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Does Meta Have a Social Media Monopoly? Here’s What the U.S. Has Argued.
The government showed hundreds of internal documents as it sought to prove that the social media company bought Instagram and ...
Unlike Elon Musk's X, Meta's Threads is prioritizing links
If a user publishes a post with a link to a website or article on Elon Musk's X, very often they'll find that the post ...
MIT Technology Review6h
Can crowdsourced fact-checking curb misinformation on social media?
Meta shut down their professional factchecker program and replaced it with Community Notes. What does this mean for the ...
Meta exec’s frantic warning about Instagram’s alarming ‘fake’ activity numbers in spotlight at FTC trial
An executive at Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta once cited estimates that as much as 40% of all engagement on Instagram was fake, ...
Euronews6d
Meta is about to use Europeans’ social posts to train its AI. Here’s how you can prevent it
Instagram and Facebook users in Europe will soon have their data and posts used by parent company Meta to train its artificial intelligence (AI) models. Europeans have until May 27 to restrict ...
Yahoo News Singapore6d
Meta is about to use Europeans’ social posts to train its AI. Here’s how you can prevent it
Instagram and Facebook users in Europe will soon have their data and posts used by parent company Meta to train its artificial intelligence (AI) models. Europeans have until May 27 to restrict Meta ...
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta refuses to crack down on rampant scams from bogus ads to avoid losing revenue: report
Tech giant whose digital properties include popular social networks Facebook and Instagram is under scrutiny over its role in enabling online scams.
Gen Z users and a dad tested Instagram Teen Accounts. Their feeds were shocking.
Meta promised parents it would shield teens from harmful content. Tests by young users and our tech columnist dad find it fails spectacularly in important ways.
Ars Technica5d
Meta is making users who opted out of AI training opt out again, watchdog says
In a blog post, Meta said that AI training on EU users was ... Other AI providers do not use social network data—and generate even better models than Meta." ...