Democrat lawmakers have called on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to drop his plans for an “Instagram for Kids” app following recently released internal research by Instagram that showed that the platform has had a terrible effect on the mental health of its teenage users, especially girls.
MSNBC “Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough on Wednesday reacted to a Wall Street Journal report saying social media giant Facebook is aware its Instagram platform was bad for teenagers.
Three-quarters of Americans believe that big tech companies avoid regulation by having too much influence in Washington, DC, according to a poll released Tuesday.
According to a recent report from the Wall Street Journal, social media giant Facebook is aware that its Instagram photo-sharing platform can have a negative effect on the body image of young women. One of Instagram’s internal presentations admits: “We make body image issues worse for one in three teen girls.”
Facebook maintains a whitelist of elite users that are subject to less stringent rules than others using the platform, according to leaked materials provided to the Wall Street Journal.
Social media giant Facebook has announced a plan to purchase $100 million worth of unpaid invoices from small businesses owned by women and minorities to support them. Mark Zuckerberg’s company is expected to support the cash flow of 30,000 small businesses owned by women and minorities through this commitment.
Social media giant Facebook has reportedly partnered with sunglasses manufacturer Ray-Ban to create sunglasses that can secretly record people. The product is the latest in a long line of Facebook innovations that invade the privacy of Americans.
Governor of Texas Greg Abbott (R) has signed a bill into law aimed at stopping social media companies from censoring their users on the basis of their political viewpoints. The law designates the Masters of the Universe as common carriers, a crucial legal distinction in the fight against political censorship.
Australia’s High Court ruled on Wednesday that media companies are liable for defamatory comments posted to their Facebook pages by readers, a decision that will further complicate the worldwide debate about whether social media platforms should have the same legal obligations as publishers.
Tech giant Facebook has recently complained of a “trust deficit” between the social media giant and its userbase as it attempts to launch a new digital wallet. The Masters of the Universe believe they will need to “compensate” for this lack of trust to convince consumers to let Mark Zuckerberg take over their finances.
In a recent article, ProPublica outlines how it believes Facebook undermines the privacy of its two billion WhatsApp users worldwide.
The British government is said to be planning a advertising push against encrypted messaging apps such for supposedly subverting police.
Facebook users who watched a video from a British newspaper showing black men received an automated prompt from the social media platform asking if they wanted to “keep seeing videos about Primates,” according to the New York Times.
The Irish data protection commissioner has fined the Facebook-owned messaging app WhatsApp €225 million euro (approximately $266 million dollars) for “severe” breaches of privacy laws.
After being halted by Democrat lawmakers’ boycott of the state legislature earlier this year, a bill aimed at reining in Big Tech censorship introduced by Republican lawmakers in Texas looks set to pass.
On Wednesday, Lt. Gov. Will Ainsworth (R-AL) revealed on Twitter that Facebook had removed his post calling on the impeachment of President Joe Biden, declaring the post went against their “Community Standards on violence and incitement.”
Former President Donald Trump endorsed Tuesday a post on Facebook from Shana Chappell, the mother of one of the U.S. Marines killed by a suicide bomber in Afghanistan last week.
Facebook will adjust its algorithm to reduce the visibility of political posts, according to a report in Axios, a move that will hurt the top-performing political pages on the platform — most of which are conservative.
Shana Chappell, the mother of a U.S. Marine killed by a Taliban suicide bomber in Afghanistan last week, excoriated President Joe Biden on social media after meeting him in Dover.
Shana Chappell, mother of U.S. marine Kareem Nikoui, 20, who was killed in the recent Kabul attack, says Facebook disabled her Instagram account after she posted a picture and message about her son.
In a recent article, the Washington Post outlines how deeply ingrained Facebook has become to parts of people’s everyday lives, even if they don’t actively use the platform. According to the Post, Facebook trackers are built into 61 of the 100 most popular smartphone apps, and their trackers watch what you do on 25 percent of websites.
A recent report from the New York Times claims that Facebook has been contacting academics in an effort to create a group to advise it on election-related decisions. It is expected that the Masters of the Universe will announce their election commission in advance of the 2022 midterm elections.
Facebook buried data showing that a story reported in establishment news outlets about the death of a healthy doctor who took Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine was the most-viewed on the platform in the first quarter of 2021, according to a report in the New York Times.
Multiple leftist foundations have come together to criticize social media giant Facebook for its recent banning of the accounts of New York University researchers investigating advertising and disinformation on the platform.
The Federal Trade Commission has reportedly filed another antitrust complaint against Facebook, alleging that the social media giant is an illegal monopoly. A federal judged dismissed the agency’s previous complaint against Mark Zuckerberg and the Masters of the Universe.
Facebook has taken action against the so-called “disinformation dozen,” a set of accounts publicly identified by the Biden White House as responsible for the majority of alleged coronavirus “disinformation” on the platform.
This week, Facebook announced Horizon Workrooms, a free app for its Oculus Quest 2 virtual reality headset that marks the company’s latest attempts to bring the modern workplace into the virtual world.
The Taliban believe they are in a position to lecture Silicon Valley, and by extension America, on free speech. Are they wrong?
Facebook will ban users and delete “hateful” comments made against Lizzo on the platform and on her Instagram after the Joe Biden-backer pro-defund police pop star ranted about what she called “fatphobic” and “racist” remarks left on her page by users.
Taliban leaders have made it clear they are in no mood for a lecture from the West on the issue of free speech.
Twitter said in a statement on Tuesday that the Taliban will be allowed to stay on its social media platform, as long as they don’t get overly violent. The company claims it will “proactively enforce our rules” but stopped short of saying it would blacklist the Taliban, as Facebook did today.
Facebook has banned official Taliban accounts and any content promoting the terrorist group from all of its platforms including Instagram, and WhatsApp. A Facebook spokesperson said: “The Taliban is sanctioned as a terrorist organization under U.S. law and we have banned them from our services under our Dangerous Organization policies.”
Research group AlgorithmWatch was recently forced to end its Instagram algorithm monitoring project following fears of legal repercussions from tech giant Facebook.
The social media giant Facebook has delayed the return of its U.S. employees to company offices until January 2022.
Facebook took down a video of an Australian MP, George Christensen, speaking out in parliament against coronavirus lockdowns.
Three Australian lifestyle content publishers have reportedly accused social media giant Facebook of using their articles on its news service after refusing to negotiate licensing deals.
E-commerce giant Amazon is reportedly offering workers prizes including $500,000 in cash, a car, and vacation packages in a lottery that employees can only enter by providing proof of coronavirus vaccination.
Former Pentagon Chief of Staff Kash Patel is taking on the establishment media and Big Tech for defaming him and other defenders of former President Donald Trump with a new legal “offense” trust he recently launched.
Facebook has reworked its privacy settings once again, making it even harder to locate them in multiple menus across the app. The Masters of the Universe claim that scattering privacy settings into multiple different categories matches “people’s mental models.”
Corporate and political elites use “fact-checker” organizations such as NewsGuard to undermine dissident news media outlets, explained Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow and PragerU CEO Marissa Streit in a conversation about digital censorship streamed on Tuesday.
