Meta平台的争议事件

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• His reputation is unlikely to be helped by The Social Reckoning, a film by Aaron Sorkin released this week. It's about whistleblower claims that Meta executives were aware of their products harming young people.

• Succession actor Jeremy Strong plays Zuckerberg as a "full-on villain", according to a review in the Hollywood Reporter

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• At the same time, the company is rolling out new AI tools to find ads and accounts that may be used to secretly direct people to illegal child abuse material.

• Meta launches new AI tools after discovering ads on its platforms that may look normal but direct users to harmful content elsewhere online.

• Meta announced Wednesday

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• UK watchdog opens first Online Safety Act probe into Meta

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• The testimony will take place during a rare "Council Committee of the Whole" hearing, which means that all 51 members are expected to attend, according to a release from New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin.

• Senior leaders from Anthropic , OpenAI, Google and Meta are slated to testify under oath during a New York City Council hearing about the potential dangers of artificial intelligence on Monday, following a month of intense debate surrounding the risks posed by advanced AI models.

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• Sen. Elizabeth Warren , D-Mass., led the letters, which were sent Sunday night and shared exclusively with CNBC, to the CEOs of the four companies asking for information on tax deductions they've claimed related to AI and data center development and on their lobbying efforts in the lead-up to the passage of the 2025 legislation, known more commonly as the "one big beautiful bill" act .

• They requested answers from each company by Oct. 12.

• Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and other Senate Democrats sent letters to the CEOs of Meta, Google, Amazon and Microsoft seeking information on tax subsidies for AI and data center development they say was authorized by the GOP-led "one big beautiful bill" act.

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• 整改 — Meta

  Now Meta has requested time through the end of this year to re-review other privilege redactions it’s made

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• Meta’s lawyers have argued that certain evidence should be withheld from public view on the grounds of attorney-client privilege in the ongoing lawsuits over alleged harm to teens’ safety and mental health

• Lawyers suing the company said this week that the label has been applied far too broadly, while pointing to a recently unsealed document showing that the team behind launching Instagram’s Teen Accounts in 2024 put in an order for baseball caps that simply said “a/c priv.”

• The lawyers suing Meta argue the Project Nido (an internal name for the Teen Accounts team) swag is part of “culture of privilege abuse at Meta” aimed at keeping the research it’s conducted internally on teen harm out of the public eye

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• 澄清 — Amazon

  third-party applications that offer to make purchases on behalf of customers from other businesses should operate openly and respect service provider decisions about whether or not to participate.

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• Amazon has said that's a no-go, blocking Muse from purchasing products on the e-commerce app, claiming that it would violate the company's terms of service.

• Meta's new Muse AI personal agent is garnering excitement and shows signs of becoming a hit, but Amazon has blocked the app from its site.

• third-party applications that offer to make purchases on behalf of customers from other businesses should operate openly and respect service provider decisions about whether or not to participate.

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• German court rules Meta liable for fake ads on Instagram, Facebook

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• Meta’s Oversight Board Orders the Company to Remove Deepfake Videos From Facebook

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• 持续披露 — Meta

• 调查 — Meta

  Its investigation found that the data had been placed in the development repositories by mistake.

• 整改 — Meta

  Following the discovery, Meta blocked the attackers’ access, replaced exposed access keys and other credentials, and strengthened its security measures.

• 退款或补偿 — Meta

  Those affected are being offered credit monitoring and services that track whether their personal information appears on the dark web.

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• The exposed material consisted primarily of business software code, but also included a small amount of personal information that had been uploaded mistakenly and in violation of company policy.

• The remaining 1% included personal data.

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• 否认 — Meta

  Meta has disputed the claims and Wang said users may have given permission earlier in conversation and forgotten.

• 整改 — Meta

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• Some Muse users have complained on social media that the agent accessed their personal messages without permission, according to CNBC.

• Meta has disputed the claims and Wang said users may have given permission earlier in conversation and forgotten.

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• Bank Leumi has filed a NIS 26.6 million lawsuit against Meta in Tel Aviv District Court, alleging that fraudulent advertisements impersonating the bank on Facebook and Instagram are being used to steal customers’ sensitive information and access their accounts.

• The fraudulent advertisements allegedly use Bank Leumi’s name and trademarks without authorization while offering fake promotions, including shopping vouchers and vehicle raffles.

• The bank claims Meta’s screening and monitoring systems are insufficient to detect and prevent the scams before they reach users.

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• A US judge in New Mexico has ordered Meta to pay another US$567m (£421m) for its failure to warn the public about dangers its platforms posed to children, marking the largest fine

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• A New Mexico court has ordered Meta Platforms to pay $567 million over alleged harms to young users on Facebook and Instagram.

• The ruling that was issued by Judge Bryan Biedscheid in the second phase of a landmark trial directed $420 million of the amount to be used for treatment services for young people.

• The order follows a March jury verdict that imposed $375 million in civil penalties on Meta after finding that the company knowingly harmed children's mental health and concealed information related to child sexual exploitation on its platforms.

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• The almost $1 billion fine in New Mexico against Meta may not seem like all that much for the parent company of Instagram and Facebook.

• But it’s a major ruling in the ongoing debate over social media and children’s safety.

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• 否认 — Meta

  “We disagree with the ruling and will appeal,” Meta told AFP in a statement Thursday.

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• SAN FRANCISCO — A New Mexico judge on Thursday ordered Meta to pay more than half a billion dollars over the state’s claims that the social media giant created a “public nuisance” and harmed children.

• In March, the jury found Meta violated the state’s Unfair Practices Act by misleading consumers about the safety of its products for children.

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• Judge Bryan Biedscheid of Santa Fe also ordered various changes to the way Meta’s platforms operate for children using them in New Mexico after ruling yesterday (6 August) that the ‌company had created a “public nuisance” in the state.

• Social media and tech giant Meta has been fined $567m by a court in the US state of New Mexico, with the money to be used to address harms caused to young people by its Instagram and Facebook platforms.

• WhatsApp, the third Meta-owned platform under scrutiny in the case, was found by the court not to be a “contributing cause to the public nuisance” and therefore would not be subject to the same orders as Instagram and Facebook.

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• 否认 — Meta

  A spokesman for Meta, which owns and operates Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp and Threads, said Thursday: “We disagree with the ruling and will appeal.”

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• The judge also ordered Meta to enact other measures, including ensuring that no account of a user under age 18 is recommended to an adult and that no adult can message an underage user, banning the sending or receiving of nudity by underage users and enacting a “1-strike policy for adult users who engage in child sexual exploitation.”

• A spokesman for Meta, which owns and operates Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp and Threads, said Thursday: “We disagree with the ruling and will appeal.”

• A US judge in New Mexico on Thursday ordered Meta to pay another $567m (£421m) for its failure to warn the public about dangers its platforms posed to children, marking the largest ruling against the company over child safety.

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• 澄清 — Meta

  “There is no change to how Meta uses web crawlers; any suggestion to the contrary is false,” the company said. “We’re simply consolidating our commercial and self-serve ad terms to make it easier for businesses to understand our advertising rules.”

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• Meta, the parent company of Facebook, recently changed its terms of service for business accounts, granting itself sweeping new authority to scrape business users’ websites for content to power its artificial intelligence products without a contract or compensation.

• The new terms of use unilaterally grant Meta the authority to “use automated software” to grab “any content” in order to “develop” its own offerings, including artificial intelligence.

• “There is no change to how Meta uses web crawlers; any suggestion to the contrary is false,” the company said. “We’re simply consolidating our commercial and self-serve ad terms to make it easier for businesses to understand our advertising rules.”

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• Meta employees said Lula's accounts were hindered during Brazil election, Folha reports Reuters

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• 澄清 — Meta

  A Meta spokesperson insisted that the updated terms did not reflect a change in the way Meta crawls the web.

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• Meta removes language that raised scraping and AI training concerns.

• A Meta spokesperson insisted that the updated terms did not reflect a change in the way Meta crawls the web.

• According to legal experts interviewed by Nieman Lab , this looked like a “remarkable provision” that could give Meta permission to scrape the website of any publisher with a Meta business account and use the content to train the company’s AI models.

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• A judge of Brazil's top electoral court ruled on October 15 that Meta must immediately adopt measures to ensure equal treatment of the two presidential candidates ahead of an October 25 runoff.

• Justice Marco Aurélio Bellizze ruled that Meta cannot reduce the distribution of political content, restrict searches, or remove posts in a way that creates an imbalance between Lula and Bolsonaro. His ruling also orders the company to ensure its artificial intelligence tool applies identical criteria to both candidacies.

• The ruling comes shortly after President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who is running against Flávio Bolsonaro, filed a complaint accusing the tech company that owns Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp of using biased algorithms and AI restrictions to favor the opposition candidate ahead of the election.