Mark Zuckerberg’s announcement this week that Meta would pivot its moderation policies to allow for more “free expression” was widely viewed as the company’s latest effort to appease President-elect Donald Trump, CNBC News reported. More than any of its Silicon… Read More
Category: Facebook
Fake Facebook MidJourney AI Page Promoted Malware To 1.2 Million People
Hackers are using Facebook advertisements and hijacked pages to promote fake Artificial Intelligence services, such as MidJourney, OpenAI’s SORA and ChatGPT-5, and DALL-E, to infect unsuspecting users with password-stealing malware, Bleeping Computer reported. The malvertising campaigns are created by hijacked… Read More
Facebook To Remove Topics From User’s Profiles
Facebook quietly announced it will remove several categories of information from user profiles, including religious views, political views, addresses and the “Interested in” field, which indicates sexual preference. The change goes into effect on December 1, Gizmodo reported. “As part… Read More
Meta Warns 1M Facebook Users Their Login Info Might Be Compromised
The Washington Post reported that Facebook parent Meta is warning 1 million users that their login information may have been compromised through malicious apps. According to The Washington Post, Meta’s researchers found more than 400 malicious Android and Apple iOS… Read More
Facebook Shifts Resources Away From News To Focus On Creator Economy
Meta Platforms Inc.’s Facebook is reallocating resources from its Facebook News tab and newsletter platform Bulletin, as the company focuses more on the creator economy, senior executive Campbell Brown told employees in a memo, The Wall Street Journal reported. According… Read More
Facebook Wants You To Share Reels From Third-Party Apps
Meta (parent company of Facebook) has introduced “Sharing to Reels. It is described on the Meta for Developers site as “a new way for developers to make it easy for people to share video directly to Facebook”. Enabling Sharing to… Read More
Meta Lost Daily Users Last Quarter
The Washington Post reported that Meta, the new name for the company formerly known as Facebook, reported Wednesday that Facebook lost daily users last quarter for the first time ever. According to The Washington Post, the company as a whole,… Read More