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Meta Abandons Hacking Victims, Draining Law Enforcement Resources, Officials Say
Forty-one state attorneys general penned a letter to Meta’s top attorney on Wednesday saying complaints are skyrocketing across the United…
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How to Turn Off Facebook’s Two-Factor Authentication Change
Meta changed how two-factor authentication works for Facebook and Instagram last year. You might have received notifications about this, but…
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A US-Sanctioned Oligarch Ran Pro-Kremlin Ads on Facebook—Again
Meta earned over $200,000 from an ad campaign, seen by millions, that pushed pro-Kremlin talking points and undermined local elections…
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How Not to Be Stupid About AI, With Yann LeCun
Once we get computers to match human-level intelligence, they won’t stop there. With deep knowledge, machine-level mathematical abilities, and better…
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Facebook Finally Puts a Price on Privacy: It’s $10 a Month
How much is privacy worth? Is a yearly subscription for a VPN justified? Is it better to pay with your…
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The 5 Instagram Features That US States Say Ruin Teens’ Mental Health
In 2019, Instagram’s top executive, Adam Mosseri, went on TV to describe how the Meta-owned social media app was “rethinking…
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A Doctored Biden Video Is a Test Case for Facebook’s Deepfake Policies
During the 2022 US midterm elections, a manipulated video of President Joe Biden circulated on Facebook. The original footage showed…
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Hey Zuck, Get Those Robots out of My Social Feed
When I bring up these concerns to Meta’s VP of generative AI, Ahmad Al-Dahle, post-keynote, he accuses me of having…
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Facebook Is Giving Up on News—Again
The Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill currently working its way through the UK Parliament could see Meta (as well…
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The UK Is Poised to Force a Bad Law on the Internet
Plenty of other ideas have also been tacked onto the bill. The current text includes age checks for porn sites…
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