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(Reuters) -Meta Platforms Inc has restored former U.S. President Donald Trump's access to Facebook and Instagram, Meta spokesperson Andy Stone confirm...

Meta in January said it would lift Trump's suspension "in the coming weeks" and would institute heightened penalties of a suspension between one month and two years if the former president violated its content policies again. Trump now regains access to key platforms for voter outreach and political fundraising ahead of another run for the White House in 2024.

Trump now regains access to key platforms for voter outreach and political fundraising

(Reuters) -Meta Platforms Inc has restored former U.S. President Donald Trump's access to Facebook and Instagram, Meta spokesperson Andy Stone confirm...

Facebook's murky history of letting third party apps help themselves to user data which you may recall blew up into a major global privacy scandal (aka, Cambridge Analytica), appears to be coming back to haunt it via unsealed legal discovery.

As reported by Bloomberg, Meta was caught in a hypocritical act of publicly condemning data scraping while paying Bright Data to scrape data.

Facebook owner Meta Platforms Inc for years paid a contractor to scrape data from other websites while publicly condemning the practice and suing companies that pulled data from its own social-media platforms.

Tech giant is involved in a legal battle with Bright Data, a company it has asked to scrape other websites in the past.

Meta was paying a company to scrape data from sites for years despite its own attempts to fight the practice..

LONDON: Meta is accused of playing a double game on scraping, with the tech giant criticized for having scraped data for years while denouncing the practice. According to evidence that surfaced from a legal case being pursued by the company, the tech giant has been subcontracting a company for years to scrape data from other websites, despite publicly criticizing the practice