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By Karen Rebelo On November 22, 2023 - just three days before voting day in the Rajasthan assembly elections an inconspicuous Facebook page named Ulta Chashma started running video ads on Instagram showing the gruesome killing of a Hindu tailor by two radical Muslim men in Udaipur the year before. The Facebook page ran eight such disturbing video ads from November 22 to November 25, 2023 - the day of voting. The 20-seconds long video also contained text in Hindi which said, ‘before you vote, remember the last screams of Udaipur Hindu Kanhaiyalal’. (‘Vote dene se pehle yaad rakhe Udaipur ke Hin...
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By Hera Rizwan The Meta Oversight Board has criticised the company's manipulated media policy as "incoherent" in a decision released on Monday. The board emphasised that the policy excessively prioritises determining if a video was altered using artificial intelligence, rather than addressing the potential harm it may cause. Despite the Oversight Board's affirmation of the company's decision to permit a modified video of President Joe Biden to remain on the platform, a policy recommendation was made. This suggestion was put forth even though the video, technically speaking, did not violate any...
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By Karen Rebelo Fake ads using artificial intelligence voice cloning technology are being promoted on Meta’s social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram and messaging app Messenger to its users in India. Decode found numerous such fake ads peddling everything from get-rich quick schemes, betting apps, trading platforms to diabetes drugs, in the Meta Ad Library - a publicly accessible database to study political ads that was created in the aftermath of the Cambridge Analytica scandal. We found 150 such URLs, however, restrictions around the visibility of these ads and repetition of ident...
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By Hera Rizwan Meta, has announced that it is restricting access to its new generative AI advertising tools for political campaigns and advertisers in regulated industries. According to Reuters, this move comes in response to concerns from lawmakers who have cautioned against the potential use of these tools to amplify the dissemination of election misinformation. The company made this decision public by posting updates on its help centre on Monday. "As we continue to test new Generative AI ads creation tools in Ads Manager, advertisers running campaigns that qualify as ads for Housing, Employ...
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By Hera Rizwan The phrase "If you're not paying for the product, you are the product" has become symbolic of the way people interact with major social media corporations that primarily operate by collecting data and capturing user attention, which are then made available to advertisers. A recent research by The Money Mongers found that 76% of the top 100 apps on the Apple App store collect and share their user data in some or the other form. The report found that over half of these companies share their users’ data with third parties while nearly three-quarters collect data for their own benef...
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By Sana Fazili The European Union has reportedly announced that it will bring 19 tech platforms under stricter online content rules of the Digital Services Act (DSA). These platforms, with over 45 million users, include Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok,Google Maps, Google Shopping, etc. The companies have been asked to tackle disinformation and ensure user safety, Reuters reported. "We consider these 19 online platforms and search engines have become systematically relevant and have special responsibilities to make the internet safer ," Thiery Breton, EU's internal markets commissioner, wa...
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By Sana Fazili Facebook users with an active account in the US between May 2007 and December 2022 can now claim their share of $725 million lawsuit settlement. The case dates back to 2018 when it was reported that Facebook violated privacy by sharing data of around 87 million users with Cambridge Analytica, a firm that supported former US president Donald Trump in 2016 presidential elections. The users can file their claim till August 25, 2023. However, it is not yet clear how much amount of the money each user will get, AP reported. Facebook parent Meta in December 2022 agreed to pay $725 mil...
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By Hazel Gandhi A viral video on Instagram claiming that Elon Musk intends to buy Facebook and Instagram after his Twitter takeover is false. BOOM found that the video has been digitally altered and Musk did not express any such intention. The viral clip shows Musk saying, "I predict that I will buy tomorrow the entire Meta company. Facebook and Instagram will be mine too." The video was shared by the handle @elonmusksocial and has 2.9 million views and more than 69,000 likes as of writing this article. Click here to view. The post is also circulating on Facebook. See here. Also Read:Morphed I...
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By BOOM Team Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday confirmed that Meta was downsizing its team by 13%, which meant that more than 11,000 employees of the company would be laid off. Zuckerberg said that the company would take additional steps to downsize and make it "more efficient". "I want to take accountability for these decisions and for how we got here. I know this is tough for everyone, and I'm especially sorry to those impacted," he said in the message. This comes amid several reports, including one by the Wall Street Journal, about large-scale layoffs after a massive drop in Meta's earnings. In ...
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By BOOM Team The Wire, late on Monday,released a statement saying teams of the Delhi Police Crime Branch raided the homes of its founding editors Siddharth Varadarajan, MK Venu, Sidharth BhatiaSiddharth Varadarajan, MK Venu, Sidharth Bhatia and deputy editor Jahnavi Sen. While Varadarajan, Venu and Sen reside in Delhi, Bhatia is a resident of Mumbai. The Wire's office in Delhi's Bhagat Singh Market was also searched. The police action was in connection with an FIR filed by BJP leader Amit Malviya over their story that alleged that Malviya was part of Meta's XCheck programme and he had the priv...
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