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The FTC's cases against Meta are chasing Facebook's ghost

No longer an anticompetitive behemoth, Meta is in a dogfight for survival, argues Adam Kovacevich from tech industry coalition Chamber of Progress.

Fortune

Your Instagram friends can now help you regain access to a locked account

Two of your close friends will be need to confirm your identity within 24 hours for the method to work

Evening Standard

Meta warns spyware still being used to target people on social media

Facebook owner says companies are adapting and changing tactics in face of efforts to shut down activities

The Guardian - UK

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What social media regulation could look like: Think of pipelines, not utilities

Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter, and his controversial statements and decisions as its owner, have fueled a new wave of calls for regulating social media companies. Elected officials and policy scholars have argued for years that companies like Twitter and Facebook – now Meta – have immense power over public…

The Conversation

Australia accuses Apple, Microsoft of overlooking child sex abuse

Internet safety watchdog says tech giants should automatically scan for child exploitation material on their services.

Al Jazeera

Meta faces $1.6bn lawsuit over Facebook posts inciting violence in Tigray war

Legal action backed by Amnesty alleges hateful posts inflaming war in northern Ethiopia were allowed to flourish on platform

The Guardian - UK

Even in a brutal year for tech, these 5 companies, collectives, and chiefs flopped the hardest

FTX’s venture capital patrons, a former social media executive, and a onetime pandemic darling all fell on their face in 2022.

Fortune

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How Ireland's 'great reshuffle' could benefit women and older workers

Recent global tech sector layoffs have hit Ireland’s workforce hard. Prior to these job cuts, the Irish digital sector directly employed more than 270,000 people, as well as creating many more ancillary jobs.

The Conversation

2022 was tech's year of big endings

From social media to the long bull market and from the techlash to the crypto bust, this year was full of finales.

Axios

Lawmakers will face familiar technology issues next Congress

WASHINGTON — The 118th Congress will face some long-standing policy challenges as well as a few new ones but may not get to the finish line on any of them — even the federal data privacy bill that has bipartisan backing in both chambers.

Tribune News Service

Putsch back – Inside the 16 December Guardian Weekly

Inside Germany’s failed coup plot. Plus: a moment of truth for Iran

The Guardian - UK

Commentary: Entrepreneurial students should not fear Big Tech’s layoffs

Many of my students have a lifelong dream to work in Big Tech after graduation. Regardless of whether a student is a computer science or a marketing major, the allure of working for Google, Meta or Amazon — or any of the major tech companies — is deep-seated and fierce.

Chicago Tribune

‘Public interest’: Meta panel upholds move to restore Insta video showing sexual assault on Dalit woman

Meta’s Oversight Board has upheld the social media giant’s decision to restore an Instagram video showing a Dalit woman being sexually assaulted by a group of men, citing larger public interest and the need to raise awareness about discrimination against Dalits and Adivasis in India, especially women. However, the board…

Newslaundry

Meta accused in lawsuit of allowing posts that inflamed Ethiopia conflict

Meta Platforms was accused in a lawsuit filed in Kenya on Wednesday of letting violent and hateful posts from Ethiopia flourish on Facebook, inflaming the Ethiopian civil war.

Reuters

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Big Tech sat out this year’s generative A.I. craze. Will it join the party in 2023?

Alphabet, Meta, and other tech titans are investing heavily in consumer-facing A.I., but the time hasn’t been right to go public.

Roll Call

Lawmakers will face familiar technology issues next Congress - Roll Call

Bipartisan support isn't enough to get bills through Congress. The 2023 agenda includes several tech bills left unfinished 2022.

Reason

ChatGPT Successfully Imitates a Talented Sociopath with Too Many Lawyers

Episode 434 of the Cyberlaw Podcast

The Guardian - US

Concern as US media hit with wave of layoffs amid rise of disinformation

Wider economic uncertainty is behind cuts at companies including CNN, BuzzFeed and Gannett, executives say

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The Guardian - AU

Five Great Reads: Facebook’s virtual insanity, looking back on Qatar, and an awkward breakup

Guardian Australia’s weekend wrap of essential reads from the past seven days, selected by Kris Swales

Evening Standard

‘Your job isn’t safe from AI and the metaverse is an enormous waste of money’: five tech realities for 2023

The year that evangelists become realists? Tech CEO Matt Hay on his industry predictions for 2023

Bangkok Post

Central teams up with Instagram to launch pop-up spaces

Central Department Store, in collaboration with Instagram, has launched "The Instagrammable Store", which is divided into two parts on the first and seventh floors of CentralWorld.

Dynamite News

Instagram To Inform Creators Bbout Posts Blocked From Being Recommended

Professional accounts can now check if any of their posts are banned from being recommended to users who don't follow them by going to the settings menu, under the account and then account status.Read on for details:

Chicago Tribune

Lawmakers drop journalism act from ‘must-pass’ defense spending bill under pressure from Facebook

An effort to add proposed journalism legislation to an annual “must-pass” defense spending bill was shot down by lawmakers after a public face off with Meta/Facebook over required payments to publishers for online news content.

Fortune

‘If you’re in tech, buckle up—it’s gonna be a tough ride’: The analyst who says Big Tech's layoffs show 'a new reality' sees 'more cuts' ahead

“The new reality is that demand is fading,” Jefferies analyst Brent Thill told Fortune. If we're headed for a recession, “it’s only inevitable that we’re going to have more cuts.”

Fortune

Microsoft keeps pulling the right political strings. Is it enough to get the Activision Blizzard deal over the finish line?

The tech giant is making shrewd moves, but regulators remain wary of its $68.7 billion purchase of the video game developer.

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