Meta Completes Another Round of Layoffs in its ‘Year of Efficiency’
Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta completed yet another round of layoffs Wednesday, what is likely the final batch of job cuts the company announced in March.
Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta completed yet another round of layoffs Wednesday, what is likely the final batch of job cuts the company announced in March.
Meta has been hit with a record-setting $1.3 billion fine from European Union (EU) regulators early Monday and was ordered to stop transferring data on EU residents to the United States.
Meta is testing a new payout model that will pay Facebook and Instagram creators based on how many views their Reels get.
Meta has announced a new generative AI model called "ImageBind" that links together six different modalities; images, text, audio, depth, thermal, and IMU.
A new report by The Guardian reveals Facebook and Instagram have become marketplaces for child sex trafficking and parent company Meta is struggling to take sufficient action to prevent criminals from using its platforms.
Meta’s independent Oversight Board says the company can’t start rolling back its efforts to remove misinformation, especially when it comes to Covid misinformation.
The latest round of cuts at Meta will affect Instagram as more layoffs hit the tech company Wednesday.
Facebook users who had an account anytime between May 2007 and December 2022 might be among the tens of millions of users who are entitled to a cash payment from the social media platform.
Facebook is one of the largest social media networks in the world, with about three billion active users. That equates to a massive demand for Facebook support. Like most prominent internet companies, Facebook tries to handle support with automated systems to reduce the burden on its representatives.
Controversial facial recognition company Clearview AI says that it has scraped more than 30 billion photos from social media platforms, and it is being used by more than 2,400 law enforcement agencies around the United States.
The state of Arkansas is suing Meta and TikTok, accusing the social media platforms of misleading consumers about the safety of children on its "addictive" platforms and deceiving users about the protection of their private data.
Meta's promised paid verification program is rolling out to Facebook and Instagram today, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on his Instagram channel.
New data reveals that Instagram is the app that people in the U.S. want to delete more than any other.
Calling it a move to a "year of efficiency," Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced that the company will lay off 10,000 more workers and is closing about 5,000 open job listings.
Not even eight months after launching widespread support for non-fungible tokens (NFTs) on Facebook and Instagram, Meta is pulling the plug.
Meta is cutting its Reels Play bonus program on Instagram and Facebook, which offered monthly payouts to short-form creators who hit certain view counts and other metrics.
Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, is gearing up for another round of layoffs that are expected to affect thousands of employees.
Meta is testing a BeReal-style "Roll Call" feature on its apps which will invite users to add a photo or a video to a prompt to show what they are up to within five minutes.
Mark Zuckerberg's Meta is taking a page out of Elon Musk's Twitter playbook and will roll out paid verification to both Instagram and Facebook starting this week.
Instagram is making its Gifts feature available to more creators in the United States. Gifts are described as a way to more easily earn money from an audience -- easy in theory, but it muddies an already confusing monetization web with Meta-owned properties.
The nipple may soon be freed, at least on Facebook and Instagram. The oversight board for Meta, the parent company of both social media networks, advised the company to change its policy regarding bare chests.
Meta is tightening restrictions on how advertisers on Facebook and Instagram target teenage users.
The public school district in Seattle has filed a lawsuit against the companies behind TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, and Snapchat, accusing them of harming young people’s mental health.
Meta, the parent company of Facebook, is seeing a "rapid rise" in fake profile photos generated by artificial intelligence (AI).
After a year of chasing TikTok's domination in short-form video, Meta is now reportedly considering building its own version of Twitter within its photo-sharing app, Instagram.
Meta has threatened to remove news from Facebook in the U.S. if Congress passes a new media bill that would help local news publications -- with photographers being affected in a potential fallout.
Meta has added age verification to its Facebook Dating platform and will demand video selfies and ID uploads from people it suspects of lying about their age.
A wedding photographer is trying to clear her name after she was accused of not showing up to an engagement photo shoot in a viral social media post.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg apologized to employees after the company confirmed it would lay off 11,000 staff, equivalent to 13 percent of its workforce.
Meta, the parent company of Instagram and Facebook, is planning to begin layoffs that will affect thousands of workers this week.
After a disastrous earnings report, Meta’s plans involve doing more of the same. In this case, by leaning further into NFTs and letting creators mint their own on Instagram.
Instagram was down Monday morning, which would normally be bad enough. However, the outage then locked users out with the notification that their accounts had been suspended.
Meta has revealed that Instagram now has two billion monthly active users worldwide, closing in on the 2.96 billion who use Facebook.
Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, continued its free fall in 2022. The company had more than $65 billion wiped off its market value after it reported another quarter of declining revenues.
Meta has defeated a photographer in a lawsuit that claims Facebook contributes to copyright infringement by letting outside websites embed images shared on the social media platform. However, a San Francisco federal judge has given the photographer permission to file a new complaint.
Tech conglomerate Meta will lose its grip on at least one app it has taken over: Giphy.
As Meta is struggling to revive its falling revenue in order to reverse its downward financial spiral, it is adding new ways for advertisers to clutter up your feeds. Specifically, the Explore feed and grids are about to start getting ads.
What’s old is new again, it seems. Instagram is reportedly testing a new feature that lets users... share status updates.
It doesn't look good for Meta as the company is trading at its lowest stock value since 2019, advertisers are dropping spending, and users are leaving its platforms.
CEO of Meta Mark Zuckerberg has announced a new artificially intelligent (AI) program called Make-A-Video that allows users to create a video from a text description.