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Oversight Board: How Meta should tackle abortion misinformation on Facebook and Instagram | Slate

August 1, 2023

In March, a member of an anti-abortion Facebook group shared a post describing what it claimed was “pro-abortion logic”: “We don’t want you to be poor, starved or unwanted. So […]
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Is it possible that Facebook didn’t destroy American democracy? | The Atlantic

August 1, 2023

“DEMOCRACY INTERCEPTED,” reads the headline of a new special package in the journal Science. “Did platform feeds sow the seeds of deep divisions during the 2020 US presidential election?” Big […]
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The Metaverse, Zuckerberg’s Tech Obsession, Is Officially Dead. ChatGPT Killed It | Business Insider

May 9, 2023

The Metaverse, the once-buzzy technology that promised to allow users to hang out awkwardly in a disorientating video-game-like world, has died after being abandoned by the business world. It was […]
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Meta Says it Doesn’t Need News Content, as Canada Pushes for New Publisher Revenue Share Regulations | Social Media Today

March 30, 2023

As Canada considers implementing a new, mandatory process that would force Meta and Google to negotiate commercial deals with local news publishers, as payment for benefiting from the use of […]
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Platforms Can Optimize for Metrics Beyond Engagement | WIRED

March 7, 2023

Social media, news, music, shopping, and other sites all rely on recommender systems: algorithms that personalize what each individual user sees. These systems are largely driven by predictions of what each […]
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Where did Facebook’s funding for journalism really go? | Columbia Journalism Review

February 28, 2023

“People want more local news, and local newsrooms are looking for more support,” Campbell Brown wrote in 2019 when Meta (then Facebook) announced its three-year, $300 million commitment to global […]
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Experts grade Facebook, TikTok, Twitter, YouTube on readiness to handle midterm election misinformation | The Conversation

October 19, 2022

The 2016 U.S. election was a wake-up call about the dangers of political misinformation on social media. With two more election cycles rife with misinformation under their belts, social media […]
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Meta, TikTok, YouTube and Twitter dodge questions on social media and national security | TechCrunch

September 15, 2022

Executives from four of the biggest social media companies testified before the Senate Homeland Security Committee Wednesday, defending their platforms and their respective safety, privacy and moderation failures in recent […]
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Republican candidates are spreading more fake news than just two years ago | The Washington Post

August 30, 2022

Over the last several years, there’s been a considerable increase in media coverage about misinformation and conspiracy theories in politics. The media has routinely reported on these falsehoods, making it […]
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Meta Oversight Board to rule on COVID-19 misinformation policy | Poynter

August 1, 2022

Meta has asked its Oversight Board whether its existing policy on the removal of COVID-19 misinformation — “introduced in extraordinary circumstances at the onset of the pandemic” — should be […]
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