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Mark Zuckerberg says there’s ‘no causal connection’ between social media and teen mental healthMark Zuckerberg says there’s ‘no causal connection’ between social media and teen mental health
Meta’s going to put AI-generated images in your Facebook and Instagram feedsMeta’s going to put AI-generated images in your Facebook and Instagram feeds
Israel-Hamas war: How the crisis is unfolding onlineIsrael-Hamas war: How the crisis is unfolding online
Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
Meta bans RT “for foreign interference activity.”

NBC News reports the following statement from an unnamed Meta spokesperson:

After careful consideration, we expanded our ongoing enforcement against Russian state media outlets. Rossiya Segodnya, RT and other related entities are now banned from our apps globally for foreign interference activity.

The move follows warnings by the Biden administration that RT is part of Russian disinformation campaigns targeting the 2024 US election and a State Department notice last week saying, “[W]e now know that RT moved beyond being simply a media outlet and has been an entity with cyber capabilities.”

Jess Weatherbed
Jess Weatherbed
Meta will soon train its AI on content from British users.

The update will start impacting Facebook and Instagram users in the UK over the coming months, meaning any public posts, comments, and photos on adult accounts (including those featuring children) will be scraped.

Meta says this will bring its generative AI products to the UK “much sooner,” and help them to reflect “British culture, history, and idiom” ...whatever that bloody means.

Building AI Technology for the UK in a Responsible and Transparent Way | Meta

[Meta]

Meta, Snap, and TikTok partner to stop the spread of suicide and self-harm contentMeta, Snap, and TikTok partner to stop the spread of suicide and self-harm content
Facebook and Instagram are making AI labels less prominent on edited contentFacebook and Instagram are making AI labels less prominent on edited content
Meta fed its AI on almost everything you’ve posted publicly since 2007Meta fed its AI on almost everything you’ve posted publicly since 2007
Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
Your public Facebook and Instagram posts were used to train Meta’s AI models.

With exceptions for users under 18, posts that weren’t set to public, or EU accounts that opted out.

Now ABC reports on Australian senator David Shoebridge’s question to Meta’s global privacy director, Melinda Claybaugh.

Shoebridge: “...Meta has just decided that you will scrape all of the photos and all of the texts from every public post on Instagram or Facebook since 2007, unless there was a conscious decision to set them on private. That’s the reality, isn’t it?”

Claybaugh: “Correct.”

Facebook admits to scraping every Australian adult user's public photos and posts to train AI, with no opt-out option

[ABC News]

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