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Meta is accused of unfairly tying its ‘Marketplace’ feature to its social media service.

Meta fined almost €800 mln by EU over Facebook antitrust breaches

Facebook parent company Meta has been fined almost €800 million by the European Commission for allegedly breaching antitrust regulations to benefit its online Marketplace service.

Basia selling her paintings on the street in Krakow, Poland. Photo by Smakosze.pl via Facebook

Krakow man helps homeless teacher and artist

A man in southern Poland took to Facebook appealing for internet users to help a homeless woman he met on the street who was a teacher and is now an artist.

Russia's state-run TV channel RT is among the services blocked by Facebook’s owner, Meta.

Facebook blocks Russian media over election-meddling fears

Meta, the owner of Facebook and Instagram among other social media, has blocked Russian state media operators including the RT television channel from accessing its apps over allegations of attempting to influence the results of the coming U.S. presidential election.

Omenaa Mensah (L) next to her husbound Rafał Brzoska (P)

Polish billionaire to sue Facebook’s parent company over deep fake ads

Polish billionaire Rafal Brzoska and his wife plan to sue Meta over fake advertisements on Facebook and Instagram that feature his face and false information regarding his wife circulating on the social media platforms.

Pictue posted to facebook by Janów Podlaski local authority.

Local council in Poland shames adults playing on children’s ‘pirate ship’

Local authorities in Janów Lubelski posted a picture to Facebook of a grown man sliding down a children’s ‘pirate ship,’ requesting parents to refrain.

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Advocacy group challenges Meta’s use of personal data for AI training

The European Center for Digital Rights (NOYB) has criticized Meta’s plan to use personal data for AI training without consent, urging European privacy authorities to intervene immediately.

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Polish Facebook users among those targeted by Russian disinformation campaign, researchers say

Italy and Poland have become the targets of a Russian disinformation campaign, with pro-Russian adverts increasingly appearing on Facebook in the lead-up to the European elections.

Photo: Remains Of Gas Chamber And Crematorium #2, Destroyed By The Nazis In A Futile Effort To Conceal Their Crimes, Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp, Oswiecim, Malopolska, Poland (Photo by: Insights/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Auschwitz Museum accuses Meta of ‘Algorithmic Erasure of History’ after post honoring victims flagged

Hiding posts on Facebook commemorating the victims of the Auschwitz camp is a scandal and an illustration of the problems with automatic content moderation, wrote Krzysztof Gawkowski, the Minister of Digitization, on the X service. He has declared that the government will seek an explanation from the Meta Corporation, the owner of Facebook, regarding this situation.