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A Meta outage hit Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and more. Here’s what we know so far

YoopyaDecember 13, 2024December 13, 2024

by YoopyaDecember 13, 2024December 13, 20240496

A major outage is affecting users of popular social media and messaging services including Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp around the globe. All these platforms are...

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Scroll less, connect more: A new study shows how to make social media work for you

YoopyaDecember 2, 2024December 2, 2024

by YoopyaDecember 2, 2024December 2, 20240407

We all know using social media is considered bad for you. A high social media diet is linked to anxiety, depression and FOMO (the fear...

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Australia’s social media ban for kids under 16 just became law. How it will work remains a mystery

YoopyaNovember 28, 2024November 28, 2024

by YoopyaNovember 28, 2024November 28, 20240577

The federal parliament has passed legislation to ban people under 16 from having an account with some social media platforms. In doing so, it has...

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Social media has complex effects on adolescent wellbeing, and policymakers must take note

YoopyaNovember 27, 2024November 27, 2024

by YoopyaNovember 27, 2024November 27, 20240432

In late 2024, more than 20 years after the birth of Facebook, the impact of social media on our lives cannot be overstated. Initially underestimated by...

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Australian kids under 16 will soon be banned from social media – but parents still don’t know which apps are out

YoopyaNovember 7, 2024November 7, 2024

by YoopyaNovember 7, 2024November 7, 20240568

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese today announced the age limit for his government’s controversial social media ban: children under 16. He plans to take the proposal to a...

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South Korea fines Meta $15 million for illegally collecting information on Facebook users

YoopyaNovember 5, 2024November 5, 2024

by YoopyaNovember 5, 2024November 5, 20240393

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s privacy watchdog on Tuesday fined social media company Meta 21.6 billion won ($15 million) for illegally collecting sensitive personal information...

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Moderators protect us from the worst of the internet. That comes at huge personal cost

YoopyaOctober 31, 2024October 31, 2024

by YoopyaOctober 31, 2024October 31, 20240400

Unless you’re a moderator for a local community group discussing garbage collections or dog park etiquette, you are unlikely to fully understand the sheer volume...

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Facebook owner Meta restarts facial recognition tech in ‘celeb-bait’ crackdown

YoopyaOctober 22, 2024October 22, 2024

by YoopyaOctober 22, 2024October 22, 20240417

SYDNEY/NEW YORK, Oct 22 (Reuters) – Three years after Meta (META.O) shut down facial recognition software on Facebook amid a groundswell of privacy and regulator pushback,...

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Is big tech harming society? To find out, we need research – but it’s being manipulated by big tech itself

YoopyaOctober 6, 2024October 6, 2024

by YoopyaOctober 6, 2024October 6, 20240487

For almost a decade, researchers have been gathering evidence that the social media platform Facebook disproportionately amplifies low-quality content and misinformation. So it was something of a surprise...

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Meta, challenging OpenAI, announces new AI model that can generate video with sound

YoopyaOctober 6, 2024October 6, 2024

by YoopyaOctober 6, 2024October 6, 20240438

NEW YORK, Oct 4 (Reuters) – Facebook owner Meta (META.O) announced on Friday it had built a new AI model called Movie Gen that can create...