Irish regulators kick Meta with fine
Made a mess of bottom line
Irish regulators kicked Facebook parent Meta in its private assets with hundreds of millions in fines for online privacy violations and banned the company from forcing European users to agree to personalised ads.
Facebook charged with inflaming a real war
Refused to stop posts that incited violence
Meta has been accused in a lawsuit of letting posts that inflamed the war in Tigray on Facebook, by refusing to block posts calling for violence.
Facebook's moderation systems for "high profile users" favour Meta
No priority for free speech and civil rights
A policy which protects "high-profile" Facebook and Instagram users from moderation was structured so it did not prioritise protecting free speech and civil rights and was designed to protect the social notworking giant's interests.
Ireland fines Meta €265 million
User data made public
Ireland's Data Protection watchdog the DPC has fined Meta €265 million for failing to safeguard the personal data of more than half a billion users of its Facebook service.
Metaverse given the thumbs down
Meh
While Meta is all excited about its Metaverse, the concept is being greeted with a loud sounding yawn by punters who are failing to get excited about a new way of handing over their personal data to Facebook.
Meta is just a poorly built video game
Microsoft's Xbox boss dismisses the hype
Microsoft exec Phil Spencer (pictured) has said that Facebook's Metaverse was just a poorly constructed video game and too dull for him to be bothered with.
Facebook warns of dodgy applications
Available through Apple and Android
More than a million Facebook users might have given their usernames and passwords to harmful apps designed to help scammers take over their accounts.
Telcos call for more money from Big Tech
Users should pay
Europes big telcos including BT, Vodafone and Deutsche Telekom want users to pay for the costs of data fuelled by the global streaming and internet boom.
Facebook and Google did not have a secret deal
A US federal judge rules
A federal judge in the US has cleared Facebook and Google of collusion in relation to an online marketing deal between the two companies. However, Judge P. Kevin Castel allowed the ongoing antitrust case against Google to continue.
Meta in trouble over campaign adverts
Found guilty of campaign finance transparency laws
Facebook has been found guilty in Washington of breaking the state's strict campaign finance transparency laws.