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Facebook to shut down news tab in US, Australia
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Norway to fine Meta $100k over privacy concerns

Norway’s regulator has threatened to fine Meta Platforms, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, one million crowns ($100,000) every day for privacy violations. “It is so clear that this is illegal that we need to intervene now and immediately. We cannot wait any longer,” the head of Datatilsynet’s international section, Tobias Judin, told Reuters. […]

Meta's Threads hits 175m monthly users amid challenges
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Meta blocks access to Threads through VPN – Report

Meta’s Threads app, has disclosed its preventing access to the platform with the use of a virtual private network. According to Techcrunch, the disclosure is coming after receiving numerous complaints from users in the EU who were unable to access the platform. Threads was recently released by Meta, however, due to privacy issues, it is […]

Meta unveils new avatar feature for IG, messenger video calls
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Meta unveils new avatar feature for IG, messenger video calls

The parent company of Instagram and Messenger, Meta has made an exciting announcement, introducing a new real-time Avatar feature for video calls. In a recent blog post, Meta shared that users can now utilize their Avatars during video calls on both Instagram and Messenger. These Avatars, which bear a resemblance to Apple’s Memoji avatars, will […]

Meta to temporarily shut down Threads in Turkey
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Meta to add branded content tools to Threads

Meta’s Instagram intends to integrate its branded content tools with Threads, according to Reuters. While advertising is not available, these technologies will assist advertisers in collaborating with influencers on paid partnerships on the social media site. The announcement follows Threads, largely regarded as Elon Musk’s Twitter’s rival, reaching 100 million users in a record-breaking five […]

Meta platforms restored after hour-long global outage
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Meta platforms restored after hour-long global outage

Meta Platforms, the parent company of popular social media apps Instagram and Facebook, as well as messaging app WhatsApp and Twitter competitor, Threads, is reportedly back after a global outage. The platform experienced a temporary outage on Monday, affecting thousands of users. According to Downdetector.com, the outage lasted over an hour and impacted approximately 14,000 […]

Threads introduces rate limit to curb spam attacks
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Meta to label government account on Threads

Meta Platforms, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, has revealed its plans to label government-affiliated accounts on its newly launched Twitter-like platform, Threads, according to an executive’s statement during an Australian inquiry on foreign interference. Meta’s head of public policy for Australia, Josh Machin, expressed the company’s intentions to implement labels for state-affiliated media […]

US authors sue OpenAI, Meta for copyright infringement
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US authors sue OpenAI, Meta for copyright infringement

Authors Richard Kadrey, Christopher Golden, and comedian Sarah Silverman are suing OpenAI and Meta in a US district court on separate counts of copyright infringement. The lawsuits claim, among other things, that OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Meta’s LLaMA were trained on datasets containing their works that were obtained illegally. They claim these datasets were obtained from […]

Meta to temporarily shut down Threads in Turkey
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Threads surpasses 50 million users

Threads, the highly anticipated “Twitter Killer” app from Meta, has amassed an astonishing 50 million users within a mere 24 hours of its launch. The text-based microblogging service, intricately tied to Meta’s popular photo and video-sharing platform, Instagram, has seen an unprecedented surge in registrations. While Meta’s leveraging of its massive user base of over […]

Twitter threatens to sue Meta over Threads app
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Twitter threatens to sue Meta over Threads app

Twitter has threatened to sue Meta for infringing on Twitter’s “intellectual property rights” with its new Threads app, which Mark Zuckerberg has openly referred to as a competitor. A lawyer for Twitter stated in a letter to CEO Mark Zuckerberg, which was originally published by the news outlet Semafor, that the firm “has serious concerns […]

Snapchat would have grown faster under Meta - Zuckerberg
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Meta to consider monetizing Threads – Zuckerberg

Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, stated on Thursday that Meta would consider making money from the new Twitter rival, Threads. He claimed that while Meta is now focusing on gaining more users for the new microblogging software, the business will consider monetizing it after its user base reaches one billion. This was expressed by Zuckerberg […]

Threads hits 30 million users
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Threads hits 30 million users

Meta’s newly launched Threads app garnered a staggering 30 million users on its very first day, according to Mark Zuckerberg, the company’s chief. Positioned as a “friendly” alternative to Twitter, Threads aims to attract disgruntled Twitter users following the platform’s acquisition by Elon Musk. Industry experts believe that Threads has the potential to entice users […]

Five things to know about Meta's Twitter-like App Threads
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Five things to know about Meta’s Twitter-like App Threads

The parent company of Instagram, Meta, recently introduced Threads, a text-based conversation app aimed at competing with Twitter. As users seek alternatives to Twitter’s evolving restrictions, Threads offers a platform where users can engage in real-time conversations while integrating seamlessly with their existing Instagram accounts. Here are five key things to know about Meta’s new […]