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Meta and Spotify blast EU decisions on AI

Paris, France—A group of companies including Meta and Spotify blasted the European Union Thursday for its "fragmented and inconsistent" decision-making on data privacy and artificial...

Meta bans Russian state media outlets for ‘interference’

San Francisco, United States—Meta late Monday said it is banning Russian state media outlets from its apps around the world due to "foreign interference activity." The...

Meta CEO Zuckerberg says US pressure on Covid-19 posts was ‘wrong’

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg believes US government pressure on his social media platforms to take down certain Covid-19 content in 2021 was "wrong," and...

Meta blocks Iran-linked hackers on WhatsApp, warns US campaigns

San Francisco – Meta said Friday it had warned US presidential campaigns to be wary after it discovered an Iran-linked hacking attempt using the...

US lawmakers press Meta over illicit drug ads

San Francisco, United States—Members of Congress on Thursday called on Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg to give them details regarding ads for opiods and other illicit...

Texas says Meta to pay $1.4 bn to settle photo-tagging lawsuit

eta has agreed to pay $1.4 billion to settle a lawsuit accusing it of violating a Texas state privacy law with a feature for...

US lawmakers urge Meta to delay shutting down transparency tool

US lawmakers voiced "concern" Wednesday over Meta's decision to shut down CrowdTangle -- a digital tool considered vital in monitoring falsehoods –- in a...

Nigeria fines Meta $220 mn for ‘violations’

Nigeria is fining Facebook and WhatsApp parent company Meta $220 million for "multiple and repeated" data violations. The country's Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission...

Meta lifts restrictions on Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts

San Francisco, United States — Meta said Friday it was lifting restrictions on US presidential candidate Donald Trump's Facebook and Instagram accounts, ending measures...

Canada rolls out digital services tax, faces US pushback

OTTAWA—Canada’s deputy prime minister on Thursday defended a digital services tax that was quietly rolled out last week, despite pushback from business groups and...

Spanish prosecutors investigate Meta over data use for AI

Spanish prosecutors said Thursday that they were investigating Facebook owner Meta over suspicions it breached data-protection laws by using users' data to train its...

Threads hits 175 mn users on first anniversary

Threads, Meta's alternative to X (formerly Twitter), has hit 175 million monthly users a year after its out-of-the-blue launch. "What a year," Meta CEO and...

Brazil bans Meta from training AI models with user data

Brazil’s national data protection authority, or more locally known as The Autoridade Nacional de Proteção de Dados (ANPD), announced on Tuesday that tech giant...

Meta risks fines over ‘pay for privacy’ model breaking EU rules

Brussels, Belgium—The European Union (EU) accused Facebook owner Meta on Monday of breaching the bloc's digital rules, paving the way for potential fines worth...
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