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Facebook’s Supreme Court Receives an Appeal Every 24 Seconds
Meta’s Oversight Board, the Supreme Court-esque body formed as a check on Facebook and Instagram’s content moderation decisions, received nearly 1.3 million appeals to the tech giant’s decisions last year. That mammoth figure amounts to an appeal every 24 seconds, 3,537 cases a day. The vast majority of those appeals involved alleged violations of just…
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Facebook Threatens to Nuke News in California if Forced to Pay Publishers
Facebook and Instagram say a bill forcing them to pay publishers a journalism usage fee amounts to a ‘slush fund’ for a Big Media boogeyman.
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Meta Begins Its Next Round of Mass Layoffs
Meta is continuing with cuts this week, lopping off approximately 6,000 more of its workers in yet another round of mass layoffs. Most of these newest job losses are expected to impact people on the business side of Meta’s operations — including staff in ad sales, marketing, and partnerships — according to multiple reports and…
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Facebook and Instagram Fined €1.2 Billion, Ordered to Stop Sending EU Data to U.S.
Meta says the record-breaking fine under the GDPR will cost the company 10% of its global ad revenue.