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A new lawsuit asks whether social media users can control what they see on their Facebook feeds. Last week, the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University filed a lawsuit against Meta, Facebook's parent company, on behalf of a professor who wants to release a tool to empower social media users. University of Massachusetts Amherst professor Ethan Zuckerman would like to release a tool called "Unfollow Everything 2.0". This browser extension "would allow Facebook users to automatically unfollow their friends, groups, and pages, and, in doing so, to effectively turn off their newsfee...
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Meta’s Facebook and Instagram are subject to an investigation over how the platforms tackle disinformation under the Digital Services Act (DSA), amid fears they are vulnerable to Russian networks, the European Commission said today (30 April). The suspected infringements cover Meta's practices relating to deceptive advertising and political content on its services, the Commission said. According to the EU executive, the company’s advertising network is vulnerable to misinformation, and potentially a target for Russian networks. The platforms also lack an effective third-party real-time electio...
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French President Emmanuel Macron said in a speech this week that he would like to see Europe create a “digital majority” of 15, meaning that before that age, parents would control access to the “digital space”. France enacted a law in July 2023 that requires online social network service providers operating in France to refuse children under 15 unless expressly authorised by one of their parents or guardians. Failure to comply with this obligation could result in the social platform being fined up to one per cent of its worldwide sales. “Does anyone send their child into the jungle at 5, 10 or...
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The parent company of Facebook, Meta Platforms, has reported first-quarter earnings that significantly exceeded market expectations. However, shares of the social media giant dropped approximately 15% in after-hours trading due to weaker-than-expected sales revenue guidance and higher-than-anticipated expenses for the current quarter. This has raised concerns about whether the ongoing performance of the tech giant can justify its 39% year-to-date rally. Meta stands as the second-best performer among US big tech companies on Wall Street this year, trailing only Nvidia. However, today's decline ...
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Concerns are growing regarding disinformation and artificial intelligence (AI) generated content ahead of the EU elections in June. The European Commission published recommended measures in March for digital platforms with more than 45 million EU-based users per month “to mitigate systemic risks online that may impact the integrity of elections”. In addition, many platforms committed to the EU's Code of Practice on Disinformation "to address both misinformation and disinformation across their services,” a Commission spokesperson said. We expect the main disinformation narratives will have very...
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A court in Russia on Monday convicted the spokesperson of US technology company Meta of justifying terrorism and sentenced him to six years in prison in a swift trial in absentia, Russia's independent news site Mediazona reported. According to the outlet, the charges against Meta communications director Andy Stone stem from his remarks in 2022 following Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24 that year. Meta is the parent company of Facebook and Instagram. Stone, who is based in the United States, announced temporary changes to Meta’s hate speech policy to allow for "forms of po...
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The Netherlands' data watchdog recommended that the government not use Facebook to communicate with the public if it is unclear what happens to users' personal data. Aleid Wolfsen, chairman of the Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens or Dutch Data Protection Authority (AP), said in a statement released last week that people rely on the government and use social media platforms like Facebook to communicate with it. He said that government organisations should not use such platforms for communication if they do not know what is happening with people's data. Donald Trump calls Meta's Facebook 'enemy of th...
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Meta - Facebook's parent company - released two small versions of its latest artificial intelligence (AI) model called Llama 3 and announced that they'll be integrated into assistant features in Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. The company's CEO, Mark Zuckerberg dubbed it “the most intelligent AI assistant that you can freely use". The most powerful version of the model with roughly 400 billion parameters has not yet been released but intends to compete with market leaders like GPT. The rise of the Hitler chatbot: Will Europe be able to prevent far right radicalisation by AI?But as Zuckerberg...
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Online platforms should give users a real choice when implementing so-called “consent or pay” models, which allow users to pay a fee in exchange for ad-free access to the platform, an opinion by the EU’s data protection authorities said today (17 April). “The models we have today usually require individuals to either give away all their data or to pay. As a result most users consent to the processing in order to use a service, and they do not understand the full implications of their choices,” Anu Talus, chair of the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) said in a statement. The opinion, draft...
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Ahead of a crucial opinion by the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) — a grouping of the EU’s chief privacy regulators — on Meta’s plan to charge for privacy, the European Commission has opened an investigation that hopefully will cast light on the unlawfulness of Meta’s so-called "Pay or Okay" model, which has become the talk of the town in Brussels. Meta's transition from its long-standing and proudly-promoted "free and always will be" ethos, to introducing paid subscription options in November 2023, sparked shock waves. This shift was prompted by the EU’s top court ruling, which deemed t...
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