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Flirty AI chatbots of Taylor Swift, Scarlett Johansson found on Meta

Meta is back in the headlines, but for the wrong reasons. According to a Reuters report, Meta has allowed users, and even one of its own employees, to

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"It is acceptable to describe a child in terms that evidence their attractiveness": Meta AI bends safety guidelines by engaging in sensual talks with minors, generating false content, and discriminating against Black people

According to an internal document from Meta Platforms, the company's AI chatbot across Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram has permission to engage in romantic and sensual conversations with children, generate false information, and even argue that black people are dumber than white people.

Windows Central

Meta Faces Congressional Fire Over Leaked AI Rulebook That Allowed Chatbots To Flirt With Kids

Meta Platforms Inc. (NASDAQ:META) faces congressional scrutiny after media reports exposed internal policies allowing artificial intelligence chatbots to engage children in “romantic or sensual” conversations and generate racist content, raising investor concerns about regulatory compliance and brand reputation risks.

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Facebook Bug Causes Mass Bans Affecting Users and Groups Alike

A Facebook bug was identified after FB and IG users complained about getting banned. It turns out that FB Groups are also affected.

International Business Times UK

Author Of Explosive Meta Memoir To Star At US Senate Hearing

The former Facebook employee behind a scathing book about parent company Meta will testify Wednesday before US senators keen to establish whether the social networking giant ever collaborated with the Chinese government.

International Business Times

Mariah Carey wins ‘All I Want For Christmas Is You’ lawsuit

Mariah Carey didn't steal 'All I Want For Christmas Is You' from other writers. A judge has ruled that Andy Stone's song of the same name was not "substantially similar" to Carey's festive classic.

Euronews

A judge says Mariah Carey didn't steal 'All I Want For Christmas Is You' from other writers

A federal judge in Los Angeles has ruled that Mariah Carey did not steal her perennial holiday hit "All I Want for Christmas Is You” from other songwriters

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Meta Strives To Stifle Ex-employee Memoir

Meta wants to derail a freshly released memoir by a former employee whose scandalous allegations the tech giant argues are untrue and should never have been published.

International Business Times

Google Omits Biden from List of US Presidents, Fuelling Claims of 'Big Tech Cosying Up to Trump'

Google faced backlash after a glitch omitted Joe Biden from the list of US presidents, leading to accusations of bias.

International Business Times UK

Google search results omits Biden’s presidency after request for ‘US presidents in order’

Was this another attempt by big tech to cosy up to Trump?

The Independent UK

Instagram Users Including Dead People's Accounts Seemingly Forced to Follow New Trump and Vance Profiles

Facebook and Instagram users were surprised to find themselves following Donald Trump and J.D. Vance's official accounts after the inauguration.

Latin Times

Meta admits some people can’t unfollow Donald Trump on Instagram

Users including Gracie Abrams have said they never asked to follow presidential account – and are unable to stop

The Independent UK

Meta users complain of auto-following Donald Trump or JD Vance

Are you suddenly following Donald Trump and JD Vance on Facebook or Instagram? Here’s why

Evening Standard

Has Meta forced you to follow Donald Trump on Instagram and Facebook?

Mark Zuckerberg has come under fire for allegedly making users auto-follow the new White House occupants — now Meta has responded to the claims

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Facebook And Instagram Users Auto-Follow President Trump After Swearing-In

Learn about the automatic connection of Facebook and Instagram users to new official government accounts during presidential transitions.

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Are You Suddenly Following JD Vance On Instagram? Here’s Why

This morning, JD Vance had 12.8M followers. Now, it’s sitting at 17.8M — and people aren’t buying Meta’s explanation.

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Facebook and Instagram were down for thousands of people — live updates

The Meta-owned Facebook and Instagram platforms went down for thousands of people. Here are live updates from the outage.

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Facebook, Instagram and Facebook Messenger all got hit by a big outage – but they're back up again

Facebook and Instagram suffered an outage due to technical difficulties, but we've yet to hear the full details.

Al Jazeera

Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 720

As the war enters its 720th day, these are the main developments.

The Independent UK

Russia places Meta spokesperson on wanted list

Andy Stone, Meta’s communications director, is wanted by Russia’s Ministry of Internal Affairs on unspecified terrorism charges

The Independent UK

Russia puts spokesman for tech giant and Facebook owner Meta on wanted list

Russia's interior ministry has added the spokesman of U.S. tech giant Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, to a wanted list, according to its online database

The Guardian - AU

Russian troops continue attempts to advance near Avdiivka in effort to encircle city – as it happened

Russia has conducted airstrikes in support of ground operations as it aims to surround city on outskirts of Donetsk

The Guardian - AU

Russia-Ukraine war at a glance: what we know on day 641

Ukraine says Russia launches most intensive drone attack on Kyiv since start of the war; former Russian PM added to Kremlin’s list of ‘foreign agents’

MusicRadar

Mariah Carey shows that she can still hit the vocal heights in Billboard Music Awards performance of All I Want For Christmas Is You, a song she says she started writing “on a little DX7 or Casio keyboard”

It's only November, but we may have already have hit 'peak Christmas'

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