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A bipartisan group of lawmakers sent Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg a letter on Thursday expressing concern that the company is failing to prevent illicit drug advertisements from running on its platform.
Meta removed the Facebook and Instagram accounts of Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in February 2024, citing repeated violations of its Dangerous Organizations & Individuals policy. [93] As of March, Meta was under investigation by the FDA for alleged use of their social media platforms to sell illegal drugs. [94]
On Facebook and Instagram alone, there were more than 4,000 active ad campaigns in the United States mentioning semaglutide, the drugs’ active ingredient, according to multiple searches over ...
In response to the Online News Act, Meta (owner of Facebook) began blocking access to news sites for Canadian users at the beginning of August 2023. [15] [16] This also extended to local Canadian news stories about the wildfires, [17] a decision that was heavily criticized by Trudeau, local government officials, academics, researchers, and evacuees.
Some people are purchasing leftover weight loss medications on Facebook or other social media platforms in an effort to a) get their hands on these medications and b) save money.
Divya Narendra, Cameron Winklevoss, and Tyler Winklevoss, founders of the social network ConnectU, filed a lawsuit against Facebook in September 2004.The lawsuit alleged that Zuckerberg had broken an oral contract to build the social-networking site, copied the idea, [1] [2] and used source code that they provided to Zuckerberg to create competing site Facebook.
Facebook and Meta Platforms have been criticized for their management of various content on posts, photos and entire groups and profiles. This includes but is not limited to allowing violent content, including content related to war crimes, and not limiting the spread of fake news and COVID-19 misinformation on their platform, as well as allowing incitement of violence against multiple groups.
In some areas it is required that ads for drugs include a list of possible side effects, so that users are informed of both facets of a medicine. Canada's limitations on pharmaceutical advertising ensure that commercials that mention the name of a product cannot in any way describe what it does. Commercials that mention a medical problem cannot ...