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Facebook parent company Meta to lay off more than 11,000 employees

“Today I’m sharing some of the most difficult changes we’ve made in Meta’s history,” CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a letter to staff.

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UK teen launches campaign to add glasses to emojis

British 13-year-old, Lowri Moore, who convinced Disney to create a bespectacled heroine (in the film 'Encanto'), visits Google and Meta headquarters in London to demand more emoji options with glasses

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Instagram says it fixed bug that led user accounts to be suspended

Instagram said it resolved a "bug" after many users around the world suddenly had their accounts suspended.

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Euroviews. Twitter takeover: Why does Elon Musk's multi-billion buyout matter?

The day has finally come that Elon Musk can proudly swan into his new office. But does he even know what he's just bought? And why does it matter, considering how many people actually use the social media network?

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Musk's Twitter 'bird will fly by EU rules,' Brussels warns on takeover

EU commissioner Thierry Breton issued the warning after Musk sealed the $44 billion deal and fired Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal and two other executives.

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WhatsApp says service back after outage disrupts messages

A message was showing for many users at the top of the app, saying it was "connecting" but then failing to do so.

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Meta accepts UK regulator order to sell Giphy due to antitrust issues

A UK court upheld its view that Meta's purchase of GIF platform Giphy could damage its rivals and remove a potential competitor in advertising.

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Will the death of a British teenager hold social media accountable?

A 14-year-old teen committed suicide in 2017 after viewing graphic content on social media. Now, the British court is implicating tech giants played a role in her death.

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Beware of malicious apps that want to steal your Facebook login

Facebook found more than 400 of the malicious apps were on official app stores.

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Meta unveils AI tool that turns text into short videos

Facebook’s parent company has taken AI image generation a step further, creating videos from text prompts.

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Meta removes fake accounts from China and Russia over Ukraine content

Some of the fake accounts mimicked news websites and shared content that criticised European countries for supporting Kyiv.

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Ireland fines Instagram €405 million over handling of teens' data

The investigation focused on a setting that allowed teenage minors to set up business accounts that displayed contact details.

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Bring your digital twin into the metaverse thanks to AI face capture

The start-up sees bright prospects for the technology in tomorrow’s metaverse where people need to represent themselves.

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The four new features coming to WhatsApp you need to know about

Users will be able to leave chats silently, choose who can see them when they’re online, and prevent screenshots of "view once" messages being taken.

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Meta’s new AI chatbot is not a fan of Mark Zuckerberg or Facebook

Meta has released its latest AI chatbot to the world. And of course, people immediately started asking what it thinks about Mark Zuckerberg.

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Big Tech should shoulder cost of EU Internet network - leaked document

France, Italy and Spain are urging the EU to back plans that would see tech giants Google, Meta and Netflix share the cost of infrastructure upgrades.

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Instagram takes a ‘big step back’ after user backlash

A user backlash has finally convinced Instagram to go back to its photo-based roots and “stop trying to be TikTok” – for now.

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Global economy tests Big Tech as Apple, Amazon, Meta release earnings

Results were mixed, with Apple faring better than expected while Facebook owner Meta and Google's Alphabet reported falling ad sales amid an economic downturn.

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Facebook parent Meta posts first-ever revenue drop

The social media giant's growth machine has come to a halt.

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Facebook reveals main feed revamp to be more like TikTok

The move is a bid by Facebook's parent company to address the threat of TikTok, reversing its original plans to show more family and friends' post.