-
Meta debuts new Llama 4 models, but most powerful AI model is still to come
Meta has not yet released the biggest and most powerful Llama 4 model, which outperforms other AI models in its class.
-
How Facebook Marketplace is keeping young people on the platform
Facebook Marketplace keeps users engaged with free listings, local pickups, and resale growth, helping Meta stay relevant despite declining teen activity.
-
Mark Zuckerberg says Biden officials would ‘scream' and ‘curse' when seeking removal of Facebook content
On an episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience” released Friday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg painted a picture of Biden administration officials berating Facebook staff during requests to remove certain content from the social media platform.
-
Analysis | The end of Meta's fact-checking program
Misinformation and disinformation have always existed, but false claims can spread faster than ever before thanks to the internet, NBC10 Boston political analyst Sue O’Connell says, sharing recent examples of untrue rumors involving politics creating real-life harms as we dig deeper into the news that Mark Zuckerberg is ending fact-checking on Facebook, Instagram and Threads. ...
...Follow NBC10...
-
Meta is ending its fact-checking program in favor of a ‘community notes' system similar to X
Meta will end its fact-checking program with trusted partners and replace it with a community-driven system similar to X’s Community Notes.
-
UFC's Dana White joins Meta's board weeks before Trump takes office
UFC CEO Dana White, a longtime friend of Donald Trump, is joining the board of Meta two weeks before the new administration begins.
-
Meta launches a new tool to combat scams and restore locked accounts
Meta has launched a new tool to help social media users access their accounts quicker after they have been locked out.
-
Facebook, Instagram and other Meta apps go down due to ‘technical issue'
Facebook, Instagram and other Meta apps are down due to a ‘technical issue’
-
Meta oversight panel says political content cuts could limit dissent in crises including Venezuela's
Meta’s efforts to scale back political content on its platforms could limit the reach of people’s expressions of dissent or awareness during crises, including Venezuela’s post-election crisis. That’s according to a decision issued Thursday by the company’s oversight panel after reviewing two videos taken after the July election in the South American country. The quasi-independent Oversight Board urged the social...
-
Zuckerberg says the White House pressured Facebook over some COVID-19 content during the pandemic
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says senior Biden administration officials pressured Facebook to “censor” some COVID-19 content during the pandemic.
-
Meta blames tech glitch for outages impacting Facebook and Instagram
Facebook went down Tuesday morning in a major social media outage.
-
Facebook is getting rid of the News tab in the U.S. and Australia
Meta said it would remove a dedicated section for news articles in April that will affect Facebook users in the United States and Australia.
-
Meta technical error causes chirping sound while scrolling on Facebook. Here's how to turn it off
Facebook has a new sound that appears while scrolling on the app. The social media giant’s parent company, Meta, says the sound is part of a technical error.
-
How to turn off noises on the Facebook app
Facebook says a technical error has caused the app to make a sound when scrolling through the app on your cell phone. While a fix is in the works, here’s how your can turn it off.
-
Researcher calls for investigation into the relationship between Harvard and Facebook
“I am calling for an investigation into understanding how Facebook and Harvard in particular interact,” Joan Donovan told Cory Smith and Sue O’Connell.
-
@Issue: Researcher says Harvard fired her to protect Facebook
Joan Donovan a prominent disinformation scholar who left Harvard University last summer says she was terminated from her position at the university as she launched a deep dive in late 2021 into a trove of Facebook files she considers the most important documents in internet history.
-
Dozens of states sue Meta over ‘addictive features'
A bipartisan group of 41 attorneys general is suing the parent company of Facebook and Instagram.