Tag: Meta

Meta removes 544k teen accounts in Australia

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
More than half a million accounts belonging to children under 16 were blocked across Meta platforms in the lead-up to Australia’s world-leading ban on teen social media use. New...

EU hits Meta with antitrust probe over WhatsApp AI plan

Posted on   |  by Foo Yun Chee
EU regulators launched an antitrust investigation into Meta Platforms on Thursday and may even temporarily halt its rollout of artificial intelligence features in its WhatsApp messenger that would block...

AI companies fall short on safety standards, study shows

Posted on   |  by Zaheer Kachwala
The safety practices of major artificial intelligence companies, such as Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI and Meta, are “far short of emerging global standards,” according to a new edition of Future...

Govt’s platform tax is back to drive news deals

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
The Albanese government has revived its plan to force Meta back into deals with news publishers with a backstop tax of more than $100 million a year. A year...

Backlash over proposed changes to EU privacy law

Posted on   |  by Foo Yun Chee
Privacy activists say proposed changes to Europe’s landmark privacy law, including making it easier for Big Tech to harvest Europeans’ personal data for AI training, would flout EU case...