Facebook failed to crack down on extremist content, report reveals 

Extremists have turned to Facebook as a weapon 'to promote their hate-filled agenda and rally supporters' on hundreds of groups, according to a new review by Virginia-based Politico.

Facebook Blocks Seven Malware Purveyors, Deletes Hundreds Of Accounts, Notifies 50,000 Potential Hacking Targets

Thanks to the ongoing onslaught of negative press involving malware merchants like Israel's NSO Group, tech companies whose devices and platforms have been used to deploy exploits targeting journalists, activists, and religious leaders are...

Islamic extremists sidestep Facebook’s content police

Despite the company’s claims to clamp down on violent hate speech, POLITICO discovered scores of groups supportive of either Islamic State or the Taliban.

Facebook whistleblower lands book deal

Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen is writing a book that will include “a critical examination of Facebook,” after revealing what critics say is damning information about the social media giant.

The Senate's Finsta Problem

Earlier this year we wrote about Senator Richard Blumenthal's viral "finsta" debacle in which he asked a Facebook executive to "end Finsta" as if (1) it was a product, or (2) it was "endable." Some people pushed back...

Virtual worlds, real people: human rights in the metaverse - Access Now

Access Now and EFF call on governments and companies to address the risks that XR technologies and the "metaverse" pose to human rights.

Instagram chief gets bipartisan grilling over harm to teens

Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle grilled Instagram chief Adam Mosseri Wednesday over steps his platform has taken to protect young users.

Trettebergstuens Facebookkritikk

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FBI Document Says the Feds Can Get Your WhatsApp Data — in Real Time https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/whatsapp-imessage-facebook-apple-fbi-privacy-1261816/ via @RollingStone - the document itself:...

Facebook’s Secret “Dangerous Organizations and Individuals” List Creates Problems for the Company—and Its Users

Along with the trove of "Facebook Papers" recently leaked to press outlets was a document that Facebook has, until now, kept intentionally secret: its list of "Dangerous Organizations and Individuals." This list comprises supposed terrorist...

Facebook (Again) Tells Law Enforcement That Setting Up Fake Accounts Violates Its Terms Of Use

Law enforcement agencies routinely engage in surveillance of social media accounts. Some of this is accomplished with third-party tools that use keywords and geofences to give cops info that may be relevant to investigations. These tools also give...

Frances Haugen will testify before Congress again this week

She will testify on possible changes to Section 230.

Content Moderation Case Studies: Facebook Suspends Account For Showing Topless Aboriginal Women (2016)

Summary: Facebook’s challenges of dealing with content moderation around “nudity” have been covered many times, but part of the reason the discussion comes up so often is that there are...

WhatsApp privacy policy tweaked in Europe after record fine

WhatsApp is rewriting policies to comply with regulator demands after being issued an enormous fine.

Instagram Founder's Instagram Locked When One Person Convinced Instagram He Had Died

We have talked a long, long time about how the concept of content moderation at the kind of scale of the largest internet and social media platforms is essentially impossible. But it's not just content moderation that is proving difficult for...

US states to investigate harm Instagram does to young people - SiliconANGLE

US states to investigate harm Instagram does to young people - SiliconANGLE

How to delete your Instagram account

It may be the only time you use Instagram on the web.

Tobacco industry is using Facebook to dodge rules, facilitates bidi sales

Facebook hosts at least 30 distinct pages for bidi companies, and many of these companies are utilising the social media platform to facilitate sales, according to a report released on Wednesday. The report titled "Selling Death on Social Media:...