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Meta has lots of data through Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook, but that’s not enough for them. Court filings unsealed last week allege Meta created an internal effort to spy on Snapchat in a secret initiative called “Project Ghostbusters.” Meta did so through Onavo, a Virtual Private Network (VPN) service the comp...

As AI-generated content proliferates online and clutters social media feeds, you may have noticed more images cropping up that invoke the uncanny valley effect—relatively normal scenes that also carry surreal details like excess fingers or gibberish words.Among these misleading posts, young users have spotted some o...

Court documents and interviews detail the products’ role in alleged exploitation – and how some payments go undetectedWhen police in Pennsylvania arrested 29-year-old Jennifer Louise Whelan in November 2022, they charged her with dozens of counts of serious crimes, including sex trafficking and indecent assault of three young children.One month earlier, police said they had discovered Whelan was using three children as young as...

A New York judge ruled that a handful of social media companies must face lawsuits from survivors of the Buffalo grocery store shooting in 2022 that left 10 people dead. An Erie Supreme Court judge ruled that social media companies — including YouTube, Meta and Reddit —must face lawsuits that have been brought against them...

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei supported Hamas’s 7 October attack on Israel, which Meta said violated its policiesMeta has removed Instagram and Facebook accounts run on behalf of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, following criticism over his support for Hamas after the group’s 7 October attack on Israel that sparked the months-long war still raging in the Gaza Strip, the company confirmed on Friday.Meta, based...

Welcome to The Hill's Technology newsletter {beacon} Technology Technology   The Big Story Meta policy on fake videos 'incoherent': oversight board The Meta Oversight Board urged the social media company to reconsider its policy on manipulated media ahead of the various elections set to be held this year. © AP Photo/Jeff Chiu The board, which...

Facebook’s parent company to pay out to shareholders as it reports $40bn revenues for final quarterMeta revenue soars as it pivots to AIMark Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, is expected to receive $700m (£549m) a year in dividends.On Thursday, Meta announced it would pay its first-ever quarterly dividend to investors since Facebook floated on the...

Welcome to The Hill's Technology newsletter {beacon} Technology Technology   The Big Story Big Tech braces for Capitol Hill scrutiny on kids safety The Senate Judiciary Committee is hauling the CEOs of Discord, Meta, Snap, TikTok and X before the panel Wednesday to grill them about online harms to children. © AP Photo, File Ahead...

META CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on Instagram that META is dumping more than $10 billion into the computing infrastructure to develop AGI. AGI is AI that can match or surpass humans across a range of cognitively demanding tasks. Meta’s two AI research efforts are brought closer together to support the long-term goals of building general ... Read more

Former chief operating officer was lead architect of Facebook’s digital advertising-driven business modelSheryl Sandberg is to step down from the board of Facebook’s parent company, Meta, nearly two years after quitting her executive role at the business.Sandberg was the lead architect of Facebook’s digital advertising-driven business model as Meta’s chief operating officer. Continue reading...

Former Meta Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg announced Wednesday that she will step down from the company’s board of directors this year, shifting roles to an internal adviser. Sandberg, who served as the company’s COO from 2008 to 2022, is leaving to focus on philanthropic work but will remain on the board to “help ensure...