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The Facebook Papers: How Meta Failed to Fight Against American Climate Denial

Facebook's own employees think its efforts combating misinformation on climate change are inadequate. Read the…

Dell Cameron,

Shoshana Wodinsky,

and Mack DeGeurin

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Facebook Is Dodging Questions About Surveillance of Users Seeking Abortions

An ad tool is helping Meta and crisis pregnancy centers identify people seeking information about abortions online.

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Facebook Forgets Every Lesson Learned Trying to Imitate TikTok

The company intends to slather users’ feeds with recommendations of posts outside of who they follow, and it will be…

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Facebook Wants to Eschew News Publishers for That TikTok Money: Report

Recent reports that Facebook is planning to change its deals with news publishers comes around the same time that…

Kyle Barr

6/10/22 2:25PM

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Meta Kills Its Smartwatch, Delays AR Glasses

The devices were killed alongside the reshuffling of a few other Meta hardware projects, including Portal smart…

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Facebook Has a Rule Banning Gun Sales, but You Can Break it 10 Times

A cursory search on Facebook's marketplace proves that gun sellers are easily getting around the platform's rules on…

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Family Blames Instagram for Teen’s Eating Disorder in Lawsuit Challenging Section 230 Protections

Citing the Facebook Papers, two parents are targeting Instagram's algorithms rather than its third-party content in…

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Sheryl Sandberg Quits Facebook

Facebook's COO said she was leaving the company 'proud of everything' she'd achieved with Mark Zuckerberg in 14…

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Making the Facebook Papers Public

The historic leak left more than 1,000 top-secret documents in the hands of a select few reporters. Now, we’re…

Artem Golub,

and Mack DeGeurin

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Meta's New Skeleton Simulator 'MyoSuite' Could Help Develop Prosthetics

Meta's AI team just announced a software to help model complex skeletal movement.

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Zuckerberg Targeted by DC Attorney General in New Suit Over Facebook Misusing User Data

The lawsuit lands just as Meta gives into pressure to share more on how its systems allow political ads to target…

Kyle Barr

5/23/22 1:35PM

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Facebook Deliberately Caused Chaos to Water Down Australian News Law: Report

Whistleblowers claim that the company used an overly broad crackdown to neuter a news media law. Facebook denied the…

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Facebook Cuts Podcasts After Less Than a Year

The company is reportedly trying to "simplify" its audio portfolio.

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Russia Fines Meta for Spreading 'LGBT Propaganda' After Banning Facebook and Instagram

TikTok was fined for the same reason, the latest the fallout from the country's punitive anti-LGBT laws.

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Instagram Wants to Make Your Feed More Original

The social network's ranking change is meant to highlight original content, not compilations.

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Now Your Instagram Posts Can Look Sponsored, But You Still Won't Make Any Money

A new brand tagging feature lets your followers click through your posts and buy things, but you probably won't be…

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Read the Facebook Papers for Yourself

Hundreds of internal documents formed the basis of dozen of news stories. They have not been made public. Until now.

and Mack DeGeurin

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We’re Publishing the Facebook Papers. Here’s What They Say About Donald Trump, the 2020 Election, and Jan. 6.

Gizmodo has reviewed, redacted, and published more than two dozen leaked Facebook documents, the first of hundreds…

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Russians Are Posing as Journalists to Attack Ukrainians on Facebook

Ukrainian Facebook users are facing myriad online threats right now, from networks of a fake journalists to false…

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Facebook’s Plans for ‘Zuck Bucks’ Crypto Rise From the Dead

Two previous attempts were abandoned amid threats of regulation.

Matt Novak

4/07/22 6:00AM

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