Users of Facebook’s leaked artificial intelligence are tasking the tool with generating text for their Tinder profiles and things to say during conversations in the hope of getting a real world date. Although it’s unclear if participants have had any tangible success yet, it still demonstrates how Facebook’s LLaMA model is being used in the wild after the company lost control of it in a leak earlier this month.

Facebook and Instagram users in the United States will soon be able to pay to get a coveted blue check on their account.

Facebook and Instagram users in the United States will soon be able to pay to get a coveted blue check on their account. Meta on Friday began testing a paid verification option for US users of the two social networks, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on Instagram. The company plans to gradually roll out the paid option to more US users over the next few weeks.

The launch comes the same week that the company laid off about 10,000 workers.

will lay off 10,000 more workers and incur restructuring costs ranging from $3 billion to $5 billion, the company announced Tuesday, with CEO Mark Zuckerberg warning economic instability could continue for “many years.”

"If you want to work from home, like four days of work in your pajamas, go to work for Facebook," C3.ai CEO Thomas Siebel told Insider.

Meta gave up this fight in Australia but is still battling US and Canada laws.

Meta says the financial burden of compensating news organizations is not clear

Mark Zuckerberg's company has put a lot of emphasis on short-form videos, even giving creators thousands of dollars for bounties on Reels view counts. No more.

Facebook has been under fire of late. The Mark Zuckerberg-owned firm is suffering as Apple’s privacy changes combined with a tough economic climate hit revenues. Then this week Facebook owner Meta confirmed it was trialling subscriptions, with users asked to pay for extra support when using the social network and its sister site Instagram. Some Facebook users saw this as the beginning of the end; something that Google search trends confirm.

Facebook-parent Meta has launched a subscription service, called Meta Verified, that will allow users to add the coveted blue check mark to their Instagram and Facebook accounts for up to $15 a month by verifying their identity, its chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said on Sunday, tapping a new revenue channel that has returned mixed success for its smaller rival Twitter.

When a shopper shares their email address at the cash register — to receive an electronic receipt, rather than a paper one — do they really know where their details are being sent? A CBC News review of Facebook user data suggests a variety of well-known retailers in Canada have been sharing customer information with the social media platform's parent company to gain marketing research in return. And it's not clear what steps have been taken to warn shoppers.

Meta's investment into its vision of a VR-connected future for social media remains colossal.

The practice, known as “negative testing,” allows tech companies to “surreptitiously” run down someone’s mobile juice in the name of testing features or issues

What's what with open-source news.

YouTube had no problem passing the same test.

European Union regulators have hit Facebook parent Meta with hundreds of millions in fines for privacy violations and banned the company from forcing users in the 27-nation bloc to agree to personalized ads based on their online activity

Meta is starting the new year with more privacy fines for its business in Europe following enforcement of complaints over the legal basis it claims to run behavioral ads. 

Irish regulators on Wednesday hit Facebook parent Meta with hundreds of millions in fines for online privacy violations and banned the company from forcing European users to agree to personalized ads based on their online activity. Ireland's Data Protection Commission imposed two fines totaling 390 million euros ($414 million) in its decision in two cases that could shake up Meta's business model targeting users with ads based on what they do online.

Last year, Apple announced significant changes to its privacy policy to give users greater control of their data, adding opaqueness and complexity for advertisers. What Apple calls IDFA was a bold move that was set to potentially disrupt advertisers that had depended on relatively easy to gain access to user data to help target advertisements. As Apple implemented these new policies there were many questions as to which advertisers would be most significantly impacted.