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Not three years later: Meta banned Russian state media on Facebook and Instagram

The company Meta, owner of Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and WhatsApp, has announced a ban on RT and other Russian state media across its platforms. Currently, the RT pages are absent on Facebook and Instagram. For many years, Meta had implemented m...

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Cristiano Ronaldo set a world record by amassing a billion followers on social media

Ronaldo has the highest number of followers on Instagram — nearly 640 million. Portuguese footballer Cristiano Ronaldo has become the first person in the world to reach one billion followers on social media. The athlete personally announced this ach...

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Facebook and Google partner bragged about tapping users for ad targeting

Following an information leak, Google began erasing all traces of its collaborations, while Facebook announced an investigation. According to 404 Media, Cox Media Group (CMG) has presented its advertising clients with a tool that allegedly allows for...

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Shaheed is the "most moderated" word on Facebook, but Meta will no longer ban it

The complete ban did not take into account the linguistic complexity of the Arabic word "shaheed," which has multiple meanings in translation. Meta has long applied a policy of full ban on the word "shaheed," which has become the most moderated in th...

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"But we're better than Google and OpenAI, aren't we?": Meta gets in the way of training its AI on Facebook and Instagram posts

The Meta Corporation has announced that starting today, it will begin training its AI on posts on Facebook and Instagram that were published by citizens of the UK or EU countries. However, not everyone agrees with this, reports SkyNews. Legal problem...

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What happened to Facebook? Meta social networks drowned in fakes, while generated ones denote real photos

Chances are you've recently come across Facebook posts asking for likes to support handsome brothers fighting for Ukraine, or a grandmother who knitted a tank, baked the world's largest "palyanitsia" - and if you are familiar with the art of neural n...

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Chatbot Meta joined a parenting Facebook group and claimed to have a child too

And he still doesn't know about chats in Viber... Meta chat-bot joined the discussion in a Facebook group uniting tens of thousands of parents from New York and suddenly announced that he also has a child - of the "2e" category (usually meaning that ...

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Meta updated Messenger - shared albums, HD photo support and sending files up to 100 MB

Users can now create photo and video albums in shared Messenger chats - to do this, you need to select several individual images from the conversation (by tapping or holding) and activate the "Add to Album" option. Each chat participant can view, add...

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Canadian school boards sue TikTok, Meta and SnapChat - platforms are interfering with children's lives and education

Four of the largest school boards in the Canadian province of Ontario have initiated legal proceedings against TikTok, Meta, and SnapChat, alleging that social media platforms are disrupting the learning process. The plaintiffs are seeking damages ex...

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Joe Biden's dipfake showing him "touching" his granddaughter's breasts will be left on Facebook

The Meta Oversight Board decided that the video can stay on Facebook, but demands the company to update its "inconsistent" policy. In the original video, footage from October 2022 was shown, where the US president accompanies his granddaughter to he...

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