Comedian #SarahSilverman and two authors have filed #copyright infringement lawsuits against #Meta Platforms and #OpenAI for allegedly using their content without permission to train artificial intelligence language models. https://www.ntd.com/sarah-silverman-sues-meta-openai-for-copyright-infringement_930046.html

#Meta, formerly Facebook, is planning to launch #chatbots with personalities that are geared toward #children very soon, but the #AI experts are concerned about the company and the technology.
https://www.ntd.com/meta-to-launch-chatbots-for-young-people-ai-experts-give-warning_944036.html

“Our bipartisan investigation has arrived at a solemn conclusion: Meta has been harming our children and teens, cultivating addiction to boost corporate profits.”

California Attorney General Rob Bonta and a bipartisan group of attorneys general announced legal action against #Meta, the parent company of the social media platforms Instagram and Facebook, at a press conference. https://www.ntd.com/meta-knows-all-of-this-states-announce-lawsuits-against-meta-for-knowingly-targeting-children-with-addictive-features_949932.html

“Meta has been harming our children and teens, cultivating addiction to boost corporate profits.”

California Attorney General Rob Bonta and a bipartisan group of attorneys general announced legal action against #Meta.
https://www.ntd.com/meta-knows-all-of-this-states-announce-lawsuits-against-meta-for-knowingly-targeting-children-with-addictive-features_949932.html

“Meta has been harming our children and teens, cultivating addiction to boost corporate profits.”

California Attorney General Rob Bonta and a bipartisan group of attorneys general announced legal action against #Meta.
https://www.ntd.com/meta-knows-all-of-this-states-announce-lawsuits-against-meta-for-knowingly-targeting-children-with-addictive-features_949932.html

At a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on “Social Media and the Teen Mental Health Crisis,” Sen. #JoshHawley (R-Mo.) questioned former #Meta engineer Arturo Béjar about the child sex abuse materials that can be accessed on the company’s social media platforms. He accused Meta of censoring “First Amendment-protected speech” instead of protecting children against “pedophile” content creators.
https://www.ntd.com/sen-hawley-criticizes-meta-for-censoring-parent-post-instead-of-child-sex-abuse-materials_952885.html

Lina Nealon from the National Center on Sexual Exploitation is a #Meta #whistleblower who testified in Congress. She details how often #children are exposed to #SexualAxploitation on social media platforms like Instagram and Facebook.
https://www.ntd.com/sexual-exploitation-of-children-on-social-media-is-so-prevalent-some-dont-even-recognize-it-expert_953224.html

While a new book exposes #MarkZuckerberg for the new bionic tactics that are used in the #Meta, suddenly the poverty has disappeared from the streets of #SanFrancisco. So what was behind that?

And #JustinTrudeau faced questions regarding the UK's warning that terrorists might attack Canada.

https://youtu.be/Psdf64T0qCg

Facebook and Instagram parent company #Meta routinely ignores reports of underage users on its platforms and has “coveted and pursued” the #underage #Instagram user demographic for years, according to a newly redacted complaint accompanying a lawsuit filed in October by the attorneys general of 33 states. https://www.ntd.com/meta-unlawfully-collecting-personal-data-from-underage-children-using-facebook-instagram-lawsuit_956879.html

#Meta routinely ignores reports of #underage users on its platforms and has “coveted and pursued” the underage #Instagram user demographic for years, according to a redacted complaint accompanying a lawsuit filed by the attorneys general of 33 states.

https://www.ntd.com/meta-unlawfully-collecting-personal-data-from-underage-children-using-facebook-instagram-lawsuit_956879.html

Foreign influence networks are on the chopping block this year, according to #Meta.

The social media giant says it took down five distinct Chinese networks in its quarterly report. All five were found to be targeting audiences overseas through fake accounts and #China had more operations active than any other nation. https://www.ntd.com/5-chinese-influence-networks-removed-meta_957727.html

#Meta, formerly known as Facebook, is suing the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (#FTC) in a bid to block the agency from expanding a 2020 privacy order.

https://www.ntd.com/meta-sues-ftc-to-block-new-privacy-restrictions-involving-childrens-data_958026.html

#SherylSandberg, who helped to transform Facebook from a tech startup into a digital advertising empire, will step down from the board of #Meta, Facebook’s parent company.
https://www.ntd.com/sheryl-sandberg-who-helped-to-turn-facebook-into-digital-advertising-empire-to-leave-company-board_967329.html

European consumer rights groups have accused #Meta, the owner of Facebook and Instagram, of carrying out a “massive” and “illegal” operation of #CollectingData from hundreds of millions of users in the region.
https://www.ntd.com/european-consumer-groups-accuse-meta-of-massive-illegal-data-collection-processing_976743.html

Tens of thousands of users of Facebook, Instagram, and other #Meta-owned products reported that those social media websites and apps were down on Tuesday. https://www.ntd.com/major-disruption-affects-facebook-users-report_977557.html

The #EuropeanUnion launched anti-competitive investigations against tech behemoths #Apple, #Alphabet, and #Meta for potential breaches of the Digital Markets Act (DMA).
https://buff.ly/3IQ9gmn

The #EuropeanUnion launched anti-competitive investigations against tech behemoths #Apple, #Alphabet, and #Meta for potential breaches of the Digital Markets Act (DMA).

https://buff.ly/3IQ9gmn

#Meta has announced that it will limit “political content” for users on Threads, Facebook, and Instagram from accounts that are not already followed. NTD spoke to Andrew Selepak, a social media professor at the University of Florida. https://buff.ly/3xcmJCi

Don’t worry, it’s not just you. Normal Service has been restored to most #Meta services on WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram, and Threads after an #outage and issues reported by users across the globe over the last few hours.
https://buff.ly/3U6vIOx

#Uvalde parents filed lawsuits against #Meta and #Activision alleging the companies groomed the teenage gunman responsible for the 2022 school massacre. https://www.ntd.com/uvalde-parents-accuse-meta-call-of-duty-of-grooming-shooter-in-lawsuit_995246.html