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Meta tests “Community Notes” in US, drops professional fact-checkers
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Meta to identify, label AI-generated images

In the upcoming months, Meta will start identifying and categorizing photos produced by artificial intelligence services provided by other companies. The organization will begin employing a set of invisible marks integrated into the files, according to the company’s chief policy officer on Tuesday. According to a blog post by the company’s president of global affairs, […]

Meta tests “Community Notes” in US, drops professional fact-checkers
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Meta moves to protect teenage users from unwanted messages

Meta is enhancing its protective measures for teenage users on Instagram and Facebook, aiming to shield them from unsolicited direct messages, the company announced on Thursday. This initiative follows shortly after Meta, which also owns WhatsApp, committed to concealing more content from teenage users. This decision was influenced by regulatory pressures urging the globally dominant […]

Mark Zuckerberg closes in on Elon Musk, gains $54bn in 2024
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Meta still committed to metaverse projects, says Zuckerberg

Meta CEO, Mark Zuckerberg has said that the company is still focused on its metaverse project despite recent AI investments. “I don’t know how to more unequivocally state that we’re continuing to focus on Reality Labs and the metaverse,” Zuckerberg told The Verge, and maintained that the company is still committed to investing $15 billion […]

Meta’s director Sheryl Sandberg steps down
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Meta’s director Sheryl Sandberg steps down

The former chief operating officer of Meta, Sheryl Sandberg, on Wednesday said on Facebook that she will be leaving her role as a director of the company in May when her term comes to an end. In the post, Sandberg stated, “Meta business is strong and well-positioned for the future, so this feels like the […]

Meta lowers prices for Quest 3 headsets
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Meta lowers prices for Quest 3 headsets

Meta is permanently lowering the price of its Quest 2 headset by $50, just months after launching its Quest 3 headset. There is a $249 price reduction for the 128GB version and a $299 price reduction for the 256GB version. Notably, since Black Friday, the headset has been available for increased rates. Meta, however, has […]

OpenAI, Meta in talks with Reliance for AI expansion in India
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Meta oversight board to review Israel-Hamas war content

Meta’s independent Oversight Board announced on Thursday that it will examine the way the company has handled violent content on its social media platforms in two instances involving hostage-taking and bombings in the Israel-Hamas war. These cases will be the first to take advantage of a new expedited review process that was introduced earlier this […]

Instagram expands 'Limits' tool to protect teens from harassment
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Meta to end Messenger-Instagram chat integration

Meta has announced on its support page that the company will no longer support cross-app chatting between Messenger and Instagram from “mid-December 2023”. Three years after announcing the chat connection that lets users message friends on Instagram and contacts on Facebook using the same Messenger app, Meta is stopping this feature. With the feature, Instagram […]

Meta tests in-house AI chip to reduce reliance on Nvidia
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Spanish media sites sue Meta over unfair competition

Spanish media sites announced on Monday that it has filed a 550 million euro ($598 million) lawsuit against Facebook owner Meta, citing unfair competition in the advertising business, a consortium representing 83. The AMI newspaper publishing organization said in a statement on Monday that it filed the action in a commercial court on Friday. The […]

Meta's Threads app introduces live sports scores feature
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Meta’s Threads to launch in Europe

Meta’s text-based social network Threads, which launched in July, will make its European debut next month, according to the Wall Street Journal. Meta may make its app available to users in the region for consumption in view-only mode in order to comply with EU legislation. This implies that seeing postings won’t always require creating a […]

EU moves to eliminate child porn from internet
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EU moves to eliminate child porn from internet

EU legislators on Wednesday, reached a consensus on draft regulations mandating Alphabet’s Google, Meta, and other internet companies to detect and eliminate child pornography from the internet. The European Commission’s draught rule on child sexual abuse material, which was put up last year, has caused controversy among proponents of online safety measures and privacy campaigners […]

WhatsApp to introduce limits on broadcast messages to curb spam
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Meta add AI-powered bot to WhatsApp

Meta CEO, Mark Zuckerberg has moved to add Meta AI to WhatsApp after an announcement in September to integrate AI-powered chatbot to the messaging platform. Discovered by WABetaInfo, a little button inside WhatsApp that enables users to instantly start the AI chat with a single push. The green “Start a New Chat” icon is positioned […]

Meta scraps fact-checking program, introduces X-like community notes feature
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Meta launches AI-editing tools

Meta has launched two new AI-powered video editing tools that can be used to modify videos for Facebook or Instagram posts. The first is called Emu Video, and it creates videos that last four seconds when given a caption, picture, or image and a description, while the other is Emu Edit which makes it easier […]