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

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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.

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The European Union on Monday issued Facebook parent company Meta with a list of objections over of its online classifieds business, Facebook Marketplace.

Robot vacuum companies say your images are safe, but a sprawling global supply chain for data from our devices creates risk.

A prominent video game creator who helped lead Facebook's expansion into virtual reality has resigned from the social networking service's corporate parent after becoming disillusioned with the way the technology is being managed. John Carmack cut his ties with Meta Platforms, a holding company created last year by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, in a Friday letter that vented his frustration as he steeped down as an executive consultant in virtual reality.

Is a US state considering a tax on breathing? Is celebrating goals forbidden during the Qatar World Cup because that is "too gay?" Did insect repellent manufacturers recruit a Ugandan man for his mosquito-killing farts? Satire, parody and jokes packed with absurdity typically draw laughter, but around the world they are too often mistaken as real, prompting fact-checkers to debunk what they call a leading source of misinformation despite pushback from their publishers.

Memos show Facebook, now Meta, employees raising concern about company research that showed Instagram made girls feel worse about their bodies.

EU privacy regulators say Facebook and Instagram must not force users to agree to tracking by putting this requirement into their terms. This business model is illegal according to the GDPR.

Meta's head of people also said the company will no longer take a public stance on political issues unless the issue is "core" to Meta's business.

Facebook says it may “be forced to consider removing news.”

An investigation found Facebook accepted 15 out of 20 ads including death threats towards election workers. TikTok and YouTube suspended those accounts.

It's being reported by several sources that Facebook's parent company, Meta, has been ordered to sell Giphy by the UK's Competition and Markets Authority. The company, then known simply as Facebook, bought the Gif-sharing search engine last year for a reported $315m (£236m). Meta planned to integrate Giphy's vast database of looping short video animations with another of its existing social-media platforms, Instagram. But the CMA ruled the purchase unfair to competing social-media platforms.

Meta has scrapped the development of its health and messaging-focused smartwatch, in an abrupt end to the company's plans to directly compete with the Apple Watch. Employees were reportedly told on Friday that work on its smartwatch project would be halted as part of a cost-cutting effort that will involve structural changes to the company.