Meta rolls back restrictions on Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts The social media giant says it decided to lift the guardrails so both presidential candidates could speak equally on its platforms. danny gallagher Updated Sat, Jul 13, 2024 The Washington Post via Getty Images Meta, the parent company of social media platforms such … Continue reading Meta rolls back restrictions on Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts
May 06, 2024 A lawsuit against Meta wants to give users an external tool to control their Facebook feed A University of Massachusetts professor is behind the lawsuit and wants to release the browser extension. BY Associated Press Do social media users have the right to control what they see—or don’t see—on their feeds? A … Continue reading A lawsuit against Meta wants to give users an external tool to control their Facebook feed
What the company is calling a “glitch” kept more than 500,000 users across the world from accessing the tech giant’s platforms. Constantine von Hoffman on March 5, 2024 Meta’s online properties were down for about two hours Tuesday, preventing more than half a million Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp and Threads users from using their accounts, … Continue reading Meta suffers major outage at Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Threads
Meta makes AI-generated labels a standard across Facebook, Instagram and Threads Brian-Damien Morgan Features Writer Meta has announced that across its social media platforms artificial intelligence (AI) generated images must be labeled going forward. The labeling system that will be titled “Imagined with AI” seeks to help users navigate the images that are created using … Continue reading Meta makes AI-generated labels a standard across Facebook, Instagram and Threads
By Chris Morris February 04, 2024 Twenty years ago today, in the Kirkland House dormitory of Harvard University, Mark Zuckerberg rolled out a social network for students at the school. The site ran on a single server, which cost Zuck $85 per month to keep running. Within a week, more than 650 students had … Continue reading As Facebook turns 20, here’s a look back at the first newspaper articles ever written about it
Crunching Numbers: What Google, Meta Owe U.S. Publishers by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, January 24, 2024 The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia on Wednesday filed a complaint alleging that Google monopolizes key digital advertising technologies in the ad-tech stack that website publishers depend on to sell ads, and advertisers rely on … Continue reading Crunching Numbers: What Meta And Facebook Owe U.S. Publishers
By Associated Press December 07, 2023 Meta is rolling out end-to-end encryption for calls and messages across its Facebook and Messenger platforms, the company announced Thursday. Such encryption means that no one other than the sender and the recipient—not even Meta—can decipher people’s messages. Encrypted chats, first introduced as an optional feature in Messenger in … Continue reading Meta makes end-to-end encryption a default on Facebook Messenger
By Emily Price November 13, 2023 Now you can decide whether or not you want your posts on Threads to be shared on Facebook and Instagram as well. Back in October, Threads launched an update that automatically shared posts on Threads with both Facebook and Instagram. The decision was likely made so that Meta, … Continue reading Here’s how to stop your Threads posts from showing up on Instagram and Facebook
Company also puts a “temporary” ban on advertising to minors to avoid violating new EU privacy protections. Nicola Agius on October 30, 2023 Meta is rolling out ad-free subscriptions for Facebook and Instagram users in Europe. It is also putting a “temporary” ban on ads to those under 18. People over 18 in the EU, … Continue reading Europe gets ad-free Facebook and Instagram subscriptions
A software company called Threads says Meta tried to buy its domain and kicked it off Facebook The software company is threatening legal action against Meta for using its name. Karissa Bell Tue, Oct 31, 2023 SOPA Images via Getty Images A UK-based software company called Threads Software Limited is threatening legal action against … Continue reading A software company called Threads says Meta tried to buy its domain and kicked it off Facebook
