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Stunning: Facebook Court Filing Admits ''Fact Checks'' Are Just A Matter Of ''Protected'' Opinion Authored by Thomas Lifson via American Thinker (emphasis ours), Surprisingly little attention is being paid to a bombshell admission made by the attorneys representing the corporation formerly known as Facebook, Inc., which has now transitioned into Meta Platforms, Inc. In a court filing responding to a lawsuit filed by John Stossel claiming that he was defamed by a “fact check” Facebook used to label a video by him as “misleading,” Meta’s attorneys assert that the “fact check” was an “opinion,” not an actual check of facts and declaration of facts . Under libel law, opinions are protected from liability for libel. Anthony Watts of Wattsupwiththat explains: Opinions are not subject to defamation claims, while false assertions of fact can be subject to defamation. The quote in Facebook’s complaint is, Meta’s attorneys come from the white shoe law firm Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dore, with over a thousand attorneys and more than a billion dollars a year in revenue.

AlexandraPopova/Shutterstock.com Social media services collect data about their users, which is then used for targeted advertising or sold directly to third parties for various purposes. But what if a platform like Facebook collected information about non-users, too? It does, and its called a shadow profile. Facebooks Shadow Profile Practices Early in 2018, Mark Zuckerberg admitted [] The post What Are Facebook Shadow Profiles, and Should You Be Worried? appeared first on TECHTELEGRAPH .

This article was originally published on TipRanks.com WhatsApp, the messaging app of Meta Platforms (FB), is allowing a limited number of people in the The post Meta Platforms WhatsApp Testing Cryptocurrency Payments in the U.S appeared first on Smarter Analyst .

Meta (Facebook) has released its first social reality space, Horizon Worlds, after a year of testing.

Last week, we discussed the very positive U-turn that Facebook has made on cryptocurrency-related advertisements. Now rebranded as Meta, Facebooks crypto aspirations have certainly shrunk in recent years. Although it has made progress with its digital wallet called Novi. Using Pax Dollars (USDP), a stablecoin pegged to the US dollar and issued by Paxos, Meta [] The post WhatsApp Pilots New Cryptocurrency Payment System first appeared on BiteMyCoin.com .

Leonard Rickey Investment Advisors P.L.L.C. grew its stake in shares of Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ:FB) by 1.8% in the 3rd quarter, according to its most recent filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The firm owned 2,520 shares of the social networking companys stock after buying an additional 44 shares during the period. Leonard Rickey Investment []

Our research demonstrates that we cannot trust major online platforms to do a good job of regulating online political ads. Instead, we must ensure that reforms are powerful enough to hold digital platforms accountable, write Victor le Pochat and Laura Edelson.

How Facebook Plans to Remove Harmful Content The social media giant announced a new AI technology that can identify harmful content in order to make Facebook safer. Facebook’s new AI model uses “few-shot” learning to reduce the time for detecting new kinds of harmful content from months to a period of weeks. It is worth […] The post How Facebook Plans to Remove Harmful Content appeared first on FinanceBrokerage .

Meta pilots crypto payments program via its Novi wallet on WhatsApp to limited US-based users as we can see more today in our latest cryptocurrency news. Meta Platforms, previously known as Facebook, and their endeavors in the digital asset space could have been entangled into controversy from the very start but that has not deterred []

This enabling of Facebook to finally satisfy its ambition of reaching the unbanked through WhatsApp is huge news, says Jonny Fry.

Facebook says Nigerians will pay 7.5 per cent value-added tax (VAT) on all ad placements from January 1, 2022. The social media giant said this in a statement issued yesterday. According to the statement, the charge will apply to those buying ads for businesses or personal purposes. Due to implementation of a value-added tax (VAT) [] The post Facebook, Instagram ads attracts 7.5% VAT from January appeared first on Afripost Newspaper .

Novi, the remittance and payments initiative of Meta (formerly Facebook) has launched a Whatsapp pilot test for customers in the U.S.

Starting from January, Nigerians will pay 7.5 percent value-added tax (VAT) on all ad placements on Facebooknow Meta. The charge will apply to those buying ads for businesses or personal purposes in compliance with the implementation of a value-added tax (VAT) in Nigeria. The social media platform disclose this in a statement on Thursday. All The post Facebook bows to VAT law in Nigeria, charges 7.5 percent on ad placements appeared first on National Daily Newspaper .

By Rina Chandran and Avi Asher-Schapiro BANGKOK/LOS ANGELES (Thomson Reuters Foundation) A landmark lawsuit by Rohingya refugees against Meta Platforms Inc, formerly known as Facebook, is a wake-up call for social media firms and a test case for courts to limit their immunity, human rights and legal experts said.

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