Facebook doubles profit but sees cooling growth
Profit jumped to $10.4 billion on revenue of $29 billion, a 56% increase from last year, mainly from a jump in ad revenues.
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Trump announces anti-censorship lawsuit against Facebook, Twitter
The former US president said that the nation's top tech firms had become the "enforcers of illegal, unconstitutional censorship". He was banned from posting on Facebook and Twitter in the wake of the deadly January 6 siege of the US Capitol by his supporters.
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Facebook tests alerting users to extremist posts
Facebook spokesman Andy Stone said in a Twitter exchange that the alerts sprang from an initiative at the social network to combat violent extremism and dangerous organizations.
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Facebook AI guru says its use should be regulated, rather than the technology
Facebook's chief AI scientist and a company's vice president, Yann LeCun, is one of the computer scientists behind modern artificial intelligence.
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Danish media unite to push tech giants on rights
In 2019, an EU directive gave media rights to be compensated for links to their content by web giants in order to ensure better compensation for creators of news content.
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US lawmakers back Big Tech regulation bills in marathon session
Legislation being forwarded to the floor of the House of Representatives could force an overhaul of the practices of Google, Apple, Amazon and Facebook, or potentially lead to a breakup of the dominant tech giants.
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Facebook AI software able to dig up origins of deepfake images
Deepfakes are photos, videos or audio clips altered using artificial intelligence to appear authentic, which experts have warned can mislead or be completely false.
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Facebook remote work made permanent as offices re-open
Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg has said he expects the shift to remote work to be a lasting one at the leading social network, which plans to look for employees able to do their jobs from wherever they happen to live.
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Apple doubles down on privacy in new iPhone software
The next version of iPhone operating software, called iOS 15, will have improved privacy features including overviews of how apps access smartphone cameras or microphones as well as data such as location or contacts.
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Facebook bans former US president Trump for 2 years
The two-year ban will be effective from January 7, when Trump was booted off the platform, and comes after Facebook's independent oversight board said the indefinite ban should be reviewed.
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EU opens probe into Facebook's use of advertiser data
The formal probe follows a preliminary investigation focused on Facebook's Marketplace classifieds service available to most of its three billion users.
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Facebook to bar politicians from posting deceptive content: report
The controversial exemption, given to politicians under the auspices of their posts being newsworthy, could end as soon as this week on the leading social network, the news site said.
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Facebook reverses course, won't ban lab virus theory
The latest move by Facebook, announced late Wednesday on its website, highlights the challenge for the world's largest social network of rooting out false and potentially harmful content while remaining open for discourse.
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Facebook adapts defences as deception campaigns go stealth
The number of coordinated inauthentic behavior (CIB) campaigns derailed at the leading social network ramped up each year since a Russia-linked operation to sway the outcome of the 2016 US presidential election put Facebook on the defensive.
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South Africa mulls litigation over WhatsApp-Facebook data sharing
South Africa's regulator in March said that the new privacy policy violated the country's protection of personal information laws.
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Germany halts Facebook sharing WhatsApp data
The Hamburg Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information sent the order to the social network, which owns the popular messaging service. Hamburg has jurisdiction because Facebook's German branch is based in the city.
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Trump 'egged on' Capitol rioters: Facebook panel co-chair
The panel agreed just days ago that Facebook was right to oust the ex-president for his comments regarding the deadly January 6 rampage, though it sidestepped an overall decision on whether he will ever be allowed back.
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Trump moves to assert party control despite Facebook ban
Despite losing the presidency to Joe Biden last year and enduring a second impeachment after January's deadly insurrection at the US Capitol, the brash billionaire remains his party's most influential figure.
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Facebook oversight board upholds Trump ban
The board said Donald Trump "created an environment where a serious risk of violence was possible" with his comments regarding the January 6 rampage by his supporters at the US Capitol.
