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Barbara Ortutay

Barbara Ortutay

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Dateless? Lawsuit claims Tinder, Hinge, Match apps are addicting users instead of helping them find relationships

Proposed class-action lawsuit alleges dating apps foster compulsive swiping.

15.02.2024 3

Fortune

Barbara Ortutay

Whistleblower says Zuckerberg grilling was just Capitol Hill talk: 'They know how much harm teens are experiencing, yet they won’t commit to reducing it'

Arturo Béjar, a former Meta engineer, says "They have the infrastructure to do it, the research, the people, it is a matter of prioritization.”

01.02.2024 6

Fortune

Barbara Ortutay

Meta, TikTok, other social media CEOs testify before Senate committee on child exploitation: 'Constant pursuit of engagement and profit over basic safety'

South Carolina Sen. Lindsay Graham, the top Republican on the Judiciary panel, said he's prepared to work with Democrats to solve the issue.

31.01.2024 2

Fortune

Barbara Ortutay

Meta documents revealed in New Mexico court case said to underscore tech giant’s ‘historical reluctance’ to protect children on Instagram

Internal employee messages and presentations from 2020 and 2021 show Meta was aware of issues such as adult strangers being able to contact children...

18.01.2024 8

Fortune

Barbara Ortutay

Amid onslaught of lawsuits, Instagram and Facebook will start hiding posts about suicide, self-harm and eating disorders from teenagers' accounts

“We want teens to have safe, age-appropriate experiences on our apps,” said Meta, which was founded in 2004.

10.01.2024 7

Fortune

Barbara Ortutay

Social media made $11 billion in U.S. ad sales from minors and therefore has 'overwhelming financial incentives' to avoid protecting children, study finds

The researchers say government regulation of social media is needed since companies that profit from children have failed to meaningfully...

28.12.2023 5

Fortune

Barbara Ortutay

Twitter’s first year under Elon Musk: Ad revenue in free fall, fights with the EU over false news, and finally handing over the reins to a long-awaited CEO

X looks and feels something like Twitter, but the more time you spend on it the clearer it becomes that it's merely an approximation.

27.10.2023 8

Fortune

Barbara Ortutay

Israel-Hamas disinformation isn't just going viral on X, Elon Musk is financially incentivizing it

Ian Bremmer posted on X that the level of disinformation “being algorithmically promoted" is unlike anything he's seen as a political scientist.

11.10.2023 5

Fortune

Barbara Ortutay

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