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A former Meta employee testified before a US Senate subcommittee on Tuesday, alleging that the Facebook and Instagram parent company was aware of harassment and other harms facing teens on its platforms but failed to address them.

PayPal's stablecoin is likely to succeed where Facebook's failed, thanks to the payment giant's standing in Washington and policymakers' greater understanding of the issues in the last three years. PayPal this month said it was launching PayPal USD, a crypto token pegged to the US dollar, making it the second major global company to launch a stable...

Tech giants could face billions of dollars in fines for failing to tackle disinformation under proposed Australian laws, which a watchdog on Monday said would bring "mandatory" standards to the little-regulated sector.

Tech giants could face billions of dollars in fines for failing to tackle disinformation under proposed Australian laws, which a watchdog on Monday said would bring "mandatory" standards to the little-regulated sector.

Malaysia said on Friday it will take legal action against Facebook parent Meta Platforms for failing to remove "undesirable" posts, the strongest measure the country has taken to date over such content. Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim's administration has vowed to curb what it calls provocative posts that touch on race and religion since coming to pow...

Malaysia threatened to take legal action against Meta on Friday, accusing the tech giant of failing to remove "undesirable" content from Facebook.

Messenger service WhatsApp faces a maximum fine of RUB 4 million (nearly Rs. 41 lakh) after Russia accused it of failing to delete banned content, state-owned news agency RIA reported on Friday, citing a Moscow court. Although WhatsApp's parent company Meta Platforms was last year banned in Russia as an "extremist" organisation, the messenger app ...

Meta Platforms is set to face a record European Union privacy fine related to data transfer of Facebook's EU users to US servers for failing to comply with a warning by a top EU court, two sources familiar with the matter said. The penalty will be higher than the previous record EUR 746 million (nearly Rs. 6,660 crore) fine for Amazon.com, accordin...

The Wikimedia Foundation, owner of the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, was fined by a Russian court on Thursday for failing to delete content considered extremist as Moscow pursues a drive to crack down on independent sources of information. Wikipedia, which says it offers "the second draft of history", is one of the few surviving fact-checked sourc...

A new lawsuit accuses Mark Zuckerberg and other Meta Platforms Inc executives and directors of failing to do enough to stop sex trafficking and child sexual exploitation on Facebook and Instagram.

An Australian regulator has sent legal letters to Twitter and Google telling them to hand over information about their efforts to stop online child abuse, drawing them into a crackdown that has already put pressure on other global tech firms.

Twitter did not provide a full report to the European Union (EU) on the efforts taken by the microblogging platform to combat disinformation and fake news, according to officials. Twitter said it's "making real advancements across the board" at fighting disinformation in its baseline report, but lagged behind firms like Google, TikTok, Microsoft as...

Big Tech services like Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, LinkedIn, and TikTok didn't do enough to tackle disinformation in languages other than English, an activist NGO claims. The firms are expected to submit reports on compliance with updated EU rules on disinformation as part of the Digital Services Act (DSA) that came into force last November.

Meta may not go ahead in its deal to buy virtual reality content maker Within Unlimited as a judge on Friday released a ruling denying the Federal Trade Commission's request to stop the acquisition. The regulator had concerns that the deal would reduce competition in a new market. A December trial to decide if Meta could go forward with the relativ...

Twitter took longer to review hateful content and removed less of it in 2022 compared with the previous year, according to European Union data released Thursday. The EU figures were published as part of an annual evaluation of online platforms' compliance with the 27-nation bloc's code of conduct on disinformation.

A former Meta employee testified before a US Senate subcommittee on Tuesday, alleging that the Facebook and Instagram parent company was aware of harassment and other harms facing teens on its platforms but failed to address them.

PayPal's stablecoin is likely to succeed where Facebook's failed, thanks to the payment giant's standing in Washington and policymakers' greater understanding of the issues in the last three years. PayPal this month said it was launching PayPal USD, a crypto token pegged to the US dollar, making it the second major global company to launch a stable...

Tech giants could face billions of dollars in fines for failing to tackle disinformation under proposed Australian laws, which a watchdog on Monday said would bring "mandatory" standards to the little-regulated sector.

Tech giants could face billions of dollars in fines for failing to tackle disinformation under proposed Australian laws, which a watchdog on Monday said would bring "mandatory" standards to the little-regulated sector.

Malaysia said on Friday it will take legal action against Facebook parent Meta Platforms for failing to remove "undesirable" posts, the strongest measure the country has taken to date over such content. Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim's administration has vowed to curb what it calls provocative posts that touch on race and religion since coming to pow...

Malaysia threatened to take legal action against Meta on Friday, accusing the tech giant of failing to remove "undesirable" content from Facebook.

Messenger service WhatsApp faces a maximum fine of RUB 4 million (nearly Rs. 41 lakh) after Russia accused it of failing to delete banned content, state-owned news agency RIA reported on Friday, citing a Moscow court. Although WhatsApp's parent company Meta Platforms was last year banned in Russia as an "extremist" organisation, the messenger app ...

Meta Platforms is set to face a record European Union privacy fine related to data transfer of Facebook's EU users to US servers for failing to comply with a warning by a top EU court, two sources familiar with the matter said. The penalty will be higher than the previous record EUR 746 million (nearly Rs. 6,660 crore) fine for Amazon.com, accordin...

The Wikimedia Foundation, owner of the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, was fined by a Russian court on Thursday for failing to delete content considered extremist as Moscow pursues a drive to crack down on independent sources of information. Wikipedia, which says it offers "the second draft of history", is one of the few surviving fact-checked sourc...

A new lawsuit accuses Mark Zuckerberg and other Meta Platforms Inc executives and directors of failing to do enough to stop sex trafficking and child sexual exploitation on Facebook and Instagram.

An Australian regulator has sent legal letters to Twitter and Google telling them to hand over information about their efforts to stop online child abuse, drawing them into a crackdown that has already put pressure on other global tech firms.

Twitter did not provide a full report to the European Union (EU) on the efforts taken by the microblogging platform to combat disinformation and fake news, according to officials. Twitter said it's "making real advancements across the board" at fighting disinformation in its baseline report, but lagged behind firms like Google, TikTok, Microsoft as...

Big Tech services like Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, LinkedIn, and TikTok didn't do enough to tackle disinformation in languages other than English, an activist NGO claims. The firms are expected to submit reports on compliance with updated EU rules on disinformation as part of the Digital Services Act (DSA) that came into force last November.

Meta may not go ahead in its deal to buy virtual reality content maker Within Unlimited as a judge on Friday released a ruling denying the Federal Trade Commission's request to stop the acquisition. The regulator had concerns that the deal would reduce competition in a new market. A December trial to decide if Meta could go forward with the relativ...

Twitter took longer to review hateful content and removed less of it in 2022 compared with the previous year, according to European Union data released Thursday. The EU figures were published as part of an annual evaluation of online platforms' compliance with the 27-nation bloc's code of conduct on disinformation.