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Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks during Meta Connect event at Meta headquarters in Menlo Park, California on September 27, 2023. Josh Edelson | AFP | Getty Images Meta said on Monday it will offer an ad-free subscription option for Facebook and Instagram in Europe after it faced a major challenge from regulators in … Read more
Dozens of US states on Tuesday accused Facebook and Instagram owner Meta of profiting “from children’s pain,” damaging their mental health and misleading people about the safety of its platforms. Issued on: 25/10/2023 – 06:29 2 min “In seeking to maximize its financial gains, Meta has repeatedly misled the public about the substantial dangers of … Read more
More than 30 states are suing Instagram and its parent company, Meta, for misleading the public about the dangers of social media. The lawsuit, filed Tuesday by 33 states, alleges that Meta’s social media platforms “exploit and manipulate its most vulnerable consumers: teenagers and children” and has caused damage to young people’s mental and physical … Read more
The US and Israel have stepped up their efforts to limit cryptocurrency transfers to Hamas since the group’s brutal October 7 attacks on Israel. Bitcoin, Dogecoin and Ethereum are increasingly blamed as conduits of funding for Islamist groups. Rightly so? In the wake of Hamas’s attacks on Israeli territory on October 7 that were unprecedented … Read more
Lupita Nyong’o is speaking out about her “heartbreak” following an apparent breakup with boyfriend Selema Masekela, citing “deception” as the reason for the split. On Thursday, the Oscar winner made a candid Instagram post that seemed to reference her relationship with Masekela, though she did not mention the TV host and sports commentator by name. … Read more
It concluded: “Meta’s actions appear to have had an adverse human rights impact on the rights of Palestinian users to freedom of expression, freedom of assembly, political participation, and non-discrimination, and therefore on the ability of Palestinians to share information and insights about their experiences as they occurred.”
Instagram chief Adam Mosseri. Elizabeth Frantz | Reuters Instagram chief Adam Mosseri said in a post on Threads that the platform’s “biggest safety focus” is “managing content responsibly” around the Israel-Hamas war, adding that the platform is “getting pulled in a lot of directions at once right now.” In the meantime, Threads will continue to … Read more
Alicia Keys on Monday said a social media post seen by some as an offensive comment on the Israel-Hamas war was “completely unrelated” to the conflict. Keys got backlash for an Instagram entry in which she asked, “What would you do if u weren’t afraid of anything??? Tell me your truth…” “I’ve had my eyes … Read more
The State of Israel accused model Gigi Hadid of “turning a blind eye” to Jewish suffering on social media Sunday. Israel used its official Instagram account to denounce Hadid, who has been a vocal supporter of Palestinian liberation and whose father, Mohamed Hadid, was forced from the region during the 1947–49 Palestine War. “There is … Read more