Meta Platforms on Friday said it was aware of issues with its Ads Manager, its advertising tool that lets brands buy and create Facebook ads. “Our engineering teams are aware and are actively looking to resolve the issue as quickly as possible,” Meta said on its status page. The status update came just after thousands…
Meta’s Facebook, Instagram Down for Thousands of Users, Says Downdetector
Georgia Attorney Wins Lawsuit Against Meta Platforms Over Banned Account
A Georgia attorney has won a lawsuit against Facebook after the big tech giant shut down his account and banned him off the platform, alleging that he had violated its standards on child sexual exploitation. Jason Crawford in Hamilton, Georgia, told Fox 5 Atlanta that he had logged on to Facebook in August 2022 only…
Zuckerberg: Establishment Asked to Censor COVID-19 Posts That Ended Up Being True
June 10, 2023
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Big Tech firms were asked to censor COVID-19 information that ended up being true, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has assessed. “Just take some of the stuff around COVID earlier in the pandemic where there were real health implications, but there hadn’t been time to fully vet a bunch of the scientific assumptions,” Zuckerberg, whose company…
Facebook Owner Meta Slashes Business Operations Staff in Final Round of Mass Layoffs
May 25, 2023
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Meta Platforms Inc., owner of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, slashed jobs across its business and operations units on Wednesday as part of a plan announced last fall to eliminate 10,000 jobs in the course of a broader restructuring program. Dozens of Meta employees from enterprise engineering, marketing, corporate communications, site security, program management, and content…
[PREMIERING 9:30AM ET] Paul D. Thacker: Twitter’s Secret Meetings and How Certain Journalists and Officials Gained ‘Exclusive Access’ to the Social Media Giant
May 23, 2023
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“What Elon Musk did is, by buying Twitter, he severed ties between Twitter officials and some very privileged journalists who had exclusive or premier access to Twitter,” says Paul D. Thacker, an investigative reporter and Twitter Files journalist. Thacker recently revealed a number of relationships between Twitter staff and certain journalists, pharmaceutical companies, and government…
Privacy Commissioner Appeals Federal Court Decision in Facebook Case
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada is appealing a recent decision by the Federal Court, which sided with Facebook in a case tied to the Cambridge Analytica affair. A judge in April dismissed the federal privacy watchdog’s bid for a declaration that the social media giant, now known as Meta, broke the law…
Trudeau Calls Meta’s Opposition to Bill C-18 ‘Dangerous to Democracy’
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called Meta’s opposition to Bill C-18 “dangerous” to Canada’s democracy and economy during a press conference on May 9. Trudeau characterized the company’s reasoning for its opposition as journalism having “social value, but not really an economic value.” “That argument that the internet giants are putting forward is not just flawed,…
Meta Reaffirms Plan to Block News Access in Canada If Bill C-18 Passes
May 8, 2023
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A representative for the tech giant Meta said Monday that the company plans to block access to Canadian news content on its platforms if Parliament passes Bill C-18, which mandates that the company pay news publishers for hosting content. “Ultimately, this legislation puts Meta in an unfavourable situation. In order to comply, we have to…
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…
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