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  • Social media titan Mark Zuckerberg testified for a second day Tuesday in a landmark US antitrust trial, defending his conglomerate Meta against accusations it took over Instagram and WhatsApp to devour budding competitors. The federal court trial in Washington has dashed Zuckerberg’s hopes that the return of President Donald Trump to the White House would…

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  • Read a former Meta employee’s review of latest Facebook memoir

    Last week, I read Sarah Wynn-Williams’ Careless People and was reminded of Carl Jung’s Everyman archetype — someone who fears being left out, and often compromises their morals in order to belong. Chapter after chapter, Wynn-Williams details the extraordinary recklessness of Meta’s most senior leadership as the company transformed Facebook from a social media platform to the…

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  • Mark Zuckerberg hosting inauguration day reception for Trump

    Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is co-hosting a black tie reception to celebrate President-elect Donald Trump’s election victory on the day of his inauguration, The Hill reported on Wednesday. Zuckerberg is hosting the event, which is scheduled to last three and a half hours and comes prior to the evening inaugural balls in Washington, D.C., together with Republican…

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  • Facebook creates new community, adds video features to attract young adults

    Facebook, one of the original social media networks, has become known as the platform of parents and grandparents, while young adults take up photo and video apps like Instagram and TikTok. Meta, the company that owns Facebook, is setting out to change that. While Facebook was originally centred on helping users stay in touch with…

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  • Mark Zuckerberg builds doomsday bunker media

    The US tech billionaire is reportedly constructing a Hawaii compound that includes a 5,000-square-foot underground shelter Facebook billionaire Mark Zuckerberg has reportedly started work on a $100 million family compound in Hawaii that will include a 5,000-square-foot underground bunker featuring an escape hatch and a tunnel leading to two connecting mansions. The project is located…

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  • Meta to end cross-messaging between FB and Instagram

    Meta has silently updated its support pages to indicate that the company won’t let users on Instagram message their Facebook contacts anymore. The company, as pointed out by 9to5Google, said the feature will shut down mid-December — without specifying a date. The support page indicates that while you won’t be able to start new cross-platform…

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  • Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has claimed that Elon Musk, the owner of X, formerly known as Twitter, is not serious about holding a “cage fight.” In a post on Threads, a digital social media platform launched on July 5 as a competitor to X, Zuckerberg said he offered Musk “a real date” for the fight.…

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  • Mark Zuckerberg is training with UFC icons Israel Adesanya and Alex Volkanovski ahead of his rumoured fight with Elon Musk. It was suggested that the billionaires could lock their horns when Tesla owner Musk called out Facebook founder Zuckerberg on social media in June. Judging by these latest images Musk will have his work cut…

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  • Social media giants essentially granted government officials the ability to censor and suppress speech in the name of fighting “misinformation,” by providing them direct access to flag posts and an open line of communication with senior executives, according to a report by The Intercept. The outlet found that the short-lived Disinformation Governance Board wasn’t the…

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  • Meta Platforms Inc (META.O) Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg will testify in a case by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) that argues the company’s proposed deal to buy virtual reality (VR) content maker Within Unlimited should be blocked. In a court document filed with U.S. District Court Northern District Of California on Friday, the FTC listed 18…

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  • Facebook and Instagram may be shut down across Europe, parent company Meta has said. The issue comes down to European data regulations that prevent Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, from transferring, storing and processing Europeans’ data on US-based servers. European leaders, however, have embraced Meta’s warning. “After I was hacked I have lived…

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  • META has hit major problems amid its biggest market value wipe-out ever. Social media giant Meta has delivered a gloomy outlook in its first earnings since undergoing a major rebrand in late 2021. The company suffered a staggering sell-off last week as its stock plummeted 26% and its market value plunged by more than $230…

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  • Thumbs down for Facebook as users opt to #DeleteFacebook in a further blow to social media giant. Facebook is suffering another blow this week as calls for users to delete the social media platform went viral on Twitter on Friday with the hashtag #DeleteFacebook. The unwanted attention comes after Meta – the parent company that…

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  • A once-ambitious but now faltering Facebook-backed digital currency project known as Diem is dead, its assets sold to bank holding company Silvergate Capital. Silvergate and the Diem Association announced the sale on Tuesday. Meta, which owns Facebook, did not have a comment. A Facebook spokesperson, however, pointed to tweets by Stephane Kasriel, head of Meta’s…

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  • French regulators on Thursday fined Google and Facebook a total of more than 200 million euros ($226 million) for not making it as easy for people to opt out of online tracking as it is for them to accept it. The CNIL data privacy watchdog said its investigations found that while the U.S. online giants gave French…

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  • Social media giant Facebook is planning to rebrand the company with a new name next week. As per The Verge, the company is planning to change its name to reflect its focus on building the metaverse, according to a source with direct knowledge of the matter. The name change, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans to…

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