The UK has passed its much-debated Online Safety Bill, a titanic piece of internet regulation that has been debated and amended by the country’s Parliament for years.
Threads, the app linked to Meta-owned Instagram and touted as a “sane” alternative to X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, is blocking searches related to coronavirus and vaccines, per reports.
A federal appeals court on Friday upheld a modified version of an injunction in the landmark Missouri v. Biden case, blocking the White House and federal agencies from pressuring social media companies to censor American citizens.
Social media giants Instagram and TikTok are under scrutiny for allowing ads featuring AI-generated sexual content to bypass their moderation systems, raising questions about what children and teens when they log in.
The company has announced that it will shut down the News Tab for users in the UK, France, and Germany, in what it described as “part of an ongoing effort to better align our investments to our products and services people value the most.”
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has conducted an assessment of the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA), a bill pushed by lobbyists for the legacy corporate media that would allow the industry to form a cartel to pressure tech companies for financial handouts and other favors. The assessment is a sure sign that legacy media’s friends in Congress are refusing to accept defeat.
Internal communications from Facebook obtained by Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) show that the tech giant was well aware that the data behind the Biden White House’s “disinformation dozen,” which originated with a shadowy British “anti-hate” NGO, was false — yet the company bowed to the pressure anyway, censoring the targeted accounts.
Facebook (now known as Meta) is attempting to revolutionize the way we type in virtual and augmented reality by turning any flat surface into a virtual keyboard. Mark Zuckerberg continues to cling to his version of the metaverse despite the concept’s failure to take off with users.
Facebook, which has rebranded its parent company as Meta, on Wednesday decided not to ban former Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen.
The House Judiciary Committee, led by chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) is continuing its investigation of the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), and the role it played in the federal government’s collusion with social media companies to censor American citizens.
Meta’s decision to ban news links in Canada after the country’s parliament enacted a law to bail out left-leaning legacy media companies by imposing a “link tax” on tech platforms like Facebook has not damaged the company’s user numbers.
The College Board, the organization behind SAT and Advanced Placement exams, has reportedly been found sharing student data including SAT scores and GPAs, with platforms like Facebook and China’s TikTok.
Prominent authors including master of horror and hysterical leftist Stephen King are finding themselves at the center of a debate on the ethical use of copyrighted materials in training advanced AI models. Authors have filed a lawsuit claiming Facebook (now known as Meta) and a laundry list of other AI giants have ripped off their copyrighted books to train AI systems.
Sky News Australia has published an in-depth report about a full throttle attempt to influence the outcome of a democratic referendum in the country. Facebook (now known as Meta) and a legion of supposedly third-party “fact checkers” are shutting down journalists and activists who oppose the referendum in an effort to silence dissent.
Franklin Graham has stirred up a frenzy on social media by reaffirming his support for former President Donald Trump.
Time is running out for U.S. Facebook users to claim their portion of a massive $725 million lawsuit settlement, with the deadline set for this Friday.
British Columbia, Canada, urged residents of wildfire-affected areas to stop taking hoses, sprinklers, and other firefighting gear.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Threads social media platform, which saw a rapid rise in popularity upon its launch as a “sanely run” Twitter alternative, is gearing up to release a web version in an effort to revitalize its user base amid crashing engagement figures.
Canadians complained the price of airline tickets skyrocketed as wildfires closed in on the Northwest Territories capital of Yellowknife.
Elon Musk’s X, formerly known as Twitter, has been intentionally slowing down the speed at which users can access links to certain news organizations and online competitors, including the New York Times and Facebook, a move that appears to be targeted at companies that Musk has a personal grudge against.
Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and owner of Twitter (now known as X), recently announced his intention to show up at Mark Zuckerberg’s doorstep ready to fight. This comes after months of trash talk between the two tech giants over a proposed cage fight that has seen Musk swing from planning a gladiator battle in Rome to calling for a “noble” debate instead.
Tech giant Amazon was one of the last big tech companies to join the generative AI gold rush, announcing its own Titan large language model in April, after Google announced Bard and Facebook launched LLaMA, following the massive success of OpenAI’s ChatGPT last year.
Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg says that Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk “isn’t serious” about his proposed fight between the two after Musk proposed a “practice round” in Zuckerberg’s backyard and revealed he may need back surgery. Zuckerberg blasted Musk’s “antics,” saying, “We can all agree Elon isn’t serious.”
Just days after appearing to wimp out of a physical fight with Mark Zuckerberg, calling for a “noble” debate as he claimed he may require back surgery, Elon Musk is suddenly talking about a fight again. Musk provided fresh details about the “fight” in a series of tweets, claiming an “epic location” in Italy, adding that “Everything done will pay respect to the past and present of Italy.”
Tech billionaire Elon Musk has shifted from challenging Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to a cage fight to now proposing a “noble” debate instead.
Tesla CEO and Twitter owner Elon Musk claims he may require surgery on his neck and upper back, casting uncertainty over his professional commitments to his many companies and potentially “delaying” his highly anticipated cage fight with Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg.
The FBI lied about the extent of its communications with Facebook regarding the Hunter Biden laptop story in 2020, newly disclosed communications from the tech company reveal. Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) says that the FBI’s claim it only met with Facebook once about Biden’s “Laptop from Hell” are “completely false.”
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Tesla CEO Elon Musk have been engaging in a public exchange over a proposed cage fight, leaving the public to wonder whether this is a serious challenge or mere online jousting between two tech giants. Zuckerberg says he is “not holding my breath” in a comment to his Threads platform, while Musk commented that he may require surgery before a fight can occur.
Tech billionaire Elon Musk has announced that his cage fight with Mark Zuckerberg still appears to be going ahead, with the event to be livestreamed on Musk’s social media platform, Twitter (now known as X).
Facebook’s “sanely run” Twitter rival, Threads, has experienced a staggering decline in user engagement, with daily active user count down 82 percent from launch as of July 31. The app, which once boasted an impressive 44 million daily active users, has seen those numbers plummet to just eight million in an astonishingly short amount of time.
Facebook’s ambitious venture into the world of smart glasses with “Ray-Ban Stories,” creepy sunglasses with the ability to record video has flopped, with less than 10 percent of the devices being actively used by purchasers.
New materials obtained by the House Judiciary Committee have shed further light on the Biden White House’s efforts to influence Facebook — even asking about algorithm changes to make its preferred media sources more visible to users.
Facebook (now known as Meta) has initiated a news content blackout in Canada on both its main platform and Instagram following the passage of the Online News Act by Canadian legislators.
Facebook CEO and billionaire Mark Zuckerberg has successfully continued his quest to mine data, but this time, via schools. Zuckerberg partnered with leftist elites to get into schools by convincing them they needed big tech to make children go woke, according to a new book.
Facebook’s rebranding as Meta succeeded in overshadowing coverage of the whistleblower disclosures known as the “Facebook Papers,” according to a top executive within the company.
Facebook (now known at Meta) is set to launch AI chatbots that can mimic famous personalities such as Abraham Lincoln in a desperate bid to compete with the success of OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
Facebook users have less than a month to claim their share in a historic $725 million settlement over privacy violations, a consequence of Mark Zuckerberg’s role in the infamous Cambridge Analytica scandal.
Mark Zuckerberg’s new social media platform, Threads, has suffered a massive setback as the Facebook-owned platform hoping to be a “sanely run” Twitter alternative has lost at least half its users. Zuckerberg said, “If you have more than 100 million people sign up, ideally it would be awesome if all of them or even half of them stuck around. We’re not there yet.”
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) wrote on Friday that President Joe Biden pressured Facebook to remove “humorous” posts about the coronavirus vaccine and “true information” about coronavirus vaccine side effects.
Newly disclosed emails from within Facebook (now known as Meta) reveal that the Biden administration and its appointed officials exerted significant pressure on the tech giant. Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook frequently bent the knee to the White House demands, such as one case in which emails state executives were “ready to tell the White House that it had demoted a video posted by Tucker Carlson by 50% in response to the White House’s demands, even though the post didn’t violate any policies.”
