EU slaps Meta, Apple with nearly $800m fines | Technology News
The penalties are the first to be issued under the bloc’s Digital Markets Act.The European Union has fined Apple and Meta a combined 700 million…
EU hits Apple and Meta with €700m of fines
Imran Rahman-JonesTechnology reporterGetty ImagesThe European Union has ordered Apple and Meta to pay a combined €700m (£599m), in the first fines it has issued under…
Mark Zuckerberg back in US court amid push to break up Meta | Social Media
The last time the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) was able to break up a major corporation was more than four decades ago, with the…
Mark Zuckerberg defends Meta as FTC antitrust suit gets underway in Washington, D.C.
April 14 (UPI) -- The U.S. government's landmark antitrust suit, alleging Meta's takeover of Instagram and WhatsApp was illegal, got underway Monday in Washington, D.C.,…
FTC antitrust suit against Meta gets underway in Washington court
April 14 (UPI) -- The U.S. government's antitrust suit alleging Meta's takeover of Instagram and WhatsApp was illegal was due to get underway Monday in…
Meta profits as ads promote illegal Israeli settlements in West Bank | Israel-Palestine conflict News
Facebook has platformed more than 100 paid advertisements promoting illegal settlements and far-right settler activity in the occupied West Bank, an Al Jazeera investigation has found, raising…
Meta to test ‘Community Notes’ using algorithm from Elon Musk’s X | Social Media
Tech giant says it expects new feature to be ‘less biased’ than previous third-party fact-checking program.Meta has said that its “Community Notes” feature intended to…
Google, Amazon, Meta join back tripling of global nuclear power by 2050
A coalition of the world's biggest corporate energy users signed a pledge Wednesday in Houston to support a tripling of nuclear energy capacity by 2050.…
Meta to link world with longest subsea cable
Meta has confirmed plans to build the world's longest subsea cable that will circle the Earth and connect five continents. Project Waterworth and its 31,000-mile…
Meta agrees $25m payout to Trump over suspended accounts | Technology News
Settlement seen as a big victory for the US president as Meta’s Zuckerberg bows to the new administration on a number of fronts.Meta has agreed…
EU digital enforcement barometer amid rising pressure from US tech giants
The European Commission will conclude several investigations launched against Big Tech in the coming months. As US tech giants pressure the EU to retreat and…
Las nuevas directrices de Meta permiten calificar a las personas LGTBIQ+ “enfermos mentales”
Meta ha actualizado sus políticas de moderación, permitiendo a los usuarios acusar a otros de “enfermos mentales” basándose en la identidad de género u orientación…
Why California tech leaders are friending and funding Trump
Four years ago, several of California’s most influential tech titans determined that then-President Trump was such a threat to democracy they barred him from posting…
Company memo reveals social media giant Meta rolling back DEI program
Social media giant Meta is rolling back its corporate diversity, equity and inclusion program, according to a leaked internal company memo published on Friday. File…
Meta, Amazon nix diversity, inclusion programmes ahead of Trump term | Donald Trump News
Conservative groups have denounced the programmes and threatened to sue companies over them.Facebook owner Meta Platforms and Amazon are winding down diversity programmes ahead of…
Meta, Facebook to drop fact-checkers: What does this mean for social media? | Social Media News
Meta, the owner of Facebook and other social media platforms, will implement major changes to its content moderation policies, founder Mark Zuckerberg announced this week…
What do Meta’s changes mean for Facebook users around the world?
The announcement by Mark Zuckerberg that Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and Threads, will dramatically overhaul its approach to content moderation on the…
Social media giant Meta scraps fact-checking for ‘community notes’ | Social Media News
Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, says allowing fact-checkers to assess content ‘became a tool to censor’.The social media giant Meta, which owns Instagram and…
Tech billionaires help bankroll Trump’s inauguration. What to know
Tech executives, attempting to ease tensions with President-elect Donald Trump, are opening up their wallets after the former president staged a historic return to the…
Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp down in mass Meta outage
Users of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp have experienced difficulties accessing them due to a mass global outage."We're aware that a technical issue is impacting some…