Thousands of Facebook users are demanding that the company stop processing their personal data for direct marketing purposes. Around 5,000 people have written to Meta, Facebook’s parent company, asking it...
Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, has announced an ambitious plan to build the world’s longest subsea cable. Named Project Waterworth, the 50,000-kilometre-long cable will connect five...
Major tech companies, including Meta’s Facebook, Elon Musk’s X, and Google’s YouTube, have pledged to intensify efforts to combat online hate speech. This move follows the integration of an updated...
Meta Platforms, the parent company of Facebook, will cut about 5% of its workforce deemed “lowest performers” this year. The announcement comes as CEO Mark Zuckerberg reinforces his commitment to...
Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, is replacing its independent fact-checking programme with user-driven “community notes.” This shift mirrors a feature introduced by Elon Musk’s X (formerly Twitter)...
The European Union’s privacy watchdogs have fined Facebook owner Meta €251 million for a 2018 data breach affecting millions of users. The penalties were issued by Ireland’s Data Protection Commission,...
Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, all owned by Meta, experienced a significant outage on Wednesday night, frustrating millions globally. The disruption, caused by a “technical issue,” began around 7 pm Central...
Meta Platforms, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, plans to introduce advertisements to its social media app Threads early next year, according to a report by The Information. The...
South Korea’s Personal Information Protection Commission has fined Meta 21.6 billion won (€14 million) for collecting sensitive personal information from Facebook users without explicit permission. The privacy watchdog revealed on...
Meta Platforms, the tech giant behind Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, is developing an artificial intelligence-driven search engine. This move aims to reduce Meta’s reliance on search engines Google and Microsoft’s...