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Meta Accused Of Human Trafficking and Union-Busting in Kenya | Time
by Billy Perrigo
May 11, 2022
Facebook’s parent company, Meta Platforms, and its largest outsourcing partner in Africa are facing new allegations of forced labor, human…
Meta Rethinks News Partnerships as Priorities Shift | The Information
by Sylvia Varnham O'Regan and Jessica Toonkel
May 11, 2022
Meta Platforms is considering reducing the money it gives news organizations as it reevaluates the partnerships it struck over the…
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…
Applied for Student Aid Online? Facebook Saw You | The Markup
by Surya Mattu and Colin Lecher
April 28, 2022
For millions of prospective college students, applying online for federal financial aid has also meant sharing personal data with Facebook,…
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…
Facebook paid Republican strategy firm to malign TikTok | The Washington Post
by Taylor Lorenz and Drew Harwell
March 31, 2022
Facebook parent company Meta is paying one of the biggest Republican consulting firms in the country to orchestrate a nationwide…
War in Ukraine is the latest platform moderation challenge | Columbia Journalism Review
by Matthew Ingram
March 31, 2022
On March 10, a Reuters headline announced that Facebook would temporarily change its content rules to allow users to post…