Editor’s note: Kara Alaimo is an associate professor of communication at Fairleigh Dickinson University. CNN — Many parents were already worried about their kids being exposed to false information and other harmful content on social media before Meta’s surprise decision to drop its fact-checkers. “If they’re not, it doesn’t mean it’s not true, but it does mean you should dig …
Apple had threatened to remove Facebook and Instagram apps from the App Store over slavery posts in the middle east back in 2019. Facebook described engineers accessing problematic messages in maid-recruiting agencies' inboxes, including one in which a Filipina specifically is mentioned as being “sold” by her Kuwaiti employers. Facebook had then worked to remove the problematic posts, the company …
