Meta’s Oversight Board, an independent panel that the parent company of Facebook and Instagram selected to deliberate its content decisions, has asked the tech firm to “increase transparency around government requests” regarding suppressing COVID-19 content. The Oversight Board noted that concerns were raised about Meta reviewing COVID-19-related content at the behest of governments during the height of the pandemic,…
Oversight Board Urges Meta to Be More Transparent About COVID-19 Censorship
Meta Lays Off Tech Teams, Battering Employee Morale
Meta Platforms Inc. on Wednesday carried out another round of job cuts, this time hitting engineers and adjacent tech teams, as Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg further moved to streamline the business in a bid to make 2023 a “year of efficiency.” Meta in March became the first Big Tech company to announce a second round…
American Facebook Users Can Now Apply for Their Share of a $725 Million Facebook Settlement: Here’s How
Facebook users have until August 2023 to claim part of a $725 million class-action settlement of a lawsuit that claimed the company’s parent Meta violated their privacy, according to a new website that went online this week. “If you were a Facebook user in the United States between May 24, 2007, and December 22, 2022,…
Trump Breaks Instagram Silence With First Post Since Ban
April 19, 2023
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Former President Donald Trump returned to Instagram on April 18, ending his more than two-year absence on the social media platform. Trump, who is running for president in 2024, used his first post in 118 weeks to announce the release of a second series of his digital trading cards. “I am pleased to inform you…
Federal Court Sides With Facebook in Privacy Case Tied to Cambridge Analytica Affair
A judge has dismissed the federal privacy watchdog’s bid for a declaration that Facebook broke the law governing the use of personal information in a case flowing from the Cambridge Analytica affair. In his ruling, Justice Michael Manson said the privacy commissioner had not shown that the social media giant, now known as Meta, failed…
Arkansas Sues Meta, TikTok for Designing ‘Addictive’ Platforms, Exposing Personal Data
March 29, 2023
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Social media giants Meta and TikTok are being sued by the state of Arkansas for allegedly intentionally designing their platforms to be manipulative and addictive to children, Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Attorney General Tim Griffin announced on March 28. Griffin has filed three separate lawsuits against the social media companies in state court: one against Meta,…
Meta Sued Over Youth Addiction to Social Media
The San Mateo County Board of Education is suing Facebook’s parent company, Meta, claiming that CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s company has contributed to the mental health crisis among youths by intentionally designing its social media platform to be manipulative and addictive. The Board of Education added Meta to a complaint it filed on March 13 in the U.S. District…
Meta Launches Subscription Service in US
Meta Platforms Inc. on Friday launched its subscription service in the U.S., which would allow Facebook and Instagram users pay for verification in the same vein as Elon Musk-owned Twitter. The Meta Verified service will give users a blue badge after they verify their accounts using a government ID and will cost $11.99 per month…
Facebook Parent Meta Slashes Another 10,000 Jobs
Facebook parent Meta has announced that it’s slashing another 10,000 jobs and won’t fill 5,000 open position, as the beleaguered social media giant struggles to cut costs amid profit pressure. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg broke the bad news to staff in a statement on Tuesday, in which he gave an update on the company’s “Year…
Meta to Block Access to News on Facebook, Instagram If Online News Act Adopted As-Is
OTTAWA—Facebook and Instagram’s parent company says it will stop making news content available on its platforms if the proposed federal Online News Act passes in its current form. Meta spokesperson Lisa Laventure says the company made the decision because the act will require it to pay publishers for links or content it doesn’t post. Laventure…
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