After Meta creator handed out Threads — only days after Twitter CEO Elon Musk was chastised for restricting the number of tweets individuals may view each day — Mark Zuckerberg took to Twitter for the first time in over a decade on Thursday to presumably mock Musk. Following the widespread criticism of Musk’s recent policy […]
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Meta to launch Twitter-like app Threads
Meta Platforms plans to launch a microblogging app, Threads, days after Twitter executive chair Elon Musk announced a temporary cap on how many posts users can read on the social media site. Threads, Instagram’s text-based conversation app, is expected to be released on Thursday and will allow users to follow the accounts they follow on […]
Facebook hit with record $1.3 bln fine
Meta was hit with a record 1.2 billion euro ($1.3 billion) fine by its lead European Union privacy regulator over its handling of user information and given five months to stop transferring users’ data to the United States. The fine, imposed by Ireland’s Data Protection Commissioner (DPC), came after Meta continued to transfer data beyond […]
Google, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, 15 others subject to EU content rules
BRUSSELS, April 25 (Reuters) – Alibaba’s (9988.HK) AliExpress, Amazon’s (AMZN.O) Marketplace, Apple’s App Store and 16 other tech companies will be subject to new EU online content rules as of August, EU industry chief Thierry Breton said on Tuesday. The other 16 companies are booking.com (BKNG.O), Facebook (META.O), Alphabet’s (GOOGL.O) Google Maps, Google Play, Google Search, Google Shopping, Instagram, Linkedin, Pinterest, Snapchat, […]
Meta will keep releasing AI tools despite leak claims
Meta Platforms Inc on Monday said it will continue to release its artificial intelligence tools to approved researchers despite claims on online message boards that its latest large language model had leaked to unauthorized users. “While the model is not accessible to all, and some have tried to circumvent the approval process, we believe the current […]
Meta delays setting team budgets as Facebook parent plans fresh round of layoffs, Financial Times reports
Feb 11 (Reuters) – Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc (META.O) has delayed finalizing the budgets of multiple teams as it prepares a fresh round of job cuts, the Financial Times reported on Saturday. In recent weeks there had been a lack of clarity surrounding budgets and future head count, the FT reported, citing two Meta employees familiar with the […]
Facebook owner Meta to lay off 11,000 staff
Facebook owner Meta will lay off more than 11,000 of its staff in “the most difficult changes we’ve made in Meta’s history”, boss Mark Zuckerberg said on Wednesday. He said the cuts represented 13 percent of the social media titan’s workforce and would affect its research lab focusing on the metaverse as well as its […]
Instagram to make it easier to avoid trolls
Instagram to make it easier to avoid trolls. Instagram will enhance features that help users block the accounts of abusers and trolls on the social media platform, the Meta Platforms-owned company said on Thursday. Users will now be able to block all existing accounts of a person, expanding a feature launched last year that only allowed […]
Russia adds Meta to ‘terrorist and extremist’ groups list
Russia adds Meta to ‘terrorist and extremist’ groups list. Russia on Tuesday added US tech giant Meta, the parent company of Instagram and Facebook, to a list of “terrorist and extremist” organizations, according to a database of the Federal Service for Financial Monitoring (Rosfinmonitoring). Russia in late March banned Facebook and Instagram for “carrying out […]
How do password-stealing phone apps work?
Meta warned a million Facebook users Friday that they have been “exposed” to seemingly innocuous smartphone applications designed to steal passwords to the social network. So far this year, Meta has identified more than 400 “malicious” apps tailored for smartphones powered by Apple or Android software and available at the Apple and Google app stores, […]