Facebook’s parent company Meta says it will remove sensitive ad targeting options related to health, race or ethnicity, political affiliation, religion or sexual orientation beginning on Jan. 19. “Like many of our decisions, this was not a simple choice and required a balance of competing interests where there was advocacy in both directions.” The Menlo Park, California-based company, which last …
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 …
LOADING ERROR LOADING Facebook and Twitter removed several messages posted by President Donald Trump on Wednesday as hundreds of his supporters turned into a violent mob attacking the U.S. Capitol, an extraordinary step by the social media giants that they had largely resisted during his four-year administration. Twitter added that Trump’s personal account would be locked for 12 hours following …
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A California state senator who was shoved by an anti-vaccine activist says Facebook is deliberately giving a platform to violence by not removing a video of the incident. Pan stood on the Senate floor Thursday and said he had asked Facebook to remove the video but was told “it’s not violent enough” to exceed standards “Facebook is …
