While Facebook and Twitter are already struggling to handle vaccine misinformation and extremist content, there's an increased focus on how social networks are handling Taliban-related content, following America's sudden withdrawal from Afghanistan.
AlgorithmWatch, a group of researchers who had been studying how Instagram’s opaque algorithms works, say they were recently forced to discontinue their work after Facebook threatened legal action.
Facebook's acquisition of GIF-sharing platform Giphy raises competition concerns within social media and advertising, the UK's competition regulator has found.
Facebook has banned a marketing firm for its involvement in an influence operation that used influencers and fake accounts to undermine COVID-19 vaccines.