Group was put in place to address potential downsides of the company’s products; Meta says efforts will continue.

A recently unsealed court document offers some concerning insights.

Meta’s “Responsible Innovation Team,” a group meant to address “potential harms to society” is no more

Two Meta engineers were grilled about the company's data storage systems in court, and the transcript of their answers was recently unsealed.

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On a recent episode of Joe Rogan's podcast, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said he thinks people should prioritize connection over content on social media.

What is best in life? Being right about another man’s failures. Watching his allies abandon him. And hearing the lamentations of his shareholders. Call me the world’s happiest cynic, then, because when I predicted the utter and catastrophic failure of Facebook’s rebranding as “Meta” starting less than a year ago, I genuinely didn’t think it would all unravel as quickly and ignominiously as it has.

The company behind Facebook has created an AI that could one day be used to help nonverbal people better communicate

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Facebook's corporate parent has reached a tentative settlement in a lawsuit alleging the world's largest social network service allowed millions of its users' personal information to be fed to Cambridge Analytica

Mark Zuckerberg said Facebook has no "shadow banning" policy, but admitted that mistakes do happen. In a three-hour interview on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast, the Meta CEO talked about topics from the metaverse to his views on the credibility of the FBI, calling it a "legitimate institution."

Meta Platforms Inc's chief of its virtual reality social platform Horizon, the main gateway for accessing the metaverse that the company is pouring billions of dollars into building, is leaving for a new opportunity, he told Reuters on Friday. A spokesman for Facebook-owner Meta confirmed the departure of Vice President Vivek Sharma and said his team would report directly to Vishal Shah, vice president of Metaverse.

The News Feed is overrun.

Last week, Meta showed yet another cringeworthy product of its $10.2 billion investment in the metaverse: a demonic VR porcelain doll of Mark Zuckerberg that looked worse than a Second Life avatar from 2003. Hastily released in response to yet another round of universal mockery from all over the internet, it was still only marginally more expressive, and slightly more alive, than a Ken doll.

The days of Twitch partner exclusivity are over. Twitch told partnered streamers in an email this morning that the platform was lifting its long-standing exclusivity agreement that denied partners the ability to stream on other services. Partners will now be able to stream on YouTube, Facebook Live, and other platforms — though in some cases, Twitch still limits what they’re able to do.

Facebook is the latest large tech company to begin mass layoffs, choosing 60 contractors reportedly at random using an algorithm. The unlucky contractors were employed by Meta via its Austin office of Accenture — despite the company having a nearly half-billion-dollar deal with Meta to provide workers in content moderation and business integrity.

Facebook-owner Meta said Thursday it had kicked one of the most influential US anti-vaccination groups off the social media network for spreading Covid-19 misinformation. The Children’s Health Defense (CHD), which has been a critic of Covid vaccines, immediately accused Meta of stifling its free speech rights.

The nation will soon decide key congressional and gubernatorial races in the midst of worsening political polarization that Facebook has become synonymous with.

Facebook failed to detect blatant election-related misinformation in ads ahead of Brazil’s 2022 election, a new report from Global Witness has found, continuing a pattern of not catching material that violates its policies the group describes as “alarming.”

Users who do not opt in to encryption could be vulnerable to unwitting access to their messages – including police searches