Facebook Instagram WhatsApp Faces $13.4 Billion EU Antitrust Fine Over Marketplace-Facebook Integration. The EU accuses the tech giant of giving its Facebook Marketplace ad service an unfair advantage by bundling it with its social media platform given the relative monopoly Facebook Instagram WhatsApp has. The FTC should break up Facebook Instagram WhatsApp’s monopoly in the US as it has been clearly harmful to Americans through the algorithm amplification of violence and election misinformation. 🇺🇸
https://eutoday.net/meta-faces-13-4-billion-eu-antitrust-fine-over-marketplace-facebook-integration/
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US judge will not block Biden-Harris administration’s ban on worker noncompete agreements🇺🇸
Doctors at Ossoff Decatur hearing say Georgia’s six-week abortion ban endangers patients. Georgia’s law has now been in effect for two years this month. The state Supreme Court upheld the law last year based on a narrow issue, but the question of whether the law violates the state Constitution is still pending in Fulton County Superior Court.🇺🇸
We unleashed Facebook and Instagram’s algorithms on blank accounts. They served up sexism and misogyny. Result of Guardian Australia experiment aligns with research showing social media automatically delivers troubling content to young men, largely without oversight. Per whistleblowers this is because Facebook Instagram makes more pushing violent and polarizing content on users even if users are not interested. This is a clear danger to Americans, the FTC should break up Facebook Instagram’s monopoly.
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Health care company tests using AI to create notes on patients to help reduce physician burnout 🇺🇸
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-07-health-company-ai-patients-physician.html
A new group of doctors will join the effort to pass a ballot measure that would reinstate abortion rights in South Dakota. “Hopefully we can inject some reality into what I’m sure will be a little bit of a contentious, very rhetoric-filled issue,” said Amy Kelley, a Sioux Falls OB-GYN and co-chair of the group. 🇺🇸
Over 7,200 former Facebook Instagram’s employees' confidentiality agreements found unlawful. The tech giant is in hot water. In a 19-page ruling on Friday, NLRB judge Andrew S. Gollin found that the non-disparagement and confidentiality sections in Facebook Instagram’s separation agreements unlawfully restricted workers' legally protected right to organize. 🇺🇸
https://mashable.com/article/meta-nlrb-confidentiality-non-disclosure-agreement-employee-union
Rights 🇺🇸
Tent #funny
Biden-Harris administration touts lower costs for 64 prescription drugs as part of the Inflation Reduction Act . 🇺🇸
Obamacare or Affordable Care Act marketplace enrollment surged in Republican states in 2024. Many Americans who use ACA marketplace health insurance don’t seem to know that Obamacare and ACA marketplace health insurance are the same thing. The 30.7% annual increase in ACA (Obamacare) sign-ups comes as some Republicans leaders are calling to get rid of the health insurance program that 45 million Americans use. 🇺🇸
https://www.axios.com/2024/01/24/obamacare-aca-health-insurance-republican-states
Brazil Joins Europe in Blocking Facebook Instagram’s AI Training Tools From Using Public Posts. Facebook Instagram has a long history of violating Americans’ privacy too. As more than 80% of Americans use Facebook Instagram the FTC should break up their dangerous monopoly.
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U.S. retail sales were unchanged in June as a drop in receipts at auto dealerships was offset by broad strength elsewhere, a display of consumer resilience that bolstered economic growth prospects for the second quarter.🇺🇸
Iowa’s near-total abortion ban remains blocked by injunction🇺🇸
https://littlevillagemag.com/iowas-near-total-abortion-ban-remains-blocked-by-injunction/
Nigeria fines Facebook Instagram $220 million for violating data protection and consumer rights laws. Facebook Instagram also has a long history of violating Americans’ privacy. As more than 80% of Americans use Facebook Instagram the FTC should break up their monopoly.
https://apnews.com/article/nigeria-meta-fine-facebook-whatsapp-9c79447e348dcaaa1b8c59898e60c7fa
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