Internal memo: Mark Zuckerberg told employees that he does not expect more company-wide layoffs this year
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Meta's Oversight Board calls on the company to end its blanket ban on the Arabic word “shaheed”, or “martyr”, after a review found Meta's approach “overbroad”
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Meta releases its Segment Anything Model and Segment Anything 1-Billion mask dataset, hoping to help researchers with computer vision and object identification
and Meta is sharing the code Katie Paul / Reuters : Meta releases AI model that can identify items within images GitHub : Segment Anything — Meta AI Research, FAIR — [Paper] [Project] [Demo] [Data...
Meta's Oversight Board overturns Facebook's decision to remove a post that said “death to Khamenei”, referencing the Iranian leader, after violent protests
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Investigation: Eric Schmidt helps fund the salaries of over 24 Biden administration officials through the Federation of American Scientists and Schmidt Futures
Alex Thompson / Politico : Tweets: @ttp_updates , @techwontsaveus , @alexbward , and @j_timmer Tweets: @ttp_updates : New piece featuring our research from @AlexThomp which quotes TTP Director Katie ...
Meta releases its first annual human rights report, covering 2020 and 2021 due diligence and summarizing a controversial human rights impact assessment of India
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Meta plans to stop requiring Facebook IDs to log into Quest devices starting in August 2022 and will roll out “Meta accounts” for new and existing Quest users
and that's a win-win for Zuck Lucas Matney / TechCrunch : Meta is dumping Facebook logins as its metaverse ID system Nick Statt / Protocol : Why Meta is killing Facebook logins for VR Tech Advisor : B...
Andrew Bosworth told Reality Labs staff that Meta plans to cut or delay some projects and details will come within a week; Meta says there won't be layoffs
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Rob Leathern, Facebook's chief of advertising integrity who handled ad products around sensitive subjects, says he left the company on December 30
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IRS lawsuit against Facebook, alleging the company owes $9B+ in taxes after shifting profits to Ireland, begins in San Francisco
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