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Facebook misled parents and failed to protect children’s privacy – US regulator
US regulators have said Facebook misled parents and failed to protect the privacy of children using its Messenger Kids app, including misrepresenting the access it provided to app developers to private user data.

Wed, 03 May, 2023

fake love trap
Irish Examiner view: Double take
Internet deception

Mon, 27 Feb, 2023

Stealing from a credit card
Digital Rights Ireland to sue for damages for Facebook users over dark web data leak
Some 100 million EU-based Facebook users were affected. The vast majority of the leaked records included phone numbers, names, genders, and Facebook IDs.

Sat, 04 Feb, 2023

Donald Trump
Donald Trump reinstated to Facebook after two-year ban
Facebook parent Meta is reinstating former US president Donald Trump’s personal account after a two-year suspension following the January 6 insurrection.

Wed, 25 Jan, 2023

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EU accuses Meta of competition breaches with Facebook classified ads
The European Union has accused Facebook parent company Meta of breaching regulations by distorting competition in the online classified ads business.

Mon, 19 Dec, 2022

Onward survey
Charity warns of rising levels of unrestricted online access for children
Annual report says children surveyed admitted to being contacted by strangers online, or to having friends or followers that they don't know offline.

Tue, 06 Sep, 2022

Which? survery
Facebook fixes ‘configuration issue’ after ‘weird’ feeds problem
Facebook has fixed an issue with the platform which saw users’ feeds flooded with unrelated messages and posts.

Wed, 24 Aug, 2022

Which? report
Facebook confirms work to fix issue with its feed
Facebook has confirmed it is working to fix an issue with its main feed after many users reported seeing waves of posts unrelated to their interests.

Wed, 24 Aug, 2022

Meta Virtual Reality Antitrust
Facebook owner Meta reports first ever decline in revenue
Facebook and Instagram’s parent company has posted its first revenue decline in history. Meta was hit by a drop in advertising spending as the US economy falters — and as competition from rival TikTok intensifies.

Wed, 27 Jul, 2022

Facebook unveils new look Home and Feeds tabs in app refresh
Facebook unveils new look Home and Feeds tabs in app refresh
Facebook has unveiled a new look to the home page within its mobile app, as the platform moves towards becoming more of a “discovery engine” than just a social network.

Thu, 21 Jul, 2022

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Meta removes ‘large numbers’ of upskirting images found on Facebook
Facebook owner Meta said it has removed a large number of groups and accounts which were sharing upskirting content following a BBC News investigation into the issue.

Wed, 22 Jun, 2022

Meta-Sandberg-Resignation
Long-time Facebook executive Sheryl Sandberg steps down after 14 years
Sheryl Sandberg, the No 2 executive at Facebook owner Meta who helped turn its business from startup to digital advertising empire, is stepping down. Ms Sandberg has served as chief operating officer at the social media giant for 14 years.

Fri, 10 Jun, 2022

Facebook stock
Facebook and Instagram to reveal more on how ads target users
Facebook parent Meta has said it will start publicly providing more details about how advertisers target people with political ads just months ahead of US mid-term elections.

Tue, 24 May, 2022

In this photo illustration a Facebook and Instagram logos seen displayed on a smartphone and Meta Platforms logo in the backgrou
Facebook owner reportedly paid US Republican consulting firm to turn public against TikTok 
The campaign, launched by Republican strategy firm Targeted Victory, involved op-eds and letters to the editor being placed in various publications

Wed, 30 Mar, 2022

Facebook launches UK tool
Russia blocks access to Facebook and Twitter for its 146 million citizens
Russia has blocked access to Facebook and Twitter for its 146 million citizens amid the Ukraine invasion, a state regulator has said.

Fri, 04 Mar, 2022

Russian state-owned media stopped from advertising or monetising on Facebook
Russian state-owned media stopped from advertising or monetising on Facebook
Facebook is prohibiting Russian state media from advertising or monetising on its platform amid the invasion of Ukraine.

Sat, 26 Feb, 2022

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Russia limits Facebook access after network restricts Kremlin-backed media
Russian state communications watchdog Roskomnadzor said it had demanded that Facebook lift the restrictions it placed on Thursday

Fri, 25 Feb, 2022

Serious, overworked, very sad male health care worker
Joyce Fegan: Covid is a fertile breeding ground for conspiracies
Scratch below the historical surface of conspiracy theories and you'll find they have always been used to create a radicalising pathway by far right movements globally

Sun, 21 Nov, 2021

Technology Stock - Social Media
Facebook lifts the lid on more data amid pressure for greater transparency
The tech giant revealed the prevalence of bullying and harassment in its Community Standards Enforcement Report for the first time

Tue, 09 Nov, 2021

Zuckerberg’s meta reality can’t escape the problems of our real world, only replicate them
Zuckerberg’s meta reality can’t escape the problems of our real world, only replicate them
The metaverse is not the creation of some beautiful, limitless other world — it is just a colourful clone of our real world and all its dismal material conditions

Wed, 03 Nov, 2021

Facebook Covers Sign At Menlo Park Headquarters
Mocking Meta: Facebook’s virtual reality name-change prompts backlash
US senator Ed Markey refused to even acknowledge the name change, saying: "Facebook wants us to start calling it Meta, but we’re just going to keep calling it what it is — a threat to privacy, democracy, and children.”

Sat, 30 Oct, 2021

Facebook safety
Facebook posts quarterly earnings of €7.8 billion amid whistleblower scandal
Whistleblower Frances Haugen spoke with British MPs and peers on Monday afternoon for two and a half hours about the company’s inner workings

Tue, 26 Oct, 2021

Facebook whistleblower says the social network makes hate ‘unquestionably worse’
Facebook whistleblower says the social network makes hate ‘unquestionably worse’
Frances Haugen took questions from UK MPs this afternoon.

Mon, 25 Oct, 2021

Facebook Papers Mideast Maid Abuse
Apple once threatened Facebook ban over Middle East maid abuse concerns
Apple threatened to pull Facebook and Instagram from its app store two years ago over concerns about the platform being used as a tool to trade and sell maids in the Middle East, documents show.

Mon, 25 Oct, 2021

Facebook safety
Facebook’s language gaps ‘weaken screening of hate and terrorism’
The problems plaguing Facebook’s content moderation are systemic, internal company documents from a whistleblower suggest.

Mon, 25 Oct, 2021

AP Poll Misinformation
Facebook unveils new controls for children using its platforms
California-based Facebook is also planning to introduce new controls for adults of teenagers on an optional basis so that parents or guardians can supervise what their youngsters are doing online.

Mon, 11 Oct, 2021

Twitter-CEO Statement-Trump Ban
The silence of Donald Trump: How Twitter’s ban is cramping his style
The era when a single tweet from Trump could electrify cable news, rattle financial markets, and unnerve foreign capitals is long gone

Sat, 09 Oct, 2021

Social media stock
Candidates for State boards asked to sign declaration about their social media activities
The move is part of efforts by the Public Appointments Service to 'further enhance its assurance procedures with regard to candidate suitability and qualification'.

Thu, 07 Oct, 2021

Social media stock
Facebook outage caused by error during maintenance work, company says
The company said it was “an outage caused not by malicious activity, but an error of our own making”

Wed, 06 Oct, 2021

Facebook Whistle Blower Frances Haugen Testifies To Senate Committee
'They have misled the public'- Whistleblower says Facebook's products hurt children and fuel division
Frances Haugen: 'The company intentionally hides vital information from the public, from the US government and from governments around the world'

Tue, 05 Oct, 2021

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Facebook outage shows why big tech firms should be broken up – EU commissioner
Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg apologised for the “disruption” caused by the outage

Tue, 05 Oct, 2021

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Facebook outage: what went wrong and why did it take so long to fix?
Billions of users were unable to access Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp for hours while the social media giant scrambled to restore services

Tue, 05 Oct, 2021

Facebook prioritises own interests over public good, whistleblower claims
Facebook prioritises own interests over public good, whistleblower claims
The whistleblower, former Facebook product manager Frances Haugen, said this contributed to the invasion of the US Capitol on January 6.

Mon, 04 Oct, 2021

The 2 Johnnies Podcast Photo: Peter Houlihan / PH Photography
TV review: The 2 Johnnies talk to Matty Gilbert — a Dublin guy who chopped wood with his top off
50 minutes of decent telly: you learn a bit, you laugh a bit, and move on to the next thing. The main thing I learned is that I’m too old for TikTok

Tue, 28 Sep, 2021

Facebook stock
Facebook criticises UK competition watchdog’s concerns over Giphy takeover
Facebook’s response described the CMA’s complete divestiture remedy as “grossly unreasonable and disproportionate”, and questioned the watchdog’s authority to enforce such action.

Wed, 08 Sep, 2021

Technology Stock - Social Media
Facebook told to sell Instagram and WhatsApp in new US competition case     
US regulator the Federal Trade Commission has refiled its competition case against Facebook, accusing it of illegally maintaining monopoly power and again asking for it to sell off both Instagram and  WhatsApp

Thu, 19 Aug, 2021

In this photo illustration, a TikTok logo is seen displayed
TikTok is the new Facebook – and it is shaping the future of tech in its image
The swift rise of the Chinese video-sharing app could have ramifications for all of us and how we live, both online and off, writes Chris Stokel-Walker

Wed, 18 Aug, 2021

Facebook stock
Facebook bans Russian firm behind Pfizer and AstraZeneca smear campaign
A network of 65 Facebook accounts and 243 Instagram accounts was traced back to the advertising and marketing firm

Wed, 11 Aug, 2021

Coronavirus - Sat Feb 27, 2021
Tånaiste asked social media firms 'to do more' to stop 'planned' illegal  gatherings 
Leo Varadkar sent letters to Facebook, Twitter, Google, and TikTok in the wake of violent protests on the streets of Dublin earlier this year.

Sun, 11 Jul, 2021

Facebook stock
US judge dismisses antitrust lawsuits against Facebook
US District Judge James Boasberg ruled the lawsuits were “legally insufficient” and did not provide enough evidence to prove that Facebook was a monopoly

Tue, 29 Jun, 2021

Social media sites urged to add links to eating disorder supports on diet culture promotion
Social media sites urged to add links to eating disorder supports on diet culture promotion
Recent figures show there was a 66% increase in hospital admissions for eating disorders last year.

Mon, 28 Jun, 2021

Facebook-Audio Streams
Facebook launches podcasts and live audio service
Facebook is launching podcasts and live audio streams in the US to keep users engaged on its platform and to compete with emerging rivals.

Mon, 21 Jun, 2021

First Facebook Oversight Board members confirmed
Ireland's data watchdog 'shouldn’t alone regulate Facebook and other big tech for 500m Europeans'
Europe's top court has backed individual national privacy watchdogs to pursue Facebook and other tech giants, meaning they could face scrutiny and sanctions from other member states

Tue, 15 Jun, 2021

Facebook child sexual exploitation content
UK Regulator to investigate Facebook's use of data over 'unfair advantage' concerns
As well as Facebook’s advertising services, Facebook Login, a feature that allows people to sign into other websites and apps, will also form part of the probe

Sat, 12 Jun, 2021

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