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Among the new features is Layout, which allows users to turn up to six photos into a customized collage using editing tools to arrange them as desired. Another key addition is More with Music, letting users create a Status entirely centered around a particular song or use a music sticker to set the right mood.

Zuckerberg took the stand for the third day in the trial, wrapping up his testimony as the first witness Wednesday afternoon. He took questions from Meta attorney Mark Hansen, who has argued that his client hardly has a monopoly in social media, as the FTC claims, and still faces stiff global competition.

Users have reported difficulties in sending and receiving messages, with some also reporting problems with voice calls and other app functionalities.

The company also introduced additional protections whereby teenagers under 16 will no longer be able to go live or disable filters that block unwanted images in direct messages without a parent's approval.

LLaMA 4 Scout, equipped with 17 billion active parameters and 16 experts, runs efficiently on a single NVIDIA H100 GPU and introduces an industry-first 10 million token context window. It surpasses competitors like Gemma 3, Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite, and Mistral 3.1 in performance. On the other hand, LLaMA 4 Maverick also features 17 billion active parameters but scales up with 128 experts and a total of 400 billion parameters. It outperforms GPT-4o and Gemini 2.0 Flash in benchmark tests, all while remaining cost-effective

On Wednesday, his focus was explicitly on skilled workers.

Users had raised concerns over the extensive push of violent and graphic content being recommended on their personal "Reels" page. Several took to social media platforms to talk about the sudden influx of such content on their Instagram pages

According to a job listing on Meta's website, the company is hiring an engineering director who will be responsible for building a strong technical team in Bengaluru

Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp parent company Meta announced a new 50,000 Km undersea cable project 'Waterworth' to enhance digital connectivity between India and the US

The Chandrababu-led government is set to launch WhatsApp governance on Thursday (January 30), becoming the first State in India to roll out such a facility

CEO Mark Zuckerberg expects 2025 to “be the year when a highly intelligent and personalised AI assistant reaches more than 1 billion people”

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg criticized fact-checkers, claiming they were "too politically biased" and had eroded trust rather than building it. He expressed Meta's renewed focus on free expression and promised simpler policies to reduce moderation errors. "It's time to get back to our roots," Zuckerberg declared, signaling a shift towards fostering less restrictive online communication.

Social media giant aims to end its third-party fact-checking programme and scale back policies on hate speech and abuse

The overhauling of content-moderation policy signals that the social media giant is entering a more partisan political era

The donation comes just weeks after Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg met with Trump privately at Mar-a-Lago. A Meta spokesperson confirmed the offering Thursday. The news was first reported by The Wall Street Journal.

Transcripts are rolling out globally over the coming weeks with a few select languages to start, and the company plans to add more languages over the coming months

From September 1 to September 30, the company banned 8,584,000 accounts, with 1,658,000 of those accounts being proactively removed before any user reports, according to the social media platform's monthly compliance report under the new IT Rules 2021.

Meta did not immediately comment on how many employees were impacted in the latest round of job cuts.

In compliance with the Digital Markets Act (DMA), Meta is overhauling WhatsApp and Messenger to support interoperability with third-party messaging services. The company announced plans to introduce new features, including group messaging in 2025 and calling capabilities by 2027.

Although Meta has enforced strict guidelines to combat voter interference, threats of violence, and election misinformation on platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, and Threads, these rules have not been applied to WhatsApp Channels