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Suit says Meta board 'turned blind eye' to human trafficking

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Mar 22 09:43 AM

A shareholder lawsuit filed late Monday accuses board members of Instagram and Facebook parent Meta of shirking their duties by ignoring human and sex trafficking on the tech giant's social platforms. Read more »

Meta maps way to 'kill' online deception campaigns

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Mar 17 10:27 AM

Meta released a framework for exposing and combating malicious online campaigns from election lies to terrorist recruitment. Read more »

Meta axes 10,000 jobs in new round of cuts

Agence France Presse
Updated as of Mar 14 10:36 PM

Facebook owner Meta announced a wave of job cuts on Tuesday, part of what CEO Mark Zuckerberg called the company's "year of efficiency" as the US tech sector continues to downsize. Read more »

Meta considers launching potential Twitter rival

Deutsche Welle
Updated as of Mar 12 01:26 PM

The Facebook owner announced it was working on a "text sharing" platform. It comes at a time when Twitter faces unprecedented turmoil. Read more »

Facebook, Instagram roll out paid subscription in Australia, New Zealand

Andrew Beatty, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Feb 24 11:11 AM

Facebook and Instagram began a week-long rollout of their first paid verification service on Friday. Read more »

Meta shutters fake account 'cheerleaders' for Cuban, Bolivian governments

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Feb 24 03:12 AM

California-based Meta launched a probe last year into the two fake news rings, which it said had no ties to one another. Read more »

Tens of millions still use Instagram in Iran despite crackdown: Meta

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Feb 23 10:13 PM

Meta said that tens of millions of people in Iran are using Instagram despite government efforts to block the service due to months-long protests. Read more »

Meta subscriber plan risks digital divide, say critics

Agence France Presse
Posted at Feb 21 07:19 AM

Years after Facebook quietly removed a slogan that declared the site was "free and always will be", parent company Meta announced on Sunday a paid-for subscription service that has already been widely criticised. Read more »

Meta launches paid subscription, for whom and why?

Julie Jammot, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Feb 20 11:54 AM

The new service will cost $11.99 a month for users who sign up via the Internet and $14.99 for those using mobile apps. Read more »

Facebook-owner Meta to roll out paid subscription

Agence France Presse
Posted at Feb 20 05:25 AM

Facebook and Instagram owner Meta will launch a paid subscription service starting at $11.99 a month allowing users to verify their accounts, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Sunday. Read more »

Meta boosts online safety education for teens via webtoons

Jessica Fenol, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 16 04:16 PM

Meta said Thursday it has developed 3 new interactive webtoons in a bid to educate and protect teenagers online. Read more »

Meta completes virtual reality deal after US court win

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 10 08:28 AM

Facebook-owner Meta finalized its buyout of virtual reality firm Within Unlimited, the VR company's chief executive said, after a court rejected an attempt by US regulators to block the deal over competition concerns. Read more »

Biden accuses social media companies of exploiting children

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Feb 08 03:10 PM

President Joe Biden called on US lawmakers to restrict how social media companies lure children and collect their data. Read more »

Fakes on Facebook: Energy scammers plague FB

Anuj Chopra, with Lucille Sodipe and Faith Brown in Manila and Gemma Cahya in Jakarta, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Feb 08 11:04 AM

AFP's fact checkers have uncovered a slew of energy-related scams proliferating on Facebook including the sale of dud devices in the Philippines. Read more »

Rate hikes and tech optimism send stocks higher

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Feb 03 08:24 AM

European and US stock markets mostly rose on Thursday after the European Central Bank and Bank of England raised interest rates, joining the US Federal Reserve in moving once again to cool sky-high inflation amid a less dire outlook. Read more »

Google, Apple disappoint as tech earnings hit by gloom

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Feb 03 08:15 AM

Google and Apple reported downbeat results for the last quarter of 2022 as Amazon beat expectations, but warned that the coming months would be uncertain in a difficult moment for Big Tech. Read more »

Meta reports sales fall, but beats expectations

Glenn Chapman, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Feb 02 07:34 AM

Facebook and Instagram owner Meta on Wednesday reported its first annual sales drop since the company went public in 2012, but the fall was less brutal than expected, sending its share price soaring. Read more »

Trump to be allowed back on Facebook, Instagram

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 26 07:15 AM

Meta announced Tuesday that it would soon reinstate with "new guardrails" former president Donald Trump's accounts on Facebook and Instagram, which have been banned since the US Capitol riot in January 2021. Read more »

Meta says reviewing call to make adult nudity policies more inclusive

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 20 11:04 AM

Meta was reviewing a call by its oversight board to make its policies on adult nudity more inclusive, a spokesperson, after the tech giant removed two Instagram posts showing transgender and non-binary people with their chests bared. Read more »

Microsoft to cut staff again: reports

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 18 10:07 AM

Microsoft is readying to cut more positions from its global workforce as tech giants continue paring headcount to ride out rough economic conditions, according to media reports. Read more »