In 2019, Meta (neé Facebook) CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the creation of a standalone content oversight board. This board of 23 experts and civic leaders was tasked with reviewing controversial moderation decisions following pressure from critics and users concerning the company’s complex and seemingly uneven policies. According to Zuckerberg at the time, the decisions from […]
Companies including Ford, Nike, Patagonia, and Twitch have all removed the third-party Facebook login button option.
Facebook’s declining popularity among younger demographics is widely known by now, but a recent study just revealed how far the once all-encompassing social media platform has fallen from grace in teens’ eyes. According to the Pew Research Center’s new “Teens, Social Media and Technology” report surveying internet users aged 13-17, only about 32-percent of responders […]
Earlier this week, Motherboard published documents detailing private data Meta provided to Nebraska law enforcement. The information release, which included direct messages between a 17-year-old teen and her mother, resulted in a search warrant and subsequent misdemeanor and felony charges relating to an at-home abortion that occurred past the state’s 20-week deadline. This is now […]
On Friday, Meta unveiled BlenderBot 3, its new chatbot project that “improves through conversation” and allowed Americans to take the AI for a spin over the weekend, with results that seem to oscillate from conspiratorial to absurd. This morning, for example, BlenderBot told PopSci that it believes Jews “certainly are” too influential “due to their […]
Scientists have always been interested in studying friendships. Here’s what that research looks like in the age of social media.
The lawsuit claims that a Facebook tool called Meta Pixel violated HIPAA. Here’s what to know about Meta Pixel and the lawsuit.
It’s not just you: Changes at the Meta-owned social network have angered some influential users. This is what’s going on with Instagram.
Facebook is kind of going back to basics by splitting up its news feed into a tab for discovery content and a tab just for friends.
A pilot group of users are testing a feature that allows them to create multiple profiles all under a single account.
