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Meta documents show 100,000 children sexually harassed daily on its platforms Employees fretted over company’s ‘negligible’ response to child grooming, according to internal documents made public in lawsuit
$2bn woman: how Sheryl Sandberg became one of tech’s most successful bosses Sandberg was once considered so critical to Facebook’s success that her exit was seen as potential risk to investors’ money
Slew of deepfake video adverts of Sunak on Facebook raises alarm over AI risk to election Research finds more than 100 paid ads impersonating PM were promoted on social media platform in last month
Facebook and Instagram ran content sexualizing minors next to corporate ads, lawsuit says Filing claims Meta did not adequately respond to Walmart and Match Group’s complaints of ‘deeply disturbing’ images and videos
Meta censors pro-Palestinian views on a global scale, report claims Rights group says Facebook and Instagram routinely engage in ‘six key patterns of undue censorship’ of content supporting Palestine
TechScape: Will Meta’s encryption plans be a ‘devastating blow’ to child safety online? The Facebook and Instagram owner is miles ahead of the competition, say regulators, who suggest that could change when it rolls out default end-to-end encryption for Messenger
Child safety groups and prosecutors criticize encryption of Facebook and Messenger Meta submitted nearly 95% of 29m reports of child sexual abuse material in 2022 and encryption will make it harder to detect
Meta platforms are marketplaces for child predators claims lawsuit Facebook and Instagram ‘enabled adults to find, message and groom minors’ for sexual exploitation, alleges state of New Mexico legal filing
Is Meta’s ad-free service just another way to make people pay for privacy? The owner of Instagram and Facebook thought an ad-free subscription service would satisfy European data cops – some advocacy groups aren’t so sure
Scammer paid Facebook 7c per view to circulate video of deepfake Jim Chalmers and Gina Rinehart Video is designed to appear like A Current Affair interview and features altered versions of treasurer and rich listers
A dead friend seemed to contact me on Facebook. The truth was sadder Social media ‘ghosts’ are increasingly common - and platforms have an incentive to keep those profiles up if they drive engagement
Meta deflects child harm inquiry by pointing to Apple and Google app stores As US Senate began looking at the firm’s failures to shield children, it called for laws requiring parental approval of app downloads
Meta allows Facebook and Instagram ads saying 2020 election was rigged Policy was reportedly introduced quietly in 2022 after the US midterm primary elections, according to the WSJ
How Scorsese, Coppola and Schrader went viral on social media Hollywood’s old guard have been finding a new audience through frank opinions, unlikely videos and fan interaction