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Meta fires staff for ‘using free meal vouchers to buy household goods’
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Meta under fire for ‘polluting’ open-source
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Meta fires staff for abusing $25 meal credits
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Zelenskyy lays out Ukraine ‘victory plan’ which Moscow calls an escalation
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Meta’s Oversight Board says viral video left on Facebook threatened LGBTQ+ people in Nigeria
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