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During FTC antitrust trial, he defends his empire
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has said that if Instagram “kicks ass” on mobile or if Google buys them, they could easily add pieces of their service that copy what we are doing now. Zuckerberg’s comment came in an exchange with an engineering executive working on Facebook Camera. He was testifying in FTC’s antitrust case against…
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The new arms race is related to DeepSeek
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has said that the company is working to implement DeepSeek’s AI advancements into its ‘Llama’ app. He said, “There’s a number of novel things they did we’re still digesting.” Zuckerberg added, “I think we’ll be able to do it by the second quarter.” Earlier, DeepSeek had announced a partnership with Google’s…
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Meta will pay Trump $25 million to settle a lawsuit
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s company Social Media Company Meta has agreed to pay $22 million to US President Donald Trump’s Presidential Inaugural Fund as part of a settlement in a lawsuit filed against it by Trump. Meta had suspended Trump’s account last year over the January 6 US Capitol riots. Earlier, Zuckerberg had defended his…
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Following Trump’s executive order, dating apps have promised to stay a rare place
OkCupid will no longer block users based on their gender identity in the US, the dating app said. It added that its policy “doesn’t preclude users from using OkCupid if their gender identity doesn’t align with their sexual orientation or gender expression”. The announcement comes after Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company will “get…
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The future of the internet is not looking good at the moment
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Facebook’s parent company Meta was “out of touch” with mainstream discourse and announced that it will end its third-party fact-checking program. He added, “I think at some level you only start one of these companies if you believe in giving people a voice, right?” Zuckerberg further said the fact-checking was…
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The internet’s future looks dimmer by the day
Meta’s chief policy officer Joel Kaplan in a blog post compared Facebook’s fact-checking programme with Meta’s ‘Community Notes’ model. Kaplan wrote, “We are making too many mistakes, frustrating our users and too often getting in the way of the free expression we set out to enable.” He added, “I have been expecting Meta to axe…
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The Internet’s future is currently being researched by the day
Facebook Co-founder Mark Zuckerberg, in a video statement, said Facebook is “out of touch with mainstream discourse” and recent elections feel like a “cultural tipping point” towards once again favouring speech. He added that the policies were out of touch with his idea of a political theorist. However, Zuckerberg didn’t explain why fact-checking is the…
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Meta’s Fact-Checking partners say they were blindsided by the decision
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has said Meta’s third-party fact-checking programme is “too politically biased” and it is removing its funding from the ecosystem. Meta’s CEO Joel Kaplan said that the platform is switching to a “community notes” model in which users will be asked to verify their posts and videos. The move was made in…
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Staffers moved to Billionaire-friendly Texas after Meta followed the lead of Musk
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in a new video, announced the social media platform is removing content that was out of sync with the mainstream society and will remove restrictions on certain topics. “After Trump…got elected in 2016…legacy media wrote non-stop about how misinformation was a threat to democracy,” Zuckerberg said. He added, “This isn’t about…
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Meta ditches Fact-Checkers in favor of X-Style Community Notes
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the social media platform’s move to move its content moderation teams to Texas from California will “help us build trust in doing this work in places where there’s less concern about their bias”. He added that the environment in these places “could be favorable for companies” as they roll back…
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Fact-checkers were dropped in favor of X-Style Community Notes
Facebook-owned Meta has announced that it will no longer carry out fact-checks, removing a key source of funding for the fact-checker community worldwide. However, the fact-check service is to continue to be available on Facebook’s mobile apps. CEO Mark Zuckerberg had in 2015 announced a partnership with fact-checkers to check their content, allowing them to…
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Fact-Checkers were replaced with X- Style Community Notes
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced that Meta has rolled back its content moderation and fact-checking policies. Zuckerberg said the new policies would “ease the pressure on Meta to moderate political posts and stories”. “We’ll also simplify our content policies and…get rid of restrictions on topics like immigration and gender that are just out of…
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As Silicon Valley prepares for Trump, Meta says it will end fact checking
US Senator Rand Paul on Monday said that Facebook’s’Meta platform’ has “finally admitted to censoring speech”. “Meta has given up censoring speech…what a great birthday present to wake up to and…huge win for free speech,” he added. This comes after PolitiFact’s Co-founder, Bill Adair, left the platform after it became part of Facebook’s third-party fact…
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There are 3 top engineers from DeepMind
Facebook and LinkedIn have partnered with Zurich-based AI startup OpenAI to provide users with global access to its AI-powered services. OpenAI, which claims to be one of the world’s largest players in the AI space, will use its technology to improve air defence systems. Earlier, a former OpenAI employee had said there were no open…
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She tried surfing to solve the Gen Z social isolation problem
Social media giant Facebook has teamed up with Foundation for Social Connection, a research and policy group, to help young people meet others in real life. “We were seeing reduction of things like social Groups, Clubs, Engagement in Clubs, third spaces for people to gather,” Executive Director of the foundation Jillian Racoosin said. Facebook added…
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The lawsuit against perplexity says fake news hallucinates
Facebook Co-founder Mark Zuckerberg during a recent rebranding tour had said, “Consumers no longer control their social media feeds.” Meta’s algorithm has improved to show users “a lot of stuff” not posted by people they had connected with, he further said. However, Meta’s algorithm prioritized provocative content from anyone with internet access over more neutral,…
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Meta’s new llama 3.1 model is free, powerful and risky
Facebook Co-founder Mark Zuckerberg has announced that he’ll be giving away Meta AI’s “Llama 3.1” open-source AI model to anyone who would like to try it out. “This model is as useful as the best commercial offerings from companies,” Zuckerberg said. The ‘Llama 3.1’ is being offered as a free download through WhatsApp and the…
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Meta will be fighting with ChatGpt now
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in an interview said that Meta AI’s goal is to be “the most intelligent AI assistant that people can freely use across the world”. Zuckerberg added, “It’s to compete with everything out there and to be the leading AI in the world.” He further said, “An example Zuckerberg offers is asking…
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There are fans who love Apple who are returning their Vision Pros
In a video posted on his Instagram account on Tuesday, Facebook Co-founder Mark Zuckerberg said that the Quest 3 headset is “the better product, period”. He also said that Apple’s latest Vision Pro headset is “better value” than Quest 3. This comes amid reports that some Vision Pro customers are returning their headsets to Apple…
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Meta will hide suicide and eating disorder information from teens because of government pressure
Facebook-owned social media platform Meta has said it will now filter results for terms related to suicide, self-harm and eating disorders. Meta also said that users who search for these terms will be directed to “expert resources for help”. Users will also be required to set their accounts to the most restrictive filtering settings on…
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Dozens of states are being sued over the youth mental health crisis
Forty-four US states have sued Facebook in a lawsuit accusing the social media site of “knowingly allowing” teenagers to post photos and videos with the intention of encouraging others to self-harm. The lawsuit accused Facebook of knowingly violating consumer protection laws and child safety laws. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has denied the allegations and called…
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Kevin Scott talked to us about Microsoft’s quest to beat Bing and the future of artificial intelligence
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, in a recent interview, said that the only thing that anybody can ask for is that they do high-quality product work. “I think the only thing that everybody can ask for is that you do high-quality product work, and you want marketplaces to be fair so you can compete,” he added.
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Mark is not out of the metaverse
Facebook Co-founder and CEO David Zuckerberg, during Meta Connect-23, said that the “future is going to be the mixed reality of digital and physical”. Zuckerberg, who was joined by some of the world’s smartest people, further said, “It’s not going to happen in a day or two. It’s going to happen over time.” Meta is…
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Mark was unable to quit the metaverse
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that the artificial intelligence (AI) startup Meta will use AI technology to advance the metaverse. “There will be people who are there physically and people who are there digitally as holograms, but also sitting around the table with you are going to be…AI guys who are embodied as holograms and…
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Musk continues to get creepsier
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has said that he won’t fight Elon Musk in a martial arts match and will instead take part in a “humanitarian fight” for charity. “I think we all agree Elon isn’t serious and it’s time to move on,” he added. Earlier, Musk had threatened to come to Zuckerberg’s house after the…