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Meta Now Lets Users Say Women Are "Household Objects", Trans People Have "Mental Illness"
Facebook's parent company Meta has announced a series of sweeping changes in its content moderation policies, including doing away with professional fact-checking and restrictions on controversial remarks.
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Facebook, Instagram, TikTok Brace For Australian Social Media Ban Fallout
Australia's controversial new law barring under-16s from social media is one of the toughest crackdowns yet on platforms including Facebook and TikTok as governments worldwide grasp for ways to protect children from harmful content.
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Row Erupts Over Left MLA's Derogatory Remarks On Lord Ram, Sita, Lakshman
A Left MLA in Kerala finds himself amidst a controversy over a Facebook post in which he made derogatory remarks against Lord Ram, Sita, and Lakshman.
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Meta Rolls Out Tools To Separate Ads From Harmful Content
Meta Platforms Inc said on Thursday it is now rolling out a long-promised system for advertisers to determine where their ads are shown, responding to their demands to distance their marketing from controversial posts on Facebook and Instagram.
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Meta Steps Up Chatbot Buzz, Announces Research Tool LLaMA as Rival to Microsoft's ChatGPT, Google's LaMDA
Meta Platforms introduced a research tool for building artificial intelligence-based chatbots and other products, seeking to create a buzz for its own technology in a field lately focused on internet rivals Google and Microsoft. The technology has become popular, and controversial, in recent months as more companies have started to build them and ...
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Assam Student Arrested For Post "Supporting" Terror Group ULFA
Another student has been arrested in Assam for a controversial Facebook post, where he allegedly supported the terror group Ulfa (I) led by fugitive leader Paresh Asom alias Paresh Baruah.
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US Supreme Court Puts Hold on Texas Law Barring Social Media From Censoring Posts
The US Supreme Court has put back a controversial Texas law on hold. The law barred social media platforms from "censoring" posts based on viewpoints and make it a crime for social media platforms to curb hate speech or bigoted tirades, or even point out when posts are demonstrably false.
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After Bulli Bai, Telegram Channel Allegedly Targeting Hindu Women Blocked
After 'Bulli Bai', Facebook pages and a Telegram channel allegedly targetting Hindu women have now surfaced. Union Minister for Electronics and Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw on Wednesday assured action against them.
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Meta, Formerly Facebook, Gives Estimate of Bullying, Harassment on Its Platforms for First Time
Meta, formerly Facebook, for the first time disclosed the prevalence of bullying and harassment on its platform, saying such content was seen between 14 and 15 times per every 10,000 views on the site in the third quarter.
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Facebook Unblocks '#Saltbae' Hashtag Amid Golden Steak Video Controversy
Facebook found the '#saltbae' tag had been blocked globally days after a video was posted online of celebrity chef Nusret Gokce (dubbed Salt Bae) feeding a gold-encrusted steak to a senior Vietnamese Communist Party official in London.
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RJD's Tej Pratap Yadav Threatens Journalists With FIR Over Poster Row
Amid the controversy over posters of RJD not carrying party leader Tejashwi Yadav's photo, elder brother Tej Pratap Yadav during a live on his Facebook handle threatened to file "FIR, Defamation, and PIL" against journalists highlighting the issue.
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Facebook Sparks Off Row by Cutting Off Researchers Running NYU's Ad Observatory Project
Facebook has cut off some academic researchers for "scraping" data from the platform, sparking a fresh controversy about the leading social network's transparency to outside experts studying misinformation and abusive content.
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Facebook Sparks Row By Cutting Off New York University Researchers
Facebook has cut off some academic researchers for "scraping" data from the platform, sparking a fresh controversy about the leading social network's transparency to outside experts studying misinformation and abusive content.
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"Emotional Outburst, Shouldn't Be Politicised": Trinamool MLA On Controversial Facebook Post
TMC MLA Manoranjan Byapari on Saturday said his controversial Facebook post in which he had stated he was "feeling suffocated in politics" shouldn't be politicised because it was an "emotional outburst".
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Facebook Rejects Talks With Australia Publisher, Testing World's Toughest Online Law
Australia's competition watchdog is looking into a claim that Facebook refused a publisher's request to negotiate a licensing deal, the regulator said, setting the stage for the first test of the world's toughest online content law.
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Meta Now Lets Users Say Women Are "Household Objects", Trans People Have "Mental Illness"
Facebook's parent company Meta has announced a series of sweeping changes in its content moderation policies, including doing away with professional fact-checking and restrictions on controversial remarks.
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Facebook, Instagram, TikTok Brace For Australian Social Media Ban Fallout
Australia's controversial new law barring under-16s from social media is one of the toughest crackdowns yet on platforms including Facebook and TikTok as governments worldwide grasp for ways to protect children from harmful content.
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Row Erupts Over Left MLA's Derogatory Remarks On Lord Ram, Sita, Lakshman
A Left MLA in Kerala finds himself amidst a controversy over a Facebook post in which he made derogatory remarks against Lord Ram, Sita, and Lakshman.
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Meta Rolls Out Tools To Separate Ads From Harmful Content
Meta Platforms Inc said on Thursday it is now rolling out a long-promised system for advertisers to determine where their ads are shown, responding to their demands to distance their marketing from controversial posts on Facebook and Instagram.
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Meta Steps Up Chatbot Buzz, Announces Research Tool LLaMA as Rival to Microsoft's ChatGPT, Google's LaMDA
Meta Platforms introduced a research tool for building artificial intelligence-based chatbots and other products, seeking to create a buzz for its own technology in a field lately focused on internet rivals Google and Microsoft. The technology has become popular, and controversial, in recent months as more companies have started to build them and ...
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Assam Student Arrested For Post "Supporting" Terror Group ULFA
Another student has been arrested in Assam for a controversial Facebook post, where he allegedly supported the terror group Ulfa (I) led by fugitive leader Paresh Asom alias Paresh Baruah.
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US Supreme Court Puts Hold on Texas Law Barring Social Media From Censoring Posts
The US Supreme Court has put back a controversial Texas law on hold. The law barred social media platforms from "censoring" posts based on viewpoints and make it a crime for social media platforms to curb hate speech or bigoted tirades, or even point out when posts are demonstrably false.
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After Bulli Bai, Telegram Channel Allegedly Targeting Hindu Women Blocked
After 'Bulli Bai', Facebook pages and a Telegram channel allegedly targetting Hindu women have now surfaced. Union Minister for Electronics and Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw on Wednesday assured action against them.
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Meta, Formerly Facebook, Gives Estimate of Bullying, Harassment on Its Platforms for First Time
Meta, formerly Facebook, for the first time disclosed the prevalence of bullying and harassment on its platform, saying such content was seen between 14 and 15 times per every 10,000 views on the site in the third quarter.
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Facebook Unblocks '#Saltbae' Hashtag Amid Golden Steak Video Controversy
Facebook found the '#saltbae' tag had been blocked globally days after a video was posted online of celebrity chef Nusret Gokce (dubbed Salt Bae) feeding a gold-encrusted steak to a senior Vietnamese Communist Party official in London.
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RJD's Tej Pratap Yadav Threatens Journalists With FIR Over Poster Row
Amid the controversy over posters of RJD not carrying party leader Tejashwi Yadav's photo, elder brother Tej Pratap Yadav during a live on his Facebook handle threatened to file "FIR, Defamation, and PIL" against journalists highlighting the issue.
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Facebook Sparks Off Row by Cutting Off Researchers Running NYU's Ad Observatory Project
Facebook has cut off some academic researchers for "scraping" data from the platform, sparking a fresh controversy about the leading social network's transparency to outside experts studying misinformation and abusive content.
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Facebook Sparks Row By Cutting Off New York University Researchers
Facebook has cut off some academic researchers for "scraping" data from the platform, sparking a fresh controversy about the leading social network's transparency to outside experts studying misinformation and abusive content.
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"Emotional Outburst, Shouldn't Be Politicised": Trinamool MLA On Controversial Facebook Post
TMC MLA Manoranjan Byapari on Saturday said his controversial Facebook post in which he had stated he was "feeling suffocated in politics" shouldn't be politicised because it was an "emotional outburst".
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Facebook Rejects Talks With Australia Publisher, Testing World's Toughest Online Law
Australia's competition watchdog is looking into a claim that Facebook refused a publisher's request to negotiate a licensing deal, the regulator said, setting the stage for the first test of the world's toughest online content law.
