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Campaigners Fear Spike in Hate Speech as Meta Lifts Restrictions
The latest version of Meta’s community guidelines said its platforms — which include Facebook and Instagram — would now permit users to accuse people of “mental illness or abnormality” based on their gender or sexual…
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Meta Announces Changes To Facebook And Instagram’s Fact-Checking Policy
The company is ending its fact-checking program and replacing it with a community-driven system similar to X’s Community Notes.
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Australia Moves To Ban Children Under 16 From Social Media
Australia’s prime minister has vowed to ban children under 16 from social media, saying the pervasive influence of platforms like Facebook and TikTok was “doing real harm to our kids”.
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Meta Beats Revenue And Profit Expectations in Third Quarter
Meta, which is also the parent company of Instagram and WhatsApp, said net income in the third quarter was $15.7 billion — up 35 percent on the same period last year.
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Facebook owner Meta to launch Twitter-like ‘Threads’ app
“Threads is where communities come together to discuss everything from the topics you care about today to what’ll be trending tomorrow,” says the app’s description on the store.
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Kenya court orders suspension of mass layoff of Facebook moderators
A total of 184 moderators employed in Nairobi by Sama, an outsourcing firm for Meta, filed a lawsuit in March, claiming their dismissal was “unlawful”.
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Facebook owner Meta to lay off 11,000 staff
Facebook owner Meta will lay off more than 11,000 of its staff in “the most difficult changes we’ve made in Meta’s history”, boss Mark Zuckerberg said on Wednesday
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Kenya: Wanaotafuta kazi mawindo rahisi kwa walaghai mtandaoni
Matangazo mengi ya nafasi za ajira zina dalili zinazofanana: zina makataa mafupi, huahidi mishahara mikubwa na mara nyingi hujumuisha kiungo kwenye jukwaa la nje la mtandao linaloomba maelezo ya kibinafsi.
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Urusi yawawekea marufuku ya kusafiri Kamala Harris na Zuckerberg
Urusi ilipiga marufuku ya kusafiri kwa Makamu wa Rais wa Amerika Kamala Harris, mkuu wa Facebook Mark Zuckerberg na makumi ya Wamarekani mashuhuri na Wacanada kulipiza kisasi kwa vikwazo vilivyowekwa juu ya uvamazi wao nchini…
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Meta agrees to pay $90m in suit against Facebook for tracking users
The suit alleged the social media giant violated privacy guidelines by tracking its users’ visits to outside web pages that contained Facebook “like” buttons in order to better target ads.
