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Meta earnings dropped by less than analysts expected
Parent company of Facebook and Instagram reports $32bn in revenue for fourth quarter, prompting rise in stock price
Erin McCormick
02, Feb, 2023 @1:41 AM

TechScape: Why Donald Trump’s return to Facebook could mark a rocky new age for online discourse
The former president was banned from Instagram and Facebook following the Jan 6 attacks, but Meta argues that new ‘guardrails’ will keep his behaviour in check. Plus: is a chatbot coming for your job?
Josh Taylor
31, Jan, 2023 @11:35 AM

Social media companies in the US brace to battle onslaught of legal challenges
State and federal lawsuits and bills with far-reaching regulatory implications for TikTok, Meta and others come to a head this year
MacKenzie Ryan
31, Jan, 2023 @11:00 AM

Facebook is allowing Trump back. The platform hasn’t learned its lesson | Jan-Werner Müller
Trump has never shown the slightest repentance for his role in what Facebook gingerly calls ‘civil unrest’
Jan-Werner Müller
27, Jan, 2023 @4:31 PM

Trump’s return to Facebook will ‘fan the flames of hatred’, say experts and politicians
Democrats and liberal groups deplored decision to revoke ban on former president who incited insurrection but ACLU defends move
Martin Pengelly in New York and Kari Paul in San Francisco
26, Jan, 2023 @11:01 PM

Donald Trump’s Truth Social posts bode ill for his return to Facebook
As Trump was reinstated, Meta’s Nick Clegg stressed ‘guardrails’ were in place. He could soon find them tested
Dan Milmo Global technology editor
26, Jan, 2023 @2:52 PM

Why is Trump allowed back on Facebook and will Meta’s ‘guardrails’ contain him?
Meta’s leadership say the risk has ‘sufficiently receded’, as the former US president has the ban on his accounts lifted for the first time in two years
Josh Taylor
26, Jan, 2023 @5:26 AM

‘Reckless’: Fury among rights groups as Facebook lifts Trump ban
Civil rights groups voice anger at ‘unethical’ decision, while others say the public has an interest in hearing directly from candidates for political office
Samantha Lock
26, Jan, 2023 @5:01 AM

Trump’s Facebook and Instagram ban to be lifted, Meta announces
Ex-president to be allowed back ‘in coming weeks … with new guardrails in place’ after ban that followed January 6 attack
Kari Paul in San Francisco
26, Jan, 2023 @12:47 AM

Trump pleads with Meta to restore Facebook account
Former president’s lawyers petition company to allow access following ban from platform in wake of 2021 Capitol attack
Ramon Antonio Vargas and Kari Paul
18, Jan, 2023 @10:14 PM

Free the nipple: Facebook and Instagram told to overhaul ban on bare breasts
Meta’s advisory board says policy impedes right to expression for women and trans and nonbinary people
Alaina Demopoulos
18, Jan, 2023 @6:00 AM

The Guardian view on regulating social media: the internet should be safer | Editorial
Editorial: Ministers’ ambitions have been scaled back but their bill must protect children robustly
Editorial
16, Jan, 2023 @6:30 PM
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