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Facebook removes more Russian posts claiming children''s hospital bombing in Ukraine was a hoax

The fake video purported to show Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urging his country''s soldiers to surrender.

Facebook''s parent company, Meta, said Wednesday that it removed a deepfake video of Ukranian President Vladimir Zelensky that purported to show him yielding to Russia.

Facebook’s parent company, Meta, removed a deepfake video of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy issuing a statement that he never made, asking Ukrainians to "lay down arms." The deepfake appears to have been first broadcasted on a Ukrainian news website for TV24 after an alleged hack.

Facebook on Wednesday removed official Russian posts that falsely claimed reports of Russia bombing a children''s hospital in Ukraine were a hoax, a company spokesperson said, even as similar messages appeared on other social media platforms.

The social network said the video violated its rules against manipulated media.

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Putin’s regime continues to tighten its grip on how information on the war in Ukraine is shared in Russia, and in the wake of that, tech giants in the country – which, like Facebook, Google and Twitter, are also major players in the media sphere – are starting to restructure their media assets. Yesterday Russian […]

Putin’s regime continues to tighten its grip on how information on the war in Ukraine is shared in Russia, and in the wake of that, tech giants in the country – which, like Facebook, Google and Twitter, are also major players in the media sphere – are starting to restructure their media assets. Yesterday Russian […]

Recent revelations have shed more light on "Jedi Blue," the codename for Google''s alleged proposal to lower digital ad fees for Facebook and give them other benefits such as speed in header bidding auctions. In return, Facebook was to pledge support for Google''s header bidding alternative Open Bidding. The news is a betrayal of publishers''…

Ireland’s Data Protection Commission has fined Meta, Facebook’s Parent Company, $18.6 million for 12 reported data breach notifications in 2018. The data breaches were found to be in violation of Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation, a rule that lays the groundwork for how tech companies need to handle personal data.

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If Facebook''s content norms were bent for such an exercise, as charged, it would amount to an attempt by a foreign business to meddle with Indian democracy. Meta Platforms must come clean on these charges. Whether bias-free social-media apps can help resolve Congress’s woes, though, is another matter.