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Communications, @Meta . Alum: @HouseMajPAC , @SenatorBoxer , @DCCC , @RepMcNerney . Open to your hot takes.

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We're aware people are having trouble accessing our services. We are working on this now.
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While I will intentionally not link to the New York Post, I want be clear that this story is eligible to be fact checked by Facebook's third-party fact checking partners. In the meantime, we are reducing its distribution on our platform.
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We are removing false claims that the wildfires in Oregon were started by certain groups. This is based on confirmation from law enforcement that these rumors are forcing local fire and police agencies to divert resources from fighting the fires and protecting the public. (1/2)
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I know - and whoever is now going to increasing lengths to fabricate this story knows - this is completely false. I never sent, wrote, or even thought what's expressed in that supposed email, as it's been clear from the outset that @thewire_in 's stories are based on fabrications.
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Days ago, @svaradarajan promised more following @thewire_in ’s reports this week based on fake materials. Despite our unambiguous rejection of the fabricated documents and numerous experts questioning their validity, The Wire still has not corrected its reporting.
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We’re aware that some people are having trouble accessing our apps and products. We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible, and we apologize for any inconvenience.
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@atrupar No. Nothing about the status of President Trump's presence on our platform has changed. He remains indefinitely suspended.
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@RepMarieNewman Congresswoman, this plainly should not have happened. We've restored this content and you have our sincere apologies.
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4 years
@Drew_Hammill Sorry, are you suggesting the President didn't make those remarks and the Speaker didn't rip the speech?
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2 months
Earlier today, a technical issue caused people to have difficulty accessing some of our services. We resolved the issue as quickly as possible for everyone who was impacted, and we apologize for any inconvenience.
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2 months
We're aware people are having trouble accessing our services. We are working on this now.
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It’s worth reading this entire thread about what @thewire_in was up to. It’s damning, @svaradarajan .
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… then The Wire updated w/ a note that blamed the "incorrect *default time* in TailsOS" for the wrong year … then they said it was prob w/ one date, due to their comp being "formatted with TailsOS" … then they stated it was due to incorrect manually-set time, for both dates
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4 years
Facebook will be rejecting political ads that claim victory before the results of the 2020 election have been declared.
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This is consistent with our past efforts to remove content that could lead to imminent harm given the possible risk to human life as the fires rage on. (2/2)
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. @thewire_in ’s video of a supposed internal Instagram system is a spoof. More from Meta CISO @guyro :
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Guy Rosen
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The latest video from @thewire_in does not show an internal Instagram system. Our investigation has identified a spoof created on October 13 using our enterprise Meta Workplace product. (1/2)
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Thread from Meta's CISO, @guyro , on the outlandish and false accusations included in @thewire_in 's reporting.
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2 years
I wanted to set the record straight about two stories run this week by @thewire_in with untrue claims about Meta’s content moderation operations and processes. tl;dr these stories are fabrications. (1/6)
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Meta statement on the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act:
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Shockingly untrue. Meta didn’t share people’s private messages with Netflix. The agreement allowed people to message their friends on Facebook about what they were watching on Netflix, directly from the Netflix app. Such agreements are commonplace in the industry.
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This is shocking. Facebook gave Netflix all your private messages on Messenger in exchange for all your watch history, while Netflix paid them $100M+ for ads. Meta will sell your data at a heartbeat for profit.
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@JeffHorwitz Where to even begin with this story?! X-check has nothing to do with the ability to report posts. The posts in question were surfaced for review by automated systems, not humans. And the underlying documentation appears to be fabricated.
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3 years
UPDATE: To the huge community of people and businesses around the world who depend on us: we're sorry. We’ve been working hard to restore access to our apps and services and are happy to report they are coming back online now. Thank you for bearing with us.
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@DeItaone This is false.
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2 years
@brithume This should not have happened. It was an error and the ad account’s been restored.
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Meta statement on the California Journalism Preservation Act.
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@kevinroose Yes, we removed it for sharing false information about cures and treatments for COVID-19.
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4 years
@IlhanMN Thank you for raising this, Congresswoman. The image violates our policies and we've removed it.
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2 years
@Walldo The messages Gov. Abbott described were private one-to-one text messages that were discovered after the terrible tragedy occurred. We are closely cooperating with law enforcement in their ongoing investigation.
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3 years
Facebook thanks @RepZoeLofgren and @RepJohnCurtis for introducing the EAGLE Act, which will update and significantly improve the green card system by reducing the existing barriers for employment-based high-skilled immigration.
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Rep. Zoe Lofgren
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Per-country visa caps hurt the American economy—preventing U.S. employers from staying competitive—& hurt families. I've introduced the bipartisan EAGLE Act w/ @RepJohnCurtis to move toward a better system.
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@svaradarajan @JeffHorwitz Hi, are you planning to update your October 10 story?
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3 years
Just pointing out the fact that @FrancesHaugen did not work on child safety or Instagram or research these issues and has no direct knowledge of the topic from her work at Facebook.
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@oliviasolon This hashtag has been restored and we are looking into what happened.
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@henryrodgersdc No. Nothing about the status of President Trump's presence on our platform has changed. He remains indefinitely suspended.
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@brithume I’ll look into it now
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Meta's statement on the FTC's political stunt.
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4 years
Starting today, we'll remove any Facebook Pages, Groups and Instagram accounts representing QAnon, even without violent content. This is an update from August when we began removing Pages, Groups and accounts associated with QAnon when they discussed potential violence.
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Meta Newsroom
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We're strengthening our enforcement efforts against the QAnon conspiracy theory movement. Starting today, we will remove any Facebook Pages, Groups and Instagram accounts representing QAnon, even if they contain no violent content.
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3 years
Update: Through Inauguration Day, we're blocking the creation of new Facebook events happening in close proximity to DC and state capitols. And we're doing a secondary review of inauguration-related events and removing policy-violating ones.
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4 years
@Drew_Hammill The reason I was making the point about the fact that the things featured in this video actually happened is because that's a key element of our policy on content like this.
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3 years
Facebook Statement on today's Senate Subcommittee Hearing.
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As she herself just said under oath, "I don't work on it."
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@JoeNBC If a 3rd party fact-checker finds a super PAC or other outside group's claim false or partly-false, it can’t run as an ad on FB. I get you disagree with the fact-check, but I don’t think you want us overruling independent fact-checkers. Imagine if the shoe were on the other foot.
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@StopAntisemites @Meta @MetaNewsroom We very much regret that this happened. The content does not violate our community standards; it has been restored and there are no restrictions on the account. We’re also evaluating ways to improve the support we offer.
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2 years
@ebakerwhite @MetaNewsroom No - so many issues with this. X-check has nothing to do with the ability to report posts. The posts in question were surfaced for review by automated systems, not humans. And the underlying documentation appears to be fabricated.
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@RMac18 Our statement on what's happening:
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3 years
We’re shutting down the Face Recognition system on Facebook and deleting individuals’ facial recognition templates.
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Meta Newsroom
3 years
An Update On Our Use of Face Recognition
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2 years
@VinceCoglianese This is at least the third major news cycle about our work with the CDC to address harmful misinformation about COVID, and the least informative. We announced that we would be doing this in 2020, during the Trump Administration.
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Andy Stone
1 year
The @washingtonpost got this one wrong. With all due respect, @loriamontgomery , @cpassariello , @markseibel , @laurastevens , how do you run a story with a headline/storyline that is contradicted by the reporting in the very same story — as well as previous reporting?
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The Washington Post
1 year
Meta plans to push some leaders into lower-level roles without direct reports, flattening the layers of management between CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Meta’s interns, according to a person familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
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2 years
A statement from Meta on this case. “Nothing in the valid warrants we received from local law enforcement in early June, prior to the Supreme Court decision, mentioned abortion.
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Motherboard
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NEW: We've obtained court documents that show Facebook gave police a Nebraska teenager’s private chats about her abortion, then used those chats to seize her phone and computer.
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Facebook’s statement on today’s Executive Order.
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AMBER Alerts will now be featured on Instagram. @MissingKidsCEO : "The most critical thing that allows the public to help bring home missing children is a photograph and no better place to share photographs than through Instagram."
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Good Morning America
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EXCLUSIVE: Instagram unveils new feature that aims to help reunite families of missing children. @eriellereshef has the details.
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@mehdirhasan @HouseGOP @GOPLeader @Facebook Thanks for raising this. We've removed this image as it violates our policies.
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@VinceCoglianese We defended the extent and efficacy of our efforts in 2021, when the Biden Administration publicly criticized us for not doing enough. The idea that it is news to anyone in 2022 that these interactions occurred is absurd. We have been public about them for, literally, years.
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@mamlekate We are not intentionally disrupting access to our platforms, nor are we blocking hashtags related to Mahsa Amini. People in Iran are being cut off from internet services and we hope their right to be online will be reinstated quickly.
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3 years
@IwriteOK Yes, these screenshots are fake and we’re removing them from the platform for violating our policies.
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9 months
Today we've begun the process of ending news availability in Canada. Changes will roll out over a few weeks. As we've always said, the law is based on a fundamentally flawed premise. And, regrettably, the only way we can reasonably comply is to end news availability in Canada.
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Andy Stone
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As we have long said, if Canada’s flawed Online News Act were to pass, we'd be forced to end news availability on FB and IG in Canada. With the bill’s passage, we are confirming news availability will be ended prior to the law taking effect. More here:
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@oliverdarcy Thanks, Oliver. This post violates our policies against spreading harmful misinformation about COVID-19 since it misstates CDC data about the deadliness of the disease. We've removed it.
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2 years
After 14 years, Sheryl Sandberg is stepping back from her role as Meta’s chief operating officer. She will continue to serve on the company’s board of directors.
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Hearing a chirping noise while scrolling through your Facebook Feed on your iPhone? It’s not you, it’s us! And it’s an unfortunate technical error that we're in the process of fixing.
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4 years
@donie That's correct. We remove incorrect information about the severity of COVID-19, and have now removed this post.
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2 months
So what you're saying is the 𝒏𝒆𝒘𝒔 𝒊𝒏𝒅𝒖𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒚 is opposed to the age appropriate design code in California?
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@rcfp , @AP , @nytimes , and 12 other media organizations explained the censorial effects of the law on the press. “Even a cursory review of the winners of the Pulitzer Prize for photography demonstrates that much of the most important, influential, and celebrated news reporting...
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I was skeptical of the Times’ new ‘enhanced byline’ policy, but this has me believing! @MikeIsaac @RMac18
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@Reuters This is a really sensational headline that does not match the policy update. @eculliford @MunsifV
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@jobellerina @Facebook To be clear, this post absolutely does violate our Community Standards and was removed yesterday.
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@robwdavis The FBI's field office in Portland confirmed it yesterday.
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FBI Releases Statement on Misinformation Related to Wildfires: FBI Portland and local law enforcement agencies have been receiving false reports that extremists are responsible for setting wildfires in Oregon.
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@carolecadwalla Your fake thing that accuses us of fake things was caught in our thing to prevent fake things.
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On earnings call, Mark Zuckerberg notes Facebook is on track to spend $5 billion on safety and security in 2021 alone.
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@Busta_ I'm just here to learn what @karaswisher 's son is cooking for dinner
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As the Wall Street Journal itself makes clear, we have a team of experts who help us uncover patterns of harmful behavior so we can disrupt it. We've got arguably more experts and resources dedicated to this work than any other consumer technology company in the world.
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“If the US can respond in a nuanced, balanced way to challenges ranging from foreign interference, to incitements to violence, to privacy violations, it can prove it is possible to respond to excesses without the government imposing excesses of its own.”
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2 years
Today’s @washingtonpost story distorts Meta’s approach to penalizing people who attempt to buy or sell guns on our platforms. Not once, but at least 5 times. A 🧵
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Andy Stone
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This claim is wildly inaccurate and isn't even what the underlying story actually says.
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Meta switched this year to using AI/no human in the loop reports for child abuse material to save $ - meaning the govt. can no longer legally use them without a warrant. Side benefit for Meta - fewer child abuse cases link back to them, at the cost of children’s safety.…
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Andy Stone
2 years
We’re aware that some users are experiencing issues accessing their Facebook accounts and we are working to resolve them as quickly as possible.
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1 year
ACLU statement on Meta decision: "This is the right call."
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@stonecold2050 We banned the Proud Boys from our platform in 2018. We started blocking the #ProudBoys hashtag because content associated with it praised or supported a banned hate group. Now that’s changing and so we’re unblocking the hashtag on both Facebook and Instagram.
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3 years
WSJ today published a report about a FB system to give a second layer of review to content from high-profile Pages or Profiles to ensure correct application of our policies. If this secret program sounds familiar, it should. Here's what we said in 2018: .
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Andy Stone
4 years
@MikeIsaac Nope, just made a mistake - an embarrassing one, actually. This was an enforcement error as this ad does not violate our policies.
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2 years
The warrants concerned charges related to a criminal investigation and court documents indicate that police at the time were investigating the case of a stillborn baby who was burned and buried, not a decision to have an abortion.
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Meta statement on concerns about the visibility of Stories. “We identified a bug impacting all Stories that re-shared Reels and Feed posts, meaning they weren’t showing up properly in people’s Stories tray, leading to significantly reduced reach. This bug affected accounts…
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Well, would you look at that! "Facebook parent Meta accounts for the largest share of corporate solar use, with nearly 3,600 megawatts of total capacity across all installations." Via @axios ' @Ben_Geman .
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3 years
Anyone read any good letters to the editor this morning?
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"Take It Down" is a new tool, backed by @Meta , and run by @MissingKids , to crack down on the spread of young people's intimate images.
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Meta Newsroom
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We worked with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children to design a new platform that finds and removes young people’s intimate images online.
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Updated Facebook statement on NYU Ad Observatory. “Research is not an excuse to break privacy rules and scrape user data--no matter the intent. As most will remember, we paid a $5 billion fine to the FTC for a developer scraping data under the auspices of ‘research.’ (1/2)
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2 years
Both of these warrants were originally accompanied by non-disclosure orders, which prevented us from sharing any information about them. The orders have now been lifted.”
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@MollyJongFast @Facebook The group was removed
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2 years
get over here, @donie !
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TODAY
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It’s National Hug a Newsperson Day 🤗
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Meta will soon begin sharing targeting info for social issue, electoral and political ads! At the end of May, this data will be made available to researchers through the Facebook Open Research and Transparency platform.
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We have an update here, @yashar . We’ve helped the account owners regain access and they can reactivate their accounts.
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Yashar Ali 🐘
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I just received this statement from META on the situation with the Eye on Palestine account: “These accounts were initially locked for security reasons after signs of compromise, and we’re working to make contact with the account owners to ensure they have access. We did not…
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Andy Stone
4 years
What have we done between March and September of this year? Well:
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Andy Stone
1 year
*This is a political stunt. *The FTC can't unilaterally impose “do-overs” on court-approved, negotiated settlements. *The timing is striking, coming just after the agency lost its bipartisan membership and just before the FTC was to get an update on our compliance efforts.
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Meta Newsroom
1 year
Upholding Our Commitment to Protecting Your Privacy: What the FTC Gets Wrong
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Andy Stone
3 years
To be clear: 1. Nothing about today's referral reinstates the former president's access to his Facebook or Instagram accounts 2. We believe our decision was necessary and right. We hope and expect the Oversight Board will agree.
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Nick Clegg
3 years
Facebook is referring our decision to indefinitely suspend former President Trump’s Facebook & Instagram accounts to the independent @OversightBoard . Today’s announcement does not reinstate his access. We hope & expect the board will confirm our decision.
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Andy Stone
4 years
This is part of our standard process as we laid out here:
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Sheera Frenkel
4 years
This is what Facebook does with all questionable stories until they are reviewed by independent fact checkers.
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Andy Stone
2 years
Today Mark Zuckerberg announced new privacy features coming to WhatsApp: -Exit group chats without notifying everyone, -Control who can see when you're online, and -Prevent screenshots on view once messages
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Andy Stone
2 years
Read more about our efforts to disrupt a Chinese influence operation focused on US domestic politics ahead off the midterms and an unconnected Russian operation focused on the war in Ukraine.
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Meta Newsroom
2 years
Removing Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior From China and Russia
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@donie Consistent with our policy, the fact check has now been applied.
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@sheeraf Actually, what this shows is speculation is routine. But you wrote your book over a year ago and it was not true then.
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3 years
Important op-ed from Facebook’s @nick_clegg on the role of a Biden administration in preserving key aspects of a global, open internet while preventing it from fracturing further.
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Andy Stone
1 year
WSJ editorial board calls it: "The FTC chief rips up a 2020 consent decree without legal cause."
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Andy Stone
4 years
@kevinroose Also, to your previous tweet, this had nothing to do with newsworthiness and is not how our newsworthiness policy works.
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