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Facebook Parent Meta Falls Behind Nvidia

Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ:FB) continued its slide on February 8 and has now dropped so much in the past week that the company is worth less than chipmaker NVIDIA Corp (NASDAQ:NVDA), CNBC reports. Meta shares dropped 2.1% to close at $220.18 on Tuesday. The stock is down 35% this year and has reached its…

Benzinga

Greece’s Fledgling Tech Scene Starts to Take Off

After years in which Greece was almost as well known for its financial woes as it was for its beaches, recent deals have highlighted a small but thriving startup scene that has grown up since the crisis. JP Morgan's acquisition of a minority stake in fintech Viva Wallet last month…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Editorial: Can we save local news and help restore American communities? Here’s a way to start

If you are worried about how Americans are getting their news and sharing information these days, or about how we seem to be ever more divided, you will want to pay attention to this.

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Meta, Chime File Lawsuit against Alleged Phishing Scam on Facebook, Instagram

Facebook parent Meta Platforms said on Tuesday it had filed a joint lawsuit with digital banking company Chime against two Nigeria-based individuals who engaged in phishing attacks to deceive people and gain access to their online financial accounts. The lawsuit, which is the first joint complaint between Meta and a…

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Faye Flam: Fact-checking COVID-19 posts isn’t working. There’s a better way

The right and left may not agree on what constitutes misinformation, but both would like to see less of it on social media. And as the world faces the third year of the COVID-19 pandemic, the threat medical misinformation poses to public health remains real. Companies like Twitter and Facebook…

Tribune News Service

Facebook launches UK tool to redirect users away from extremist searches

The Redirect Initiative replaces the top search result in extremist searches with a link to support and guidance.

The Independent UK

Memes, pop culture references, communal slogans: How political campaigns play out on Instagram

Communally charged messaging delivered through dance, music and jazzy pop culture references tailor-made to appeal to youthful voters – this is how election season is playing out on Instagram.

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Never mind the stock drop. Mark Zuckerberg is still Facebook's absolute monarch

His super-duper shares mean he will control the company until he, and he alone, decides otherwise.

Axios

Grace Tame and Brittany Higgins in National Press Club address — as it happened

Scott Morrison apologised to Brittany Higgins in parliament yesterday. Today, she and the former Australian of the Year spoke in Canberra.

ABC News

Dutch and Razzlekhan: Meet the magician and the rapper accused in massive $4.5bn bitcoin hack

Ilya ‘Dutch’ Lichtenstein described the essence of his wife Razzlekhan as ‘surreal, mysterious, creepy and sexy. Horrifying enough to grab attention, and enticing enough so you can’t look away’

The Independent UK

Australia's Belle Brockhoff fourth in women's snowboard cross at Beijing Winter Olympics

Belle Brockhoff misses a medal in the women's snowboard cross, while Scotty James and Valentino Guseli book spots in Friday's halfpipe final at the Beijing Winter Olympics.

ABC News

COVID updates: All the coronavirus news you need in the one place

Get up to speed on all the coronavirus news from across Australia.

ABC News

TikTok's secret algorithm is its greatest strength – and could also be its undoing

I have a ten-year-old niece named Divya (not her real name) in rural northern India. Two years ago, I visited and she came running to hug me. I asked what was the best gift I could give her, and all she wanted was for me to follow her on TikTok.

The Conversation

Meta has 'no plans' to shut down Facebook and Instagram in Europe

Facebook's parent firm Meta said Monday it has no plans to pull its services from Europe, after raising the possibility amid an ongoing row over transferring European data to the United States.

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The Guardian - UK

The whole world should be worried by the ‘siege of Ottawa’. This is about much more than a few anti-vaxx truckers

How did this ‘grassroots’ rebellion paralyse the Canadian capital? With funding from the far right and a boost from Facebook misinformation, writes Guardian columnist Arwa Mahdawi

The Hindu

Facebook, Instagram accounts of Army unit blocked

Social media accounts of Srinagar-based Chinar Corps have been blocked since January 28

Liverpool Echo

Mum 'devastated' after Facebook fundraising page for daughter with cerebral palsy hacked

The Facebook page "Super Sofia's Journey" was set up in the first lockdown and acts as a diary for Clare Smith's daughter

The Guardian - UK

Facebook should guard against revealing private addresses, board recommends

Oversight Board of Meta recommends exception to privacy rules should be removed

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Wales Online

'Growing up I always thought I was an only child but my sister lived just 15 minutes away' Woman finds long lost sibling on Facebook group

Jean Barrow saw a post on a local Facebook group from a woman called Joan Constantine, who was asking if anyone had known her father

Benzinga

Why Is Long-Time-Backer Peter Thiel Departing Facebook-Parent Meta's Board?

Billionaire-entrepreneur Peter Thiel is leaving Facebook-parent Meta Platforms Inc’s (NASDAQ: FB) board.

The Times of India

Kerala: Goon who challenged cops on FB live nabbed

KOZHIKODE: Goonda leader Shaiju (44), who challenged the police on social media after he was slapped with Kaapa and barred from entering Thrissur last month, was nabbed from a private resort in Wayanad by the police on Monday morning. His Facebook live video challenging the police had gone viral.

The Independent UK

Peter Thiel leaving board of Facebook parent Meta

A Silicon Valley billionaire and advisor to former President Donald Trump is leaving the board of directors of Facebook parent company Meta

Tribune News Service

Peter Thiel to leave Meta board to pursue Trump political agenda

Peter Thiel, the tech investor and conservative provocateur who has advised Mark Zuckerberg for nearly two decades at Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc., will step down from the company’s board after Meta’s annual shareholder meeting in May.

Daily Record

Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg threatens shut down site and Instagram app in Europe

In an annual report to a US government agency, Meta said that the company will "probably" have to stop offering its "most significant products and services" if a new framework is not adopted.

The Independent UK

Conservative billionaire Peter Thiel to resign from Facebook’s board ‘to support pro-Trump candidates’

The billionaire venture capitalist was one of Facebook’s few prominent conservative voices and a key ally of Donald Trump in Silicon Valley

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