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Facebook, Instagram Face Widespread Outage In US, Thousands Affected
Meta Platforms' Facebook and Instagram were down for thousands of users in the U.S. on Monday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com.
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Regret Not Speaking Out: Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg On US Pressure To Censor Covid-19 Posts
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg believes US government pressure on his social media platforms to take down certain Covid-19 content in 2021 was "wrong", according to a letter submitted to a US congressional committee.
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EU Presses Meta On Transparency Plans After Scraping Disinformation Tracker
The EU on Friday formally requested that Meta detail steps it is taking on transparency after the Facebook and Instagram owner scrapped a widely-used tool for tracking disinformation online.
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Meta Just Shut A Vital Online Tool. It's Bad News For Fight Against Misinformation
For more than a decade, researchers and journalists have relied on a digital tool called CrowdTangle to track and fight the spread of viral falsehoods online.
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WhatsApp Has Not Informed Centre About Shutting Services In India: Minister
WhatsApp and its parent company Meta has not informed the government of any plans to shut down its services in India, I&B Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw told the Rajya Sabha on Friday.
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Meta Expands Hate Speech Policy To Remove More Posts Targeting 'Zionists'
Meta Platforms said on Tuesday it would start taking down more posts that target "Zionists", where the term is used to refer to Jewish people and Israelis rather than representing supporters of the political movement.
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Meta Took Down Over 17 Million Objectionable Content In India In April
Meta said that it took down over 11.6 million pieces of bad content across 13 policies for Facebook and more than 5.4 million pieces of objectionable content across 12 policies for Instagram in India in April.
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WhatsApp Down For Thousands Of Users Globally: Report
Meta Platforms-owned WhatsApp was down for thousands of users on Wednesday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com.
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"Grave Step Backwards": Meta Shuts Down Misinformation Monitoring Tool In Poll Year
A digital tool considered vital in tracking viral falsehoods, CrowdTangle will be decommissioned by Facebook owner Meta in a major election year, a move researchers fear will disrupt efforts to detect an expected firehose of political misinformation.
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Apple Gets Sued by the US DOJ; Accused of Illegal Monopoly in Smartphone Market
The US Department of Justice and 15 states on Thursday sued Apple as the government cracks down on Big Tech, alleging the iPhone maker monopolized the smartphone market, hurt smaller rivals and drove up prices. Apple joins competitors sued by regulators, including Alphabet's Google, Meta Platforms and Amazon.com.
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''Our Servers Are Working'': Elon Musk's Jibe At Meta As Facebook And Instagram Crash
Downdetector, a website that tracks outages, has recorded over 3,00,000 Facebook outages and over 47,000 outage reports for Instagram worldwide.
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Facebook, Instagram Back After Hour-Long Outage In India, Other Countries
Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and Messenger - platforms managed by Meta - were down for over an hour on Tuesday evening for thousands of users in India and several other countries.
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Meta, Google And Microsoft Working On Pact To Fight Political Deepfakes
Tech giants including Meta, Microsoft, Google and OpenAI are working on a pact to jointly crack down on AI content intended to deceive voters ahead of crucial elections around the world this year, companies involved said Tuesday.
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Meta's Sheryl Sandberg To Step Down From Board After 12 Years
Meta's former chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg, announced that she is leaving the company's board after more than a decade.
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Ex Meta Top Executive Sheryl Sandberg To Resign From Board After 12 Years
Meta Platforms' former chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg plans to step down from her position on the company's board of directors after her term ends in May, she said in a Facebook post on Wednesday.
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Facebook, Instagram Face Widespread Outage In US, Thousands Affected
Meta Platforms' Facebook and Instagram were down for thousands of users in the U.S. on Monday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com.
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Regret Not Speaking Out: Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg On US Pressure To Censor Covid-19 Posts
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg believes US government pressure on his social media platforms to take down certain Covid-19 content in 2021 was "wrong", according to a letter submitted to a US congressional committee.
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EU Presses Meta On Transparency Plans After Scraping Disinformation Tracker
The EU on Friday formally requested that Meta detail steps it is taking on transparency after the Facebook and Instagram owner scrapped a widely-used tool for tracking disinformation online.
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Meta Just Shut A Vital Online Tool. It's Bad News For Fight Against Misinformation
For more than a decade, researchers and journalists have relied on a digital tool called CrowdTangle to track and fight the spread of viral falsehoods online.
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WhatsApp Has Not Informed Centre About Shutting Services In India: Minister
WhatsApp and its parent company Meta has not informed the government of any plans to shut down its services in India, I&B Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw told the Rajya Sabha on Friday.
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Meta Expands Hate Speech Policy To Remove More Posts Targeting 'Zionists'
Meta Platforms said on Tuesday it would start taking down more posts that target "Zionists", where the term is used to refer to Jewish people and Israelis rather than representing supporters of the political movement.
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Meta Took Down Over 17 Million Objectionable Content In India In April
Meta said that it took down over 11.6 million pieces of bad content across 13 policies for Facebook and more than 5.4 million pieces of objectionable content across 12 policies for Instagram in India in April.
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WhatsApp Down For Thousands Of Users Globally: Report
Meta Platforms-owned WhatsApp was down for thousands of users on Wednesday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com.
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"Grave Step Backwards": Meta Shuts Down Misinformation Monitoring Tool In Poll Year
A digital tool considered vital in tracking viral falsehoods, CrowdTangle will be decommissioned by Facebook owner Meta in a major election year, a move researchers fear will disrupt efforts to detect an expected firehose of political misinformation.
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Apple Gets Sued by the US DOJ; Accused of Illegal Monopoly in Smartphone Market
The US Department of Justice and 15 states on Thursday sued Apple as the government cracks down on Big Tech, alleging the iPhone maker monopolized the smartphone market, hurt smaller rivals and drove up prices. Apple joins competitors sued by regulators, including Alphabet's Google, Meta Platforms and Amazon.com.
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''Our Servers Are Working'': Elon Musk's Jibe At Meta As Facebook And Instagram Crash
Downdetector, a website that tracks outages, has recorded over 3,00,000 Facebook outages and over 47,000 outage reports for Instagram worldwide.
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Facebook, Instagram Back After Hour-Long Outage In India, Other Countries
Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and Messenger - platforms managed by Meta - were down for over an hour on Tuesday evening for thousands of users in India and several other countries.
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Meta, Google And Microsoft Working On Pact To Fight Political Deepfakes
Tech giants including Meta, Microsoft, Google and OpenAI are working on a pact to jointly crack down on AI content intended to deceive voters ahead of crucial elections around the world this year, companies involved said Tuesday.
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Meta's Sheryl Sandberg To Step Down From Board After 12 Years
Meta's former chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg, announced that she is leaving the company's board after more than a decade.
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Ex Meta Top Executive Sheryl Sandberg To Resign From Board After 12 Years
Meta Platforms' former chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg plans to step down from her position on the company's board of directors after her term ends in May, she said in a Facebook post on Wednesday.
