Amazon sues Facebook admins over fake reviews
Still keeping fake reviews up
Online book seller Amazon is suing shedloads of Facebook admins who it claims are organising marketplaces “for the purchase and sale of fake reviews.”
Meta claims its AI has cracked translation
Boffins say what they meant to say was that the claim is lost in translation
Facebook claims that its AI tools have cracked translation and can translate 204 different languages, twice as many as ever before attempted, at a higher quality than previously achieved.
EU signs off on tech giant regulation
Enforcement might be impossible
EU lawmakers gave the thumbs up to landmark rules to rein in tech giants such as Alphabet unit Google, Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Microsoft, but enforcement could be hampered by regulators' limited resources.
US Supreme Court protects Big Tech
Federal government moves to protect consumers unconsitutional
The US Supremes might be making a move to protect Big Tech from efforts made by the federal government to restrain their power.
Facebook peddling debunked cancer treatments
But clamping down on abortion pills
While Facebook is clamping down on advertisers who dare to sell abortion pills to US women who don’t want to obey their local church and have babies, it is allowing them to flog quack cures for cancer which have been debunked by real science.
Move to turn Facebook and Twitter into right-wing fake news outfits unconstitutional
It was a Florida law so what do you expect?
A Florida law intended to punish social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter for not treating the words of right-wing politicians as if they were spoken by Jesus has been ruled unconstitutional.
EU forces Meta and Google to combat hate speech and fake news
Multibillion-dollar fines
The European Union reached an agreement on landmark legislation forcing Big Tech firms such as Google and Facebook's parent company Meta, as well as other internet services, to more aggressively combat hate speech and misinformation or risk multibillion-dollar fines.
Canadians might make big content pay newspapers
Got to prop up the mass media
The Canadian government introduced legislation Tuesday to force digital giants to compensate news publishers for the use of their content.
Facebook is extremist court rules
In Russia disagreeing with Tsar Putin makes you a neo-nazi extremist
A Moscow court said on Monday that Meta was guilty of "extremist activity", but its WhatsApp messenger service was not.
Ireland fines Facebook $18.7 million
12 data breach notifications
Ireland's data regulator said it was slapping an $18.7 million fine on Facebook parent Meta Platforms after an inquiry confirmed 12 data breach notifications in 2018.