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‘Yes, your smartphones are listening to conversations’: Facebook, Google partner admits that microphones are used for targeted ads without knowledge of users
Cox Media Group admitted during a pitch deck to investors that its "Active Listening" software uses Artificial Intelligence to "capture real-time intent data by listening to our conversations." The company explained that voice data can then be paired with behavioural data to target in-market customers for ads.
Zuckerberg’s admission, Twitter Files, and more: How USA has been censoring and ‘controlling’ speech while delivering sermons to India
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Mark Zuckerberg's admission revealed that the United States government can push US-based social media platforms to promote any information they like and suppress what they don’t want the world to see.
Covid-19 posts, Hunter Biden laptop story and Russian disinformation: Mark Zuckerberg exposes how Biden administration forced Meta to censor free speech
Mark Zuckerberg admitted that the company made 'some decisions' owing to the intimidation of the Biden administration, which it should not have enforced in hindsight.
Double legal trouble for Meta: Settlement of USD 1.4 Billion in Texas over charges of gathering biometric data, and illegal drug ads investigation
In one case, Meta has agreed to pay USD 1.4 billion to settle case against it for collecting biometric data illegally and in second case Meta has been accused of allowing ads promoting illcit sale of cocaine, opioids and other drugs.
Exposed: China using fake accounts to pose as Sikhs on Facebook and Instagram, peddle pro-Khalistani propaganda and separatism
Meta noted that the pro-Khalistani propaganda by China was not limited to Facebook alone. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) bots also used social media platforms like X (formerly Twitter) and Telegram.
Big Tech against children’s online safety? Google, Meta spearhead over $1 mn lobbying efforts to oppose NY bills aimed at protecting children online
The lobby effort is being conducted against the two bills that would prohibit the use of algorithmic recommendations on children and the collection and sale of personal data from users under the age of 18.
Meta to start labelling AI-generated content and manipulated media on Facebook, Instagram and Threads from May
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Meta will begin labeling a wider range of video, audio and image content as "Made with AI" on its platforms, including Facebook and Instagram starting in May
Meta banned from using the company name “Meta” in Brazil
The court in Sao Paulo ruled that Meta will have to pay 100,000 reais ($20,201) per day if it fails to comply with the decision within 30 days.
“I am sorry”: Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg apologises to families as lawmakers grill social media giants for endangering lives of children
Senator Ted Cruz pointed out that Instagram (Meta) gave users two choices following the warning on child sexual abuse which included, "Get resources or see results anyway"
100,000 youngsters being sexually harassed every day on Meta: Here’s all that you need to know
A 2021 Meta Platforms presentation estimated 100,000 child users were harassed daily, according to unredacted portions of a New Mexico lawsuit.