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30 Aug

Mark Zuckerberg Vows to Be Neutral–While Tossing Gifts to Trump and the GOP

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This week Mark Zuckerberg sent a letter to Jim Jordan, the chair of the House Judiciary Committee. For months, the GOP-led committee has been on a crusade to prove that Meta, via its once-eponymous Facebook app, engaged in political sabotage by taking down right-wing content. Its investigation has involved thousands of documents, and the committee interviewed multiple employees, which failed to locate a smoking gun. Now, under the guise of offering his take on the subject, Zuckerberg’s letter is a mea culpa where he seems to indicate that there was something to the GOP conspiracy theory.Specifically, he said that in…

16 Aug

A fake political group that recruited a real candidate in Montana got banned on Facebook

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Meta’s latest round of account takedowns includes a fake political group that ran dozens of dummy accounts in an attempt to recruit Americans to run for office. The social network detailed the scheme in its latest report on coordinated inauthentic behavior on its platform.According to Meta, the fake accounts, pages and Facebook groups were trying to prop up a fictitious political group called “Patriots Run Project,” that encouraged people to challenge Republican and Democratic “elites” by running for office. In all, Meta uncovered 124 Facebook accounts, pages and groups as well as three Instagram accounts. The group primarily targeted people…

16 Aug

Congress asks Mark Zuckerberg to explain why drug dealers are advertising on Facebook and Instagram

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Nineteen members of Congress Mark Zuckerberg to explain why Meta has allowed ads for cocaine, ecstasy and other drugs to be shown on Facebook and Instagram. The letter comes after the Tech Transparency Project (TTP) uncovered hundreds of such ads on the company’s platform.The letter points to the TTP’s report , which used Meta’s ad library to find 450 Instagram and Facebook ads “selling an array of pharmaceutical and other drugs.” Many of those ads included “photos of prescription drug bottles, piles of pills and powders, or bricks of cocaine,” and directed viewers to outside apps like Telegram. Since then,…

14 Aug

Meta killed Crowdtangle, an ‘invaluable’ research tool, because what it showed was inconvenient

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It’s the end of an era for social media research. Meta has shut down CrowdTangle, the analytics tool that for years helped tens of thousands of researchers, journalists and civil society groups understand how information was spreading on Facebook and Instagram.For a company that’s never been known for being transparent about its inner workings, CrowdTangle was an “invaluable” resource for those hoping to study Meta’s platform, says Brandi Geurkink, the executive director for the Coalition for Independent Technology Research. “It was one of the only windows that anybody had into how these platforms work,” Geurkink tells Engadget. “The fact that…

12 Aug

Social Media Platforms Are Harming a Generation of Kids

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Investigating the impact of platforms on child safety with Olivia Carville. Source link lol

08 Aug

Facebook will let creators remove account warnings if they complete ‘educational training’

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Meta is making it a little easier for creators to avoid the dreaded “Facebook jail.” The company announced a that will allow people with professional accounts to complete in-app “educational training” in order to avoid a strike on their account for first-time violations of the platform’s community standards.In a blog post announcing the change, Meta notes that it can be frustrating for creators to navigate the company’s , which restricts Facebook accounts from certain features, including monetization tools, after multiple offenses. Under the new rules, creators who receive a warning for a first-time offense will have the option to remove…

29 Jul

Instagram Will Let You Make Custom AI Chatbots—Even Ones Based on Yourself

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Over the past year, Meta has become an AI success story thanks to its decision to offer robust AI models for free. Last week, the company released a powerful version of its large language model Llama, providing developers, researchers, and startups with free access to a model comparable to the powerful paid model one behind OpenAI’s ChatGPT. The company says its new chatbots are all based on the latest version of Llama.And yet Meta has struggled to find the right tone and niche for its own AI offerings. Last September, the company launched a range of AI chatbots loosely based…

17 Jul

Meta gives researchers access to Instagram data for teen mental health study

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Serious concerns have been raised about the effect of social media on teenagers’ mental well-being. Meta is letting a group of researchers examine some of Instagram’s data to determine if social media is psychologically damaging younger users. reported that the Center for Open Science (COS) is launching a new joint pilot program with Meta to produce independent studies about how social media affects teenagers’ mental health.The program will conduct “independent academic” research using up to six months of Instagram data to determine the “potential positive or negative associations of Instagram use” among teens and young adults. The study will also examine…

17 Jul

Storing and Securing User Data: Methods Used by Facebook and Google

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Introduction The handling of user data is a critical aspect of operations for companies like Facebook and Google. With billions of users worldwide, these tech giants must employ advanced and sophisticated methods to store and secure data, ensuring privacy, integrity, and availability. This article explores the approaches and technologies used by Facebook and Google to manage user data, covering data storage, encryption, access control, regulatory compliance, and ongoing security measures. Data Storage Methods Facebook's Data Storage Techniques Facebook manages a vast amount of data generated by its users, including posts, messages, photos, and videos. To handle this efficiently, Facebook employs…

13 Jul

Meta rolls back restrictions on Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts

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Meta, the parent company of social media platforms such as Facebook and Instagram, has decided to remove restrictions placed on former President Donald Trump’s accounts.Meta updated its original statement announcing the end of Trump’s suspension on Facebook and Instagram in January of 2023 to reflect the Republican presumptive presidential nominee’s new online status. Axios first reported on the news.Meta removed Trump from all of its platforms following the attack on the US Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 amid “extreme and highly unusual circumstances,” according to Meta’s original statement.Seven people were killed as a result of violence on or collateral damage as…