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July 25, 2024 10:13 PM

Meta oversight board tells company to clean up rules on AI-generated pornography

Meta's Oversight Board on Thursday said the company's rules were "not sufficiently clear" in barring sexually explicit AI-generated depictions of real people and called for changes to stop such imagery from circulating on its platforms. The board, w...

July 3, 2024 12:30 PM

Meta to end ban on the word ‘shaheed’ on oversight board’s recommendations

Meta Platforms said on Tuesday it would lift its blanket ban on the word "shaheed", or "martyr" in English, after a year-long review by its oversight board found the social media giant's approach was "overbroad". The company has been criticized for ...

May 21, 2024 4:19 PM

AI summit secures safety commitments from 16 companies

Sixteen companies involved in AI including Alphabet's Google, Meta, Microsoft and OpenAI, as well as companies from China, South Korea and the United Arab Emirates have committed to safe development of the technology. The announcement unveiled in a ...

April 25, 2024 7:04 PM

Meta sparks tech selloff as AI splurge spooks Wall Street

Shares of Meta Platforms META sank nearly 15% on Thursday, sparking a selloff in big tech stocks after the social media giant signaled its costly bet on AI would take years to pay off. The premarket drop was set to erase more than $180 billion...

April 9, 2024 12:27 PM

Malaysia sees surge in social media content restriction requests

Malaysia urged Facebook operator Meta META.O and short video service TikTok to step up monitoring on their platforms, it said on Tuesday, with the government reporting sharp increases in harmful social media content this year. In the first three mon...

March 6, 2024 1:12 AM

Meta platforms worldwide outage: Users frustrated, Elon Musk takes a Jab

Facebook and Instagram services were restored after an outage was reported in India and many other parts of the world Tuesday evening. Users complained about log in issues on both these social media platforms. They were logged out of both Facebook a...

October 19, 2023 4:53 PM

Meta, TikTok given a week by EU to detail measures against disinformation

Meta META.O and TikTok have been given a week by the European Commission to provide details on measures taken to counter the spread of terrorist, violent content and hate speech on their platforms, a week after Elon Musk's X was told to do the same. ...

October 13, 2023 2:40 PM

EU opens probe into X in test of new tech rules, pressure on TikTok, Meta

European Union industry chief Thierry Breton on Thursday opened an investigation into Elon Musk's X, the first under new EU tech rules, after earlier reprimanding the social media platform, TikTok and Meta for not doing enough to tackle the spread of...