How Dominant are Privacy, Misinformation & Mental Health Issues in Facebook and Instagram? | News18

How Dominant are Privacy, Misinformation & Mental Health Issues in Facebook and Instagram? | News18Meta, the parent company of two major social media platforms Facebook and Instagram, finds itself hitting the headlines almost every year for wrong reasons such as privacy, misinformation and mental health.Recently, in a judgment against the social media network for breaking European Union’s data privacy standards, Meta was fined a record $1.3 billion and told to cease moving data obtained from Facebook users in Europe to the US. This happened because of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which came into effect in 2018.But when Meta was asked to reveal details about the storage locations of data collected from Indian users, it did not respond. The company is not bound by any law to either respond to a query like this or erase someone’s data from the servers if they are requested to do so.