The incidents drew widespread complaints from social media watchers scrutinizing Meta's platforms for signs of politicized shifts after CEO Mark Zuckerberg appeared at Trump's inauguration on Monday and instituted a series of changes in recent weeks aimed at mending relations with the incoming administration.
Meta, precursing a wave of new "free speech" policies across its platforms, is disbanding its disinformation-spotting fact checking program. According to a new report, the program was already failing to do its intended job.
Meta overhauled its approach to US moderation on Tuesday, ditching fact-checking, announcing a plan to move its trust and safety teams, and perhaps most impactfully, updating its Hateful Conduct policy. As reported by Wired, a lot of text has been updated, added, or removed, but here are some of the changes that jumped out at us.
Should I stay or should I go — from Meta's social media platforms? That's what some Facebook, Instagram and Threads users are wondering after Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's announcement this month that the company is relaxing rules on harmful content such as hate speech and abandoning its fact checking program and replacing it with
Meta Platforms' revised no-ads subscription service may still breach EU consumer and privacy laws in addition to antitrust rules, the European Consumer Organisation (BEUC) said on Thursday as it urged regulators to act against the U.
Many recent Quest 3, Quest 2S and Quest 2 games are going cheap in Meta's Fresh Start sale. Here are five of the top picks to consider.
Meta, the company which owns social media networks Facebook and Instagram, has denied forcing users to follow official accounts belonging to senior figures in the new Trump administration.Some users of the platforms had complained following Donald Trump's inauguration on Monday that they had "automatically" been made to follow the new president,
Following the 2025 inauguration of U.S. President Donald Trump, Facebook parent company Meta forced users to follow him and Vice President JD Vance.
Databricks Inc., one of the world’s most valuable privately held tech companies, said on Wednesday that it has raised more than $15 billion from companies including Facebook owner Meta Platforms Inc.,
Meta is cutting 5% of its workforce. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently told staff he "decided to raise the bar on performance management" and will act quickly to "move out low-performers," according to an internal memo seen by BI. In a post on the company ...