Among the companies receiving legal notices (pdf) from the eSafety Commissioner are Apple, Microsoft, Snap, Omegle and Meta, which owns WhatsApp,…


LIVE 10:30AM ET: FBI Interfered in US Election by Censoring Hunter Biden Story; Exposure Vindicates Trump Lawyers

The FBI is being accused of election interference, as new evidence emerges on its suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story and on its raid on President Trump’s Mar-A-Lago home. Mark Zuckerberg of Meta claimed in a recent interview that the FBI alerted the company of a Russian disinformation campaign ahead of the 2020 elections,…


LIVE: FBI Interfered in US Election by Censoring Hunter Biden Story; Exposure Vindicates Trump Lawyers

The FBI is being accused of election interference, as new evidence emerges on its suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story and on its raid on President Trump’s Mar-A-Lago home. Mark Zuckerberg of Meta claimed in a recent interview that the FBI alerted the company of a Russian disinformation campaign ahead of the 2020 elections,…


LIVE 8/29 at 10:30AM ET: FBI Interfered in US Election by Censoring Hunter Biden Story; Exposure Vindicates Trump Lawyers

The FBI is being accused of election interference, as new evidence emerges on its suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story and on its raid on President Trump’s Mar-A-Lago home. Mark Zuckerberg of Meta claimed in a recent interview that the FBI alerted the company of a Russian disinformation campaign ahead of the 2020 elections,…


Facebook Reduced Reach of Posts About Hunter Biden Laptop in Lead up to 2020 Election: Zuckerberg

Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, the parent company of Facebook, told podcast host Joe Rogan in a recent interview that the company actively reduced the reach of social media posts referencing the story about Hunter Biden’s laptop in the lead-up to the 2020 presidential election. On the Aug. 25 episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience,”…


Meta, Twitter Remove ‘Network of Accounts’ That Promoted ‘Pro-Western Narratives’ While Opposing China, Russia, Iran: Report

Facebook and Twitter took down a network of social media accounts that “used deceptive tactics” to promote pro-Western narratives that supported the United States and its allies while opposing countries like China, Russia, and Iran, according to a report released on Aug. 24. The joint investigation by the Stanford Internet Observatory and Graphika, a social media analytics firm,…


Meta Reaches $37.5 Million Settlement of Facebook Location Tracking Lawsuit

Meta Platforms Inc. reached a $37.5 million settlement of a lawsuit accusing the parent of Facebook of violating users’ privacy by tracking their movements through their smartphones without permission. A preliminary settlement of the proposed class action was filed on Monday in San Francisco federal court, and requires a judge’s approval. It resolved claims that…


Facebook Developing AI Bots to ‘Fact-Check’ Wikipedia Entries

Facebook, now Meta, has developed the world’s first artificial intelligence (AI) model capable of automatically verifying hundreds of thousands of citations at once, a feature that it says could help make entries on Wikipedia “more accurate.” Researchers designed the AI in a way that it can find appropriate sources for a claim from among millions…