Former soldier jailed for social media posts inciting racial hatred
Daffron Williams pleaded guilty to a charge of publishing material likely to stir up racial hatred, following the Southport attacks.
EU fines Meta £660m for competition rule breaches over Facebook Marketplace
The European Commission said Meta had acted illegally in tying the Marketplace to the social network arm of the platform.
Road crash scam posts causing extra grief for victims’ families, charity founder warns
Mum who lost son in Co Derry crash urges social media giant to tackle scourge of collision post scammers
Meta starts testing facial recognition tools to combat ‘celeb-bait’ adverts
The tech giant said it would use the technology as a new way of identifying fake celebrity endorsement adverts on its platforms.
Meta AI tools come to UK for first time
The firm’s own AI chatbot will accessible to UK users inside Facebook and Instagram initially.
Film stars and sportspeople among those to share hoax ‘Goodbye Meta AI’ post
The post claims sharing it will prevent Meta from using a person’s profile data to train AI models, but users must do this through their app settings.
Meta to begin training AI on public posts from UK Facebook and Instagram users
The scheme will see public posts from UK adults posted to the platforms used to train the firm’s AI models, unless users opt out.
Ofcom launches review after TV and online ‘on par’ as main source of news
Ofcom’s news consumption survey 2024 found TV news as the primary source of information has gradually declined.
Pakistani judge acquits man of spreading misinformation that sparked riots in UK
Farhan Asif was charged with cyberterrorism after posting misinformation about the British teenager suspected of killing three girls in Southport.
Just Eat ad featuring McDonald’s burgers banned for breaching junk food code
The ASA said Just Eat had not taken enough care to ensure that the Facebook ad featuring food high in fat, salt or sugar was not aimed at under-16s.