{"id":1007198,"date":"2026-05-07T10:51:43","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T05:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1007198"},"modified":"2026-05-07T11:15:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T05:45:33","slug":"irish-regulator-to-probe-facebook-instagram-over-alleged-user-profiling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/07\/irish-regulator-to-probe-facebook-instagram-over-alleged-user-profiling\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish regulator to probe Facebook, Instagram over alleged user profiling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ireland&#8217;s media regulator on Tuesday said it has opened a probe into Meta over its recommender system that promotes content on its social media platforms Facebook and Instagram. <\/p>\n<p>The EU member&#8217;s regulator said it is concerned about so-called &#8220;dark patterns&#8221; or manipulative and deceptive interfaces that impose system-generated feeds of targeted content based on users&#8217; habits. <\/p>\n<p>The practice &#8220;could prevent people from exercising their right to choose a recommendations feed that is not based on profiling&#8221;, the authority, known as Coimisiun na Mean, said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ireland&#8217;s media regulator on Tuesday said it has opened a probe into Meta over its recommender system that promotes content on its social media platforms Facebook and Instagram. The EU member&#8217;s regulator said it is concerned about so-called &#8220;dark patterns&#8221; or manipulative and deceptive interfaces that impose system-generated feeds of targeted content based on users&#8217; habits. The practice &#8220;could prevent people from exercising their right to choose a recommendations feed that is not based on profiling&#8221;, the authority, known as Coimisiun na Mean, said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1007198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1007198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1007200,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007198\/revisions\/1007200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1007198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1007198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1007198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}