It’s been a year since Meta launched Threads in an attempt to take over the platform now known as X. Mark Zuckerberg said at the time that he hoped it would turn into “a public conversation app with over 1 billion people on it.” Meta’s timing was good. Threads launched at a particularly chaotic time … Read more
Topline Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta broke Europe’s strict digital competition rules by forcing users to “pay or consent” to share personal data, the European Commission said Monday. The breach could cost the company billions of dollars and comes just a week after the powerful regulator clamped down on iPhone giant Apple for stifling … Read more
By Nova M Bajamonti for Dailymail.Com 6:56 PM June 14, 2024, updated 7:16 PM June 14, 2024 Share or comment on this article: A flight attendant has revealed all the things she would never do on board a plane, including the horrifying reason why passengers shouldn’t have ice in their drinks. Aislinn Swain, 23, has … Read more
Item information Author, Liv McMahon Role, Technology reporter 3 hours ago Plans to use public posts and images of people on Facebook and Instagram to train artificial intelligence (AI) tools from parent company Meta have been attacked by digital rights groups. The social media giant recently informed UK and European users of the platforms that, … Read more
Item information Author, Liv McMahon Role, Technology reporter June 6, 2024, 2:21 PM Dutch time Plans to use public posts and images of people on Facebook and Instagram to train artificial intelligence (AI) tools from parent company Meta have been attacked by digital rights groups. The social media giant recently informed UK and European users … Read more
A new NASA project allows Instagram users to experience the wonders of the universe as seen by the Chandra X-ray Observatory and other space telescopes. It’s an augmented reality (AR) filter called an “Instagram experience” that takes stunningly beautiful celestial objects and places them right next to you on camera. This includes the wreckage of … Read more
Meta has confirmed that it is testing unskippable ads in Instagram feeds Users are outraged by the changes and some are threatening to uninstall the app Seeing ads in your social media feed is annoying enough, but for Instagram users, the experience could soon become even more frustrating. Meta has confirmed that it is now … Read more
Meta withdrew a job offer from a prominent cyber intelligence analyst immediately after he criticized Instagram for its failure to protect children online. Paul Raffile had been offered a job as a human exploitation investigator, focusing on issues such as extortion and human trafficking. He had participated in a webinar on April 24 on protecting … Read more