Meta News

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  Meta to Cut Roughly Five Percent of Staff, Targeting Lowest Performers

  Meta Platforms Inc. is cutting roughly five percent of its staff through performance-based terminations. Affected workers in the US are expected to be notified on February 10, while those based in other countries will be informed at a later date, according to the memo.

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  Fact Checkers Fight Los Angeles Wildfire Myths As Their Jobs Face Extinction

  From false claims of looting to AI-generated images of the Hollywood sign engulfed in flames, fact-checking teams at Meta combat the surge in misleading content.

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  Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg Advocates For "Masculine Energy" In Corporate Culture

  Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg wants more "masculine energy" in corporate culture, saying that an environment that "celebrates aggression" can have positive effects.

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  "Steve Jobs Invented iPhone, Apple Just Sitting On It For 20 Years": Mark Zuckerberg

  Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg took aim at tech giant Appleon Friday, accusing the company of lacking significant innovation and imposing arbitrary rules on developers.

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  Mark Zuckerberg Says Biden's Team Pushed Meta 'Super Hard' To Remove Covid Content

  Mark Zuckerberg said people in the Biden administration told him "to take down things that talk about vaccine side effects".

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  As Meta Set To Drop Fact-Checks, Here's A Guide To Verify Info Online

  Meta - which operates Facebook, Threads, and Instagram - has announced that it will discontinue its fact-checking program in the US and move to a crowdsourced model to allow "free expression".

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  Video Shows New Orleans Attacker Recording Streets With Meta Glasses

  The man behind the January 1 New Orleans attack recorded his actions with Meta smart glasses, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has revealed.

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  Meta Takes Down Its Own AI-Powered Profiles On Instagram, Facebook. Here's Why

  The AI-generated profiles were first introduced by Meta in September 2023.

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  Rise Of Intention Economy? AI Tools To Manipulate You Into Making Decisions, Study Finds

  Powered by LLMs, AI tools will "anticipate and steer" users based on "intentional, behavioural and psychological data".

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  EU Escalates Pressure on Apple to Make iOS Compatible With Devices from Rivals

  As part of the push, regulators published an extensive list of features that it wants Apple to open to third-party developers. They cover technologies ranging from Wi-Fi connections to file-transfer features to the beaming of video from devices.

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  How Social Media Restricted Palestinian News And Boosted Israel's

  Although during wars, audience engagement is expected to rise, the data analysis showed a 77% decline in engagement for Palestinian-based news organisations, while Israeli news organisations saw a 37% increase in engagement during the same period.

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  Meta’s Irish Arm Fined $264 Million by Watchdog Over Data Breach

  Ireland’s data protection commission fined Meta Platforms Inc.’s Irish arm following two inquiries into a personal data breach. The breach was reported by Meta Platforms Ireland Limited in September 2018. It impacted data including full names, email addresses, phone numbers, posts on time lines and groups of which the user was a member,

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  Meta Fined $253 Million Over Facebook Hacks By Ireland

  An Irish regulator helping to police European Union data privacy said Tuesday it had fined Facebook-owner Meta 251 million euros ($263 million) for a data protection failure that saw Facebook accounts hacked.

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  What Australia Is Doing To Make Big Techs Pay Media Publishers For News

  Australia is planning to come up with new rules to force big tech companies to pay local publishers for news.

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  Mark Zuckerberg's Meta Donates $1 Million To Donald Trump's Inaugural Fund

  Meta Platforms, under CEO Mark Zuckerberg, has made a $1 million donation to US President-elect Donald Trump's inaugural fund, The WSJ reported.