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Meta Reportedly Looking to Give Europeans an Ad-Free Option on Its Platforms
Meta is a multi-headed behemoth of a tech company, but for all its hungry maws, it is also somewhat predictable. Give it a problem like new regulations that will force it to be far more transparent about its targeted advertising business, and it will comply—but only on its own terms. The owner of Facebook and…
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Meta Discovers Its Biggest Misinfo Campaign Yet
Meta says it has identified and removed more than 7,700 shady accounts and 990 pages on Facebook linked to Chinese law enforcement in what the company is calling the “largest known cross-platform covert influence operation in the world.” The accounts, which tended to boost positive commentary about Chinese policies and negative posts about the US,…
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Google Promises It Will Be More Open About Its Ads
Google is pinky-swearing it will be more transparent in the future about how and why you keep seeing the same ads that seem to know you much better than you know yourself, though only if you live in the European Union. In a blog post, Google’s VP of Trust and Safety Laurie Richardson said the…
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Instagram’s Adding a Chronological Feed for Stories and Reels in Europe
Meta announced it is implementing new “transparency measures” on Instagram and Facebook on Tuesday in response to the European Union’s Digital Services Act (DSA) which requires Meta to comply by August 25. The measures will reportedly include archiving all targeted ads for users in the EU in its existing Ad Library and providing additional information…