Meta halts plans for high-end mixed-reality headset: report
Metaplatform has canceled plans for a premium mixed reality headset that was intended to compete with Apple’s Vision Pro. Reported information Friday. The company told employees in its Reality Labs division to stop work on the device this week after a product review meeting, the report quoted two Meta employees as saying. The canceled device […]
Meta ditches ‘misinformation’ tracking tool CrowdTangle
Meta, the social media giant owned by Mark Zuckerberg, has shut down CrowdTangle, an investigative tool used to monitor social media posts that are suspected to contain misinformation. The move upset a series of nonprofits, who wrote letters to protest Meta’s move to a new tool called Content Library. Their issue stems from Meta’s restriction […]
Lawmakers press Meta over illicit drug advertising concerns
A bipartisan group of lawmakers letter The company expressed “deep concern” to Meta on Thursday about reports that it continues to promote ads for illegal drugs on its platforms, including Instagram, Facebook, Messenger and WhatsApp. The letter, led by Reps. Tim Walberg (R-Mich.), Gus Bilirakis (R-Fla.), Kathy Kastor (D-Fla.) and Lori Trahan (D-Mass.), came after […]
House panel demands info from Google, Meta over alleged censorship of Trump assassination attempt
The Republican-led House Oversight Committee on Wednesday opened an investigation into whether Google and Meta concealed information about the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump. Big tech companies came under fire for alleged censorship last month after Meta’s AI assistant claimed the attack on former President Donald Trump was “fictional” or didn’t answer questions […]
Polish billionaire ‘locker king’ takes on Meta over deepfake ads, predicts ‘long battle’
A prominent Polish billionaire known as “Locker King” said he was considering taking legal action against Meta for allowing the spread of “deepfake” advertisements depicting him and his wife. Earlier this month, Poland’s Personal Data Protection Agency issued an order banning Meta for three months from publishing fake ads using real details and images of […]
Universal Music Group strikes Meta deal for Taylor Swift on WhatsApp
Music from pop stars like Taylor Swift, Adele, Billie Eilish and Elton John will soon be available to play and share on WhatsApp. Universal Music Group, the world’s largest multinational music group featuring some of the world’s biggest artists, signed a multi-year licensing agreement with Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta Platforms on Monday. The deal expands on […]
Meta AI predicts Ethereum price for 2025 – Finbold – Finance in Bold
2024 has been a big year for Ethereum (ETH), attracting institutional attention to its native token and ecosystem. However, Ethereum price has underperformed year-to-date (YTD) compared to competing cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin (BTC) and Solana (SOL), for example. To gauge what the coming year might hold, Finnvold asked Meta’s cutting-edge open-source artificial intelligence (AI) model, […]
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta and Google Secretly Targeted YouTube Ads at Minors
Tech giants Google and Meta reportedly collaborated on a marketing project that targeted YouTube users aged 13 to 17 with ads promoting Instagram, circumventing Google’s own rules about how it treats minors online. According to Reviewed documents Financial Times According to Google and insider sources, Google worked with Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta to run an ad […]
Google, Meta reportedly hatched secret deal to target teens on YouTube with Instagram ads
A shocking report on Thursday said Google and Meta had reportedly struck a secret agreement to target underage YouTube users with ads promoting rival service Instagram, violating the online search giant’s own advertising rules. The Instagram ad campaign was targeted to YouTube users classified as “unknown” in Google’s advertising system and was designed to appeal […]
Meta wants Judy Dench, Awkwafina and Keegan-Michael Key for AI deals
It’s a deal that could potentially grant license to kill. British actress Judi Dench, who plays “M” in several of the James Bond films, the raspy-voiced actress Awkwafina and baritone comedian Keegan-Michael Key stand to make big bucks from artificial intelligence deals with Meta Platforms. Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, Record and […]