Filed Under: “Facebook”

Newspapers’ lawsuit against Facebook and Google shows courts may be best for reining in tech abuses

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An online ad marketplace stripped of surveillance can thrive, but it will not happen without government intervention


Falsehoods about climate change run rampant on Facebook, study finds

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Facebook’s refusal to fact-check lies and misinformation about climate change show it is ‘the Big Tobacco of our generation,’ one group says


Facebook is blocking researchers from studying its misinformation problem

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How big of a problem is misinformation on social media? Without key data, the picture is blurry


Facebook leaks detail damage the company does, but also suggest some ways to possibly lessen it

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A first step toward making social media better is to have governments impose effective safety measures Facebook rejected


‘Facebook papers’ spur global outrage and calls to break up tech behemoth

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Internal documents reveal Facebook ignored employee concerns about the site promoting violence, harming children, and spreading lies


Whistleblower confirms: Facebook deliberately chose to promote violent and hateful content

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Facebook suppressed internal research that showed harmful effects of its products


New FTC lawsuit against Facebook shows Biden administration is getting serious about anti-trust

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Antitrust experts welcome FTC lawsuit seeking to force social media giant to divest WhatsApp and Instagram


Facebook cut off accounts of disinformation researchers examining political advertising

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Social media giant cited fake concerns over privacy to stop academics from building list of why users were shown specific political ads


Federal Trade Commission setback in case against Facebook shows why anti-trust reform laws are needed

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Facebook is a monopoly, but the current law on the books isn’t modern enough to create a solution to the problem


Facebook allowed conservative activists to run fake Green Party page

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Social media giant took no action after determining right-wing group was posing as environmental advocates


 

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