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Right-wing social media platform Parler plans to relaunch early next year
The social media platform Parler is relaunching ahead of next year’s presidential elections. The right-wing friendly app, which was temporarily booted offline following the Jan. 6 insurrection, has been offline since April after it was purchased by the digital media conglomerate Starboard.
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Tennis players to get protection from online abuse through new monitoring service
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A group representing TikTok, Meta and X sues Utah over strict new limits on app use for minors
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Roughly 1 in 6 teens use YouTube and TikTok almost constantly, survey finds
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Elon Musk restores X account of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones
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A military-themed brewery wants to open in a big Navy town. An ex-SEAL is getting in the way
A former U.S. Navy SEAL who says he shot Osama bin Laden is at the center of a much different fight over plans to open a military-themed brewery in Norfolk, Virginia.
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Missouri House Democrat is kicked off committees after posting photo with alleged Holocaust denier
A Missouri House Democrat has been removed from committee assignments after social media posts showed her with a man cited by the Anti-Defamation League as a Holocaust denier.
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Meta makes end-to-end encryption a default on Facebook Messenger
Meta is rolling out end-to-end encryption for calls and messages across its Facebook and Messenger platforms, the company announced Thursday.
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Facebook parent sued by New Mexico alleging it has failed to shield children from predators
New Mexico’s attorney general is suing the parent company of Facebook and Instagram claiming it failed to protect underage users from exposure to child sexual abuse material and let adults solicit pornographic imagery from them.
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Spanish newspaper association files multimillion-euro suit against Meta over advertising practices
A Spanish association representing more than 80 newspapers has filed a lawsuit against Facebook parent Meta accusing it of unfair competition in online advertising by allegedly ignoring European Union rules on data protection.The Information Media Association says it is demanding 550 million euros (
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Euro 2024 draw ceremony interrupted by noises in German concert hall in claimed social media prank
The draw ceremony for the European Championship in men’s soccer has been disrupted by unexplained noises that competed for attention with the team names being read out on stage in Hamburg.
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Thousands of fake Facebook accounts shut down by Meta were primed to polarize voters ahead of 2024
Meta says it has found and disabled thousands of fake Facebook accounts linked to China that were used to spread politically partisan content in the United States before next year’s election.
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Canada says Google will pay $74 million annually to Canadian news industry under new online law
Canada’s government says it has reached a deal with Google for the company to contribute $100 million Canadian dollars annually to the country’s news industry.
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Fake AI-generated woman on tech conference agenda leads Microsoft and Amazon execs to drop out
Tech executives at Microsoft and Amazon have dropped out of an upcoming software conference after at least one of the women on the agenda turned out to be fake.
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Court document claims Meta knowingly designed its platforms to hook kids, reports say
A newly unsealed legal complaint claims Facebook parent Meta Platforms deliberately engineered its social platforms to hook kids.
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Russia puts the spokesman for Facebook owner Meta on a wanted list
Russia’s interior ministry has added the spokesman of U.S. technology company Meta to a wanted list according to its online database.
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Air Force base defends itself from claims of political bias over conservative rally warning
The Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota is defending itself from claims of political bias after an unofficial message cautioning airmen to not attend a conservative political rally began circulating on social media.
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Maryland hate crime commission member suspended for anti-Israel social media posts
The Maryland Attorney General has suspended a member of the state’s new commission aimed at addressing hate crimes after she posted on social media criticizing the recent actions of Israel in Gaza.
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OpenAI’s unusual nonprofit structure led to dramatic ouster of sought-after CEO
Unlike Google, Facebook and countless other tech giants, the company behind ChatGPT was not created to be a business.
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Taylor Swift postpones Rio de Janeiro show, citing record heat a day after fan dies during concert
Taylor Swift has postponed a concert in Rio de Janeiro after a 23-year-old fan died during her Friday night show.
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NFL host Charissa Thompson says on social media she didn’t fabricate quotes by players or coaches
Fox Sports and Amazon host Charissa Thompson has taken to social media to clarify her comments on a podcast earlier this week that she “would make up” sideline reports during NFL games.
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IBM, EU, Disney and others pull ads from Elon Musk’s X as concerns about antisemitism fuel backlash
Advertisers are fleeing social media platform X over concerns about their ads showing up next to pro-Nazi content, hate speech on the site in general or billionaire owner Elon Musk’s own posts endorsing an antisemitic conspiracy theory.
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FTC warns food industry trade groups and influencers about disclosures on paid social media posts
The Federal Trade Commission says it issued warnings to two food and beverage industry groups, as well as to a dozen online influencers and dieticians for failing to adequately disclose paid social media posts that promoted a sweetener and sugary products.
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Moms for Liberty removes two Kentucky chapter leaders who posed with far-right Proud Boys
Moms for Liberty says it’s removed two Kentucky chapter chairs from leadership positions after they posed in photos with members of the far-right group the Proud Boys.
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Nikki Haley walks back her demand that social media ban anonymous posters after facing GOP backlash
Nikki Haley says anonymity online poses a “national security threat.” The GOP presidential contender Tuesday called for user verification and said social media networks should reveal their algorithms.
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Matthew Perry’s ‘Friends’ co-stars reminiscence about late actor
Matthew Perry’s “Friends” co-stars are sharing more remembrances of the star in their first personal social media posts since the actor’s death last month.
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To help 2024 voters, Meta says it will begin labeling political ads that use AI-generated imagery
Microsoft and Meta have released initiatives designed to help voters know when they see a political ad containing altered images, video or audio.
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A Meta engineer saw his own child face harassment on Instagram. Now, he’s testifying before Congress
On the same day whistleblower Frances Haugen was testifying before Congress about the harms of Facebook and Instagram to children in the fall of 2021, Arturo Béjar, then a contractor at the social media giant, sent an email to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg about the same topic.
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Mark Zuckerberg undergoes knee surgery after the Meta CEO got hurt during martial arts training
Mark Zuckerberg’s latest martial arts sparring session sent him to the operating table. The Meta Platforms CEO and mixed martial arts enthusiast posted on social media Friday that he tore one of his anterior cruciate ligaments, or ACLs, while training for a fight early next year.
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European privacy officials widen ban on Meta’s behavioral advertising to most of Europe
European privacy officials have widened a ban on Meta’s “behavioral advertising” practices to most of Europe.
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The Supreme Court wrestles with social media cases that have echoes of Donald Trump
The Supreme Court is wrestling with whether public officials can block critics from commenting on their social media accounts.
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The Supreme Court takes up social media cases similar to one about Donald Trump’s Twitter feed
The Supreme Court is tackling the question of when public officials can block critics from commenting on their social media accounts.
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Meta rolls out paid ad-free option for European Facebook and Insta users after privacy ruling
Facebook and Instagram users in Europe are getting the option to pay for ad-free versions of the social media platforms as a way to comply with the continent’s strict data privacy rules.
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In Myanmar, a Facebook post deemed inflammatory led to an ex-minister’s arrest
A former high-profile Myanmar army officer who had served as information minister and presidential spokesperson in a previous military-backed government has been arrested and charged with spreading false or inflammatory news.
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A year after Musk takeover, X struggles with usage decline and misinformation
One year ago, billionaire Elon Musk walked into Twitter’s San Francisco headquarters with a white bathroom sink and a grin, fired its CEO and other top executives and began transforming the social media platform into what is now known as X.
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