Research shared with the Wall Street Journal shows that Mark Zuckerberg’s Instagram floods the accounts of children as young as 13 with sexually suggestive videos within minutes of their creation, contradicting its claims of prioritizing age-appropriate content.
A lawsuit filed by a Meta engineer accuses the company of fostering a sexist work environment and retaliating against him for speaking out against the mistreatment of female employees. This is just the latest incident of leftist infighting in Silicon Valley.
The glitz and glamour of being a young influencer on Instagram may seem alluring, but beneath the surface lies a disturbing reality that threatens the safety and well-being of these vulnerable stars. Young girls on the platform can have massive followings with up to 92 percent of followers being adult men.
The Stanford Internet Observatory, a research center studying “online misinformation” and a prominent part of what Stephen Miller calls the “censorship-industrial complex,” is on the brink of shutting down due to mounting political and legal pressures, as well as dwindling staff and funding.
Small businesses across various industries are facing an onslaught of attacks from online scammers who use their videos, logos, and social media posts to assume their identities and sell cheap knockoffs or simply take customers’ money. Meanwhile, Meta, Amazon, and other tech giants are doing little to help them.
Joan Donovan, a supposed expert on “misinformation” and former research director at Harvard University’s Shorenstein Center, has been accused of spreading misinformation about her departure from the once prestigious institution.
A recent study by researchers from Princeton University and USC suggests that Meta’s algorithms for presenting educational ads exhibit signs of racial bias, particularly in the delivery of ads realated to for-profit universities and those with a history of predatory marketing practices.
As the race for artificial intelligence supremacy heats up, the world of AI research is being rocked by bitter rivalries, poaching sprees, and public spats between tech titans. The head of Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta AI research team recently attacked rival Elon Musk for his “crazy-ass conspiracy theories.”
A wrongful death lawsuit that families of Uvalde victims filed claims Activision trains “adolescents to become gunmen.”
In a race to secure partnerships with top AI start-ups, Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta and Elon Musk’s xAI have been engaging in discussions with chatbot-maker Character.ai, as the AI arms race in Silicon Valley intensifies.
OpenAI announced on Tuesday that it has begun training a new flagship AI model to succeed the GPT-4 technology powering its popular chatbot, ChatGPT.
Families of students killed in the Uvalde school shooting filed wrongful death lawsuits against Daniel Defense, Meta, and Activision.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has assembled a group of prominent tech industry leaders to form an advisory council that will provide guidance on the company’s artificial intelligence and product development initiatives.
Google, Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta, and other tech giants are engaged in a fierce lobbying battle against two New York bills aimed at protecting children online, with spending expected to surpass $1 million.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Instagram warned against tagging former Fox News primetime host Tucker Carlson in a “happy birthday” post on Thursday, saying the popular journalist has been known to violate “Community Guidelines.”
A former diversity manager at Facebook and Nike has been sentenced to five years and three months in prison for stealing over $5 million from the companies, which was intended for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives.
The EU has initiated a formal investigation into Meta’s social media platforms, Facebook and Instagram, due to concerns over the company’s handling of child protection issues, the Commission announced on Thursday.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta, Facebook and Instagram’s parent company, is diving headfirst into the world of AI-powered wearables with its “Camerabuds” project, combining audio, video, and AI to form the ultimate surveillance capitalism data gathering tool.
Mark Zuckerberg, the billionaire founder of Meta, has recently made waves with his latest acquisition—a $300 million superyacht named Launchpad. Zuckerberg’s luxurious vessel, which is longer than a football field, has drawn criticism based on his climate activism.
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is accusing Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta of election interference, claiming the social media giant censored the film, Who Is Bobby Kennedy? on Facebook and Instagram.
Meta’s independent Oversight Board, often dubbed the “supreme court” for platforms including Facebook and Instagram, is planning to make job cuts, according to reports.
European regulators have launched an investigation into Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta, escalating pressure on the tech giant to bolster its safeguards against misinformation and foreign interference on Facebook, Instagram, and Whatsapp ahead of pivotal EU elections.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, continues to invest heavily in his Metaverse vision, even as its Reality Labs division reports significant financial losses, including an astounding $3.8 billion loss in the first quarter of 2024.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, has come under fire for flooding Facebook and Instagram with ads promoting sexually explicit “AI girlfriend” apps while simultaneously cracking down on content posted by human prostitutes.
While President Joe Biden signed legislation on Wednesday that would force Chinese tech giant ByteDance to sell TikTok in nine months or else be banned in the United States, the question of who could actually swoop in and buy the social media platform remains.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta suffered a significant hit to its stock price in extended trading on Wednesday, despite better-than-expected profit and revenue for the first quarter, as Zuckerberg focused on the company’s long-term investments in AI and the metaverse during the earnings call. The stock is now down more than 15.7 percent in Thursday pre-market trading.
A recent study conducted by the Media Research Center (MRC) has uncovered 39 instances of Facebook interfering with U.S. elections since 2008, raising concerns about the platform’s influence on the democratic process.
In a significant shift from its previous approach to elections, Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta is distancing itself from politics, which could have a profound impact on the 2024 U.S. presidential election. An analysis of posts by the Trump and Biden campaigns show both have faced a 60 percent drop in engagement between 2020 and 2024 on Facebook.
China has reportedly ordered Apple to remove WhatsApp, Signal, and Telegram, among other popular messaging apps, from its iPhone app store in order to comply with the Chinese Communist Party’s censorship demand.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, has recently introduced its new “Llama 3” AI systems that powers what Zuckerberg calls “the most intelligent AI assistant that you can freely use.” As you might suspect, the chatbot comes complete with bizarre and woke answers to questions from early users.
China’s TikTok has started testing its new Instagram competitor, TikTok Notes, in Canada and Australia. The China-owned platform is sending a shot across Mark Zuckerberg’s bow even as it faces a potential ban in the United States.
Google has begun restricting access to news articles for some users in California in response to the pending California Journalism Preservation Act, which would require tech giants like Google and Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta to pay publishers for news content.
Instagram, the popular social media platform owned by Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta, is set to launch a new safety feature aimed at protecting minors from receiving unwanted nude images in their direct messages.
China’s TikTok, the social media platform wildly popular with American teens, is gearing up to release a new photo-sharing app that could potentially rival Mark Zuckerberg’s Instagram, according to recent notifications sent to users.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, is claiming to address the potential misuse of AI during the upcoming 2024 presidential election through a new system to label AI-generated videos, images, and audio posted on its platforms.
Newly unsealed court filings from the antitrust lawsuit against Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta reveal that Facebook’s short-lived streaming service, “Watch,” was allegedly shut down to protect an advertising deals with Netflix. The sweetheart deal between the two Silicon Valley giants also including giving the streaming platform access to Facebook analytics and even access to private user messages.
Newly unsealed court documents from an ongoing class action lawsuit against Meta show that in 2016, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg personally directed executives to “figure out” how to track encrypted usage on competing apps like Snapchat, YouTube, and Amazon.
The European Commission has initiated five non-compliance investigations to examine whether Apple, Google, and Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta are adhering to the new Digital Markets Act (DMA) antitrust rules.
Instagram users are expressing frustration as the platform begins automatically restricting political content in their feeds, just months before the 2024 presidential election. Many users report that the political filter has been automatically turned on without asking them. Breitbart News has compiled the steps necessary to turn off Zuckerberg’s latest scheme to help Joe Biden.
The U.S. Department of Justice has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Apple, targeting the Silicon Valley giant for its stranglehold over the iPhone ecosystem.
