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The new feature, if rolled out, will enable users to select their favourite contacts which might appear with a specific chat filter.

"Meta stated in a blog post on Tuesday that 'Take It Down' is a program aimed at assisting teens in reclaiming control over their intimate images and preventing individuals, including scammers, ex-partners, and others, from distributing them online.

In 2024 so far, Zuckerberg has already seen his net worth increase by $14.3 billion, in movements that have put him in fifth place on Bloomberg’s Billionaire Index.

Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta, mentioned in the fourth-quarter earnings call that Threads is experiencing steady growth.

Under the new IT Rules 2021, big digital and social media platforms, with more than 5 million users, have to publish monthly compliance reports.

Meta's new feature aims for teens to log off after 10 minutes on Reels or Direct Messages late at night, promoting healthier sleep habits

Meanwhile, Meta has announced that it will start to hide more types of age-inappropriate content for teens on Instagram and Facebook, in line with expert guidance.

The new update will mean that users will now be able to post stories from WhatsApp Web!

Instagram head Adam Mosseri said in a post that the company is working to extend its fact-checking programme on Threads next year

The new "view once" feature will be very handy to users intending to share sensitive, private information with friends.

The end-to-end encrypted conversations also offer additional functionality including the ability to edit messages, higher media quality and disappearing messages.

The company gave no reason for the move but it may be related to Europes Digital Markets Act (DMA) that requires big tech companies to offer interoperability between messaging platforms.

In October, Russian authorities classified Meta as a "terrorist and extremist" organization, opening the way for possible criminal proceedings against Russian residents using its platforms.

WhatsApp is reportedly rolling out a new secret code feature for locked chats on Android to some beta testers

Chinese videogame maker Tencent has agreed to start selling a new headset from Meta, cheaper than Quest 3, late next year, reports The Wall Street Journal.

According to TechCrunch, Meta has introduced a new feature enabling users to connect their Facebook and Instagram accounts to Amazon, enabling them to make purchases by clicking on promotions in their feeds.

Advertisers will now have to disclose whenever political ads contain a photorealistic image or video, or realistic sounding audio, that was digitally created or altered to depict a real person as saying or doing something they did not say or do.

Creators will earn based on the number of reels plays and photo views they receive during the bonus period, as long as the content passes Content Monetisation Policies.

Meta-owned WhatsApp banned a record 71 lakh bad accounts in India in the month of September, in compliance with the new IT Rules 2021.

WhatsApp, which has over 500 million users in India, received another record 10,442 complaint reports in September in the country, and the records "actioned" were 85