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X owner in talks with government over historic site for event – though Colosseum and Rome ruled outElon Musk is in talks with Italy’s government about hosting his proposed cage fight with Mark Zuckerberg at a historic site in the country, but the Colos…
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Dust-up began after law passed requiring social media companies to compensate news publishers for posting their contentA group of Canadian news publishers and broadcasters has called on the country’s competition regulator to stop Meta from blocking acc…
Country’s data protection regulator said firm cannot harvest user information such as physical locations for showing targeted adsFacebook owner Meta Platforms will be fined 1m crowns ($98,500) a day over privacy breaches from 14 August, Norway’s data p…
Retaliatory move against Online News Act is ‘epic miscalculation’ that will promote spread of misinformation, analysts saySocial media giant Meta’s ban on news access on its platforms in Canada is an “epic miscalculation” that could damage journalism a…
Tech firms permit ads for potentially harmful products including vaginal ‘cleanse’ balls and useless herbs for infertility, according to an investigationMeta, YouTube and Google are profiting from posts promoting harmful and useless health products to …
Facebook and Instagram’s parent company will stop harvesting audience data to create profiles for advertisers after regulatory rulingsFacebook and Instagram are to ask EU users for permission to show them personalised adverts, in a concession that chal…
Move comes in response to Canadian legislation requiring internet giants to pay news publishersMeta has begun the process to end access to news on Facebook and Instagram for all users in Canada, the company said on Tuesday.The move comes in response to…
Meta has been designing prototypes for chatbots that can have humanlike discussions with its users, as the company attempts to boost its engagement with its social media platforms.
Study of Facebook and Instagram data from 2020 election shows chronological lists had no measurable impact on polarizationThe powerful algorithms used by Facebook and Instagram have increasingly been blamed for amplifying misinformation and political p…