Executives from Meta (Facebook, Instagram), X (formerly Twitter), TikTok, Discord and Snap appear before the US Senate this Wednesday to talk about the dangers of social networks for children and adolescents. They are accused of not doing enough to limit the risks of these platforms, such as sexual predators or teen suicide prevention. Several victims […]
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Türkiye fines Facebook US$159,000 a day until it changes advertising practices
Türkiye has imposed this Wednesday a daily fine of 4.8 million lire (currently about US$ 159,000 or 145,000 euros) on Meta, the parent company of Whatsapp, Instagram and Facebook, until it presents a plan to stop sharing user data between its different branches. The measure aims to force Meta to comply with the obligations imposed […]
More than 40 US states accuse Meta in court for harming the health of minors
A coalition of 41 states USA and the District of Columbia sued Meta (parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp) this Tuesday and argued that their social networks Instagram and Facebook are addictive and harmful for children. This legal action is the most significant effort by state authorities to stop the impact of social networks […]
Meta and Google boycott Web Summit technology summit for statements against Israel
Goal and Google They gave up attending the Web Summit, one of the largest technology events, after its organizer criticized Israel’s retaliation after the attacks by the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, both companies reported on Friday. A Meta spokesperson confirmed to AFP that the firm will not participate in the event, while Google told the […]
EU forces tech giants to comply with antitrust law
The European Commission (EC) forced this Wednesday Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, ByteDance, Meta and Microsoft to comply with the digital markets law, the new antitrust regulations with which the European Union (EU) wants to control the market power of big technology. All of them meet the requirements of having a turnover in Europe of at least […]
Internet giants subjected to unprecedented rules in the EU
the giants of Internet They must respond as of this Friday in the European Union to reinforced obligations of transparency and the fight against illegal contentunder penalty of significant fines, under a new law without precedent in the world. The ambitious Digital Services Law (LSD) is imposed as of this Friday on the 19 main […]
Meta initiates mediation with 184 workers who denounced illegal dismissals in Kenya
A group of 184 content moderators for Africa who denounced last March for alleged illegal dismissals in Kenya to Goalparent company of the social network Facebookagreed with the company to start a mediation process that started on Wednesday. “The parties should seek an out-of-court resolution of this petition through mediation,” indicates a consent document signed […]
Hypothetical fight between Musk and Zuckerberg will be in “an epic location” in Italy
The hypothetical fight that will face the owner of twitter, Elon Muskand the executive director of Meta, mark zuckerbergwill be held in “an epic location” of Italy after an agreement of the also owner of Tesla with the Italian government. “Everything that appears on camera will be from ancient Rome, so nothing modern. I spoke […]
Mark Zuckerberg says he is ready to fight Elon Musk in a ring
mark zuckerbergone of the founders of Facebook and the executive director of Meta, said in the last hours on Instagram that he is ready to fight against Elon Muskowner of Twitter, after the Tesla CEO joked about the idea of a mixed martial arts (MMA) cage match between the two. “send me the location“, wrote […]
Kenyan Facebook moderators say their work is ‘not for humans’
Trevin Brownie hasn’t forgotten his first day as content moderator for Facebookin the premises of a subcontracted company located in the capital of KenyaNairobi. “My first video was of a man committing suicide. […] Had a 2 or 3 year old playing next door. After the man hanged himself, after about two minutes, he understood […]