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Several companies that work as third party fact-checkers for Meta will go out of business as the social media giant is junking fact-checking and adopting community notes.

The latest guidelines from Meta permits Facebook users to refer to members of the LGBTQ community as 'mentally ill' on its platform.

The Commission also highlighted anti-competitive practices arising from the sharing of user data between Meta entities. Sharing WhatsApp user data with other Meta companies for purposes beyond providing WhatsApp services creates significant entry barriers for competitors, violating Section 4(2)(c) of the Act.

Mehtab and Shadab led a criminal gang consisting of hundreds of members who communicated via social media,

Cox Media Group admitted during a pitch deck to investors that its "Active Listening" software uses Artificial Intelligence to "capture real-time intent data by listening to our conversations." The company explained that voice data can then be paired with behavioural data to target in-market customers for ads.

Mark Zuckerberg's admission revealed that the United States government can push US-based social media platforms to promote any information they like and suppress what they don’t want the world to see.

Mark Zuckerberg admitted that the company made 'some decisions' owing to the intimidation of the Biden administration, which it should not have enforced in hindsight.

In one case, Meta has agreed to pay USD 1.4 billion to settle case against it for collecting biometric data illegally and in second case Meta has been accused of allowing ads promoting illcit sale of cocaine, opioids and other drugs.

Meta noted that the pro-Khalistani propaganda by China was not limited to Facebook alone. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) bots also used social media platforms like X (formerly Twitter) and Telegram.

The lobby effort is being conducted against the two bills that would prohibit the use of algorithmic recommendations on children and the collection and sale of personal data from users under the age of 18.