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Oct 25

Facebook’s language gaps allow terrorist content and hate speech to thrive

By Isabel Debre, Fares Akram, Associated Press

Internal company documents show the problems are far more systemic than just a few innocent mistakes, and that Facebook has understood the depth of these failings for years while doing little about it.

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Oct 25

Apple threatened to pull Facebook and Instagram from its app store over human trafficking

By Jon Gambrell, Jim Gomez, Associated Press

Two years ago, Apple threatened to pull Facebook and Instagram from its app store over concerns about the platform being used as a tool to trade and sell maids in the Mideast.

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Oct 25

‘Facebook Papers’ reveal company is hesitant to act on serious issues

By Barbara Ortutay, Associated Press

Thousands of pages of internal documents provided to Congress by a former employee depict an internally conflicted company where data on the harms it causes is abundant, but solutions, much less the will to act on them, are halting at…

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Oct 18

Facebook plans to hire 10,000 in Europe to build ‘metaverse’

By Kelvin Chan, Matt O'Brien, Associated Press

The company said in a blog post Sunday that those high-skilled workers will help build "the metaverse," a futuristic notion for connecting online that uses augmented and virtual reality.

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Oct 06

Facebook blames massive outage on error during routine maintenance

By Associated Press

Facebook's vice president of infrastructure said that Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp going dark was "caused not by malicious activity, but an error of our own making."…

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Oct 05

WATCH: ‘Choices being made inside Facebook are disastrous,’ whistleblower says

By News Desk

Frances Haugen, a former data scientist for Facebook, testified to Congress on Oct. 5 about the tech giant’s negligence of acknowledging its societal harms, particularly to children.

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Sep 27

Facebook puts Instagram for kids on hold after pushback

By Michelle Chapman, Associated Press

The announcement follows a investigative series by The Wall Street Journal which reported that Facebook was aware that the use of Instagram by some teenage girls led to mental health issues and anxiety.

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Sep 08

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Elizabeth Holmes’ trial over alleged fraudulent blood testing technology begins

By PBS NewsHour

Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes was once the world’s youngest self-made female billionaire. Now she could face up to 20 years in federal prison. Opening statements began in the closely watched trial of the former Silicon Valley star. Amna Nawaz discusses…

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Feb 18

WATCH: Robinhood CEO Tenev defends actions in GameStop saga at hearing

By Marcy Gordon, Alex Veiga, Associated Press

The GameStop episode has been portrayed as a victory of the little guy over Wall Street titans, but not everyone is buying it. Lawmakers from both parties are among the skeptics.

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Jan 13

How the U.S. Capitol attack highlights the challenges of thwarting online right-wing extremism

By Courtney Vinopal, Justin Stabley

Last Wednesday's riot reignited an ongoing conversation about the role social media plays as a space where extremists perpetuate violence.

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