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The Australian billionaire’s criminal case against Meta in WA was discontinued on Friday by the commonwealth prosecutorFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe Australian billionaire and philanthropist Andrew Forrest has accused Facebook’s parent company of “blatantly refusing” to take action against scam ads on its platform, as a criminal case...

Court documents and interviews detail the products’ role in alleged exploitation – and how some payments go undetectedWhen police in Pennsylvania arrested 29-year-old Jennifer Louise Whelan in November 2022, they charged her with dozens of counts of serious crimes, including sex trafficking and indecent assault of three young children.One month earlier, police said they had discovered Whelan was using three children as young as...

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei supported Hamas’s 7 October attack on Israel, which Meta said violated its policiesMeta has removed Instagram and Facebook accounts run on behalf of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, following criticism over his support for Hamas after the group’s 7 October attack on Israel that sparked the months-long war still raging in the Gaza Strip, the company confirmed on Friday.Meta, based...

Two removed posts showed screenshots of tweets shared by Australian Electoral Commission about voting multiple timesFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastFacebook posts allegedly misrepresenting the Australian Electoral Commission’s statements about voting multiple times in the voice to parliament referendum will be reviewed by Meta’s oversight board.The oversight board, which...

Facebook’s parent company to pay out to shareholders as it reports $40bn revenues for final quarterMeta revenue soars as it pivots to AIMark Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, is expected to receive $700m (£549m) a year in dividends.On Thursday, Meta announced it would pay its first-ever quarterly dividend to investors since Facebook floated on the...

Former chief operating officer was lead architect of Facebook’s digital advertising-driven business modelSheryl Sandberg is to step down from the board of Facebook’s parent company, Meta, nearly two years after quitting her executive role at the business.Sandberg was the lead architect of Facebook’s digital advertising-driven business model as Meta’s chief operating officer. Continue reading...

Rights group says Facebook and Instagram routinely engage in ‘six key patterns of undue censorship’ of content supporting PalestineMeta has engaged in a “systemic and global” censorship of pro-Palestinian content since the outbreak of the Israel-Gaza war on 7 October, according to a new report from Human Rights Watch (HRW).In a scathing 51-page report, the organization documented and reviewed more than a thousand reported...