Meta Platforms plans to give European users of Instagram and Facebook the option of receiving what it says are “less personalized ads,” a concession to regulators that risks hitting the company’s revenue in one of its largest markets, The Wall…
Meta Platforms is working on an artificial intelligence-based search engine as it looks to reduce dependance on Alphabet’s Google and Microsoft’s Bing, the Information reported on Monday, Reuters reported. The AI search engine segment is heating up with ChatGPT-maker OpenAI,…
Two weeks before the U.S. presidential election, the Oversight Board says it has “serious concerns” about Meta’s content moderation systems in “electoral contexts,” and that the company risks the “excessive removal of political speech” when it over-enforces its rules. The…
Meta has begun laying off employees across various departments, including WhatsApp, Instagram, and Reality Labs, according to people familiar with the matter. Rather than a mass, companywide layoff, these smaller cuts seem to coincide with reorganizations of specific teams, The…
The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has slapped Meta with a $101.5 million (€91 million) fine after wrapping up an investigation into a security breach in 2019, wherein the company mistakingly stored users’ passwords in plain text, Engadget reported. Meta’s…
Meta has confirmed that its restarting efforts to train its AI systems using public Facebook and Instagram posts from its U.K. userbase, TechCrunch reported. The company claims it has “incorporated regulatory feedback” into a revised “opt-out” approach to ensure that…
Creators are unhappy with Meta’s decision on Tuesday to shut down its Spark platform, which allowed third parties to build augmented reality (AR) effects, TechCrunch reported. In posts published to the Meta Spark Community on Facebook, creators are posting about…