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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 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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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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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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X is being accused of playing host to Israel-Hamas misinformation
The EU has written to Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and Shou Zi Chew over the “deep fakes and manipulated content” that circulated on their platforms during the Israeli-Hamas conflict. The EU said it was made aware of reports of deep fakes and manipulated content which circulated on your platforms and “a few still appear online”.…
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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 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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Meta has smart glasses and a virtual reality headset that can put on a Bigger Dose of Reality
Mark Zuckerberg and Meta unveiled their new headset ‘Quest 3’ at the Meta Connect 2019 conference in San Francisco. The headset has 8GB of RAM, Snapdragon XR2 Gen 2 processor and a battery life of up to three hours. It’s lighter and slimmer than its predecessor, ‘Quest 2’, and has more memory than its predecessor,…
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Tech leaders are in the Senate to discuss the regulation of artificial intelligence
AI Insight Forum held by the US Senate’s Majority Leader Chuck Schumer was attended by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, X’s Elon Musk, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Nvidia President Jensen Huang. The Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on Artificial Intelligence before the forum. Schumer said the government needs a federal…
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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…
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Make threads join you
Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Instagram-parent Meta, has said that the social media platform’s photo-sharing app ‘Threads’, which was launched on Wednesday, has seen over 10 million sign-ups in the first seven hours. He further said that the platform has more than 30 billion monthly active users worldwide. Twitter Founder Mark Zucki is also the…
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Silicon Valley’s best minds misread demand. Now their Employees are paying for it.
Facebook has fired around three percent of its hourly employees each week, The New York Times reported citing internal memos obtained by Recode. This comes as tech companies like Amazon and Google are pausing hiring amid Recession fears after a wave of expansion. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg had said that Meta’s layoffs would be spread…
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The Metaverse doesn’t have a fighting chance.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, during his keynote speech at Metaverse’s annual convention, said, “The future of meetings, as Meta calls them, is to make collaborators feel equally present in a shared space no matter where they are or what technology they’re using.” He further said, “Instead of looking at a screen, you’re going to be…