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A senior official says he will confront Mark Zuckerberg over reports his platform facilitated child sex abuse. The European Union’s Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton has called on social media giant Meta, the owner of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, to take “immediate action” against child pornography on its platforms. Breton …

Big tech companies like Google and Facebook parent Meta will have to police their platforms more strictly to better protect European users from hate speech, disinformation and other harmful online content under landmark EU legislation approved early Saturday. European Union officials clinched the agreement in principle on the Digital Services …

Meta Platforms Inc on Wednesday suspended a network of over 400 accounts, pages, and groups ahead of general elections in the Philippines as the Facebook parent moves to crack down on hate speech and misinformation. Concerns about online hate speech have increased as candidates and supporters increasingly turn to social …

Facebook’s new parent company Meta will shut down its facial recognition system and delete the faceprints of more than one billion users. Facebook announced it is pulling the plug on its facial recognition system and will delete the faceprints of over one billion users, as the company tries to rebound …