FTC v. Meta: Meta's lead attorney disparaged tech journalists Kara Swisher and Om Malik, calling Malik a “failed blogger”, resurfacing years-old media tensions
Meta's lead attorney called a once-prominent tech journalist a “failed blogger.” Bluesky: @wavesblog , @karaswisher , @karaswisher , @quillmatiq.com , and @anildash.com X: @jason_kint , @jason_kint , ...
Ex-Facebook Director Katie Harbath says Mark Zuckerberg's team uses elections to take stock of “where society is, to readjust how they're approaching content”
and Mine, The Audacity of Copying Well Sean Burch / The Wrap : Meta Pivots Away From Protections, Guardrails as Trump 2.0 Looms Mat Smith / Engadget : The Morning After: Meta gives up on fact checking...
A look at the surge of interest-based sites as users grow weary of mega platforms; Letterboxd's, Strava's, and AllTrails' MAUs grew 55%, 20%, and 10% YoY in H1
Teresa Xie / Bloomberg : LinkedIn: Danny Chen and Watson Michael LinkedIn: Danny Chen : We increasingly need the community that shares the commont interest, rather than just looking at various commer...
Meta details Llama 3: 8B- and 70B-parameter models, a focus on reducing false refusals, and an upcoming model trained on 15T+ tokens that has 400B+ parameters
What To Know About ‘Llama 3’ Model Marcus Gopolang Moloko / Memeburn : Meta AI with built in Llama 3 is on WhatsApp in South Africa Hamsat Abdurasheed / News.ng : Meta releases Llama 3, new AI assista...
Meta begins the process to end news access on Facebook and Instagram in Canada, in response to a law forcing some companies to negotiate deals to pay publishers
Here's Why Jose Antonio Lanz / Decrypt : Meta Bets Big on AI to Revive Facebook and Instagram Business Post : Meta begins to cut off news access in Canada ChinaTechNews.com : Evening Update: Meta begi...
Meta reports Q2 revenue up 11% YoY to $32B, net income up 16% YoY to $7.79B, and family daily active people up 7% YoY to 3.07B for June 2023; META jumps 10%+
but most of the new users came from outside the US and Canada Karissa Bell / Engadget : Meta had its best quarter since 2021 despite losing more money on the metaverse Abubakar Idris / The Messenger :...
Interviews with 70+ sources describe how Facebook and Instagram have become major sales platforms for child trafficking and can often be slow to remove content
Our two-year investigation suggests that the tech giant Meta is struggling to prevent criminals from using its platforms to buy and sell children for sex Tweets: @anniekelly , @hrrbfiresafety , @gdnlo...
Donald Trump and Facebook have both decayed since his ban, and despite his unpredictability and tech's recent wild swings, his reinstatement may not matter much
Trump is key to social media company's success Travis Gettys / Raw Story : Trump official: Former president would look ‘pathetic’ if he returns to Facebook — and destroy his ‘useless’ Truth Social pla...
Web novel apps backed by ByteDance and Tencent are running hundreds of Facebook and Instagram ads showing sexual assault, violent erotica, and acts of self-harm
Emily Baker-White / Forbes : Tweets: @violazhouyi , @ebakerwhite , @mashaborak , @katienotopoulos , @iblametom , @ebakerwhite , @ebakerwhite , @ebakerwhite , and @cfarivar See also Mediagazer Tweets:...
Web novel apps backed by ByteDance and Tencent are running hundreds of Facebook and Instagram ads showing sexual assault, violent erotica, and acts of self-harm
Emily Baker-White / Forbes : Tweets: @ebakerwhite , @mashaborak , @violazhouyi , @katienotopoulos , @iblametom , @ebakerwhite , @ebakerwhite , @ebakerwhite , and @cfarivar See also Mediagazer Tweets:...