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Spying with Facebook and Instagram | Meta targets “cyber-mercenaries”
(San Francisco) Meta said Thursday it has closed some 1,500 Facebook and Instagram accounts linked to “cyber mercenaries” who have used them to spy on up to 50,000 activists, dissidents…
Vietnam | Heavy prison sentences for Facebook posts
(Hanoi) A Vietnamese court on Wednesday sentenced two activists to ten and six years in prison for writing on Facebook about a land dispute between peasants and authorities that left…
Rohingya demand 150 billion from Facebook
(Los Angeles) Rohingya refugees filed a complaint against Facebook on Monday and demanded 150 billion dollars in compensation from the social network, which they accuse of having allowed hate messages…
Facebook dismantles new political disinformation networks linked to COVID-19
(San Francisco) Meta, the parent company of Facebook, said on Wednesday it had dismantled malicious networks, which used the vaccine debates to harass professionals or sow division in companies, a…
After a burglary, a restaurant owner challenges her thieves with humor on Facebook
Julie, manager of the restaurant la Popotte in Angresse, between Saint-Vincent-de-Tyrosse and Hossegor in the Landes, had a bad surprise this Sunday morning when he arrived in his restaurant. One…
Lush will deactivate his Instagram and Facebook accounts
(Vancouver) Lush Cosmetics will shut down its social media accounts later this week in a bid to get tech companies to make online platforms safer. Posted on November 22, 2021…
Bilal Hassani reveals how he announced his homosexuality to his father, on Facebook!
Favorite of the jury in the 11th season of Dance with the stars, Bilal Hassani unveiled the secrets of the ties that unite him to his dad to the journalists…
The Facebook whistleblower in the Assembly, Macron president and Macron candidate make a speech and “A good man”, a film on parenthood and transidentity
It was the President’s ninth address since the onset of the health crisis. Yesterday, at 8 p.m., Emmanuel Macron spoke to 20 million French people. Audiences almost half as large…
The Facebook whistleblower in the Assembly, Macron president and Macron candidate make a speech and “A good man”, a film on parenthood and transidentity
It was the President’s ninth address since the onset of the health crisis. Yesterday, at 8 p.m., Emmanuel Macron spoke to 20 million French people. Audiences almost half as large…
Facebook | The whistleblower advocates social networks “on a human scale”
(Paris) Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen pleaded Wednesday before French MPs for “human-scale” social networks, rid of “hyper-amplification” mechanisms that fuel disinformation and the spread of content hateful. Posted on November…
Côtes d’Armor deputy Eric Bothorel hears Frances Haugen, whistleblower on Facebook
MEPs hear this Wednesday Frances Haugen, whistleblower on Facebook, two days after the European Commission which wants to regulate the platform. After the European Commission, it is the French deputies…
Facebook regulation | Mexican President Warns Against Censorship
(Mexico City) Mexican President Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador said he was opposed to social media regulation on Monday after Facebook was accused of putting profits ahead of the safety of…
Media: End of comments under CBC Facebook posts
After a successful testing period, CBC News decided to maintain the suspension of comments under posts on its Facebook pages in order to combat hateful comments and personal attacks on…
Facebook, Instagram and Messenger break down
Users of Facebook, Instagram and Messenger have been reporting problems since 2 p.m. Wednesday. Posted on November 3, 2021 at 3:55 p.m. Updated at 4:12 p.m. Alice Girard-Bossé Press According…
Facebook will no longer use facial recognition on its platform
(New York) Facebook announced Tuesday that it would no longer use, on its platform, facial recognition which identifies, since 2010, a person in photos or videos posted on the social…
According to Frances Haugen | Facebook must invest in “security” before the “metaverse”
(Lisbon) Facebook, accused of putting its profits before the well-being of its users, must invest in “security” before “metaverse”, a new priority of the group now called Meta, lambasted the…
Nationalize Facebook or… the Internet? | The duty
Nationalize Facebook? The idea is in the news these days, but has been circulating in the media since at least 2012, the year when Facebook went public. Is it realistic?…
Meta, the future according to Facebook | The duty
Meta, the ex-Facebook, will spend US $ 10 billion to lay the groundwork for an immersive virtual universe called Metaverse. And that’s just one of the new products that will…
Technologies: Facebook becomes Meta | The duty
Because he believes that the technology sector as it is currently “harms innovation” and that “this is not how we should use technology”, the CEO of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg is…
Facebook adopts a new name
SAN FRANCISCO | The Facebook and Instagram platforms, WhatsApp and Messenger messaging and Oculus virtual reality headsets now belong to Meta, the new name of the Californian group that dreams…