All news on the topic: Facebook

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Meta donates $1m to Donald Trump’s inaugural fund
Donation comes after CEO Mark Zuckerberg dined with Trump at Mar-a-Lago and appears to be an effort to improve relations
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Facebook, Instagram down for thousands of users
Meta apps Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp were experiencing issues Wednesday afternoon as thousands of people reported outages for the apps on DownDetector.
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Meta plans $10 billion cable to span the entire globe
Facebook’s parent company is planning to lay over 40,000km of cable under the sea at a cost of billions of pounds, it has been reported.
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US Supreme Court tosses case involving securities fraud suit against Facebook
The U.S. Supreme Court sidestepped on Friday a decision on whether to allow shareholders to proceed with a securities fraud lawsuit accusing Meta’s (META.O), opens new tab Facebook of misleading investors about the misuse of the social media platform’s user data.
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Facebook and Instagram initiate crackdown on celebrity scam ads
Facebook and Instagram owner Meta is to introduce facial recognition technology to try and crack down on scammers who fraudulently use celebrities in adverts.
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Meta launches its AI chatbot in the UK on Facebook and Instagram
The assistant, which has sparked privacy concerns, can also be accessed on £299 Ray-Ban Meta sunglasses
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An individual sentenced over spreading hatespeech via Facebook
Jordan Parlour is one of the first people in the UK to be sentenced for stirring up racial hatred from the comfort of his home after the 28-year-old from Leeds wrote vile posts on Facebook
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’Match-match’ politicians violated electoral ban
A Facebook page paid millions of pesos to promote content favorable to politicians from the Citizen Movement, including Samuel García, Mariana Rodríguez and Jorge Álvarez Máynez.
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Kyrgyz activist imprisoned for Facebook posts claims she was framed
Kanykei Aranova says someone else created a Facebook profile in her name, and posted the anti-government messages that led to her conviction.
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Meta pulls plug on release of advanced AI model in EU
‘Unpredictable’ privacy regulations prompt Facebook owner to scrap regional plans for multimodal Llama
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Tory mayoral candidate for London joins anti-Ulez Facebook group permeated with Islamophobia
Susan Hall became member a day after an exposé about its contents – much of which is directed at Sadiq Khan
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Tory employees are managing a network of anti-Ulez Facebook groups that are heavily laden with racism and abuse
Investigation finds groups hosting Islamophobic attacks on London mayor Sadiq Khan, white supremacist slogans and antisemitic conspiracy theories
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Fraudsters’ tactics for sneaking fake articles onto Facebook
I have been really busy recently, writing articles about famous people.
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Meta breaks silence on Facebook and Insta meltdown issuing major update
Meta have broken their silence after a technical glitch today left Facebook and Instagram users unable to login to their accounts, with their communications chief claiming the problems have now been fixed
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Facebook down as users question what the dreaded 'session expired' error means
Facebook users attempting to access the website on Friday were greeted with a 'session expired' or 'unexpected error' message, with similar issues also reported on Meta-owned Instagram
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Facebook and Instagram down as users hit by bug that blocks access
Facebook and Instagram are both down this afternoon with users unable to access their accounts and Facebook Messenger and Threads users also reporting problems
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Sinister AI scammers can now steal your voice - here's how to protect yourself
Two cyber security experts warn about the rise of scammers using artificial intelligence to cleverly impersonate individuals, with those falling victim losing thousands
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Teen heartbroken by dad's loveless response after reaching out for support
Having an absent biological father is bad enough, but when he then gets in touch and tells a person that he doesn't consider them their child, it is heartbreaking, as one woman has recounted
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'Selling dead hubby's stuff to not live with ghost, kids can buy what they want'
A wife whose husband died has decided to get rid of all his belongings because she doesn't want to 'live with a ghost', but because she's selling them she wants her kids to buy anything they want as a keepsake
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Mum of boy, 15, killed train surfing sues TikTok as he was 'goaded' into stunt
15-year-old Zackery Nazario, from New York, tragically died while train surfing a Brooklyn-bound J train over the Williamsburg Bridge on February 20, 2023
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B&M shoppers say bargain item is 'best thing ever' to banish mould for good
Getting rid of mould in your home isn't easy - but some shoppers claim that one B&M product can easily do the trick - and thankfully its cheap
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OpenAI shows off Sora, the new AI tool that makes videos from written commands
The maker of ChatGPT unveiled its next leap into generative artificial intelligence with a tool that instantly makes short videos in response to written prompts
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Google engineer shoots wife dead in bath in $2.1m home after killing their twins
A software engineer who worked for Google and Meta allegedly shot his wife dead in the family's bathtub after murdering their twin boys, 4, in one of the $2.1 million home's bedrooms
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Woman shares innocent snap of husband's packed lunch - and sparks fury
The woman received a barrage of hate after sharing a picture of her husband's lunch box online - but it wasn't the food itself that angered people
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Couple refurbish home for £500 after buying everything on Facebook Marketplace
A savvy couple has managed to refurbish their new home for just £500 by buying everything from Facebook Marketplace - saving themselves £6,000 in the process