On Wednesday, the company took its biggest step towards achieving that goal when it promoted Nick Clegg, a former British politician, to president of global affairs. It's a stance that should make Clegg Meta's public face to policy makers…
Feb 4 (Reuters) - Peloton Interactive Inc (PTON.O) has attracted interest from potential buyers including e-commerce giant Amazon.com Inc, according to a person familiar with the matter, as the bike maker d Fiscal year is striving to…
A Connecticut woman has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Snapchat and Meta, the parent company of Instagram and Facebook, claiming the social media giants have not done enough to protect her daughter from "harmful content and abusive"…
Facebook and Instagram are down again, after social media platforms suffered from their major outages. Due to this issue, thousands of consumers have complained about Meta's online platform services.…
Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen will testify a second time before Congress on Wednesday to discuss possible legislative changes to the technology's controversial legal liability shield - Section 230, US House Democrats…
Facebook Inc. was able to distance itself from the most damning document leak in its history by renaming itself Meta Platforms Inc. last week, but that doesn't mean it won't come under regulatory oversight. more stringent in the world.…
Longtime Facebook investor Roger McNamee called for criminal investigations into the company at the Web Summit.
His call, echoed by others, shows that the tech…
Watch out, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, Boston and Washington, DC - Nashville has your sights set on you. The six cities are being targeted in an aggressive marketing campaign…
Few of us who survived the last year are not grateful for technology.
Zooming, emails, connected workplaces, and strong internet connections at home have made it possible to work, shop, study, and live our lives in ways that…
October 30, 2021October 30, 2021Facebook - or Meta, as it rebranded itself - is an extremely wealthy and powerful company, with nearly 3 billion monthly active users on its social media platforms and a market valuation of nearly $ 1,000…
In this weekly segment, ExchangeWire summarizes major industry updates in media, marketing, and commerce from around the world. In this edition: Facebook has selectively controlled hate speech in India; GCHQ defended a cloud deal with…
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AAfter realizing that Instagram's emphasis on ideal body images was damaging some users' self-image and sanity, a group of company researchers came up with the idea of distracting…
WASHINGTON — Big tech companies face questions from government on another front: how they use consumers' financial and other information.The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said Thursday it has launched an investigation into consumer…
Few of us who survived the last year are not grateful for the technology.
Zooming, emails, connected workplaces, and strong internet connections at home have made it possible to work, shop, study, and live our lives in ways that would…
This image is for representation only.Snubbed by media reports of its inability to tackle hate speech, Facebook has now claimed that the prevalence of hate speech on its platform has fallen by nearly 50% in the past three quarters.The claim…
Facing criticism for its effect on young users, Facebook is announcing that it will introduce a feature that tells teens to take a break from Instagram.
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Facebook is under fire after thousands of pages of internal documents recently released by whistleblower show that the company had done extensive research into the negative impact of its social media platforms on children's mental…
I locked myself out of my apartment yesterday. It's a rare occurrence, but when it does happen, I usually text the WhatsApp group in my building, begging someone to call me. So now was not the right time for the entire Facebook network,…
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Facebook Inc blamed a "flawed configuration change" for a nearly six-hour outage Monday that prevented the company's 3.5 billion users from accessing its social media and…
Facebook (FB), Instagram and WhatsApp all suffered outages Monday at noon, according to public statements from the three Facebook services. The Down Detector fault tracking site recorded tens of thousands of reports for each of the…
What's new? (Sep 26-Oct 2)Instagram in the spotlightFacebook postponed the launch of its Instagram Kids product on Monday after concerns were raised about whether Instagram is healthy for young people. Critics have spoken out against the…
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A few years ago, I was with a group of members of the New America think tank (one of three partners in our Future Tense project) visiting a tech skunk workshop…
If you explain, you lose, according to Ronald Reagan. Right now, Facebook isn't winning a lot of arguments.In response to a Wall Street Journal survey earlier this month that found Facebook's own research showed its Instagram app was…
SAN FRANCISCO - Over the past few weeks, Facebook's top executives have come together virtually for a series of emergency meetings.At a meeting last weekend, a half-dozen managers - including Adam Mosseri, head of Instagram, and Nick Clegg,…
Here's what Amazon emailed me after a relatively minor issue turned into a giant puzzle: “Your feedback helps us build the most customer-centric business in the world. "
That's one hell of a line, and until now I thought it was…
September 30 (Reuters) - Top social media stars including Kim Kardashian, Justin Bieber and Charli D'Amelio are among the celebrities whose Instagram followers have more negative feelings about their self-image, internal research shows of…
September 30 (Reuters) - U.S. Senators on Thursday grilled Facebook Inc (FB.O) on its plans to better protect young users on its apps, drawing on leaked internal research that showed the social media giant was aware of how her Instagram app…
Facebook was on Capitol Hill Thursday to receive its semi-regular rebuke from Congress on how bad its services are for America.“Facebook is like Big Tobacco, offering a product that they know is harmful,” said Sen. Ed Markey, Democrat of…
WASHINGTON - Political opponents in Congress are united in outrage against Facebook for privately compiling information that its Instagram photo-sharing service appears to seriously harm some teens, especially girls, while publicly…
Today it's Wednesday. Welcome to Hillicon Valley, detailing everything you need to know about tech and cyber news from Capitol Hill to Silicon Valley. Subscribe here: thehill.com/newsletter-signup.Facebook's head of global safety will!-->…
(Reuters) - Facebook Inc on Saturday criticized a series of Wall Street Journal articles on the company's social media platform as containing "deliberate misinterpretations" and said the articles "conferred patently false motives to…
Meanwhile, YouTube is touting its transparency efforts, claiming in 2019 that it "launched more than 30 different changes to reduce borderline content recommendations and harmful disinformation," resulting in "an average 70% drop in the…