Rohingya refugees sue Facebook for $150bn over hate speech
The complaint, lodged in a California court, says the algorithms that power the US-based company promote disinformation and extremist thought that translates to...
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UK regulator orders Facebook to sell Giphy
The Competition and Markets Authority's decision comes after consultation with interested businesses and organisations, and study of potential solutions from Facebook itself.
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INFOGRAPHIC: Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft & others’ profits for the past year
This AFP graphic shows net profits of tech giants Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Microsoft by quarter for the past year.
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Facebook ends facial recognition over privacy fears
The announcement came as the tech giant battles one of its worst crises ever, with reams of internal documents leaked to reporters, lawmakers and US regulators fuelling fresh calls for government regulation.
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Facebook whistleblower to open Lisbon Web Summit
Organisers of one of the world's largest technology conferences, which was called off last year due to COVID-19, have hailed the fact that its return is taking place in a country with one of the world's highest vaccination rates.
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'We're building the next chapter': Zuckerberg on Facebook name change
The new handle comes as the company battles to fend off one of its worst crises yet and pivot to its ambitions for the "metaverse," which would blur the lines between the physical world and the digital one.
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Embattled Facebook changes parent company name to 'Meta'
Facebook has been hit by major crises previously, but the current view behind the curtain of the insular company has fueled a frenzy of scathing reports and scrutiny from US regulators.
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Rising tide of leaks threatens to inundate Facebook
Facebook held back from doing all it could to stop users from being radicalised and US election misinformation from flooding the social network, according to media reports.
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Facebook plans to hire 10,000 people in the EU to build 'metaverse'
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been a leading voice in Silicon Valley hype around the idea of the metaverse, which would blur the lines between the physical world and the digital one.
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Facebook announces 10,000 EU jobs to build 'metaverse'
The company has faced a storm of criticism over the past month after former employee Frances Haugen leaked internal studies showing Facebook knew its sites could be harmful to young people's mental health.
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Embattled Facebook releases new curbs on harassment
New policies included derailing coordinated efforts to use multiple accounts to harass or intimidate people considered at heightened risk of harm in the real world, such as government dissidents and victims of violent tragedies.
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ANALYSIS: A few clues as to what may have caused the massive Facebook outage
Downdetector.com, a major monitoring service for online outages, called it the largest global outage it had ever recorded - with 10.6 million reports from around the world.
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Zuckerberg says claim Facebook put profits over safety 'just not true'
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg hit back Tuesday at claims the social media giant fuels division, harms children and needs to be regulated, saying the claim the company puts profits over safety is 'just not true'.
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Whistleblower pushes for Facebook to be regulated
Ex-employee Frances Haugen testified on Capitol Hill after she leaked reams of internal research to authorities and The Wall Street Journal, which detailed how Facebook knew its sites were potentially harmful to young people's mental health.
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We all want to know: Why did Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp shut down?
Sami Slim of data centre company Telehouse compared BGP to "the internet equivalent of air traffic control".
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Facebook whistleblower to push for regulation
Ex-employee Frances Haugen is set to testify on Capitol Hill after she leaked reams of internal research to authorities and the Wall Street Journal, which detailed how Facebook knew its sites were potentially harmful to young people's mental health.
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Facebook fights global outage and whistleblower revelations
Facebook has not communicated on the possible cause of the outage, but cyber security experts noted they had found signs that online routes that lead people to the social giant were disrupted.
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Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp hit by outage: tracker
Outage tracker Downdetector was showing outages in heavily populated areas like Washington and Paris, while there are numerous reports of outages in Johannesburg
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CNN blocks access to its Facebook page in Australia
On Thursday, Australian users trying to navigate to CNN's Facebook page received a message that the content was restricted.
