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July 2024

  • Meta Photo Illustrations, Athens, Greece - 23 Apr 2024<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Nikolas Kokovlis/NurPhoto/REX/Shutterstock (14446891a) The Meta logo is being displayed on a smartphone screen and on a computer screen in Athens, Greece, on April 23, 2024. Meta Photo Illustrations, Athens, Greece - 23 Apr 2024

    Meta expands hate speech policy to remove more posts targeting 'Zionists'

    Meta says it would remove content ‘attacking “Zionists” when it is not explicitly about the political movement’
  • Meta logo is seen on a phone screen

    Meta claims news is not an antidote to misinformation on its platforms

    Company says it has ‘never thought about news’ as a way to counter misleading content on Facebook and Instagram despite evidence to the contrary

    • ‘Blunt-force approach’: LGBTQ+ advocates say proposed teen social media ban overlooks benefits

    • FarmVille at 15: how a cutesy Facebook game shaped the modern internet

    • Meta accused of breaking EU digital law by charging for ad-free social networks

June 2024

  • Alex Hern

    Could big tech eventually face its USSR moment and collapse completely?

    Alex Hern
  • Andrew Forrest

    Australian mining magnate Andrew Forrest can sue Meta over Facebook scam ads, US court rules

  • A man in a surgeon general's uniform speaks into a microphone

    US surgeon general calls for cigarette-style warnings on social media platforms

  • woman holding a cell phone in front of a Facebook logo

    My Facebook profile was hacked but all the platform offered was a faceless void

    Nicola Markus

  • Tories pursuing ‘ostrich strategy’ on Facebook campaign ads

  • ‘The first TikTok election’: are Sunak and Starmer’s digital campaigns winning over voters?

  • Labour is already dominating the online general election campaign

May 2024

  • AI generated image of Jesus with the body of a lobster

    Spam, junk … slop? The latest wave of AI behind the ‘zombie internet’

    Tech experts hope new term for carelessly automated AI webpages and images can illuminate its damaging impact
  • A bearded Jack Dorsey

    Jack Dorsey quits Bluesky board and urges users to stay on Elon Musk’s X

    Twitter co-founder’s decision to leave rival social network he helped start was apparently unexpected
  • Young man looking at a mobile phone

    Thinktank warns Australian misinformation laws should not be based on voluntary industry code

    Experts find ‘significant gaps between statement and practice’ of social media firms’ enforcement of standards

April 2024

  • Facebook logo on a smartphone screen

    Fears of Putin swinging elections behind EU’s Meta crackdown

    Action against Facebook owner comes amid concerns about how it is dealing with fake news
  • a smartphone with, among others, the Facebook and Instagram logos, with an EU flag in the background

    EU to investigate Meta over election misinformation before June polls

    Brussels to act later this week against Facebook and Instagram owner over policies on deceptive advertising and political content, reports say

    • Tory staff running network of anti-Ulez Facebook groups riddled with racism and abuse

    • Battle lines drawn as US states take on big tech with online child safety bills

    • Andrew Forrest accuses Facebook of ‘blatantly refusing’ to take action against scam ads

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