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San Francisco: Meta-owned Facebook is collecting ultra-sensitive personal data about abortion seekers and allowing anti-abortion organisations to use that data to target and influence people online, media reports say. A joint investigation by Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting and The Markup found that Facebook is already collecting data about people who visit the websites […]

San Francisco: Meta Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced that Quest 2 virtual reality (VR) headset will get Horizon Home as part of a new update. The functionality will help users create their own environments without using third-party apps. “Met up with legendary climber Alex Honnold in the new Horizon Home — launching with […]

San Francisco: Services of Meta-owned photo-sharing platform Instagram started coming back online after being down for several users. On Thursday, reports across the internet noted issues, with many people seeing screens saying they were not logged in, blank image posts, “Welcome to Instagram” messages like they have a brand new account, or feeds that stopped […]

New Delhi:  Meta on Tuesday rolled out updated 3D Avatars on Facebook, Messenger and for the first time on Instagram stories and direct messages in India. Meta, earlier known as Facebook, is also adding new facial shapes and assistive devices for people with disabilities. “Representations in the metaverse should reflect the diversity of the real […]

San Francisco: Meta (formerly Facebook) has banned using the word ‘abortion’ at its internal employee messaging platform called Workplace, citing it “an increased risk” that the social media platform can be seen as a “hostile work environment.” According to a report in The Verge, a Meta executive told employees on Thursday that they are prohibited […]

San Francisco: Meta (formerly Facebook) has paused hirings for several verticals, like shopping and Messenger Kids, which has triggered the fear of lay offs among employees. According to The Verge, Meta has frozen hirings for a number of products. The company recently stopped hiring for certain engineering roles and also for low-level data scientists. Meta […]

San Francisco: Meta has announced to integrate Horizon Venues — an app dedicated to attending live events in virtual reality with its main social VR platform Horizon Worlds. People over 18 in the US and Canada who have access to Horizon Worlds on Quest 2 will be able to access Venues programming in the Horizon Worlds […]

San Francisco: With an aim to make the messaging platform more user friendly, Meta-owned WhatsApp has announced that it is rolling out new features, including emoji reactions, bigger files and groups. The company said that it is slowly rolling out the ability to add up to 512 people to a group, which, till now, allowed […]

New Delhi: Meta has announced to enable creators on its short-video making platform Reels on Facebook, which is a rival to TikTok, earn up to $4,000 per month for original content. The company is introducing “Challenges” on Facebook, a new incentive that helps creators in the Reels Play bonus programme. Meta said it is adjusting how […]

San Francisco: Meta-owned photo sharing platform Instagram is experimenting with full-screen vertical home feeds. In a video posted on micro-blogging site Twitter, Instagram head Adam Mosseri confirmed the test and said that taller photos and videos would begin appearing in some feeds. “We are testing a new, immersive viewing experience in the main Home feed. […]

New Delhi: Meta (formerly Facebook) took down 24.6 million pieces of content across 13 policies for Facebook and over 2.7 million pieces of content across 12 policies for Instagram in the month of March, in accordance with the IT Rules 2021. Between March 1-31, Meta received 656 reports through the Indian grievance mechanism for Facebook, […]

New Delhi: Meta (formerly Facebook) has announced a long-term artificial intelligence (AI) research initiative to better understand how the human brain processes speech and text, and build AI systems that learn like people do. In collaboration with neuroimaging center Neurospin (CEA) and Inria, Meta said it is comparing how AI language models and the brain […]

New Delhi: Meta-owned WhatsApp on Monday said that it banned over 18 lakh bad accounts in India in the month of March in compliance with the new IT Rules 2021. The platform had banned over 14 lakh such accounts in the country in February. The company said that it also received 597 grievance reports in the […]

New York: Meta surged 17.6 per cent on Thursday after a buoyant update for the first time since Q4 in February had sent the stock reeling 26 per cent, its worst-day ever. Facebook changed its name to Meta in October 2021, reflecting CEO Mark Zukerberg’s faith in a future of working, playing and studying in a […]

By Vijay Kumar You can think about this as an embodied internet operated by many different players in a decentralised way. You’re inside of rather than just looking at. We believe that it is going to be the successor to the mobile internet — Mark Zuckerberg, 2021 Euphoric Verse The rapid speed and scale of […]

New Delhi: Meta has announced that people in more than 30 countries can donate and create fundraisers directly in Instagram Reels for more than 1.5 million nonprofits. In celebration of Earth Day on April 22, Meta (formerly Facebook) said that it is adding new features, including highlighting everyday actions and solutions people can take and […]

San Francisco: Meta on Tuesday announced it is testing new features in Horizon Worlds, its social virtual reality (VR) app, that will help creators sell virtual items and make money. In a conversation with Vidyuu Studios, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that creator monetisation and metaverse economy is really important. “There are two new things […]

San Francisco: Meta (formerly Facebook) is ending an exception to its existing rules that allowed users to post private residential information of people on its platforms if it was “publicly available” elsewhere. Reacting to a decision by Facebook Oversight Board, Meta agreed to remove the exception from its policy. “As the board notes in this […]

New Delhi: Meta, which launched the Meta Business Coach tool on WhatsApp as an innovative and easily-accessible way for owners of small-and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) across India, on Friday announced that it plans to expand the reach of the chatbot in India in the coming months. The company said that in less than four months […]

San Francisco: Meta, formerly known as Facebook, is adding a new Slack-like “@everyone” functionality that will notify all participants in a chat about a new message. When you start a message with @everyone, all participants in the chat will be notified. @everyone is perfect for group reminders, impromptu get-togethers or when you need to gather […]