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Russian officials accuse Meta of ‘overt censorship’ after global Instagram and Facebook ban | Science & Tech News
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Russian officials are accusing Meta of “overt censorship” after the company banned Russian state media networks from its apps. RT, Rossiya Segodnya and other state media accounts were blocked around the world over claims they carried out covert operations to influence social media users. The Russian Embassy in the UK has now told Sky News…
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Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and X failing to remove dangerous suicide and self-harm content – study | Science & Tech News
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Some of the biggest social media platforms are failing to detect and remove dangerous suicide and self-harm content, according to a study. The Molly Rose Foundation found that of more than 12 million content moderation decisions made by six of the biggest platforms, over 95% of them were detected and removed by only two sites…
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‘Is this Britain or Soviet Union?’: Elon Musk hits out after video appears to show man arrested for Facebook comments | UK News
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Elon Musk has ramped up his row with the UK as he branded the prime minister “two-tier Keir” and questioned if it was “Britain or the Soviet Union” after a man was apparently arrested over Facebook comments. The billionaire owner of X has been engaged in a war of words with Sir Keir Starmer over…
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Meta is planning to use your Facebook and Instagram posts to train AI – and not everyone can opt out | Science & Tech News
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If you have an Instagram or Facebook account in the UK or European Union, everything you share publicly on those platforms may soon be used to train artificial intelligence (AI). From today, Meta was going to use the posts to train its AI model, but it faced 11 legal challenges in Europe. The Irish Data Protection Commission…
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Meta shares take $125bn hit as Facebook owner raises spending forecasts | Business News
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Shares in Meta, the owner of Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram, have fallen sharply after the company revealed it had raised its cost forecast for the current year. Investors sent the stock 10% lower in after-hours trading in New York when Meta‘s first-quarter results showed further bills were expected to fund new artificial intelligence (AI) products…
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Meta’s AI tells Facebook user it has disabled, gifted child in response to parent asking for advice | Science & Tech News
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Meta’s AI has told a Facebook user it has a disabled child that was part of a New York gifted and talented programme. An anonymous parent posted in a private parenting group, asking for advice on which New York education programme would suit their child. They described the child as ‘2e’ which stands for twice-exceptional…
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Are Facebook and Instagram still down? Meta boss apologises for ‘technical issue’ which hit thousands of users | Science & Tech News
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Instagram, Facebook, Messenger and Threads suffered widespread problems on Tuesday afternoon, with users locked out of their accounts and pages failing to load properly. Facebook outages reported on Down Detector shot up just before 3pm, with more than 300,000 problems logged. More than 25,000 Instagram outages were also reported via the website, which collates status…
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Instagram and Facebook down for tens of thousands of users | Science & Tech News
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Instagram, Facebook, Messenger and Threads are experiencing widespread problems, locking users out of their accounts and failing to load properly. Facebook outages reported on Down Detector shot up just before 3pm, with more than 300,000 problems logged. More than 25,000 Instagram outages were also reported via the website, which collates status reports from several sources,…
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Facebook and Instagram to label all images on their platforms created by AI, Meta says | Science & Tech News
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Sir Nick Clegg – the politician turned Meta executive – says the lines between human and “synthetic content” is becoming “blurred”, as the social media giant announced it would label all AI images on its platforms. Meta, which owns Facebook, Instagram and Threads, has already been placing “Imagined with AI” labels on photorealistic images created…
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Facebook turns 20: From Mark Zuckerberg’s dormitory to a $1trn company | Science & Tech News
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Facebook is 20 years old today. On 4 February 2004 Mark Zuckerberg launched ‘thefacebook.com’ from his Harvard dormitory. Two decades later, many users struggle to remember a time they weren’t scrolling through its news feed – or that of its social media sibling, Instagram. While allowing us to find long-lost friends and family, and supporting…