Meta’s microblogging social media platform, Threads, has exceeded 100 million daily active users, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on December 17.
Traditional media companies the world over are in a battle for survival as precious advertising dollars are hoovered up online.
Meta’s social media platforms, Facebook and Instagram, experienced significant outages on Wednesday night, affecting thousands of users globally.
Meta, the parent company of Facebook, announced on Wednesday plans to invest $10 billion in building its largest data centre to date, a state-of-the-art facility in Richland Parish, Louisiana. The hyperscale data centre will support the processing demands of artificial intelligence (AI) workloads.
Meta has announced plans to explore nuclear energy as part of its efforts to power artificial intelligence advancements and support its environmental objectives. The company revealed on Tuesday that it will issue a request for proposals (RFP) to identify developers capable of building 1 to 4 gigawatts of new nuclear power capacity reactors in the United States.
Meta is planning to construct a vast $10 billion fibre-optic subsea cable network, spanning over 40,000 kilometres and avoiding areas of geopolitical tension, according to a recent report by TechCrunch.
India’s Competition Commission (CCI) has fined Meta Platforms $25.4 million and restricted the company from sharing data between WhatsApp and its other apps for advertising purposes, according to a recent report by Reuters.
Germany's Federal Court of Justice (BGH) has ruled that Facebook users whose data was illegally accessed in 2018 and 2019 are eligible for compensation.
Facebook has recently announced to shift its focus to "views" as the primary metric for measuring content performance, aligning its approach with Instagram’s existing system.
Facebook owner Meta Platforms Inc (META.O) has agreed to pay $725 million to resolve a class-action lawsuit accusing the social media giant of allowing third parties, including Cambridge Analytica, to access users' personal information.
WhatsApp is introducing a new feature that will let users retrieve their deleted messages on the platform.
Bangladesh government has increased its content removal and user information requests to global companies including Facebook, Google, and TikTok.
Meta will reportedly be unable to run advertisements based on users' personal data, states a confidential new EU filing.
An oversight panel said on Tuesday Facebook and Instagram put business over human rights when giving special treatment to rule-breaking posts by politicians, celebrities and other high-profile users.
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The new messaging feature on WhatsApp will be available to all Android and iPhone users in the coming weeks.
According to Facebook-parent Meta, the government sent 659 requests for the data to Facebook over the 6-month period.
According to a report by research-based online publication Cybernews, the phone numbers of 487 million WhatsApp users have been stolen and sold on a "well-known" hacker forum which includes information of 3.8 Million Bangladeshi users.
Meta has now brought Facebook Reels to everyone in Bangladesh, enabling users to make short-form videos.
