All friends could disappear from Facebook — inside «Zuckerberg’s crazy» plan
Social networks need more and more users to increase revenue or attract new advertisers by demonstrating engagement rates. But in 2022, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg was considering an idea so absurd that the board of directors might be glad it wasn’t implemented. Internal correspondence presented during the antitrust trial shows: Zuckerberg…
Mark Zuckerberg spent «$45 billion on the metaverse in 4 years — the same amount Musk paid for Twitter
It’s been more than 4 years since Mark Zuckerberg changed the Facebook brand to Meta and invested tens of billions in his vision of the meta-universe — but the company has shown little in action to match this amount, raising doubts about the viability of the strategy.
The Internet in Ukraine «has accelerated» to 83.81 Mbps, and the number of users has grown to 31.5 million people — DataReportal report
Research company DataReportal has released a global report Digital 2025, which, among other things, shares data on the use of services and devices in Ukraine.
Facebook employees secretly founded a «feminist fight club» because they didn’t feel supported by their boss
On Tuesday, Sarah Wynn-Williams, former director of global public policy at Meta (at the time the company was called Facebook), published a book with her memoirs describing 6 years of working for Zuckerberg — and, among other things, the activities of a secret women’s club created in 2017.
Meta fired 20 employees for leaking information to the media — and promises to cut «even more» spies
On Thursday, Meta announced the dismissal of 20 employees, allegedly for disclosing confidential internal information to journalists.
Meta increased bonuses for bosses by 200% — amidst layoffs of 4000 «inefficient» employees
To party like that, Mark Zuckerberg thought, and tripled bonuses for Meta executives — it would have been fine if ordinary employees hadn’t already faced layoffs and option cuts.
Zuckerberg promises to bring back the greatness of Facebook, but we don’t believe him. We recall why the social network is disliked around the world
Meta (until 2021, Facebook) is one of the most influential companies of the 21st century, which started as a closed student social network, but with its growth came problems: accusations of interference in politics, selling personal data, and manipulating algorithms, which gradually undermined user trust. Advertising overload and an outdated format…
Facebook calls Linux «a cybersecurity threat» and bans people who mention the OS
It seems that Facebook is now banning some posts or threads that mention the word «Linux».
A fund promoting «social networks without Musk and Zuckerberg» is launched in the US with the support of the founder of Wikipedia and the Marvel star
On Monday, a group of tech company founders and activists from the USA announced the creation of the Free Our Feeds fund, advocating for free social networks and raising funds to finance the development of the AT Protocol — a foundational technology that supports the growth of the social network Bluesky.
Facebook to introduce artificial users based on AI Studio
If your Facebook feed isn’t already cluttered enough with trashy communities, generated images, meaningless videos, and the like, Meta has another toy for you — AI users.
«How Libra» was destroyed: the former Meta crypto project head reveals the reasons behind the collapse
David Marcus, the former head of Meta’s Libra stablecoin project, said that the reason for the failure was not economic or technical problems but political pressure from regulators. In a post titled «How Libra was destroyed», he described how the company had to cancel its ambitious plans due to problems at the highest level.
Less than three years have passed: Meta bans Russian state media from Facebook and Instagram
Meta, the owner of Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and WhatsApp, has announced that it is banning RT and other Russian state media from its platforms.
Cristiano Ronaldo sets a world record by collecting a billion followers on social media
Ronaldo has the most followers on Instgram, almost 640 million.
A partner of Facebook and Google boasted that it was listening to users to target ads
After the information leak, Google began to remove all traces of cooperation, while Facebook announced an audit.
Shaheed — «the most moderated» word on Facebook, but Meta won’t ban it anymore
The complete ban did not take into account the linguistic complexity of the Arabic word «shaheed», which has several meanings in translation.
«But we are better than Google and OpenAI»: Meta prevents AI from training on Facebook and Instagram posts
Meta Corporation has announced that starting today, it will start training its AI on Facebook and Instagram posts published by citizens of the UK or the European Union.
What happened to Facebook? Meta social networks are drowning in fakes, and generated photos are labeled as real
You’ve probably come across posts on Facebook lately asking you to like your handsome brothers fighting for Ukraine or your grandmother who tied up the tankand baked the world’s largest cake — and if you are familiar with the art of neural networks, you can easily recognize a fake. However, tens of thousands of users actually believe…
«I blame Facebook»: the screenwriter talks about the movie «The Social Network 2»
14 years after the release of the film about the creation of Facebook «The Social Network» by David Fincher, the film’s screenwriter Aaron Sorkin spoke about his work on the sequel.
Artificial intelligence Meta joins a Facebook parent group and announces that it has a child too
And he doesn’t even know about Viber chats…
Meta updated Messenger — shared albums, HD photo support, and sending files up to 100 MB
Users can now create albums of photos and videos in public Messenger chats — to do this, select several individual images from the dialog (by tapping or holding) and activate the «Add to album» option.
Canadian school boards sue TikTok, Meta, and SnapChat — platforms interfere with children’s lives and learning
The four largest school boards in the Canadian province of Ontario have launched lawsuits against TikTok, Meta, and SnapChat. They claim that social media platforms interfere with the learning process. The plaintiffs are seeking damages of more than 4 billion Canadian dollars ($2.9 billion) for disrupting student learning and the education system.…
Facebook uses artificial intelligence to improve video recommendation algorithm
Facebook CEO Tom Ellison announced that Meta is changing the algorithm for video recommendations in Reels, Groups, and Facebook’s main feed, using artificial intelligence to improve the recommendation algorithm. The world’s largest social network has already migrated its short video recommendation engine Reels to the new one and plans…
Global problems with Facebook login, and Instagram and Threads feeds are not updating
According to the service Downdetector As of today, a number of popular services and social networks are experiencing malfunctions. For example, Facebook users are complaining about authorization problems. Some also have problems with the app or website.
Facebook is removing the «News» tab in some countries because «few people are interested in news»
Facebook is planning to remove the «News» tab for social network users in the United States and Australia. This will happen by the end of April. This means that the platform will no longer be a place to view news.
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