# facebook - Saturday 27 August, 2022
# Facebook
# Facebook
The case alleged that Facebook allowed the personal information of millions of users to be fed to Cambridge Analytica.
# facebook - Sunday 12 June, 2022
# Meta
# Meta
The school’s goal in its first year will be to train for free around 100 students as specialist immersive technology developers and support and assistance technicians.
# facebook - Thursday 9 June, 2022
# Facebook
# Facebook
Succession at the tech giant has been in the headlines recently – but Zuckerberg has shown no sign of giving up the reins.
# facebook - Wednesday 1 June, 2022
# Facebook
# Facebook
Sandberg said she is stepping down as chief operating officer, but would remain on the board of Facebook ’s parent company Meta.
# facebook - Tuesday 24 May, 2022
# Meta
# Meta
The announcement follows years of criticism that the social media platforms withhold too much information.
# facebook - Thursday 5 May, 2022
# Social Media
# Social Media
The platforms provided briefings to politicians earlier this year and promised enhanced facilities for reporting harassment.
# facebook - Saturday 30 April, 2022
# The Good Fight
# The Good Fight
Facebook , Twitter and YouTube all say that they’re trying to make their platforms better. What exactly are they doing?
# facebook - Thursday 31 March, 2022
# Imposters
# Imposters
The hackers falsified “emergency data requests” to obtain the information.
# facebook - Wednesday 30 March, 2022
# Tiktok
# Tiktok
The campaign reportedly includes placing letters in major US news outlets and promoting negative stories about TikTok.
# facebook - Monday 21 March, 2022
# Meta Sanctions
# Meta Sanctions
The court ruled that WhatsApp would not be prohibited because it is not used to post public statements.
# facebook - Tuesday 15 March, 2022
# Meta
# Meta
The fine follows a DPC inquiry into 12 data breach notifications received between June and December 2018.
# facebook - Friday 11 March, 2022
# Social Media
# Social Media
The tweet suggested the hospital attacked in the port city of Mariupol was ‘long non-operational’.
# facebook - Friday 4 March, 2022
# GoodInformation
# GoodInformation
Test your knowledge of the new digital age with out latest Good Information Project quiz.
# facebook - Friday 25 February, 2022
# Meta
# Meta
The RTÉ presenter says she is happy and relieved that the stressful matter had been resolved after five years.
# facebook - Wednesday 23 February, 2022
# Frances Haugen
# Frances Haugen
Facebook employee-turned-whistleblower Frances Haugen has made a number of blistering claims about the social network.
# Meta
# Meta
Varadkar virtually met representatives of Facebook on 30 September.
# facebook - Monday 21 February, 2022
# Good Information
# Good Information
“The world will see the metaverse for what it is: mostly lame,” says one critic.
# facebook - Tuesday 15 February, 2022
# Lawsuit
# Lawsuit
The suit alleged the social network violated privacy guidelines by tracking users online even after they logged off the site.
# facebook - Sunday 16 January, 2022
# Misinformation
A search of Facebook’s ad library this week found 40 ads sharing pandemic-related misinformation or Covid-sceptic slogans, Stephen McDermott writes. Advertisers included a company selling t-shirts, video bloggers promoting and a firm offering a 'vaccine detox' retreat in the south of Spain. A Government TD described the level of misinformation in the ads as "absolutely startling".
# facebook - Wednesday 12 January, 2022
# Research
# Research
The director of the Centre for Analysis of the Radical Right said its findings “makes it seem that platforms just don’t care enough” to address online abuse.
# facebook - Thursday 16 December, 2021
# Banned
# Banned
The company began alerting some 50,000 people likely targeted by the firms accused of spying on activists, dissidents and journalists.
# facebook - Monday 13 December, 2021
# Covid Misinformation
# Covid Misinformation
Cahill has made a number of false or misleading claims about the coronavirus over the course of the pandemic.
# facebook - Friday 3 December, 2021
# Factcheck
# Factcheck
The highly publicised trial has attracted false internet-based claims before so let’s take a look at the latest allegations.
# facebook - Friday 19 November, 2021
# Essay Mills
Eight active ads for bespoke essays were identified by The Journal earlier this week. Ads also offered students to supply other forms of college coursework, Stephen McDermott writes. Government TD calls for Facebook to stop hosting ads for college 'essay mills'.
# facebook - Wednesday 10 November, 2021
# Body Image
# Body Image
The students are calling on Minister Catherine Martin to hold an urgent inquiry into the conduct of Facebook .
# facebook - Monday 8 November, 2021
# Court
# Court
WhatsApp claims the fine constitutes the imposition of a criminal sanction
# facebook - Tuesday 2 November, 2021
# Meta
# Meta
The announcement came as the tech giant battles one of its worst crises ever.
# facebook - Saturday 30 October, 2021
# Frances Haugen
# Frances Haugen
Francis Haugen has made a number of blistering claims since going public earlier this month.
# facebook - Friday 29 October, 2021
# Meta
# Meta
Facebook has revealed a new company name and brand, Meta.
# facebook - Thursday 28 October, 2021
# Face Mask
# Face Mask
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg delivered a keynote address during a virtual event.
# facebook - Monday 25 October, 2021
# Frances Haugen
# Frances Haugen
Frances Haugen told UK MPs there was a ‘weak spot’ within the tech giant on who you could turn to for escalating concerns.
# facebook - Saturday 23 October, 2021
# Facebook
# Facebook
Facebook has faced a storm of criticism over the past month.
# facebook - Wednesday 20 October, 2021
# Facelift
# Facelift
Mark Zuckerberg is said to be keen to signal the company’s intent to move beyond just social media and the controversies which have engulfed it.
# facebook - Monday 18 October, 2021
# Facebook
# Facebook
The new computing platform will encompass augmented and virtual reality.
# facebook - Thursday 14 October, 2021
# PHONE ADDICTION
# PHONE ADDICTION
The Stanford professor examines how social media is driving our digital dependence, and what we can do to break the habit.
# facebook - Wednesday 13 October, 2021
# Max Schrems
# Max Schrems
The decision comes on foot of a complaint made by Austrian privacy campaigner Max Schrems.
# facebook - Friday 8 October, 2021
# Social Media
# Social Media
Many social media users have this evening complained that Instagram is offline.
# facebook - Wednesday 6 October, 2021
# Frances Haugen
# Frances Haugen
Frances Haugen has called for the social media giant to be regulated.
# Social Media
# Social Media
The social networks and messaging service went offline for more than five hours on Monday.
# Logging Off
# Logging Off
A number of Facebook controversies have put the focus on screen time once more.
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