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Social networking

February 2024

  • Brianna and Esther Ghey

    ‘Our kids are suffering’: calls for ban on social media to protect under-16s

  • A man speaks into microphones

    Instagram and Facebook delete the accounts of Iran’s supreme leader

  • Carole Cadwalladr

    When dead children are just the price of doing business, Zuckerberg’s apology is empty

    Carole Cadwalladr
  • 'Meta' on a white sign.

    Meta revenue soars as it pivots to AI and announces dividends for investors

January 2024

  • Various social media apps on a smartphone's home screen

    Instagram to scan under-18s’ messages to protect against ‘inappropriate images’

  • Illustration showing a framed photo of a couple, with social media logos surrounding them

    Digital afterlife – how to deal with social media accounts when someone dies

  • FILES-US-INTERNET-STOCKS-META-15YEARS-FACEBOOK<br>(FILES) In this file photo taken on September 29, 2020 shows the logo of the social network Instagram on a smartphone, in Toulouse, southwestern France. - Key chapters in the history of Facebook, the world's biggest social media application, which marks the tenth anniversary Wednesday of its stock market debut. Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg rang the opening bell remotely to cheers 10 years ago as the beloved social network made its stock market debut, culminating an all-night hackathon that included street hockey, costumes and music. The Silicon Valley tech colossus rebranded as Meta has since seen its image tainted by accusations it has become a tech tyrant, putting profit over user privacy and even the good of society. (Photo by Lionel BONAVENTURE / AFP) (Photo by LIONEL BONAVENTURE/AFP via Getty Images)

    Meta documents show 100,000 children sexually harassed daily on its platforms

  • Sheryl Sandberg speaks at Vanity Fair's 6th New Establishment summit in Beverly Hills, California, in 2019.

    $2bn woman: how Sheryl Sandberg became one of tech’s most successful bosses

  • Slew of deepfake video adverts of Sunak on Facebook raises alarm over AI risk to election

  • TV review
    Zuckerberg: King of the Metaverse review – it will make you even more terrified of the internet

  • Facebook and Instagram ran content sexualizing minors next to corporate ads, lawsuit says

  • Instagram and Facebook will hide more harmful content from teenagers

December 2023

  • Protesters unfurl the Palestinian flag in front of a sign with the Meta name, symbol and address.

    Meta censors pro-Palestinian views on a global scale, report claims

    Rights group says Facebook and Instagram routinely engage in ‘six key patterns of undue censorship’ of content supporting Palestine
  • Meta Rolls Out End-to-end Encryption On Facebook And Messenger, Warsaw, Poland - 08 Dec 2023<br>RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE Mandatory Credit: Photo by Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto/Shutterstock (14248662h) The Messenger logo is seen on a mobile device in this illustration photo taken on 08 December, 2023 in Warsaw, Poland. Meta Rolls Out End-to-end Encryption On Facebook And Messenger, Warsaw, Poland - 08 Dec 2023

    TechScape newsletter
    TechScape: Will Meta’s encryption plans be a ‘devastating blow’ to child safety online?

    The Facebook and Instagram owner is miles ahead of the competition, say regulators, who suggest that could change when it rolls out default end-to-end encryption for Messenger

    • Child safety groups and prosecutors criticize encryption of Facebook and Messenger

    • Rights and freedom
      Meta platforms are marketplaces for child predators claims lawsuit

    • TechScape newsletter
      Is Meta’s ad-free service just another way to make people pay for privacy?

November 2023

  • The deepfake scam video

    Scammer paid Facebook 7c per view to circulate video of deepfake Jim Chalmers and Gina Rinehart

    Video is designed to appear like A Current Affair interview and features altered versions of treasurer and rich listers
  • The Instagram and Facebook icons displayed on a mobile phone screen.

    Meta closes nearly 4,800 fake accounts in China that tried to polarize US voters

    Tech company said accounts impersonating Americans spread political content aiming to divide country ahead of election year
  • Dick Smith

    Dick Smith criticises Facebook after scammers circulate deepfake video ad

    Businessman warns people to ‘never ever’ purchase from advertisers on Facebook and Instagram after ‘totally fraudulent’ video appears
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