Collaborate Disseminate
Meta plans to “temporarily” shut down Threads in Turkey from April 29, in response to an interim injunction prohibiting data sharing with Instagram. TechCrunch reports: The Turkish Competition Authority (TCA), known as Rekabet Kurumu, noted on March 18… Continue reading Meta To Close Threads In Turkey To Comply With Injunction
Facebook Messenger now allows users to send HD photos and bigger files, and shared albums are also coming to group chats in the coming weeks.
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Meta Platforms is planning to launch two small versions of its forthcoming Llama 3 large-language model next week, The Information has reported [non-paywalled link]. From the report: The models will serve as a precursor to the launch of the biggest ver… Continue reading Meta Platforms To Launch Small Versions of Llama 3 Next Week
TechCrunch reports this week that Meta “is denying that it gave Netflix access to users’ private messages…”
The claim references a court filing that emerged as part of the discovery process in a class-action lawsuit over data privacy practices betwe… Continue reading Meta (Again) Denies Netflix Read Facebook Users’ Private Messenger Messages
The European Commission (EC) is moving swiftly to address Digital Markets Act (DMA) compliance violations that it says are at odds with the letter of the law.
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New documents from a class action against Meta “reveal some of the specific ways it tackled rivals in recent years,” reports the Observer.
“One of them was using software made by a mobile data analytics company called Onavo in 2016 to access user act… Continue reading Meta Used Spyware to Access Its Users’ Activities on Rival Platforms
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Gizmodo: Do you remember Facebook Watch? Me neither. Mark Zuckerberg’s short-lived streaming service never really got off the ground, but court filings unsealed in Meta’s antitrust lawsuit claim “Watch” was knee… Continue reading Facebook Allegedly Killed Its Own Streaming Service To Help Sell Netflix Ads
Meta is ready to slash the price of its ads-free experience for Instagram and Facebook in the EU by almost half to comply with the EU’s DMA.
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Oh, how the mighty have fallen. A decade ago, social media was celebrated for sparking democratic uprisings in the Arab world and beyond. Now front pages are splashed with stories of social platforms’ role in misinformation, business conspiracy, malfeasance, and risks to mental health. In a 2022 survey, Americans blamed social media for the coarsening of our political discourse, the spread of misinformation, and the increase in partisan polarization.
Today, tech’s darling is artificial intelligence. Like social media, it has the potential to change the world in many ways, some favorable to democracy. But at the same time, it has the potential to do incredible damage to society…
Monday’s case has major ramifications for the relationship between the government and social media platforms and policing disinformation.
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