Would you consider a video about “Holohoax tales” or an Instagram post captioned “#HolocaustIsaLie” to be Holocaust denial content? Facebook wouldn’t. Facebook declined to remove Holocaust denial content that was pointed out to the platform, saying it did not violate its terms and conditions despite a ban on such material enacted in October of 2020,…
Antitrust lawsuits filed Wednesday against Facebook focused on what plaintiffs say is the improper use of consumer data by the social media giant and a monopolistic strategy of squashing competition. But while Facebook’s use of data has come under scrutiny over the years — including after the 2018 Cambridge Analytical scandal, during which users learned…
New York’s Attorney General Letitia James filed a lawsuit Wednesday against Facebook for what her office says is the social media giant’s effort to illegally stifle competition. New York is joined in the suit by 46 other state attorneys general and the attorneys general of the District of Columbia and Guam. Separately, the Federal Trade…
Parler, a social networking site that bills itself as “the free speech social network” has hit the top of both Apple and Google app store download charts in the wake of Joe Biden’s electoral victory, called by news media on Saturday. Though exact numbers are not clear, the site’s founder posted on the site that…
Facebook removed more than 20 accounts on Facebook and Instagram in October that were secretly controlled by the Iranian government and were aimed at dividing Americans and Israelis around the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to weaken support for Israel, according to Facebook and a think tank that studies extremism. The accounts and pages fall under the category…
Facebook updated its hate speech policy to ban content that “denies or distorts” the Holocaust, the platform announced Monday. “I’ve struggled with the tension between standing for free expression and the harm caused by minimizing or denying the horror of the Holocaust,” said CEO Mark Zuckerberg in a statement on Facebook. “My own thinking has…
My wiiife. If you read that in the voice of the fictional Kazakh journalist Borat Sagdiyev, British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen’s most celebrated creation, you’re not alone. While we last saw Borat nearly 15 years ago, his elongated reference to his spouse has clung to our brain’s language centers with the tenacity of Gorilla Glue….
If you’ve noticed your Instagram feed is a little quieter than usual today, there’s a good reason. As part of the activist movement Stop Hate for Profit’s “Week of Action,” over two dozen A-Listers are participating in a one-day Instagram “freeze” — meaning no pet pics, snaps of acai pudding or sun-dappled shots of infinity…
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