Meta admits to censoring Trump’s attempted assassination photo. Brooke Singman explains.
FACEBOOK FAILURE?: Meta admits to censoring Donald Trump’s attempted assassination photo, insisting their systems … source
Meta ends failed celebrity AI chatbots after users ignored them
Meta has discontinued its artificial intelligence-powered celebrity chatbot, which featured images of A-list stars and social media influencers like Tom Brady, Charli D’Amelio, Mr. Beast and Paris Hilton, after it failed to generate interest a year after its release. The tech giant, which came under fire this week after AI-trained software spit out inaccurate statements […]
Attorney General Ken Paxton Reaches $1.4 Billion Settlement with Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta
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Facebook parent Meta delivers strong quarter, sending shares soaring
Meta Platforms Inc. on Wednesday reported second-quarter earnings that beat Wall Street expectations, issued an upbeat sales forecast for the September quarter and expressed confidence that robust digital ad spending will be able to cover the costs of its AI investments. The company’s shares rose 8% after the close of trading. Mark Zuckerberg’s parent company […]
Meta Claims Its AI was ‘Hallucinating’ when It Covered Up Assassination Attempt on Donald Trump
Meta’s AI assistant and Google’s search autocomplete feature have come under intense scrutiny for providing inaccurate information in connection with the recent assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump. While Google claims it is working to improve the feature, Meta has offered a different excuse to cover up the assassination attempt: that its AI was […]
Trump urges supporters to ‘go after’ Meta, Google over alleged assassination attempt censorship
Former President Trump on Tuesday slammed Meta and Google for censoring searches related to the assassination attempt on him, urging his supporters to “go after” the two tech giants. The Republican presidential candidate took issue with a series of bizarre incidents, including Mehta’s AI software “fictionalizing” the assassination attempt, Mehta-owned Facebook banning the iconic photo […]
Meta settles with Texas for $1.4 billion for unauthorized capture of biometric data in record settlement
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Announced On Tuesday, Meta, formerly known as Facebook, announced it had agreed to a record settlement over the unauthorized harvesting of biometric data. “I am proud that our vigorously pursued justice for Americans whose privacy rights were violated by the use of Meta’s facial recognition software, resulting in the largest […]
Facebook parent Meta to pay $1.4B to settle Texas facial recognition lawsuit
Meta Platforms has agreed to pay $1.4 billion to the state of Texas to settle a lawsuit that alleged that Facebook’s parent company illegally used facial recognition technology to collect biometric data on millions of Texans without their consent. The settlement terms announced Tuesday are the largest single-state agreement ever, according to a team of […]
Dow Jones Futures: Fed Meeting, Mag 7 Apple, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft Earnings Loom – Investor's Business Daily
Dow Jones futures fell ahead of the stock market open on Tuesday, along with S&P 500 futures and Nasdaq 100 futures. The Federal Reserve’s policy meeting gets underway on Tuesday, followed by big earnings reports from the Magnificent Seven companies. apple (AAPL), Amazon (Amazon), Meta Platform (Meta) and Microsoft (MSFT) is due to be released […]
Meta deletes 63K Instagram accounts tied to ‘sextortion’ schemes
Meta announced on Wednesday that it had removed about 63,000 Nigerian Instagram accounts that were operating a “sex blackmail” scam targeting mostly adult men and some children in the United States. Scammers used “sextortion” tactics on Instagram and Facebook, threatening to make explicit sexual photos and messages to users unless they received payment. Among those […]