Collaborate Disseminate
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Gizmodo: Do you remember Facebook Watch? Me neither. Mark Zuckerberg’s short-lived streaming service never really got off the ground, but court filings unsealed in Meta’s antitrust lawsuit claim “Watch” was knee… Continue reading Facebook Allegedly Killed Its Own Streaming Service To Help Sell Netflix Ads
Meta is ready to slash the price of its ads-free experience for Instagram and Facebook in the EU by almost half to comply with the EU’s DMA.
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Oh, how the mighty have fallen. A decade ago, social media was celebrated for sparking democratic uprisings in the Arab world and beyond. Now front pages are splashed with stories of social platforms’ role in misinformation, business conspiracy, malfeasance, and risks to mental health. In a 2022 survey, Americans blamed social media for the coarsening of our political discourse, the spread of misinformation, and the increase in partisan polarization.
Today, tech’s darling is artificial intelligence. Like social media, it has the potential to change the world in many ways, some favorable to democracy. But at the same time, it has the potential to do incredible damage to society…
Monday’s case has major ramifications for the relationship between the government and social media platforms and policing disinformation.
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41 state attorneys general penned a letter to Meta’s top attorney on Wednesday saying complaints are skyrocketing across the United States about Facebook and Instagram user accounts being stolen, and declaring “immediate action” necessary to mitigate t… Continue reading Meta Abandons Hacking Victims, Draining Law Enforcement Resources, Officials Say
By Waqas
Logged out of your Meta Platform services?
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By Deeba Ahmed
It is unclear how much the hacker received as part of the Facebook bug bounty program.
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Emma Roth reports via The Verge: If you still haven’t migrated your Oculus account to a Meta one, you might want to do that soon. In an email sent to users, the company says it will delete Oculus accounts on March 29th, 2024, preventing you from reacti… Continue reading Meta Says It’s Deleting All Oculus Accounts At the End of the Month
Facebook will deprecate its News tab in the US and Australia in April after removing it in the UK, France, and Germany last fall. The company said that this is part of an effort to focus its resources on more popular features.
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Meta has patched a critical vulnerability that could have been exploited to take over any Facebook account via a brute-force attack.
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