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Meta withdraws ask for Oversight Board’s advice on Russia-Ukraine war | The Verge
by Alex Heath
May 12, 2022
Meta rescinded a request to have its own Oversight Board weigh in on content moderation policy related to the Russia-Ukraine…
Why researchers want broader access to social media data | Nieman Journalism Lab
by Teresa Carr
May 4, 2022
Within days of Russia’s recent invasion of Ukraine, several social media companies took steps to reduce the circulation of Russian…
Fleeing Russian bombs while battling Facebook. A Meta problem Ukrainian journalists did not need. | Coda Story
by Natalia Antelava
May 2, 2022
Valerii Garmash, a 42-year-old Ukrainian coder and entrepreneur, remembers the devastation Russians left behind in Slovyansk, his hometown in eastern…
Facebook Doesn’t Know What It Does With Your Data, Or Where It Goes: Leaked Document | VICE
by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
April 27, 2022
Facebook is facing what it describes internally as a “tsunami” of privacy regulations all over the world, which will force…
Facebook fact-checkers fight to debunk Ukraine war misinformation | The Washington Post
by Naomi Nix
April 13, 2022
First came a one-minute video taken on the streets of Bucha, a Kyiv suburb abandoned by retreating Russian forces. The…
An ‘Explosion’ of Anti-Ukraine Disinformation Is Hitting Moldova | WIRED
by Morgan Meaker
April 8, 2022
The video of the two men wrestling has been shared 41,000 times on Facebook, although the post was taken down…
Liberal government tables legislation to force online giants to compensate news outlets | CBC News
by John Paul Tasker
April 7, 2022
The federal Liberal government introduced legislation Tuesday to force digital giants to compensate news publishers for the use of their…
Facebook may crack down on Russian government accounts to fight disinformation | Engadget
by K.Bell
April 7, 2022
Facebook says it’s eyeing new ways to limit the influence of official Russian government accounts as it sees a surge…
Facebook News Feed bug mistakenly elevates misinformation, Russian state media | The Verge
by Alex Heath
March 31, 2022
A group of Facebook engineers identified a “massive ranking failure” that exposed as much as half of all News Feed…