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Facebook and Instagram Will Reinstate Trump After Two-Year Ban
The decision comes two years after Trump’s suspension on Facebook was enacted following the 2021 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
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Beware of Ads for Supplements on Facebook
Facebook fans are used to seeing ads, including some for supplements that make incredible sounding health claims from treating diabetes to boosting brain power. A new Consumer Reports investigation found many target vulnerable Facebook users with products that can be dangerous and illegal. Consumer Reporter Susan Hogan has the information you need to stay clear of these ads.
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Meta Threatens to Remove News From Facebook Platform if Congress Requires it to Pay for Content
The Journalism Competition and Preservation Act, if passed, would allow news companies to collectively negotiate with social platforms over the terms on which their material appears on their sites.
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Dating Dangers: Women Join Facebook Groups to Keep Each Other Safe
No matter your age or location, dating can be frustrating, time-consuming and sometimes even dangerous. Now women are forming a protective online sisterhood to steer each other away from dating disasters. Consumer Reporter Susan Hogan reports.
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Dating Dangers: Women Use Private Facebook Groups to Keep Each Other Safe
Some women are taking more control of their dating lives by joining private Facebook groups to share dirt on former dates so others don’t waste their time.
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Video: Zuckerberg Thanks Laid-Off Employees for ‘Putting Heart and Soul' into Meta
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg thanked about 11,000 laid-off employees for their work during a video call on Wednesday.
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Meta Laying Off More Than 11,000 Employees: Read Zuckerberg's Letter Announcing the Cuts
Meta is laying off 13% of its staff, or more than 11,000 employees, CEO Mark Zuckerberg told employees on Wednesday.
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Meta Fined $24.7M for Campaign Finance Disclosure Violations
A Washington state judge has fined Facebook parent company Meta nearly $25 million for repeated, willful violations of campaign finance disclosure laws.
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Meta Says it Disabled Sprawling Russian Propaganda Network Targeting Europe
Facebook said it was the largest and most complex Russian propaganda effort that it has found since the invasion of Ukraine began.
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Facebook Says It Took Down China-based Accounts That Tried to Interfere in the US Midterms
Facebook parent company Meta said fake accounts posing as Americans attacked politicians from both parties and posted divisive material about issues such as abortion and gun rights
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Facebook Parent Settles Suit in Cambridge Analytica Scandal
Facebook’s corporate parent has reached a tentative settlement in a lawsuit alleging the world’s largest social network service allowed millions of its users’ personal information to be fed to Cambridge Analytica, a firm that supported Donald Trump’s victorious presidential campaign in 2016.
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Woman Reunited With Ring She Lost at the Beach Thanks to Facebook Post
Francesca Teal’s Facebook post on a page for metal detector enthusiasts was shared over 3,000 times; eight days after Teal lost her heirloom ring at North Beach in Hampton, New Hampshire, metal detector hobbyist Lou Asci found it buried in four inches of sand.
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Facebook Misses ‘Blatant' Election Misinfo in Brazil Ads, Report Finds
Facebook failed to detect election-related misinformation in ads ahead of Brazil’s 2022 election, a new report from Global Witness has found.
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Instagram Now Allows Users to Remove Weight Loss and Weight Control Ads From Their Feeds
The new update to their Sensitive Content Control, introduced by Instagram last summer, allows users to filter content on more than just their Explore page.
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Loudoun County Community Buys School Supplies for Teachers
A new Facebook group allows Loudoun County residents to cover the cost of extra classroom supplies that educators would otherwise have to buy themselves, according to the group’s founder. The group is called “Loudoun County, VA; Adopt a Teacher” and lets teachers post wish lists for their classrooms. People in the group can then “adopt” teachers and buy the...
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Adopt-a-Teacher Program a Success in Loudoun County
Northern Virginia Bureau Chief Julie Carey reports on the adopt-a-teacher initiative that’s putting school supplies in the hands of teachers in Loudoun County.
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Facebook Goes Old School With a New Feed That Favors Friends and Family
The main news feed will now be known as “Home,” and will act as more of a “discovery engine” based on people’s online habits.
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Amazon Sues 10,000 Facebook Group Administrators Over Fake Reviews Scheme
Amazon has filed a lawsuit against administrators of more than 10,000 Facebook groups it accuses of coordinating fake reviews in exchange for money or free products.
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Facebook, Twitter Remove Shinzo Abe Assassination Videos
Twitter and Facebook parent Meta said Friday they’re deleting any videos of the assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that break their rules on harmful content.
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Ex-Japanese Leader Shinzo Abe Fatally Shot at Campaign Event
Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was assassinated Friday as he delivered a campaign speech in Nara, Japan. He was 67.