Meta, the owner of Facebook and Instagram, is ramping up its efforts to protect users from disinformation ahead of the European Parliament elections in June. The company announced on Sunday that it plans to set up a team of intelligence experts, data scientists, engineers and researchers in Europe who will be tasked with identifying and […]
The campaign sends phishing emails pretending to be from Meta, Instagram’s parent company, claiming that the recipient’s account has been restricted due to copyright infringement.
Norway is urging the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) to ban Meta (formerly Facebook) from harvesting user data for advertising purposes permanently and extend the ban across Europe.