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Facebook has a misinformation problem, and is blocking access to data about how much there ...

SCNOW Morning News 02 Nov 2021

One possible denominator is 2.9 billion monthly active Facebook users, in which case, on average, every Facebook user has been exposed to at least one piece of information from these health misinformation sources ... How many pieces of information does the average Facebook user encounter in a year? Facebook does not disclose that information.

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Facebook Has A Disinfo Problem. And It’s Blocking Access To Data About How Bad It Is.

TPM 02 Nov 2021

One possible denominator is 2.9 billion monthly active Facebook users, in which case, on average, every Facebook user has been exposed to at least one piece of information from these health misinformation sources ... How many pieces of information does the average Facebook user encounter in a year? Facebook does not disclose that information.

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More Commentary: Others will find it hard to upend Facebook's strengths with older users

Omaha World-Herald 02 Nov 2021

Does Facebook Inc.’s declining relevance with teenagers really pose an existential threat to the company? After all, Facebook’s most loyal users are people over age 30, and today’s teens are tomorrow’s 30-somethings — if they don’t start using Facebook while they’re young, there’s no guarantee they will later in life.

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Facebook Changes Corporate Name to Meta

Technowize Magazine 02 Nov 2021

According to the announcements, the platform will retain the official name of Facebook for the users, but only the corporate name will change. This means that Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and other similar Facebook brands will be part of the Metaverse where augmented reality and virtual reality will meet to create a unique user experience.

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Public discussion needed around algorithm-related accountability: MoS IT

Business Line 02 Nov 2021

The minister was responding to a specific query on whether the big tech companies are doing enough to address issues such as hate speech and user harm, especially in the backdrop of recent whistleblower charges against Facebook ... sought details of steps taken to safeguard users.

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Facebook is Shutting Down its Photo Face Recognition System

PetaPixel 02 Nov 2021

Facebook Face Recognition is a system that is used to analyze the photos and videos that the company thinks a user is in on Facebook and it replaced the “tag suggestion” setting on the social network ... Facebook says it never shared user templates with anyone.

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Facebook is shutting down its controversial facial recognition system over 'societal concerns'

Business Insider 02 Nov 2021

The company, now known as Meta, said it will delete more than a billion people's "individual facial recognition templates," and the third of Facebook's daily users who have opted into the technology won't be automatically recognized in photos and videos, including in Facebook's Memories feature.

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Facebook and Instagram ‘allowing Covid misinformation to thrive’

Belfast Telegraph 02 Nov 2021

“NewsGuard’s reports to the World Health Organisation are fully disclosed, and Facebook could provide its users with transparent explanations of why so many popular sources on its platform are untrustworthy, promoting dangerous hoaxes.

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Facebook SHUTTING DOWN controversial face recognition program, vows to delete over a BILLION templates

Russia Today 02 Nov 2021

When the feature is discontinued, sometime “in the coming weeks,” more than a billion Facebook users who have opted in will have their facial recognition templates deleted and they will not be automatically recognized, Pesenti explained ... Facebook noted that the ...

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Facebook will delete facial recognition data of more than one billion people

ITV 02 Nov 2021

More than one-third of Facebook's daily active users - around 640 million people - use the company's facial recognition technology ... Last year, the US state of Illinois sued Facebook for taking users' facial recognition data without their consent, while two years ago, San Francisco outlawed facial recognition technology.

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Facebook’s face-recognition system to shut down

Chicago Sun-Times 02 Nov 2021

“More than a third of Facebook’s daily active users have opted in to our Face Recognition setting and are able to be recognized, and its removal will result in the deletion of more than a billion people’s individual facial recognition templates.” He said the company was trying to ...

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Facebook will shut down facial recognition system

Canoe 02 Nov 2021

The company, which last week renamed itself Meta Platforms Inc, said more than one-third of Facebook’s daily active users have opted into the face recognition setting on the social media site, and the change will now delete the “facial recognition templates” of more than 1 billion people.

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Facebook makes big show of kinda ending facial recognition

Mashable 02 Nov 2021

Apply enough pressure, and even Facebook will buckle ... As part of the announcement, Meta confirmed that it "will delete the facial recognition template used to identify" users. "This is great news for Facebook users," wrote the Electronic Frontier Foundation in response to the news, "and for the global movement pushing back on this technology."

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Facebook and Instagram letting Covid misinformation thrive - report

RTE 02 Nov 2021

"NewsGuard's reports to the World Health Organization are fully disclosed, and Facebook could provide its users with transparent explanations of why so many popular sources on its platform are untrustworthy, promoting dangerous hoaxes.

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Facebook is ending face recognition, will delete all user data

TechRadar 02 Nov 2021

Facebook's change will represent one of the largest shifts in the use of facial recognition technology as more than a third of its daily active users have opted in to use Face Recognition ... While Facebook has decided to shutter its Face Recognition system, VP of AI at its new ...