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Meta’s Oversight Board separates death threats and ‘aspirational statements’ in Venezuela
05 Sep

Meta’s Oversight Board separates death threats and ‘aspirational statements’ in Venezuela

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Meta’s Oversight Board has weighed in on the company’s content moderation policies in Venezuela amid violent crackdowns and widespread protests following the country’s disputed presidential election. In its decision, the board said that Facebook users posting about the state-supported armed groups known as “colectivos” should have more leeway in making statements like “kill those damn colectivos.”The company asked the Oversight Board for guidance on the issue last month, noting that its moderators had seen an “influx” of “anti-colectivos content” in the wake of the election. Meta specifically asked for the board’s input on two posts: an Instagram post with the…
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Mark Zuckerberg Vows to Be Neutral–While Tossing Gifts to Trump and the GOP
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…
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Threads is making fediverse replies more visible in its app
28 Aug

Threads is making fediverse replies more visible in its app

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Over the last six months, Meta has slowly begun to make good on its promise to make Threads compatible with the fediverse. The app allows users to share their posts to Mastodon and other Activity Pub-enabled services and began originating on those services earlier this summer.Now, Threads is making those replies even by allowing users who have opted in to fediverse sharing to see replies on other people’s posts. With the change, a new “fediverse replies” section will appear underneath posts that have drawn replies from Mastodon servers and other federated accounts. ThreadsPractically, this means that a lot more fediverse…
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Meta took down WhatsApp accounts connected to Iranian hackers targeting the US election
25 Aug

Meta took down WhatsApp accounts connected to Iranian hackers targeting the US election

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Meta has blocked WhatsApp accounts involved in "a small cluster of likely social engineering activity" on the service. In its report, it has revealed that it traced the activity to APT42 (also called UNC788 and Mint Sandstorm), which the FBI previously linked to a phishing campaign that targeted members of the Trump and Harris camps. The company said that the suspicious activity on WhatsApp "attempted to target individuals in Israel, Palestine, Iran, the United States and the UK." It also seemed to have focused on political and diplomatic officials, which included people associated with both presidential candidates.The bad actors on…
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Threads is testing disappearing posts that expire after 24 hours
24 Aug

Threads is testing disappearing posts that expire after 24 hours

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Threads is testing the option for users to put a 24-hour expiration timer on their posts, after which the post and all replies would disappear, Stories-style. A spokesperson confirmed to that the feature is being tested among a group of users after it was first spotted earlier this summer by developer . It sounds a lot like pre-X Twitter’s Fleets, . But, the ephemeral format could save habitual post-deleters some trouble.It comes a few months after Instagram head Adam Mosseri shared that Threads was . That optional feature would let users designate a date for their posts to be hidden…
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Meta has reportedly killed its Apple Vision Pro competitor
23 Aug

Meta has reportedly killed its Apple Vision Pro competitor

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Meta has canceled its plans for a long-rumored mixed-reality headset that was intended to compete with the Apple Vision Pro, according to reporting by The Information. The company told employees at Reality Labs to stop working on the device after a product review meeting attended by CEO Mark Zuckerberg, as cited by Meta staffers.The headset was internally referred to as La Jolla and was reportedly supposed to release in 2027. This mixed-reality device was allegedly heads and shoulders above the Quest 3, with ultra-crisp micro OLED displays. This is the same display technology used in the Apple Vision Pro.Reporting indicates…
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Meta puts Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas VR on ice
17 Aug

Meta puts Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas VR on ice

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Here’s some bad news for those longing to run over civilians in a monster truck while in virtual reality. The VR-focused remake of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is “on hold indefinitely,” .This refresh was announced three years ago and . Here we are, deep in the , and nothing. In other words, the news isn’t exactly surprising. This doesn’t mean the project will never come to fruition, but the words “on hold indefinitely” doesn’t inspire us with hope.“GTA: San Andreas is on hold indefinitely while we both focus on other projects," Meta Quest VR's official YouTube of an unrelated…
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EU regulators question Meta about the shutdown of CrowdTangle
17 Aug

EU regulators question Meta about the shutdown of CrowdTangle

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Meta’s decision to shut down CrowdTangle, an analytics tool that was an “invaluable” resource to the research community, is drawing fresh scrutiny from European Union regulators. The EU Commission, which had already raised concerns about the social network’s plan to discontinue the tool ahead of global elections in 2024, is now pressing Meta for more details about its work with researchers.The EU Commission previously cited the impending shutdown of CrowdTangle as part of a broader investigation into the company’s handling of disinformation campaigns and election-related policies. Now, just days after CrowdTangle was shut off despite pleas from researchers and civil…
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A fake political group that recruited a real candidate in Montana got banned on Facebook
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…
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Threads introduces a new analytics platform and the option for multiple drafts
16 Aug

Threads introduces a new analytics platform and the option for multiple drafts

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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg just announced some new features coming to Threads that should make it easier for creators and businesses to build followings and connect with fans. The biggest tool is something called Insights, which is basically an analytics platform.Insights gives users a zoom-in view on traffic, with data on the age, gender and location of people who view and engage with content. This information can also be split up into followers and non-followers, to help with conversion. MetaMeta has been testing Insights for a few days now and it looks fairly useful, particularly for folks with large followings.…
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