Meta to Use Chats With AI to Tailor Ads and Content: Should You Be Concerned?
The evolution of technology has brought with it an unprecedented capacity to collect, analyse, and monetise personal data. Today, big ...
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How Silicon Valley Rewired Our Brains Without Our Consent
I often think back to my childhood years — life was so stress-free and effortless; everything felt so magical. My ...
Google’s Monopoly Case Builds Pressure on Tech Giants
On August 5, 2024, the US Court for the District of Columbia (DC) decided that Google was a monopolist, meaning it ...
How Education and Social Media Regulation Can Combat Science Denial
Five billion people use social media globally, and millions of posts are shared on Meta (Facebook) every minute. While a virtual ...
How Meta’s Failure to Act Upon Human Trafficking Claims Led to Another Lawsuit
The lawsuit accuses Mark Zuckerberg and other Meta directors and executives of failing to address sex trafficking and child exploitation ...
U-Turn on Nudity Policy: Are Facebook and Instagram About to ‘Free the Nipple’?
After over a decade since the “Free the Nipple” campaign began in 2012, Meta’s Oversight Board has recommended Meta to ...
Meta Faces Fine for ‘Forcing’ Users to Consent to Personal Data Use in Ad Practices
On Wednesday, Meta Ireland was issued €210 million and €180 million fines by the Irish watchdog for breaches of the EU ...
Meta to Pay Millions for Data Leak That Enabled Psychological Political Warfare
Meta Platforms, the owner of Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp, has agreed to pay the largest ever settlement sum agreed upon ...
Should Twitter Have Moderated the Story About Hunter Biden’s Laptop?
On Friday evening, an American journalist by the name of Matt Taibbi posted a thread on Twitter revealing what he ...
Social Media: The Dumpster Fire Burns More Garbage
The last week has seen the announcement of Ye (Formerly Kanye) acquiring right-wing social media platform Parler, anti-monopoly regulatory action ...
The Metaverse: How Will It Impact the Young?
The World Economic Forum (WEF), the annual meeting of global political, economic, industrial, academics and non-profit organisation leaders, met last ...
Facebook and Instagram may be Withdrawn from Europe
Last Thursday, Meta revealed the possibility of withdrawing products from Europe, in its annual report to the US Security and ...
