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Antisemitic and Anti-Muslim Hate Speech Surges Across the Internet
Fueled by the conflict between Israel and Gaza and stoked by extremists, hate speech has spiked on social media platforms such as X, Facebook and Instagram, researchers said.
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Hamas Is Barred From Social Media. Its Messages Are Still Spreading.
Hamas and Hamas-linked accounts are exploiting the challenge social media companies face in striking the right balance on moderation, experts say.
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Hamas Hijacked Victims’ Social Media Accounts to Spread Terror
The use of hostages’ Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp accounts to livestream attacks and issue death threats is a new tactic, experts said.
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Social Media Users Accuse Facebook and Instagram of Suppressing Pro-Palestinian Posts
Meta, which owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, said last week that it would enact temporary measures to push down extreme or graphic imagery coming out of Israel and Gaza. In doing so, thousands of Palestinian supporters now say that their posts ...
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Campbell Brown, Who Led Facebook News, Leaves Meta
Ms. Brown’s exit indicates how Meta’s priorities around news and its relationships with media companies have changed.
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Does Information Affect Our Beliefs?
New studies on social media’s influence tell a complicated story.
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Judge Dismisses D.C.’s Privacy Lawsuit Against Meta
The District of Columbia accused the company of sharing user data in deceptive ways. A Superior Court decision said Meta had made its policies clear.
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If It’s Advertised to You Online, You Probably Shouldn’t Buy It. Here’s Why.
If you saw a Facebook ad recently for Jeremy’s Razors, which bills itself as a “woke-free” razor for men, you may well be a father of school-age children who likes Ultimate Fighting, Hershey’s chocolate, hunting or Johnny Cash. This is according to ...
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It’s Time to Tear Up Big Tech’s Get-Out-of-Jail-Free Card
I still remember the shock I felt when I was able to buy a Facebook ad aimed only at white house hunters — something the Fair Housing Act was designed to prevent — in just minutes. But even more shocking is that it took another six years after my ...
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Facebook’s Bridge to Nowhere
In the early summer of 2017, Warren Slocum walked into a warehouse in Menlo Park, Calif., to meet with members of Facebook’s staff and was mesmerized. Sitting before him was a 3-D model of the neighborhoods surrounding Facebook’s headquarters. On a ...
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