Controversies

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• "On these websites, people were prompted to enter their usernames and passwords, which Defendants collected."

• Meta (formerly known as Facebook) has filed a federal lawsuit in California court to disrupt phishing attacks targeting Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp users.

• The attackers behind these phishing campaigns used almost 40,000 phishing pages that would impersonate the four platforms' login pages.

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• Another slide said teenagers blamed Instagram for increased levels of anxiety and depression

• The Wall Street Journal's report, not disputed by Facebook, finds:

• The Wall Street Journal said Instagram has had research illustrating this mental stress for two years.

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• The owner of a popular website in the 2A community is suing tech giant Facebook and its subsidiary Instagram over the platforms’ banishment of the site last year.

• According to the lawsuit, Gibbon, along with Armslist and Torquelist LLC, a sister company that serves as an internet vehicle parts marketing site, were cut off from the social media sites based solely on their politics and support of gun ownership rights.

Company response

• Apology — Facebook

  We’ve therefore restored posts sharing the Almodóvar movie poster to Instagram, and we’re really sorry for any confusion caused,

• Remediation — Facebook

  We’ve therefore restored posts sharing the Almodóvar movie poster to Instagram, and we’re really sorry for any confusion caused,

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• We've therefore restored posts sharing the Almodóvar movie poster to Instagram, and we´re really sorry for any confusion caused,

• Instagram has apologised for removing the official poster for Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar's new film from the social network because it showed a female nipple, after the poster's designer complained of censorship.

• We’ve therefore restored posts sharing the Almodóvar movie poster to Instagram, and we’re really sorry for any confusion caused,

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• Facebook现在已经与奢侈时尚品牌Gucci联手，对一个国际造假者提起诉讼。

• 一家造假企业利用Facebook和Instagram推广和销售带有Gucci品牌的假冒产品，并使用多个不同的账户来规避Facebook的执法政策。

Company response

• Apology — Facebook

  Nick Clegg, Facebook’s vice president for global affairs, virtually met with Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh in a virtual meeting on Tuesday, where he apologized for the company mistakenly labeling some posts as incitement to violence.

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• The groups say the decisions of Facebook and other tech firms amount to “censorship” of Palestinians

• Nearly 500 removals on Instagram and Facebook were documented by 7amleh, a Palestinian digital rights non-profit, between 6 and 19 May.

• Nick Clegg, Facebook’s vice president for global affairs, virtually met with Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh in a virtual meeting on Tuesday, where he apologized for the company mistakenly labeling some posts as incitement to violence.

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• On Thursday, social media giant Facebook, as well as its subsidiaries Instagram and WhatsApp (together referred to as Facebook), filed a complaint in the Middle District of Pennsylvania against defendant New Ventures Services, Corp. as well as some unknown individuals

• The plaintiffs alleged that the Infringing Domain Names “either incorporate Plaintiffs’ Trademarks or are confusingly similar misspellings of Plaintiffs’ Trademarks”

Company response

• Apology — Instagram

  Instagram has apologised for a “mistake” that meant it promoted weight-loss content to users with eating disorders.

• Remediation — Facebook

• Apology — Instagram

  We're sorry for any confusion caused.

• Remediation — Instagram

  Weight loss should not have been one of them and we've taken steps to prevent these terms from appearing here.

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• Instagram has apologised for a “mistake” that meant it promoted weight-loss content to users with eating disorders.

• But some people with eating disorders found the app was prompting them to search for terms like “appetite suppressant” instead, raising the risk of a relapse or worse.

• 'Weight loss should not have been one of them and we've taken steps to prevent these terms from appearing here. We're sorry for any confusion caused.'

Company response

• Remediation — Facebook

  In addition to the lawsuit, Facebook said it has taken technical enforcement measures against Leadcloak and accounts that "we've determined have used their software, including disabling personal and ad accounts on Facebook and Instagram".

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• Gajjar operated under the name 'LeadCloak' and provided ad-cloaking software designed to push fake news and scams related to COVID-19, cryptocurrency, pharmaceuticals, diet pills and fake news pages.

• In addition to the lawsuit, Facebook said it has taken technical enforcement measures against Leadcloak and accounts that "we've determined have used their software, including disabling personal and ad accounts on Facebook and Instagram".

• Gajjar operated under the name �LeadCloak’ and provided ad-cloaking software designed to push fake news and scams related to COVID-19, cryptocurrency, pharmaceuticals, diet pills and fake news pages.

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• 该网站声称允许用户同时管理多个Facebook账户，在其服务中要求用户提供登录凭据，从而根据这些信息从Facebook平台上获取用户的数据。

• 近日，Facebook称已在欧洲和美国起诉了一些水军公司。这些公司在未经授权的情况下在Facebook和Instagram上使用自动化软件来分发虚假的点赞和评论。

• Facebook周四在一份新闻稿中称，公司已在西班牙起诉了MGP25 Cyberint Services，这家公司提供自动化软件来分发虚假的点赞(like)和评论。此外，Facebook还向旧金山联邦法院起诉了Mohammad Zaghar，这家公司通过自动化的工具盗取用户个人信息。

Company response

• Investigation — Instagram

  Instagram says it's going to look at four specific areas relating to harassment, account verification, distribution and algorithmic bias.

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• Instagram’s CEO, Adam Mosseri, has announced that the social media company is going to look at its tech following criticisms over how its algorithms suppress Black voices.

• Instagram says it's going to look at four specific areas relating to harassment, account verification, distribution and algorithmic bias.

• The platform will be working on these updates over the next few months and pledges to update the community with what it learns and addresses.

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• 此次交易是美国众议院司法委员会反垄断小组委员会获得的文件中几项潜在的不利证据之一，表明扎克伯格利用Facebook对竞争对手的市场权力并收购了Instagram，因为扎克伯格担心这家快速发展的公司有可能会让用户逐渐远离Facebook。

• 2012年以7.15亿美元收购Instagram的这笔交易，“正好是反垄断法旨在阻止的反竞争收购类型，” 代表杰罗德·纳德勒（Jerrold Nadler）在周三的听证会上表示。

Company response

• Apology — Instagram

  These accounts were removed by mistake. We restored them as soon as this was brought to our attention and we're so sorry for any confusion or distress caused.

• Remediation — Instagram

  These accounts were removed by mistake. We restored them as soon as this was brought to our attention and we're so sorry for any confusion or distress caused.

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• These accounts were removed by mistake. We restored them as soon as this was brought to our attention and we're so sorry for any confusion or distress caused.

• Instagram has apologised for temporarily disabling the accounts of two Charlie Hebdo journalists, who had shared the front page of the magazine with the reproduction of cartoons of the prophet Mohammad.

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• Along with Thursday’s lawsuit against MobiBurn, Facebook also announced litigation against Nakrutka, a service it accused of using bots to generate fake likes, comments, views and followers on Instagram.

• Facebook is suing multiple developers in the UK and US for violating its policies by selling fake likes on Instagram.

• The developer, Nikolay Holper, operated a “fake engagement service” known as Nakrutka, Facebook alleged in a statement.

Company response

• Clarification — Facebook

  "We're reviewing the complaints & will have more to say soon. Years after the FTC cleared our acquisitions, the government now wants a do-over with no regard for the impact that precedent would have on the broader business community or the people who choose our products every day."

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• It also seeks relief from Facebook "as a contributory infringer" of the University's intellectual property rights.

• The lawsuit alleges the account engaged in the unauthorized use of the university’s trademark and school colors, known as “trade dress.”

• The owner of the Somersworth café Teatotaller is taking a lawsuit against Facebook to the New Hampshire Supreme Court for breach of contract over an Instagram account.

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• Hubbard has filed suit in a Minnesota U.S. district court alleging "trademark infringement, trademark dilution, and unfair competition," citing its REELZ® cable/satellite video service, which is also available on computers, smart TV's and other devices, it points out.

• Claiming ongoing and irreparable harm, Hubbard is asking the court to enjoin Facebook/Instagram from using the "Reels" name and seeks trebled damages as well as whatever profits the company has derived from use of the allegedly infringing name, plus court costs and any other relief the court wants to grant.

Company response

• Remediation — Social Data

  几个小时候后，Social Data关闭了该数据库

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• 几个小时候后，Social Data关闭了该数据库，并否认自己和Deep Social之间有任何联系。

• Comparitech的安全研究小组日前披露了一个不安全的数据库，导致2. 35 亿Instagram、TikTok和YouTube用户的资料泄露到网上

Company response

• Remediation — Instagram

  A dedicated product group, the Instagram Equity team, was created to focus on better understanding and addressing bias in product development on the platform, as well as users’ experiences.

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• A dedicated product group, the Instagram Equity team, was created to focus on better understanding and addressing bias in product development on the platform, as well as users’ experiences.

• On efforts to combat harassment and hate, Mosseri said Instagram’s policies have been updated to more specifically account for certain kinds of implicit hate speech, such as content depicting blackface or stereotypes about Jewish people.

• Head of Instagram Adam Mosseri shared a progress update on the steps he promised in June to ensure that Black voices are not suppressed on the platform.

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• In the new lawsuit, filed Monday in state court in Redwood City, California, the company is accused of collecting, storing and profiting from the biometric data of more than 100 million Instagram users, without their knowledge or consent.

• 这起最新诉讼于8月10日被提交给美国加利福尼亚州旧金山湾区雷德伍德城州法院。在这起最新诉讼中，脸书被指控在未经用户知情同意的情况下，采集和存储超过1亿Instagram用户的生物数据并从中获利。

• 对于这项最新起诉，脸书公司发言人斯特凡妮在一份声明中称：“这件诉讼毫无根据”，“Instagram并未使用人脸识别技术”。

Company response

• Apology — Instagram

  We’ve restored the content and apologised to Bella for the mistake.

• Remediation — Instagram

  We’ve restored the content and apologised to Bella for the mistake.

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• In this case the passport number was blurred out, so this content shouldn’t have been removed. We’ve restored the content and apologised to Bella for the mistake.