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President Joe Biden on Friday slammed Meta’s decision to end its fact-checking program, calling it “really shameful.”While answering questions from reporters following remarks about the economy, Biden said the move would allow “things that are simply not true” to be read by millions of people. We want to tell the truth,” Biden said. “Anyway, I think it’s really shameful.”Meta did not immediately respond to a request for comment Friday evening. “Basically, these people from the Biden administration would call up our team and, like, scream at them and curse,” Zuckerberg said. “It just got to this point where we were like, ‘No, we’re not gonna, we’re not gonna take down things that are true.

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On an episode of "The Joe Rogan Experience" released Friday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg painted a picture of Biden administration officials berating Facebook staff during requests to remove certain content from the social media platform. "Basically, these people from the Biden administration would call up our team and, like, scream at them and curse," Zuckerberg told podcast host and comedian Joe Rogan. The White House did not immediately respond to NBC News’ request for comment about Zuckerberg’s remarks. It's not the first time that the co-founder of Facebook has said administration officials pressured the company to remove posts. He also announced that his platforms — Facebook and Instagram — would relax rules related to political content.

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☆ Hannah Kobayashi's family investigating possibility she was part of immigration marriage scam
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-05 | by ( Marlene Lenthang | Liz Kreutz | Marlene Lenthang Is A Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News Digital. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +6 min

The family of Hannah Kobayashi said they are investigating whether she was involved in a possible green card marriage scam, but stressed that nothing has been confirmed yet. The source said the possible scam was discovered by Kobayashi’s mother, who found immigration documents in her daughter's Hawaii home that listed an immigration attorney. The Los Angeles Magazine report said the FBI was investigating the possible marriage scam. Later that day, she got on a Metro train to South Los Angeles, then to downtown Los Angeles, accompanied by an unidentified man, police said. That day, family members said she sent messages that concerned them because their content and voice didn’t seem to match hers.

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☆ It’s not just you. More weird spam is popping up on Facebook
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-03 | by ( Clare Duffy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

Posts with obviously AI-generated images and confusing captions sometimes receive thousands of likes and hundreds of comments and shares. “The Facebook Feed … at times shows users AI-generated images even when they do not follow the Pages posting those images. Experts who track this kind of online behavior say there are likely several different kinds of actors behind the Facebook spam, with varying motives. Meta also automatically labels AI-generated images created with its own tools. However, there are still ways for users to strip out that metadata (or create AI images without it) to evade detection.

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☆ Mark Zuckerberg says White House ‘pressured’ Meta to ‘censor’ Covid-19 content
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-27 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

In this videoShare Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailMark Zuckerberg says White House ‘pressured’ Meta to ‘censor’ Covid-19 contentCNBC's Julia Boorstin joins 'Power Lunch' to report on Mark Zuckerberg's statement that the Biden administration “pressured” Facebook parent Meta to “censor” content related to Covid-19.

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☆ A Scavenger Hunt on the High Seas, With Rubber Ducks as the Reward
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-31 | by ( Sara Ruberg | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

They’re part of a whimsical trend among people who frequently vacation on the seas. The cruising duck enthusiasts, who at times refer to themselves as “quackers,” have been packing rubber ducks onto ships by the dozens, sometimes hundreds, to hide and leave for other passengers to find. The fad is believed to have begun in 2018, when a 10-year-old girl hid toy ducks for fellow cruisers to find during a family vacation. Her parents created what is considered the original “Cruising Ducks” Facebook page, which has ballooned into a large online community. The Facebook page has attracted nearly 275,000 quackers and has close to 100 posts a day about hiding, finding, decorating and just loving the ducks.

☆ Fact Check-Photos of Florida sunburn competition are fake
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-07 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

There is no evidence of a sunburn contest in Florida, and photos from a so-called extreme sunburn competition in online posts are not authentic. Examples of online posts on Aug. 3 and 4 sharing photos of people with burns from an “extreme sunburn competition in Florida” can be seen (here) and (here). The “Cursed AI” Facebook group notes in its description that content on the page is AI-generated (here). Reuters has contacted the account that posted the photos in the Cursed AI group for comment. The photos were shared on a Facebook page made for AI-generated content, and there is no evidence of such a sunburn competition in Florida.

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Weeks later, Mr. Trump is the former President Trump. Instead, in a brief televised address shortly before 2:30 a.m., Mr. Trump furiously laid down his postelection lie. For weeks, Mr. Trump had been peppering him with tips of fraud that, upon investigation by federal authorities, proved baseless. The cavalry “is coming, Mr. President,” Kylie Kremer tweeted to Mr. Trump on Dec. 19. On Jan. 15, Mr. Trump acquiesced to an Oval Office meeting with Mr. Lindell, who arrived with two sets of documents.

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☆ Facebook seeks to block $3.7 billion UK mass action over market dominance
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-30 | by ( Sam Tobin | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Meta Platforms Inc (META.O), the parent company of the Facebook group, is facing a mass action brought on behalf of around 45 million Facebook users in Britain. Her lawyers said users should get compensation for the economic value they would have received if Facebook was not in a dominant position in the market for social networks. Its lawyers said the claimed losses ignore the “economic value” Facebook provides. But lawyers representing Meta said the lawsuit wrongly assumes that any “excess profits” it might make equates to a financial loss suffered by individual Facebook users. This approach “takes no account whatsoever of the significant economic value of the service provided by Facebook”, Marie Demetriou said in court documents.

Trump’s campaign didn’t threaten a lawsuit, as some sources close to Trump thought he would. Trump has slightly more than 4.8 million followers on the platform, compared to nearly 88 million on Twitter and 34 million on Facebook. But Facebook subsequently changed its rules — including a limitation on high-volume advertising — and Trump's campaign protested. Twitter was credited with abetting Trump’s political rise, but his freewheeling style came across as unhinged even to many Republicans who started to oppose his Twitter use. “Moreover, every day that President Trump’s political voice remains silenced furthers an inappropriate interference in the American political and election process.”

☆ Fact Check-No evidence Scott Perry made statement in digitally altered image
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-30 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

A fake television graphic circulating on social media contains a statement that Pennsylvania Rep. Scott Perry denies ever having made. The template for the viral image may have come from a June 23 report on WGAL about Perry (here). A side-by-side comparison of the June graphic from WGAL (top) and the viral image shared on social media (bottom) can be seen (imgur.com/a/t7bob2b). The font of the alleged quote shared online is similar, but not identical, to the font in the June WGAL graphic. Read more about our work to fact-check social media posts here .

☆ Rohingya seek reparations from Facebook for role in massacre
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-29 | by ( Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +7 min

But some very narrow minded and very nationalist types escalated hate against Rohingya on Facebook,” he said. Instead, Meta’s algorithms “proactively amplified and promoted content” on Facebook, which incited violent hatred against the Rohingya beginning as early as 2012. And they are asking Meta to pay reparations for its role in the violent repression of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, which the U.S. declared a genocide earlier this year. “These algorithms are really dangerous to our human rights. The Rohingya refugees are seeking unspecified reparations from the Menlo Park, California-based social media giant for its role in perpetuating genocide.

☆ Megan Thee Stallion creates website for fans that lists mental health resources
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-26 | by ( Marianne Garvey | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —Megan Thee Stallion cares about your mental health. The entertainer has created a website called “Bad Bitches Have Bad Days Too,” which offers visitors to the site a vast and diverse list of free therapy organizations, various crisis helplines and places to find substance abuse help, among other resources. Special attention is also paid to providing resources for members of traditionally marginalized communities. The site’s name comes from a verse in her single “Anxiety.”Last year, Megan Thee Stallion publicly talked about going to therapy after her mom Holly Thomas died of brain cancer in 2019. She appeared on Taraji P. Henson’s “Peace of Mind with Taraji” Facebook watch series, where she opened up about needing help.

☆ Kremlinul „speră să nu fie nevoit” să interzică Facebook, Twitter sau Youtube în Rusia
▼ + stars: | 2021-03-30 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +2 min

Kremlinul „speră să nu trebuiască să interzică” Facebook, Twitter sau YouTube, rețele sociale cu care autoritățile ruse sunt în acest moment în conflict, din cauza modului în care sunt moderate conţinuturile, în special politice, a anunţat un înalt responsabil rus, informează Agerpres. „Nimeni nu vrea o interzicere totală (a reţelelor sociale), ar fi lipsit de sens să se pledeze în favoarea acestui lucru. Un prim „foc de avertisment” a fost tras la începutul lui martie, prin frânarea funcţionării în Rusia a platformei Twitter, pe care autorităţile ruse o acuză cu nu a suprimat conţinuturile „ilegale”. Twitter este acuzat de Moscova în special că nu a suprimat conţinuturile incitante ale minorilor la suicid, cele care conţin pornografie infantilă sau informaţii cu privire la utilizarea drogurilor. Platforma americană a respins acuzaţiile ruse, declarându-se „foarte îngrijorată de tentativele de a bloca şi a strangula conversaţia publică online”.

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