Meta donates $1M to President-elect Trump's inaugural fund; sources say Mark Zuckerberg gifted Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses to Trump at Mar-a-Lago on November 27
President-elect had blasted the tech tycoon during the presidential campaign, but ties have been improving
An in-depth look at how Google's Transformer model, developed by eight researchers in 2017, radically sped up and augmented how computers understand language
Over the past few years, we have taken a gigantic leap forward in our decades-long quest to build intelligent machines: the advent of the large language model, or LLM. X: @madhumit...
Twitter renames Latest Tweets to Following and Home to For You, making the algorithmic feed the default with no option to change it, rolling out on iOS first
Twitter is changing how you move between the algorithmically-driven timeline and the reverse chronological one and making the algorithmic feed the default.
Whistleblowers: Meta deliberately took down Pages for hospitals and other Australian institutions in 2021 as a negotiating tactic over the news bargaining law
When Facebook blocked news pages last year to pre-empt Australian legislation that would force it to pay for content …
In its annual SEC report, Meta repeats its warning that it may be forced to shut down “significant” services in Europe if new EU data transfer rules are adopted
If Meta is not given the option to transfer, store and process data from its European users on US-based servers … Source: S.E.C. .
Australian Federal Court rules Google misled Android users into thinking it would not collect their location data when they turned location history off
Google collected data on some Android and Pixel phones even when customers ticked ‘No’ or ‘Do not collect’
Australian Federal Court rules Google misled Android users into thinking it would not collect their location data when they turned location history off
Google collected data on some Android and Pixel phones even when customers ticked ‘No’ or ‘Do not collect’
Nick Clegg defends Facebook, saying it is not in the company's interest, financially or reputationally, to continually push users toward more extreme content
In — a recent article for The Atlantic, Adrienne LaFrance compared Facebook to a Doomsday Machine: “a device built with the sole purpose of destroying all human life.”
Facebook now lets users and Pages limit comments on posts, after a 2019 Australian court ruling that news outlets are liable for comments on their Pages
a win for news media outlets who were in the ludicrous position of having to monitor a vast number of stories. This was so stupid and unfair https://www.theguardian.com/ ... @flipp...
Nick Clegg defends Facebook, saying it is not in the company's interest, financially or reputationally, to push users towards ever more extreme content
In — a recent article for The Atlantic, Adrienne LaFrance compared Facebook to a Doomsday Machine: “a device built with the sole purpose of destroying all human life.”
House tech hearing revealed unorganized lawmakers who conflated issues of competition, privacy, and moderation, and were unable to move past personal grievances
It's time to move past listening and into legislating — This story is part of a group of stories called
Sources detail the efforts by Facebook executives to accommodate Trump's posts, starting in 2015 with a Trump video calling for a ban of Muslims entering the US
Starting as early as 2015, Facebook executives started crafting exceptions for the then-candidate that transformed the world's information battlefield for years to come.
Organizers of “Stop Hate for Profit” Facebook ad boycott say they plan to take the campaign global, starting with Europe, after the campaign's success in the US
Sheila Dang / Reuters :
Facebook News, a dedicated section linking to journalism sources, launches in the US, first on mobile, following a limited test that rolled out in October
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
Facebook News, a dedicated section linking to journalism sources, launches in the US, first on mobile, following a limited test that rolled out in October
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
In post, Zuckerberg vows to review content policies on state force and voter suppression, ensure content moderation diversity, and announces a new voter hub
Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg :
In post, Zuckerberg vows to review content policies on state force and voter suppression, ensure content moderation diversity, and announces a new voter hub
Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg :
In post, Zuckerberg vows to review content policies on state force and voter suppression, ensure content moderation diversity, and announces a new voter hub
- CEO to look at policies on voter suppression, state force — Facebook will launch a voter hub for vetted information
In post, Zuckerberg vows to review content policies on state force and voter suppression, ensure content moderation diversity, and announces a new voter hub
- CEO to look at policies on voter suppression, state force — Facebook will launch a voter hub for vetted information
Australia orders the creation of a mandatory code of conduct requiring platforms like Google and Facebook to pay media businesses for news content
The Federal Government has ordered the competition watchdog to develop a mandatory code of conduct to govern commercial dealings between tech giants and news media companies.