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EU fines on Apple & Meta "won't be tolerated," White House says
Recently, the EU imposed big fines on Apple and Meta, two of the leading US big tech companies. Apple was the hardest hit ...
Anti-trans posts pass muster under Meta’s new hate-speech rules
Meta’s quasi-independent Oversight Board ruled early Wednesday that the social media platform is free to leave up two ...
Meta Oversight Board Urges Company To Assess ‘Human Rights Impact’ Of Hateful Conduct Policy
Meta updated its hateful conduct policy in January, which alarmed some LGBTQ activists, as the updated policy specified users ...
If Meta loses in antitrust case, it could be forced to break itself up by selling Instagram and WhatsApp
Meta is going on trial starting Monday. The US government is advancing a blockbuster antitrust case, alleging that Mark Zuckerberg’s company illegally built a “social networking monopoly” through ...
Big reckoning for Big Tech? EU’s fines on Meta, Apple won’t change bad behavior
Government slap-downs on tech giants may feel satisfying to frustrated consumers, but they don’t solve the erosion of privacy ...
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg wraps up testimony in antitrust case
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is emphasizing that he bought Instagram and WhatsApp because he liked the companies — not to cut ...
Why the FTC's antitrust case against Meta is a 'huge deal'
Vass Bednar, a policy expert at McMaster University, shares what we know about the U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s antitrust ...
US criticizes EU over Apple and Meta fines, questions DMA enforcement
The US criticized the EU fines on Apple and Meta, calling them “economic extortion." It also attacked the DMA legislation.
Facebook owner Meta faces existential threat at trial over Instagram, WhatsApp
WASHINGTON—Facebook parent Meta Platforms faces a high-stakes trial in Washington starting on Monday on claims it built an ...