Mark Zuckerberg considered deleting everyone's Facebook friends in 2022, admits platform's focus has shifted
"The 'friend' part has gone down quite a bit"
Meta ends its fact-checking program, replacing it with Community Notes
Making users the arbiters of truth in Facebook and Instagram
Facebook introduces Friends-only tab to recapture its original appeal
Like 2010 all over again
Meta blocks promotion of tell-all book from former employee
It's still available to buy, though
Whistleblower reveals Facebook censorship system created to enter China
Zuckerberg champions free speech - except when there's a market opportunity
Meta's leak problem just cost 20 employees their jobs, with more firings expected
Meta warned this would happen
Users can now sign up for Meta's Community Notes on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads
Rolling out in the US soon
Snap CEO Evan Spiegel takes a dig at Meta's history of copying Snapchat
Spiegel says he's now "VP Product @ Meta," jabbing at Zuckerberg's imitation strategy
Trolling 101 Snap CEO Evan Spiegel has taken a public jab at Mark Zuckerberg and Meta, updating his LinkedIn profile with an unexpected addition to his job titles. Alongside "loving husband and father of four boys," he now lists himself as "VP Product @ Meta." This tongue-in-cheek update clearly references Meta's history of replicating features that Snapchat first introduced.
Meta used pirated books to train its AI models, and there are emails to prove it
New email evidence could turn Meta's "fair use" defense upside down
"Everything I say leaks," complains Mark Zuckerberg in a memo that was leaked
As if that wasn't enough, a second memo warning employees about leaks was also leaked
Many people left Meta after Zuckerberg's changes, but user numbers have rebounded
TikTok helped Meta's cause
Lawyer drops Meta as client, citing Mark Zuckerberg's "toxic masculinity and Neo-Nazi madness"
Zuckerberg's changed a lot over the years
A hot potato: Mark Zuckerberg has undergone something of a personal transformation over the last few years, from a nerdy, lizard-like tech geek to an MMA-loving bro championing free speech and calling for more masculine energy. It's a change that has prompted a lawyer to drop Meta as a client due to its CEO's "descent into toxic masculinity and Neo-Nazi madness."
Meta to lay off 5% of workforce, about 3,600 employees, in performance-based cuts
Another play from Elon Musk's handbook?
Zuckerberg's free speech push for Facebook and Instagram replaces fact checkers with community notes
You'll be able to say pretty much whatever you want on Meta's platforms
A hot potato: It seems that Meta is going to become a lot more like X, at least when it comes to what you can say on the company's platforms. CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced the suspension of the fact-checking program, a reduction in the amount of censorship, and the recommendation of more political content across Facebook, Instagram, and Threads.
Meta wants to fill its social platforms with AI-generated bots
Platform decay is coming to social media, and fast
Global Internet traffic grew 17.2% in 2024 in another banner year for Google, SpaceX, and Facebook
Internet usage has never been higher
The rise of enshittification: officially the word of the year
Rawdogging came a close second
Editor's take: Remember when today's technology was new and exciting and everyone was talking about how great the internet was, or Facebook, or Twitter? Things aren't so rosy now. And while that may sound like an Abe Simpson-like rant, it's easy to understand why "enshittification" has been crowned word of the year.
Lawsuit alleges harmful content on TikTok contributed to deaths of two teens
Families claim TikTok's algorithm promoted harmful content
Meta reintroduces facial recognition to combat celebrity scam ads, account hackers
Meta scrapped its facial recognition tech in 2021
The Zero Click Internet
The internet is undergoing the biggest change since its inception. It's huge. And there is no going back. The web is changing into the Zero Click Internet, and it will change everything.
"Goodbye Meta AI" message is a hoax, yet hundreds of thousands have fallen for it
When will people learn?
Facebook partner admits to eavesdropping on conversations via phone mics for ad targeting
"We know what you're thinking. Is this even legal?"
A hot potato: For almost as long as we've had smartphones, there has been the belief that they surreptitiously listen to our spoken conversations to serve us targeted ads; most people have experienced seeing an ad on Facebook for something they were recently talking about. It's always been claimed that this type of privacy invasion doesn't happen. However, a marketing agency, whose clients included Facebook and Google, has admitted to using an "Active Listening" feature that eavesdrops on conversations via phone mics to gather data.
Mark Zuckerberg says Biden administration pressured Facebook to censor Covid-19 content
The platform also demoted a story about the Hunter Biden laptop controversy
