New terms let Meta crawl sites tied to business users and use the content to train its products, widening rights ad buyers had already granted.
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Thanks to a little-known feature in Instagram, I try to travel back to 2012 – before everything on the internet was an ad
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I have a confession. I love my social media algorithm. It is a perfectly curated window into my insane and inquiring mind. It knows precisely which videos will tickle me and which memes will gently distract me from the slow collapse of humankind.
On Tuesday the Australian government announced “world-leading” reforms that would force social media platforms to allow users to opt-out of algorithms, dubbed “my feed, my way”. On the same day, I was delighted to be confronted with a video on Instagram of a woman accidentally spilling a bucket of eels on a Chinese train. Dozens of eels slithered among the passengers, who appeared not as surprised as I would have expected.
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A ANACOM afirma que as plataformas da Meta foram responsáveis por mais de 50% das reclamações sobre serviços digitais recebidas durante o segundo trimestre do ano. Entre as plataformas que geram mais queixas em Portugal incluem-se ainda as da Google e a rede social X.
The post Queixas sobre serviços digitais aumentam 195%. Facebook e Instagram são as plataformas que geram mais reclamações appeared first on Tek Notícias.
Meta took days to remove ads containing AI-generated child sexual abuse material (CSAM) on Facebook and Instagram. Some ads featured photos of real kids, including a press photo of a young member of a European royal family and images swiped from a popular Instagram profile of a preteen girl deemed an influencer.
In an investigation published Tuesday, the Tech Transparency Project (TTP) reported that Meta failed to detect 332 ads containing CSAM this year. The “vast majority” of ads promoted AI apps made in China, while many ads promoted so-called “nudify” apps that make it easy for bad actors to use AI and digitally alter images of children.
TTP matched “multiple CSAM ads to photos of real children that appeared online.” These ads seem to violate federal child pornography laws, since the Justice Department has clarified that AI CSAM is just as harmful as CSAM. The young royal’s image was “animated into a video of her performing a graphic sex act,” TTP found. Other ads animated a photo of a 14-year-old Instagram influencer “showing off her new sports club uniform” into “a video of her performing oral sex.” A third “preteen” victim “posing in a pink athletic outfit with pigtails” in a series of stock photos was morphed into a video where she looks frightened as she’s molested by an adult male, TTP reported.
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Even if the legislation passes, tech companies may still find ways to frustrate its intent and keep Australians hooked on their feed
Social media could become a “choose your own adventure” between the doom-scrolling status quo, or just the feed of the friends you want to see, if the government’s planned digital duty of care legislation passes, and the tech companies don’t muck around on compliance.
But that’s a big if.
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Instagram and Facebook’s parent company agreed to sweeping alterations and a payment of up to $18bn to settle a landmark trial
Meta’s agreement to change how teenagers use its social networks marks a major turning point for the US tech giant, setting a precedent that could significantly reshape how other social media operates in the coming years.
Meta agreed to substantial alterations to Instagram and Facebook on Wednesday as part of a settlement to end a landmark lawsuit. Dozens of US states had accused it of addicting and harming children with dangerous products. The company also agreed to pay up to a combined $18bn over a decade to several US states and territories involved in the suit.
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Also: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman expressed his surprising sympathy over the construction of datacenters across the country
Hello, and welcome to TechScape. I’m Blake Montgomery, US tech editor at the Guardian, writing to you from a sunny park in New York City, which was supposed to endure rain all weekend but in fact delivered the best weather of the year.
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Um AirTag usado para rastrear uma cadela ajudou a encontrar um casal de idosos que foi evacuado da casa de repouso onde residiam após um incêndio florestal atingir o espaço, localizado em British Columbia (no Canadá).
Conforme relatado ao Globalnews.ca, as duas filhas do casal ficaram desesperadas quando viram as notícias envolvendo os incêndios na cidade de Summerland — que foi completamente evacuada —, uma vez que moram bem longe do local onde os pais residem.
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Foi aí que uma delas lembrou que a cadela do casal tinha um AirTag em sua coleira e começou a observar a localização apontada pelo rastreador, que apontou para um famoso centro de convenções e comércio na província.
Embora concluísse que eles estavam seguros, a mulher começou a se preocupar com a medicação do pai e com a perda de memória da mãe, e decidiu fazer um apelo para encontrá-los em uma comunidade do Facebook.
Após a publicação, várias pessoas começaram a ligá-la afirmando terem visto seus pais e que eles estavam bem. “Eles são adoráveis, eles estavam cumprimentando a todos”, diziam algumas das pessoas que ligavam.
Uma mulher, então, encontrou os pais de Helen Gonzalez e ligou para ela. A mulher ajudou a conseguir uma cama confortável e alimento para eles, além de ter permitido que a filha falasse com os pais pelo telefone.
Além do AirTag, a linha de apoio criada para famílias entrarem em contato com seus entes queridos foi essencial para o reencontro e para o final feliz dessa história.
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Ruling comes as part of second phase of landmark trial that found social media company enabled harm against users
A New Mexico court has ordered Meta, the parent company of Facebook, to pay $567m into a fund aimed at redressing adverse mental health impacts from the social media giant’s platforms.
The Thursday ruling comes as a part of the second phase of a landmark trial the social media giant lost in March. At the time, a jury found that the company knowingly harmed children’s mental health and concealed what it knew about child sexual exploitation on its platforms, and imposed the maximum penalty: a $375m fine.
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Sometimes you have to fight fire with fire. But when it comes to AI slop and hateful content threatening the safety and value of social media platforms, adding more fire—in this case, more AI—can make the problem worse.
At its best, social media can be a haven for people who want to share their experiences and knowledge. It gets closest to this ideal when users contribute authentic, valuable content, whether that’s a uniquely thoughtful blog post or a helpful video on how to build a PC. Relying primarily on AI tools to preserve that authenticity misses what makes social media worthwhile in the first place: the people behind it.
In April, a Slack channel for moderators of the r/AskHistorians Reddit community was usually busy. The channel, which automatically receives links to modmail messages, was flooded with alerts after dozens of comments and posts dating back 10 years were automatically removed from the subreddit.
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Apple briefly removed Telegram from the App Store on Monday night after a review found content that violated its guidelines against child sexual abuse material (CSAM), but restored the app a short while later, according to Reuters.
It seems like this was a symbolic gesture. Removing the app didn’t affect any of the customers who had already downloaded it. Probably none of them saw the image. And restoring the app doesn’t mean that it’s completely free from CSAM—probably none of the major platforms is. It just means that Telegram did the obvious thing after the violation was reported, which presumably they would have done, anyway.
They removed an entire app for ONE app user???
And before even contacting the developer? Telegram banning the account is what actually prevented users from potentially seeing the CSAM. Apple’s action seems like either a mistake or trying to send them a message.
I would note, by the way, that the Telegram app was apparently never removed from the Mac App Store. Which goes to show how little Apple cares about the Mac App Store.
I’m sure this stance will be applied equally to all other apps in the store, in the future right? @Apple
Pavel Durov (Telegram, MacRumors):
Because Telegram quickly removes illegal content from public groups using all kinds of moderation tools, the attacker had to resort to a technical trick. He inserted AI-modified illegal content by editing an old message in an active group chat. As a result the content was effectively hidden from the group’s members, preventing them from seeing/reporting it.
The attacker was a takedown extortionist: someone who demands ransom from group owners in exchange for not targeting their communities. These extortionists use automated accounts to plant illegal content in public groups and then report it directly to Apple, attempting to trigger the removal of legitimate communities whose owners refused to pay them.
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Extortionists have found a way to manipulate Apple into overreacting. Apple removed Telegram from the App Store before contacting us. This creates a potential systemic risk for every mobile app that hosts user-generated content. If an app used by more than a billion people can be removed from the App Store without prior warning, any app can be.
During the time the app was unavailable, many speculated that the move was politically motivated, or perhaps in response to the recent discovery that Telegram has allegedly been using an obfuscated private UIKit API to animate its emoji picker.
It’s sad but kind of hilarious that both of these so disparate theories were considered possible. Durov really does have political enemies, and Apple really does seem to have it out for Telegram. But, also, using private API to animate emojis totally seems like something that Telegram would do and that Apple would overreact to.
Previously:
Update (2026-08-06): Matt Burgess (Hacker News):
Over the last nine months, Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has run dozens of paid ads that include explicit AI-generated child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and images of minors alongside sexually suggestive statements, according to details of the ads shared with WIRED. The ads, which in some cases reached several thousand accounts, were targeted at people living in the United States, United Kingdom, and more than a dozen European countries.
This is much worse than what happened with Telegram, yet Apple didn’t overreact.
There’s also the Twitter/Grok case.
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Você é daqueles que estão cansados de manter o Facebook instalado em seu dispositivo apenas para usar o Marketplace? Então trago boas notícias: a Meta lançou um aplicativo independente para a plataforma, em comemoração aos seus dez anos.
O Seller, como o próprio nome já indica, é indicado para usuários que vendem com frequência no Facebook Marketplace. É um entendimento de que usar o app principal da plataforma para vendas pode não ser a melhor experiência para esses vendedores.
Como destaques, o Seller oferece ferramentas centralizadas como criação de anúncios impulsionada por inteligência artificial, uma caixa de entrada unificada para mensagens de compradores, gestão de estoque e dados de desempenho de venda.
Disponível, por ora, apenas para usuários dos Estados Unidos (e com 18 anos de idade ou mais), ele sincroniza automaticamente com a conta do Facebook caso ela esteja conectada ao dispositivo.
A Meta também está lançando o Facebook Verified, um selo de verificação gratuito que ajudará usuários a comprovar a autenticidade de seus perfis em locais como os grupos, o Marketplace e o Namoro (Dating).
Para garantir um selo, os usuários (que não podem ser páginas e perfis profissionais) deverão enviar um vídeo no formato de selfie, o qual a plataforma comparará com as fotos publicadas para atestar a autenticidade.
A novidade está sendo lançada gradualmente em mercados selecionados (com planos de expansão global), mas a empresa não especificou exatamente quais são eles. Ela é restrita a maiores de 18 anos.
A Meta ainda anunciou que está implementando uma nova experiência imersiva em que o usuário visualiza um modo de vídeo em tela cheia assim que abre o Facebook — uma opção para quem consome muitos vídeos na plataforma.
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Por fim, a empresa também destacou o recém-lançado app Forum e novos recursos da Meta AI — como a possibilidade de encontrar um date no Namoro usando IA, sugestões de preços no Marketplace e um assistente para criadores.
Como parte de seus esforços para dar a pais um maior controle sobre o que seus filhos visualizam e com quem se comunicam em suas plataformas, a Meta está expandindo alguns dos seus recursos de controle parental para o Threads.
A partir da semana que vem, pais e responsáveis nos Estados Unidos poderão usar a Central da Família da Meta para controlar como as crianças sob sua guarda usam o Threads — tal como já é possível no Instagram e no Facebook.
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Quando a supervisão estiver ativada, pais poderão visualizar o tempo que as crianças e adolescentes gastam na plataforma, definir limites de tempo para o uso, gerenciar quem pode marcá-los em posts e preferências de conteúdo.
A Meta ainda destacou que continuará expandindo suas ferramentas de supervisão para tornar mais fácil a familiares encontrarem controles e apoiar a experiência de seus adolescentes nas suas diferentes plataformas.
Além dos recursos de controle parental, o Threads também está ganhando novidades especificamente para os Live Chats, bem como anunciou recursos que chegarão em breve às suas salas de bate-papo públicas.
Segundo o TechCrunch, a Meta está liberando a criação de Live Chats para todos os Community Champions (usuários ativos e influentes nas comunidades da plataforma) e um recurso que permite traduzir mensagens na conversa.
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Anfitriões, por sua vez, agora contam com um maior destaque em suas mensagens, bem como podem convidar até três co-hosts para ajudá-los a conduzir uma conversa, além de agora poderem excluir mensagens para todos os participantes.
Para o futuro, a Meta prometeu novidades como suporte aos Live Chats na versão para desktop do Threads e às mensagens fixadas, que permitirão ao anfitrião deixar avisos ou informações importantes no topo de uma conversa.
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