Meta’s oversight board has recommended a six-month suspension of Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen’s Facebook and Instagram accounts after he threatened to use violence against his opponents in a video. The oversight board, a quasi-independent body in charge of reviewing content moderation decisions, overturned Meta’s ruling on June 30 to leave up Hun Sen’s video…
Oversight Board Asks Meta to Suspend Cambodia PM’s Accounts Over Post Inciting Violence
Ottawa Still Trying to Negotiate With Meta Over News Blocking, Says Trudeau
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Ottawa is still trying to negotiate with tech giant Meta over its threats to block news sharing for Canadians following the passage of legislation obliging big tech companies to pay Canadian news outlets for content shared on the platforms. A spokesperson for Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, said on…
Cory Morgan: The Battle Created by Bill C-18 Is Pointless and Destructive, and Didn’t Need to Happen
Commentary Now that Canada’s Bill C-18 has made its way through Parliament and has received royal assent, the battle of wills between the government and social media platforms begins in earnest. The regulations packed into C-18 amount to little more than a shakedown of social media platforms on behalf of financially failing legacy media outlets….
Facebook, Instagram to Block News After Canada Adopts Content Fee Law
Meta has announced that it will block access to news on Facebook and Instagram in Canada after the country passed a new law forcing digital platforms to pay content fees to domestic media. The announcement by Meta came shortly after Canada’s Senate passed the “Online News Act,” which forces companies like Facebook and Google to pay…
EXPLAINER: Now That Bill C-18 Has Passed, Why Is Meta Blocking Canadian News?
On the same day that the Liberal government’s Bill C-18 received royal assent and passed into law, U.S. tech giant Meta announced it would be blocking content from news outlets for Canadian users in order to comply with the new legislation. The Online News Act requires that online platforms and digital news intermediaries like Google and…
Meta to Face Legal Action From Malaysia Over ‘Undesirable’ Content
Malaysia’s government said Friday that it would pursue legal action against Meta Platforms for failing to comply with its repeated request to remove “undesirable” content from Facebook. The Malaysian Communication and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) said it had made attempts to contact Meta about harmful content posted on its social media site Facebook, but they were…
American Tech Sector Continues to Bleed as Layoffs Jump 200 Percent in May
June 23, 2023
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The technology sector in the United States continued to lay off more workers in May, with job cuts nearly tripling from April, according to latest data. In May, the tech sector laid off 19,072 employees, which is an almost 200 percent jump from the 6,469 layoffs announced in April, technology magazine IEEE Spectrum reported, based…
Facebook’s Zuckerberg Responds to Cage Match Challenge From Twitter’s Musk
June 22, 2023
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Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk, the owners of competing social media platforms, could soon get into a cage match if their talk on social media is to be believed. Zuckerberg—who co-founded Facebook and whose Meta Platforms Inc. owns Instagram—has reportedly been preparing a new social media platform to compete with Twitter. Musk, who bought out…
Meta Tests Blocking News Content for Some Canadian Users in Response to Liberals’ Online News Bill
Meta has begun a test that will temporarily block access to news content for some Canadian users on its Facebook and Instagram platforms in response to the Online News Act, a Liberal government bill, and Canadian publishers are not happy. The legislation, Bill C-18, would require digital giants such as Google and Meta to pay Canadian news organizations…
Meta Lowers Minimum Age of Quest Headsets in Bid to Lure Children Into VR
June 17, 2023
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Facebook parent company Meta announced plans to enable children as young as 10 years old to enter virtual reality through its Meta Quest headset later this year, despite a recent advisory warning social media can negatively impact the mental health and well-being of children. “Today we’re announcing changes to give families even more ways to…
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