Meta Suit

Dozens of US states today filed a lawsuit accusing Facebook and Instagram owner Meta of profiting "from children's pain," damaging their mental health and misleading the public over the safety of its platforms. Over 40 states are suing Meta.

Meta showcased a host of new products and services, including the Meta Quest 3 mixed reality headset and a pair of smart glasses made in collaboration with Ray-Ban, at its Meta Connect annual conference on Wednesday. Alongside the hardware, the company also announced its own AI assistant, Meta AI, and a variety of AI experiences across Meta’s sui...

Meta Platforms on Thursday shared new details on projects it was pursuing to make its data centers better suited to supporting artificial intelligence work, including a custom chip "family" that it said it was developing in-house. The Facebook and Instagram owner said in a series of blog posts that it designed a first-generation chip in 2020 as par...

Tencent Holdings is in talks with Meta Platforms to distribute its Meta Quest line of virtual reality headsets in China, three people familiar with the matter said. The talks between Tencent and Meta started last year and have continued in recent months, according to one of the sources who has direct knowledge of the matter, adding that the talks ...

A Kenyan court on Monday rejected a bid by Facebook's parent company Meta to stop a case accusing it of exploitation and poor working conditions. The suit was filed by a former content moderator at Sama, a company contracted by Meta to review Facebook posts, and alleges that workers in Kenya were subjected to inhumane conditions, including forced l...

Facebook must pay compensation to Rohinygas over hate speech that exacerbated violence against the community when they were forced from their homes in Myanmar in 2017, Amnesty International said in a report on Wednesday. The NGO said that Facebook, wasn't merely a passive site with insufficient content moderation, and that its algorithms “proacti...

Meta has been sued in a proposed class action lawsuit that claims the company built a secret workaround to skirt privacy protections put in place by Apple to snoop on users on its apps. The lawsuit’s claims are based on a report by data privacy researcher Felix Krause, that said Meta’s Facebook and Instagram apps for Apple’s iOS inject JavaSc...

The US Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday filed suit to block Facebook owner Meta from buying the maker of a virtual reality fitness app named Within, claiming that it would weaken competition in the VR fitness app market.

Amazon is pausing the construction of six new office buildings in Bellevue and Nashville to re-evaluate the designs to suit hybrid work. However, the delay will not affect Amazon’s hiring plans to create 25,000 jobs in Bellevue and another 5,000 in Nashville. It was earlier reported that Facebook parent Meta Platforms has also pulled back on its ...

A federal judge has ruled that the Federal Trade Commission’s revised antitrust suit against Meta, formerly known as Facebook, can proceed, shutting down the social media company’s request for a dismissal.

Facebook changed its name to 'Meta' in a rebranding exercise, following which burger chain Wendy's also changed its Twitter name to 'Meat'.

Dozens of US states today filed a lawsuit accusing Facebook and Instagram owner Meta of profiting "from children's pain," damaging their mental health and misleading the public over the safety of its platforms. Over 40 states are suing Meta.

Meta showcased a host of new products and services, including the Meta Quest 3 mixed reality headset and a pair of smart glasses made in collaboration with Ray-Ban, at its Meta Connect annual conference on Wednesday. Alongside the hardware, the company also announced its own AI assistant, Meta AI, and a variety of AI experiences across Meta’s sui...

Meta Platforms on Thursday shared new details on projects it was pursuing to make its data centers better suited to supporting artificial intelligence work, including a custom chip "family" that it said it was developing in-house. The Facebook and Instagram owner said in a series of blog posts that it designed a first-generation chip in 2020 as par...

Tencent Holdings is in talks with Meta Platforms to distribute its Meta Quest line of virtual reality headsets in China, three people familiar with the matter said. The talks between Tencent and Meta started last year and have continued in recent months, according to one of the sources who has direct knowledge of the matter, adding that the talks ...

A Kenyan court on Monday rejected a bid by Facebook's parent company Meta to stop a case accusing it of exploitation and poor working conditions. The suit was filed by a former content moderator at Sama, a company contracted by Meta to review Facebook posts, and alleges that workers in Kenya were subjected to inhumane conditions, including forced l...

Facebook must pay compensation to Rohinygas over hate speech that exacerbated violence against the community when they were forced from their homes in Myanmar in 2017, Amnesty International said in a report on Wednesday. The NGO said that Facebook, wasn't merely a passive site with insufficient content moderation, and that its algorithms “proacti...

Meta has been sued in a proposed class action lawsuit that claims the company built a secret workaround to skirt privacy protections put in place by Apple to snoop on users on its apps. The lawsuit’s claims are based on a report by data privacy researcher Felix Krause, that said Meta’s Facebook and Instagram apps for Apple’s iOS inject JavaSc...

The US Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday filed suit to block Facebook owner Meta from buying the maker of a virtual reality fitness app named Within, claiming that it would weaken competition in the VR fitness app market.

Amazon is pausing the construction of six new office buildings in Bellevue and Nashville to re-evaluate the designs to suit hybrid work. However, the delay will not affect Amazon’s hiring plans to create 25,000 jobs in Bellevue and another 5,000 in Nashville. It was earlier reported that Facebook parent Meta Platforms has also pulled back on its ...

A federal judge has ruled that the Federal Trade Commission’s revised antitrust suit against Meta, formerly known as Facebook, can proceed, shutting down the social media company’s request for a dismissal.

Facebook changed its name to 'Meta' in a rebranding exercise, following which burger chain Wendy's also changed its Twitter name to 'Meat'.