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After handshake snub at Israel game, Meta suspends Irish Basketball's Instagram account

Irish national governing body for sport protests permanently losing access to account, asserting 'no legitimate reason for Meta to do so'

Raanan Weiss | 02.17.24

Meta moves to reduce promotion of political content across its platforms

Meta intends to cease the promotion of political or social content across its platforms, including Facebook, Instagram and Threads, which means content from political creators, journalists, social activists or politicians will no longer be featured in the feeds of users who are not following these accounts

Raphael Kahan | 02.11.24

Sheryl Sandberg fronts documentary about Hamas terrorists' sex crimes on October 7

Ex-Meta exec completes 'Screams Before Silence,' revealing terrorist atrocities in Israel via interviews with survivors, freed hostages, police officers and first responders

Ynet | 02.07.24

שריל סנדברג סמנכ"לית התפעול של פייסבוק לשעבר

Sheryl Sandberg leaves Meta: 'It was the opportunity of a lifetime'

Sandberg, who served as Facebook's and then Meta's COO for the past 14 years, announced she will be stepping down from the board in May; Mark Zuckerberg: 'Your dedication and guidance have been instrumental in driving our success'

Calcalist | 01.18.24

TikTok accused of pro-Palestinian bias following refusal to run hostage release ads

When families of Israeli hostages trapped by Hamas approached TikTok to run ads calling for their release, the company refused, citing 'overly graphic and political content', yet had no issues running ads displaying Palestinian children suffering in Gaza

ynet correspondents | 12.24.23

Meta tells ministers they can block calls from hecklers after Knesset speaker demands action

Amir Ohana demands that Meta CEO 'take decisive and swift action' to halt the flood of threatening text messages and calls to Israeli lawmakers on WhatsApp over the war against Hamas; 'Many of the messages contain murder threats, child pornography, violent content and disturbing material'

Itamar Eichner | 12.21.23

Avinatan Or and Noa Argamani abducted by Hamas to Gaza on October 7

Meta Oversight Board says Israel-Hamas videos should not have been removed

Board disagrees with Meta's decision to add restriction to videos showing wounded Israelis in Gaza and an Israeli woman begging terrorists for her life being recommended to users

Reuters | 12.19.23

Israel's war in Gaza ignites Silicon Valley

Clashes between high-tech employees supporting Israel and those supporting Hamas shake teams and ongoing projects in the world's leading companies

Israel Wullman | 12.15.23

Meta oversight board to review Israel-Hamas war content

Board's decision to examine cases comes as social media platforms have been flooded with violent, hateful, and misleading content since the outbreak of the war

Reuters | 12.07.23

Meta struggles to police rules amid Israel-Gaza war

Meta challenged by Hebrew and Palestinian Arabic dialect, disagreements between Dubai and Israel Meta teams and Muslim anger for monitoring Palestinian content in harsher standards than the Israelis

Yuval Mann | 10.22.23

Facebook, TikTok, show pro-Palestinian content to Israelis

Israeli users on social media platforms report they've been exposed to several pro-Palestinian posts and live broadcasts in recent days following Hamas' attack against Israel

Yuval Mann | 10.13.23

Meta to announce layoffs in metaverse silicon division

Cuts could hurt the company’s ability to build augmented and virtual reality products enabling access to a set of immersive virtual worlds known as the "metaverse"

Reuters | 10.04.23

Quest 3: Zuckerberg's new hope

It will try to compete with Apple's Vision Pro to bring more people into the Metaverse; Meta's new glasses support mixed reality (MR) and allow for the integration of digital elements in the physical environment; Target audience: not only gamers

Yuval Mann, Menlo Park | 10.02.23

Meta pushing WhatsApp update allowing cross-platform messaging

Fresh feature appears in WhatsApp's latest beta version and, while still not active, is expected to become functional in the near future following new EU law

Yuval Mann | 09.12.23

Clash of the tech titans: Musk vs. Zuckerberg faceoff fades into fantasy

Meta CEO cools off excitement over much-hyped fight as he focuses efforts on his new social network Threads, which already lost over half of its user base in the weeks following its launch

Oshrit Gan-El | 07.30.23