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Here’s How to Deactivate or Delete Your Facebook Account on PC, iOS or Android
Sick of Meta? You can quite easily deactivate or delete your Facebook account on PC, iOS or Android platforms. Here’s a step by step guide.
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Russian Trolls Are Using Under-Moderated Right-Wing Sites Like Truth Social to Post Manipulating Content
New research finds Russian groups targeted former President Donald Trump’s social media platform Truth Social during the 2022 midterm elections. The report, conducted by the Stanford Internet Observatory and Graphika, found that Russian groups have moved on from Facebook and Twitter, where they are largely blocked, to targeting conservative-based social media platforms including Gab, Gettr,…
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Meta Shares Tool to Detect Terrorist Content Online
Meta is introducing a new counter-terrorism tool. The news comes as the company will become chair of the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT)’s Operating Board next month. The GIFCT was founded by Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter, and YouTube in 2017 and has since become a non-governmental organisation (NGO) to tackle terrorism and violent extremism…
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It Turns Out Meta Won’t Shut Down the News After All
Meta and an assortment of public advocacy groups, normally at odds on just about everything, joined forces this week to oppose a major piece of legislation ostensibly aimed at giving news publications the power to collectively bargain with social media companies for more ad money. Flexing its muscle, Meta threatened to pull news from Instagram…