House panel backs away from Zuckerberg contempt vote - Roll Call A House committee scrapped a Thursday meeting to vote on whether to hold social media mogul Mark Zuckerberg in criminal contempt of Congress. Roll Call · Jul 27, 2023
House Republicans plan to hold Meta's Mark Zuckerberg in contempt of Congress Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is being threatened with contempt of Congress The Independent UK · Jul 25, 2023
Twitter threatens to sue its new rival, Threads, claiming Meta stole trade secrets An attorney for Twitter accused Meta of hiring dozens of former Twitter employees with the intention of creating a "copycat" platform, implying a lawsuit could come next. WEKU · Jul 7, 2023
Meta threatens to pull news content in California if law to pay publishers passes Proposed bill would require ‘online platforms’ to pay a fee to state news providers whose work appears on their services The Guardian - US · Jun 1, 2023
Facebook, Instagram to block news stories in California if bill passes From Australia to Canada, Big Tech has resisted lawmakers' efforts to force them to pay news publishers for carrying their articles. Now, that battle is playing out in California. WEKU · May 31, 2023
FTC watchdogs are coming for Facebook Accused of breaking its $5 billion promise, Facebook is on the backfoot Salon · May 4, 2023
India’s Wire scandal a lesson for media A scandal involving a fake email, two computer cryptographers and a politician is a lesson for all media before India’s run of elections. 360info · Jan 18, 2023
The attack on Brazil's Congress was stoked by social media — and by Trump allies The similarities are deep: In addition to aiming to subvert an election, some of the same U.S. voices that amplify former President Donald Trump are echoing Brazil's former president, Jair Bolsonaro. WEKU · Jan 10, 2023
All I Want for Christmas co-songwriter calls Mariah Carey’s story behind song a ‘tall tale’ ‘She doesn’t know chord changes and music theory or anything like that,’ the music producer claimed about Carey The Independent UK · Dec 23, 2022
Facebook parent Meta threatens to remove news from platform Facebook parent Meta Platforms says it will be forced to consider removing news content from its platform if Congress passes legislation that could require social media companies to pay news outlets The Independent UK · Dec 6, 2022
Big Tech, free speech advocates join to oppose journalism bill WASHINGTON — Top social media companies and free speech advocates, groups that usually take opposing views over tech policy, are coming together to oppose a measure that would allow journalism organizations to jointly negotiate with tech companies. Tribune News Service · Dec 6, 2022
Facebook would rather pull news from its platform than pay publishers for their content After nearly monopolizing the online news market, Facebook now says it might cut loose “content users don’t want to see and that’s not a meaningful source of revenue.” Fortune · Dec 6, 2022
Meta pushes back on ‘false’ report that Zuckerberg is planning to step down as CEO The Leak, citing an anonymous source, claimed that Zuckerberg would depart in 2023 because of the company’s recent losses. Fortune · Nov 23, 2022
Songwriter drops £17.8m copyright lawsuit against Mariah Carey for Christmas hit A $20m case against the All I Want for Christmas Is You singer for copyright infringement will not proceed The Guardian - UK · Nov 4, 2022
Evening Standard · Nov 3, 2022 Lawsuit over Mariah Carey’s ‘All I Want For Christmas Is You’ dropped The complainant called Carey’s classic a ‘derivative version in terms of the lyrics, melody, harmonic language, rhythm, and meter’
The Guardian - US · Nov 1, 2022 ‘It’s time’: Mariah Carey season has begun – and she won’t let you forget it With Halloween over, the diva is donning her Santa suit to serve as the soundtrack for another Christmas
Newslaundry · Oct 31, 2022 Meta vs The Wire vs Devesh Kumar: The story so far Over the weekend, the twists and turns in the Wire-Meta saga continued.
Newslaundry · Oct 20, 2022 Expert take: Why was the Wire compelled to pull down its Meta stories? After insisting for over a week that its reporting supposedly exposing how Meta allowed BJP leaders to censor content on its platforms was solid, the Wire on Tuesday pulled down the work pending a “thorough internal review of all material and documents and sources”.
Newslaundry · Oct 18, 2022 The Wire will ‘suspend’ its Meta stories until it carries out ‘thorough internal review’: Siddharth Varadarajan After receiving widespread criticism for its coverage of Meta’s XCheck programme, the Wire has decided to “suspend the stories” until it carries out a “thorough internal review of all material and documents and sources”, the portal’s founding editor Siddharth Varadarajan told Newslaundry.
Newslaundry · Oct 13, 2022 Explained: What’s the Wire vs Meta fight all about? This week, the Wire published a damning report about the content moderation policies of Meta, the social media behemoth that owns Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram. Meta, which has misled about how it functions and moderates content before, replied saying the news report was misleading at best and fabricated at worst.…
Newslaundry · Oct 12, 2022 Wire stands by its report on BJP ‘censor privileges’, Meta by its denials Social media giant Meta has claimed that a report in the Wire – which suggested BJP IT cell chief Amit Malviya was part of the firm’s controversial XCheck programme – was “inaccurate” and appeared to be based on “fabricated” documentation. However, the news portal reported that Meta’s claims were in…
Salon · Jul 15, 2022 In monkeypox failures, echoes of COVID The first monkeypox case in the United States was confirmed in mid-May
Tribune News Service · Jul 8, 2022 Vaccine and testing delays for monkeypox echo failures in early COVID response Andy Stone is one of the lucky ones. The New York City resident saw a tweet from a local AIDS activist saying that monkeypox vaccines would be available that day at a clinic in Manhattan. Stone, 35, and his husband booked appointments online right away and got their shots last…
Salon · Jul 2, 2022 Facebook's post-Roe censorship The move comes just after Meta vowed to cover travel expenses for employees seeking out-of-state abortions
WEKU · Jun 28, 2022 Instagram and Facebook begin removing posts offering abortion pills Social media posts ostensibly aimed to help women living in states where preexisting laws banning abortion suddenly snapped into effect last Friday.