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Meta overhauls rules on deepfakes, other altered media
FACEBOOK owner Meta announced major changes to its policies on digitally created and altered media on Friday (Apr 5), ahead of US elections poised to test its ability to...
Meta pushes back on US FTC’s bid to amend 2020 privacy settlement
META Platforms has rebuffed an attempt by the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to amend a 2020 privacy settlement, noting that it had voluntarily disclosed two technical errors related...
Meta can’t delay FTC review of privacy terms, US appeals court says
META Platforms failed to convince a federal appeals court to postpone the US Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) re-examination of alleged privacy breaches within its Facebook arm.The US Court of...
European Commission Examines Alphabet, Apple & Meta’s Walled Gardens Under the DMA
The European Commission announced on March 25 open investigations into Alphabet, Apple and Meta for alleged gatekeeping (i.e., promoting their own services above competitors’) on apps and in browsers....
EU to investigate Apple, Google, Meta for potential Digital Markets Act breaches
EU ANTITRUST regulators on Monday (Mar 25) opened their first investigations under the Digital Markets Act into Apple, Alphabet’s Google and Meta Platforms for potential breaches of the landmark...
Apple, Google, Meta targeted in EU’s first Digital Markets Act probes
APPLE, Alphabet’s Google and Meta Platforms will be investigated for potential breaches of the EU’s new Digital Markets Act, European antitrust regulators said on Monday (Mar 25), potentially leading...
Meta, Microsoft, X band together against Apple’s App Store plans
META Platforms, Microsoft, X and Match Group asked a federal judge to reject Apple’s plan for opening its App Store to outside payment options. In a rare joint filing,...
Meta does not expect new Nvidia chips to arrive until at least next year
FACEBOOK owner Meta Platforms is not expecting to receive shipments of Nvidia’s new flagship artificial intelligence chip this year, a Meta spokesperson told Reuters. Nvidia, the dominant designer of...
Turkey moves against Meta over Threads-Instagram data sharing
TURKEY’S competition authority imposed on Monday (Mar 18) an interim measure on Meta Platforms meant to hinder data sharing between the Instagram and Threads platforms as it investigates possible...
Are Facebook and Instagram still down? Meta boss apologises for ‘technical issue’ which hit thousands of users
Instagram, Facebook, Messenger and Threads suffered widespread problems on Tuesday afternoon, with users locked out of their accounts and pages failing to load properly. Facebook outages reported on Down Detector...