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Oil facilities hit in deadly overnight attack on St Petersburg
At least one person was killed in the strikes, which also hit a data centre used by Russia's equivalent of Facebook.
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Presidential in Brazil: Lula's team accuses Meta of "interference" in the campaign
Lula's campaign team, Brazil's outgoing president and candidate for re-election, on Saturday accused Meta, the parent company of Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram, of "interference" by blocking its content. The Supreme Electoral Court gave Meta 48 hours – which says "respect electoral rules" – to answer these accusations.
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Le Pen's top ally Bardella faces fresh claims he sought to cover up past anti-Semitic comments
France's far-right National Rally leader Jordan Bardella deleted data from a former activist Facebook account as soon as allegations surfaced that he wrote anti-Semitic comments in his youth, French investigative weekly Le Canard enchaîné said Friday, piling pressure on the top ally of presidential frontrunner Marine Le Pen.
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Jordan Bardella allegedly erased data from a Facebook account after Mediapart's revelations
According to new information published on Friday by the chained Duck, Jordan Bardella erased the data from a former Facebook activist account as soon as Mediapart disclosed the anti-Semitic youth writings of which he denied being the author. Information again denied in bloc by the National Rally.
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'The price of the network ': hanging from the networks. Then what happens happens
There are screenwriters and directors who force you to keep track of them, like Aaron Sorkin, although the subject of some of his works is as foreign to me as Facebook.
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Aaron Sorkin, Mikey Madison, Jeremy Allen White: The director and cast behind the Facebook sequel
Fifteen years after "The Social Network", Aaron Sorkin is taking on Facebook again. His new film, "The Social Reckoning", looks at what the platform has become and the role it plays in division, extremism and misinformation in America, themes that have fuelled his long-running public feud with Mark Zuckerberg. It tells the true story of Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen, played by Oscar-nominated actress Mikey Madison ("Anora"), who leaked thousands of internal documents to Wall Street Journal reporter Jeff Horwitz, played by Jeremy Allen White ("The Bear").
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The family of a Meta content exmoderator will claim compensation after his suicide
The prosecution considers that the death was due to the post-traumatic stress of the woman, who had worked in the offices of Barcelona
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Saudi Arabia urged to spare man sentenced to death over Facebook post
Anojan Sivarasa faces execution after he was found guilty of blasphemy over a Facebook comment.
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How a farmers’ protest in Bucharest was inflated online, then hijacked
Over 1,180 Facebook posts and 100 TikTok videos analyzed showed how a genuine farmers’ protest was inflated by clusters of accounts sharing identical messages, then folded into anti-government, anti-EU and pro-Kremlin narratives.
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Facebook found liable as TikTok settles for $100m over user safety
Facebook found liable in New Mexico for deceptive actions; TikTok settles $100m lawsuit with Alabama over safety claims.
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CEO who posted 'Lake America' sweatshirt photos is no longer with the company
Smith on Sept. 11 had posted an allegedly AI-edited photo on Facebook of her family dressed in "Lake America" sweatshirts.
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Peter Thiel: Power, Palantir, and the antichrist
He was early to back Facebook, early to back Donald Trump, and is one of the world’s richest people. But from his theories on the antichrist and AI to his distinctive politics, Peter Thiel is hard to pin down.
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Why social media addiction is so hard to regulate
Facebook, Instagram and other social media platforms are accused of deliberately fostering addictive behavior among young users. Yet regulators continue to struggle to rein in their engagement-driven business models.
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I made a desperate request on Facebook to find a kidney and a stranger donated it to me.
A woman received a kidney transplant that saved her life after finding a donor who saw her publication on social media.