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Meta’s News Blockade in Canada: A Standoff with Publishers
Have you heard about the recent standoff between Meta and the Canadian government? If not, let's dive into the details.
Meta, the parent company of...
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Meta Platforms, Snap Join Bandwagon by Offering Generative AI Products
After the success of OpenAI's ChatGPT, Meta Platforms and Snap are increasing their position in the artificial intelligence (AI) sector by releasing new AI...
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Meta Forced to Sell Giphy After Losing UK Antitrust Battle
Facebook parent company Meta has agreed to sell animated-graphics provider Giphy after the U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority upheld its earlier ruling that the...
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Meta Clamps Down Propaganda Network Operating in Russia and China
Meta, the parent company of Facebook, revealed on Tuesday that it has discovered and taken down two distinct networks of false accounts involved in...
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Instagram for All – Business profiles vs. Private use
It seems that everywhere you look, Instagram is there. Restaurants post pictures of their food, celebrities post selfies, and businesses use social media accounts...
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Mark Zuckerberg opens his first physical retail space with his company Meta
Meta Platforms, which owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, will be opening its first physical retail store in May to offer its hardware products. Customers...
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Zuckerberg can rejoice. He is $11 billion richer in a day
Billionaire and Meta Platforms chief Mark Zuckerberg had the best day of his life, at least as far as his wealth is concerned. Shares...
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Big Tech Will Be Forced to Remove Illegal Content in the Eurozone
Big Tech companies like Google and Facebook will soon be required to immediately remove illegal content in the Eurozone.
European Union legislators on Saturday passed...
Covid-19
Facebook Will Mark Users Who Have Been Vaccinated against Covid-19
Social media giant Facebook will mark users who have been vaccinated against Covid-19:
"We will present in your feed a compilation of friends, family...
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Facebook Bans President Trump’s Voice!
A video of the former President, made with his daughter-in-law, Lara, has been deleted from the social networking platform.
Several representatives of former President Donald...
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Australian Parliament Passes New Law Requiring Tech Giants to Pay for News
The Australian Parliament on Thursday approved legislation that would require tech giants like Facebook and Google for news content.
In a joint statement by Australian...
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Facebook Reverses News Ban in Australia
Facebook has lifted its ban on news content for Australian users after a recent talk with government officials.
The tech giant has been imposing a...
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Facebook restricts Australian users from sharing news
Facebook restricts Australian users in response to a proposed law in Australia would make the tech giants like Facebook and Google pay for sharing...
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Facebook Restricts Myanmar’s Military Accounts for Spreading Misinformation
Social media giant Facebook has announced it has limited the distribution content on Facebook Pages and profiles run by Myanmar’s military claiming it spreads...
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Big Tech Risks Huge Fines for Shadow Banning Users in Poland
The proposed law in Poland on banning censorship on social media will also block "shadow banning" (a technique of blocking the user, by not...
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Myanmar’s Military Blocks Facebook amid Opposition to Coup
Myanmar’s military junta has blocked Facebook in the country on Thursday following growing protests and opposition to the coup that grabbed power from elected...
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US ISP Blocks Facebook and Twitter After Americans Complain About Being Censored by Social Media
An Internet service provider (ISP) in northern Idaho and Spokane, Washington, has decided to block Facebook and Twitter for its customers after several people...
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Twitter Lost $ 5 Billion in Market Value After Permanently Suspending Donald Trump’s Account
Shares on Twitter fell by 12 percent on Monday after the social media company permanently suspended President Donald Trump's account.
The fall in stock prices...
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Developing Countries are Missing Out $2.8 Billion in Taxes from ‘Big Tech’
Big Tech companies like Facebook, Alphabet (Google’s parent company), and Microsoft were recently called out for allegedly shortchanging developing countries of potential revenues estimated...
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Facebook Vows to Censor Users If US Election Gets “Extremely Chaotic Or Violent”
According to a company executive on Tuesday, Facebook will take aggressive measures to restrict the circulation of content in the eventuality that November's presidential...