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Meta Charged For Breaching EU Tech Rules Over Pay Or Consent Model

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Meta Charged For Breaching EU Tech Rules Over Pay Or Consent Model

Meta said its model complied with a ruling from Europe’s top court. (Representational) Meta Platforms was charged by EU antitrust regulators on Monday for failing to comply with landmark tech rules as they took aim at the US company’s newly introduced pay or consent advertising model, already the target of privacy regulators and activists’ ire….

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Instagram Suffer Major Outage Globally, Including In India

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Instagram Suffer Major Outage Globally, Including In India

About 58 per cent reported problems with the feed. New Delhi: Meta-owned Instagram on Saturday suffered a major outage globally, including in India, as thousands of users were unable to load Reels and access other options. As per website outage tracking website Downdetector, over 6,500 users reported issues with accessing the platform in India at…

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Meta Took Down Over 17 Million Objectionable Content In India In April

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Meta Took Down Over 17 Million Objectionable Content In India In April

Meta shared the data in its monthly report. (representational) New Delhi: Meta said that it took down over 11.6 million pieces of bad content across 13 policies for Facebook and more than 5.4 million pieces of objectionable content across 12 policies for Instagram in India in April. In April, Facebook received 17,124 reports through the…

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Kota Cops Tie Up With Facebook-Parent Meta To Prevent Student Suicides

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Kota Cops Tie Up With Facebook-Parent Meta To Prevent Student Suicides

Meta was happy to oblige but said they cannot specifically concentrate only on Kota, cops said. Kota: The Kota police have tied up with Meta to identify students exhibiting suicidal tendencies on the company’s social media platforms, Facebook and Instagram, allowing for their timely intervention. Since the collaboration a week back, the police claim they…

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US Gun Violence Victims’ Families Sue ‘Call Of Duty’ Maker

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US Gun Violence Victims’ Families Sue ‘Call Of Duty’ Maker

The lawsuit also claimed that the game features the AR-15 used in the shooting. (representational) New York: Meta and Call of Duty (CoD) game developer Activision have been sued by the families of the victims killed in a US school shooting over alleged promotion of the use of firearms to minors. In May 2022, an…

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Mark Zuckerberg, With $1 Base Salary, Received Over $24 Million In “Other Compensation” In 2023

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Mark Zuckerberg, With Base Salary, Received Over Million In “Other Compensation” In 2023

File photo Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg took home a salary of just $1 in 2023, the lowest among all Meta employees. However, he received about $24.4 million in other compensation, primarily covering security costs. Details on the exact amount spent on his security were not revealed, but Meta increased its budget for his security to $14 million in 2023,…

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Celebrity Investment Scam Victims In Japan Sue Facebook, Seek $148,000 In Damages

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Celebrity Investment Scam Victims In Japan Sue Facebook, Seek 8,000 In Damages

Representational Image Tokyo: Four scam victims in Japan sued Facebook on Thursday after being hoodwinked by fraudulent online investment ads that used images of celebrities without their consent, their lawyer said. Online hoaxes posted on Facebook and other social media channels in Japan led to 27.8 billion yen ($178 million) in losses last year, according…

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Big Tech in ‘underground’ race to license archives that will train Artificial Intelligence

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Big Tech in ‘underground’ race to license archives that will train Artificial Intelligence

Ted Leonard, Chief Executive Officer of Photobucket. File | Photo Credit: Reuters At its peak in the early 2000s, Photobucket was the world’s top image-hosting site. The media backbone for once-hot services such as Myspace and Friendster, it boasted 70 million users and accounted for nearly half of the U.S. online photo market. Today only…

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Facebook, Instagram Owner Meta To Start Labeling AI-Generated Content To Fight Deepfakes

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Facebook, Instagram Owner Meta To Start Labeling AI-Generated Content To Fight Deepfakes

Representational Image New York: Facebook owner Meta announced major changes to its policies on digitally created and altered media on Friday, ahead of US elections poised to test its ability to police deceptive content generated by new artificial intelligence technologies. The social media giant will start applying “Made with AI” labels in May to AI-generated…

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WhatsApp down for thousands, Downdetector shows

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WhatsApp down for thousands, Downdetector shows

There were more than 17,000 incidents of users reporting issues with WhatsApp, according to Downdetector. | Photo Credit: Reuters Meta Platforms-owned WhatsApp was down for thousands of users on April 3, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com. There were about 12,000 incidents of U.S. users reporting issues with the messaging platform, according to Downdetector, which…

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