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WhatsApp today introduced screen sharing as its latest feature to enhance the video calling experience on its platform — taking on traditional video conferencing apps including Microsoft Meet, Google Meet, and Zoom as well as Apple’s FaceTime. The new feature, announced this morning by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg through a Facebook post and on his […]... →

SoftBank once invested in social app IRL at a $1.1 billion valuation. Now, the Japanese investment firm is suing the defunct company for fraud, alleging $150 million in damages. IRL was supposedly poised to become an event organizing alternative for Gen Z, who are using Facebook less and less. Its self-reported numbers were impressive enough […]... →

Canadians using Facebook and Instagram should expect to see some gaps in their feeds, starting now. This week, Meta began blocking Canadian access to links and stories from news publishers — the company’s response to a bill that would require the tech giant to pay outlets for the right to distribute and profit from their […]... →

Meta is gearing up to roll out AI-powered chatbots with different personas as early as next month, according to a new report from the Financial Times. The chatbots are designed to have humanlike conversations with users on Meta’s social media platforms, including Facebook and Instagram. The report indicates that these chatbots will take on different […]... →

When Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger co-founded Instagram in 2010, they basically invented photo-based social networking in the modern mobile era. Fast-forward to 2012 and a $1 billion acquisition by Facebook — and then again to 2018 when Systrom stepped down to research his next company. That’s one heck of an eight-year ride. Fast-forward once […]... →

New research published Thursday offers an unprecedented dive into political behavior across Facebook and Instagram — two major online hubs where people express and engage with their political beliefs. The studies, published by an interdisciplinary set of researchers working in tandem with internal groups at Meta, encompasses four papers published in Science and Nature examining […]... →

Facebook has over 3 billion monthly active users, according to Meta’s latest quarterly report. That’s quite the staggering number. Even though Facebook has declined in popularity among younger people, the platform is far from dead. Across Meta’s entire family of apps — which includes WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger and now Threads — there were 3.88 billion […]... →

Meta had one of its best quarters since before it changed its name from Facebook. The company reported 11% year-over-year revenue growth, which is a sigh of relief for investors, because this time last year, Mark Zuckerberg’s company posted its first ever quarterly revenue decline. Meta’s stock price reflects this — while the stock took […]... →

Remember Onavo? The Israeli mobile market intelligence company that Meta (aka Facebook) bought back in 2013 and used to power a free VPN/data management app which claimed to users it would help protect their privacy but did the opposite by sharing usage data with Facebook for the latter’s own business intelligence purposes? The wheeze helped […]... →

Elon Musk is the best thing that could have ever happened to Mark Zuckerberg. As Musk begins to change Twitter’s branding to X, Facebook’s rebrand to Meta doesn’t seem all that bad. Zuckerberg might be good at lifting weights these days, but he still needs to pull Meta out from a seriously rough few years. […]... →

Facebook announced new video-related features today ranging from editing to discovery to make the platform competitive with YouTube and TikTok. It is also renaming its “Watch” tab to “Video” tab to unify all its video experiences under one place. The company is porting editing tools for Reels to videos for the main feed — this […] Facebook puts more emphasis on video again with new discovery and editing tools by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch... →

Meta has been temporarily banned from running behavioral advertising on Facebook and Instagram in Norway — unless it obtains users’ consent to the processing. The urgent order of provisional measures on Meta’s business, which has been made by Norway’s data protection authority, the Datatilsynet, applies for an initial three-month period. It stipulates Meta may run […] Meta’s behavioral ads banned in Norway on Facebook and Instagram by Natasha Lomas originally published on TechCrunch... →

A Nebraska woman has pleaded guilty to helping her daughter have a medication abortion last year. The legal proceeding against her hinged on Facebook’s decision to provide authorities with private messages between that mother and her 17-year-old daughter discussing the latter’s plans to terminate her pregnancy. The case is a telling example of how Big […] Teen and mom plead guilty to abortion charges based on Facebook data by Rebecca Bellan originally published on TechCrunch... →

For a glimpse of the AI-generated misery fast accelerating onto our screens thanks to developments in synthetic media that are powering ever more sophisticated forms of deception, check out this clip of UK consumer finance champion Martin Lewis apparently shilling an investment opportunity backed by Elon Musk. Except of course the footage (also embedded in […] Martin Lewis warns over ‘first’ deepfake video scam ad circulating on Facebook by Natasha Lomas originally published on TechCrunch... →

Be still, my heart. No matter how much FOMO you feel, do not burden me with another social network. Yet, resisting the latest fad app is proving tougher than I thought. Meta (a.k.a. Facebook) is being uncharacteristically smooth in its launch strategy for Threads, the millionth Twitter clone and current number-one app in Apple’s app […] Threads doesn’t deserve my FOMO, but here we are by Harri Weber originally published on TechCrunch... →

Threads, Meta’s new social networking platform, is quickly gaining ground in China where Western social apps from Instagram to Facebook are banned. As of Thursday morning Pacific Time, the Twitter clone introduced by Instagram ranked fifth in the social networking category of Apple’s China App Store, just a day after launching. That’s despite the fact […] Threads app hits Top 5 on Apple’s China App Store despite ban by Rita Liao originally published on TechCrunch... →

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Seven tech giants have informed the European Union that its rebooted antitrust regime — the Digital Markets Act (DMA) — will apply to them. The initial seven, the majority of whom are US-based giants, are: Alphabet (Google), Amazon, Apple, ByteDance (TikTok), Meta (Facebook), Microsoft and Samsung. The DMA takes an ex ante approach to antitrust […] ‘GAFAM’ tech giants, ByteDance and Samsung expect to face EU’s rebooted antitrust regime by Natasha Lomas originally published on TechCrunch... →

Meta is publishing new material to explain how its recommendation engine works across different products. Along with that, it is also rolling out a new option called “Why am I seeing this?” for Instagram and Facebook Reels as well as Instagram’s Explore page. This way, you can understand the reason why that post is being […] Meta really wants to explain its AI recommendation algorithms to you by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch... →

Meta announced new parental control tools across Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger today. This includes a new parental supervision hub in Messenger, a feature that pre-emptively blocks unwanted DMs on Messenger and Instagram, and nudges to remind teens that they should take a break. Messenger supervision controls, which will be available in Meta’s Family Center, are […] Meta is rolling out new parental control tools for Instagram and Messenger by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch... →