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Thursday, Sep 12

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Lady Gaga Reacts to Ex-Classmate's Facebook Group Saying She'll 'Never Be Famous'

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Lady Gaga is encouraging others to always believe in yourself! Back when she was a student at New York University, way before she became one of the most famous entertainers in the world, some of the 38-year-old “Poker Face” singer’s…

Facebook and Instagram make AI labels less prominent on content edited with AI, moving them behind a menu; the labels will still appear on AI-generated content (The Verge)

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Facebook and Instagram make AI labels less prominent on content edited with AI, moving them behind a menu; the labels will still appear on AI-generated content — Meta is updating how it labels content on Instagram, Facebook, and Threads…

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Parents ‘don’t use’ parental controls on Facebook and Instagram, says Nick Clegg

www.theguardian.com

Meta’s global affairs chief points to ‘behavioural issue’ around child safety tools on the social media platforms

Facebook and Instagram are making AI labels less prominent on edited content

www.theverge.com

Meta will hide the “AI Info” label in a menu if an image has been edited with AI. | Image: Meta

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Your old Facebook and Instagram posts were probably used to train Meta's AI. You can't opt-out as an American, but you can do this instead.

Meta admitted to scraping public Facebook and Instagram posts and photos of adults dating back as far as 2007 to train its AI models.

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IBM Drops Hines Lease – Takes Facebook Space Instead

realtynewsreport.com

AUSTIN – (Realty News Report) – IBM and Hines have scrapped a deal that would have placed the computer company as the anchor tenant in a new 507,200-SF office project that Hines plans to develop in The Domain district in Austin’s northern…

Mark Zuckerberg Declares He Is Done Apologizing for Facebook's Censorship

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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg declared at a recent event that his days of apologizing are over. The Facebook founder attempted to blame conservatives themselves for the rampant censorship on his platforms, stating, "When it’s a political…

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Nigeria: Ignore These Five Facebook Pages Offering Loans in the Name of Opay, Nigeria's Popular Mobile Money Operator

allafrica.com

IN SHORT: Several Facebook pages claiming to represent a popular mobile banking platform are offering loans to users. But don't be scammed - they're not affiliated with OPay.

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Facebook has scraped public data from Australian users without an opt out. What can we do?

theconversation.com

There are three key steps people can take to protect their data from big tech.

Meta admits it scraped all Australian Facebook posts since 2007 to train its AI

www.techradar.com

Meta has been using Instagram and Facebook user photos and posts train generative AI models.

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Wednesday, Sep 11

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X Gains Ground As Facebook Slips: Musk Closes In On Zuckerberg In Social Media Face-Off

www.benzinga.com

Twitter rebranding as X is thriving with 22% year-over-year growth, while Facebook struggles and Pinterest dominates.

Facebook flagged and removed emergency wildfire information as 'spam'

mashable.com

A Washington Post investigation found that Facebook repeatedly removed emergency wildfire information, even from trusted sources.

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Girlfriend jailed for helping Facebook feud killer

www.bbc.co.uk

Millie Bradley drove her partner away after he and a friend murdered a disabled man, a court hears.

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Meta scraped all public Facebook and Instagram posts since 2007 for AI training

9to5mac.com

Meta has admitted to scraping all public Facebook and Instagram posts made since 2007 in order to train its generative AI model, adding to the privacy contrast with Apple Intelligence.

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Facebook confesses to using users public photos for AI

www.gizchina.com

Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the way we live and work, with companies like Meta (formerly Facebook) and OpenAI leading the charge. These advancements bring ...

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An analysis finds 40+ examples of Facebook removing emergency-related posts during 20+ US wildfires since June 2024; Meta says it is "investigating this issue" (Brianna Sacks/Washington Post)

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An analysis finds 40+ examples of Facebook removing emergency-related posts during 20+ US wildfires since June 2024; Meta says it is “investigating this issue” — The Post has collected more than 40 examples of Facebook removing emergency…

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Meta admits to scraping every Australian adult Facebook user's public data to train AI, with no opt-out option as it is not required to do so under privacy law (Jake Evans/ABC)

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Meta admits to scraping every Australian adult Facebook user's public data to train AI, with no opt-out option as it is not required to do so under privacy law — In short: — Facebook is scraping the public data of all Australian adults on…

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More Election Interference? Facebook Cries ‘Error’ After Caught Censoring Again

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A Meta spokesman admitted to erroneously censoring a Facebook video of a federal official labeling the New York criminal case against former President Donald Trump as a "perversion of justice."