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Meta VR Rival Claims It Was Obliterated When Facebook Took Its Name
Jul 19 2022 // A Meta Platforms Inc. rival claims in a federal trademark infringement lawsuit that its business has been obliterated after Facebook adopted its name. Closely held MetaX LLC said since October 2021, when Facebook rebranded...
Facebook Asks Court for Old FTC Merger Documents in Antitrust Fight
Jul 6 2022 // Meta’s Facebook has asked a U.S. court for eight documents created by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission as part of their review of the company’s purchases of Instagram and WhatsApp, which the agency allowed to...
Content Moderator in Kenya Sues Facebook Owner Meta Over Working Conditions
May 10 2022 // A former moderator working for Facebook owner Meta Platforms Inc. on Tuesday filed a lawsuit alleging that poor working conditions for contracted content moderators violate the Kenyan constitution. The petition, also filed...
Meta’s Facebook to Pay $90 Million to Settle Privacy Lawsuit Over User Tracking
Feb 22 2022 // Facebook agreed to pay $90 million to settle a decade-old privacy lawsuit accusing it of tracking users’ internet activity even after they logged out of the social media website. A proposed preliminary settlement was...
Texas Sues Facebook Parent Meta Over Facial Recognition
Feb 16 2022 // The Texas Attorney General is suing Facebook parent Meta, saying the company has unlawfully collected biometric data on Texans for commercial purposes, without their informed consent. Attorney General Ken Paxton filed the...
Sister of Slain Federal Officer Files Wrongful Death Suit Against Facebook
Jan 11 2022 // The sister of a slain federal security officer is suing Facebook, alleging the tech giant played a part in the radicalization of two men who are accused of planning the killing on its platform. David Patrick Underwood was...
Facebook Whistleblower Tells Congress ‘Time Is of Essence’ in Social Media Law Reform
Dec 3 2021 // Ex-Facebook employee and whistleblower Frances Haugen implored lawmakers Wednesday to avert the usual congressional stalemates as they weigh proposals to curb abuses on social media platforms by limiting the...
U.S. Court Rejects Israeli Firm’s Immunity From Facebook Suit Over Malware
Nov 9 2021 // A U.S. appeals court said Facebook can pursue a lawsuit accusing Israel’s NSO Group of exploiting a bug in its WhatsApp messaging app to install malware allowing the surveillance of 1,400 people, including...
UK Warns Facebook Executives to Keep Users Safe or Risk Criminal Charges
Nov 5 2021 // UK Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries warned Facebook Inc. and its chiefs are on course for criminal prosecution for failing to reign in the harmful effects of its platform. “Why would we give them two years to change...
Facebook Says It’s Removing Facial Recognition System
Nov 3 2021 // Facebook Inc. announced on Tuesday it is shutting down its facial recognition system, which automatically identifies users in photos and videos, citing growing societal concerns about the use of such...
Australian Publisher Urges Government to Compel Facebook to Negotiate Content Deal
Oct 26 2021 // SYDNEY – A small Australian publisher is calling for the government to enforce a new law to compel Facebook Inc to negotiate a content deal, prompting the architect of the rule to say he was “concerned” about...
Facebook to Change Rules on Attacking Public Figures: Reuters
Oct 14 2021 // Facebook Inc. will now count activists and journalists as “involuntary” public figures and so increase protections against harassment and bullying targeted at these groups, its global safety chief said in an...
If Facebook Is the Problem, Is a Social Media Regulator the Fix?
Oct 6 2021 // Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen told Congress on Tuesday that one option for making social media less harmful would be to create a dedicated regulatory agency to oversee companies like Facebook, and could have former...
Whistleblower Tells Congress Facebook Puts Profits Over Safety, Urges Regulation
Oct 5 2021 // Former Facebook employee and whistleblower Frances Haugen will urge the U.S. Congress on Tuesday to regulate the social media giant, which she plans to liken to tobacco companies that for decades denied that smoking...
CNN Prevents Australians From Accessing Its Facebook Pages, Citing Defamation Risk
Sep 29 2021 // SYDNEY – CNN said it is preventing Australians from accessing its Facebook Inc pages after a court ruled that publishers can be liable for defamation in public comment sections and the social media firm refused to help...
Australia’s High Court Rules Publishers Liable for Facebook Comments
Sep 9 2021 // MELBOURNE — Australia’s biggest news publishers including Rupert Murdoch’s the Australian are responsible for comments that readers post on their corporate Facebook pages, the High Court ruled on...
Facebook’s WhatsApp to Appeal Ireland’s €225 Million Data Privacy Fine
Sep 3 2021 // Ireland hit Facebook’s WhatsApp with a record 225 million euro ($266 million) fine on Thursday following an inquiry into the messaging app’s transparency around sharing personal data with other Facebook...
Facebook Hits Back Against Biden Team Blaming It for Vaccine Misinformation
Jul 19 2021 // U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy stood by federal guidance that those fully vaccinated against COVID-19 no longer needed to wear masks, while blaming social media companies for fueling vaccine misinformation. Murthy told...
Disclosure Protections May Not Apply to Some Facebook App Records in Healey Probe
Mar 25 2021 // Facebook Inc. could be required to disclose some of its records identifying apps that allegedly misused customer data in a privacy investigation brought by state Attorney General Maura Healey. The Massachusetts Supreme...
Facebook, Google CEOs Suggest How to Reform Internet Immunity Law
Mar 25 2021 // Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg laid out steps to reform a key internet law on Wednesday, saying that companies should have immunity from liability only if they follow best practices for removing damaging material...
