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Government examines if Meta recommendation system deciding 'what-to-show-to-whom' fits intermediary status

If a platform determines what content gets shown to users, it amounts to publishing, and platforms would then have to take responsibility for their actions. The issue assumes significance as intermediaries enjoy certain legal protections under the Act, subject to compliance with prescribed conditions.

The Economic Times

Govt-Meta meeting enters technical round on day 3; company lists ways to curb deepfakes, CSAM

After two days of meetings that saw IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw questioning Meta's team - led by global affairs head Joel Kaplan - on the content recommendation algorithms and the social media giant's compliance with local laws, day three of discussions was technical.

The Economic Times

ETtech Explainer: Why Meta's Zuckerberg may have to publicly bend the knee in India

A parliamentary panel sought an apology from Mark Zuckerberg over the removal of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Facebook post, warning that Meta could lose its intermediary immunity if he refused. During a meeting with Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) officials on Wednesday, Meta's chief global affairs officer Joel…

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Facebook whistleblower forced to sit in silence onstage during Hay Festival talk after Meta injunction

Sarah Wynn-Williams wrote the bestselling memoir ‘Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism’, detailing her seven years working for the tech giant

The Independent UK

Ex-Meta Boss Reveals Amusing Way Mark Zuckerberg Bonds with Upper Management — and It's Not Golf

Former Meta executive Nick Clegg reveals in his new book that Mark Zuckerberg encourages his senior executives to bond by training in mixed martial arts (MMA) with him.

International Business Times UK

A week after Meta turned it down, Google agrees to sign EU's AI Code of Practice while still raising its own concerns

"We will join several other companies, including U.S. model providers, in signing the European Union’s General Purpose AI Code of Practice. "

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After the trade deal..., Newsletter

This week's key events presented by Euronews' editor in chief, EU news, Jeremy Fleming-Jones.

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Meta won’t sign EU’s AI Code, but who will?

The rules on general purpose artificial intelligence will enter into force on 2 August.

Euronews

Meta rebuffs EU's AI Code of Practice

The company has previously been critical on the Commission’s work on GPAI, claiming it stifles innovation.

Euronews

Meta opens Cambridge lab as part of AI glasses expansion

It comes amid reports the Facebook and Instagram owner has purchased a minority stake in Oakley and Ray-Ban owner EssilorLuxottica SA.

Evening Standard

Conservative activist Robby Starbuck sues Meta over AI responses about him

Conservative activist Robby Starbuck has filed a defamation lawsuit against Meta alleging that the social media giant’s artificial intelligence chat bot spread false statements about him, including that he participated in the the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021

The Independent UK

Digital Markets Act under discussion, Newsletter

This week's key events presented by Euronews' EU news editor-in-chief, Jeremy Fleming-Jones

Euronews

Apple and Meta hit with €700m of fines by EU

Apple hit with a €500m fine by the EU, with Google receiving a €200m penalty, but the move could further escalate tensions.

TechRadar

Facebook whistleblower testifies that company undermined national security by working with China

Meta executives ‘lied about what they were doing with the‬ ‭Chinese Communist Party to employees, shareholders, Congress and the‬‭ American public,’ Sarah Wynn-Williams told a Congressional subcommittee

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Evening Standard

Careless People review: Facebook whistleblower’s book serves up one bombshell after another

Sarah Wynn-Williams’ tell-all memoir is a nightmare for Mark Zuckerberg – and a joy for the rest of us

Evening Standard

The most shocking claims from the Facebook whistleblower's memoir

Never has a gag order been so ill-judged. Meta's attempts to quash Sarah Wynn-Williams' memoir, Careless People – the inside story of her six years at the company, which was then called Facebook – have made it a bigger hit than its former director of global public policy could ever…

Euronews

Meta rolls out AI tools in EU, despite previous regulatory problems

The Irish data protection authority last year stopped the roll-out after the company wanted to user EU data for training purposes.

The Guardian - US

Why is Elon Musk still CEO of Tesla?

The tech billionaire and his EV company suffer, Apple castigates itself over Siri failures and a Meta tell-all book evokes a strong reaction

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The Guardian - UK

Careless People: A Story of Where I Used to Work by Sarah Wynn-Williams review – a former disciple unfriends Facebook

This account of working life at Mark Zuckerberg’s tech giant organisation describes a ‘diabolical cult’ able to swing elections and profit at the expense of the world’s vulnerable

The Independent UK

Ex-Facebook worker claims she was fired after she reported sexual harassment by company executive

Sarah Wynn-Williams worked at the tech giant for seven years before she was terminated

Fortune

Zuckerberg’s new policy chief warns EU Meta will run to Trump whenever tech company feels it’s being unfairly punished by Brussels

The warning comes after Zuckerberg pledged to join President Trump in pushing back on governments around the world that go after American companies.

Marie Claire

Mark Zuckerberg thinks corporate culture needs *more* “masculine energy”

Big Tech’s love affair with ‘free speech’ hurts women and minorities the most

Pedestrian.tv

The New Meta Censorship Rules Are Coming Our Way So Buckle Up, Here’s What We Know So Far

Meta's new censorship rules see the ditching of fact-checkers and instead adopting a system similar to that of Elon Musk's X.

Latin Times

Leaked Meta Training Materials Uses 'Immigrants Are Pieces of S--t' as Example of Now Acceptable Content

Content moderation changes announced by Meta are part of a broader policy shift that includes the suspension of the company's fact-checking program

Salon

Meta kills off DEI and LGBTQ+ themes

On top of rolling back DEI plans, Meta's content moderation tweaks allow users to call LGBTQ+ users "mentally ill"

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