You can now pay to be verified on Facebook and Instagram in the US
If you want to be verified on Facebook or Instagram, you can now pay Mark Zuckerberg some money to make it happen. The CEO of …
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Meta announces 10,000 more layoffs
Meta is doubling down on layoffs after letting thousands of employees go last fall. On Tuesday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg shared a post on his …
Facebook Reels can now last up to 90 seconds
In an attempt to catch up with TikTok, Meta announced a series of upgrades for Facebook Reels on Friday. Most notably, Reels are now 1.5x …
Meta cuts the price of its Quest Pro headset by $500 just months after launch
Sales of the Meta Quest Pro seemingly aren’t going very well. Meta launched the Quest Pro headset back in November 2022 for a starting price …
Meta is developing AI personas for all of its products
Just days after Meta unveiled LLaMA — its large language model for researchers — CEO Mark Zuckerberg is back with consumer-facing news. On Monday, Zuckerberg …
Meta reveals LLaMA language model as AI wars heat up
Generative AI might upend society as we know it or fail to have much of a substantive impact on our lives, but as long as …
Facebook Messenger’s BeReal clone has leaked
It looks like Meta’s Messenger is definitely working on a BeReal clone and we already have the first leaked images of it. Matt Navarra, a …
Tumblr’s iOS revenue more than doubled after it launched its parody verification checkmark
It looks like more people might be willing to pay to be fake verified than actually verified on social media. As reported by TechCrunch, new …
Facebook and Instagram profile verification costs $12 a month
One of the things Meta (formerly Facebook) does best to keep users on its social media platforms is to copy competitors exhaustively. Meta has done …
Facebook will tell you how it uses AI to determine what ads you see
If you’ve wondered why you are seeing an ad in your Facebook feed, Meta is looking to bring more transparency to that. In a blog …
Meta’s plan to popularize Horizon Worlds is to flood it with teenagers
Meta has been struggling to keep Horizon Worlds a thing and its latest plan to do so is to flood the app with teenagers. As …
The Meta Quest 3 is getting a better mixed-reality experience
Mark Zuckerberg is starting to drop hints at what we can expect from the third generation of the Meta Quest, the company’s virtual reality headset …
Messenger launches a ton of features for end-to-end encrypted conversations
Truly private conversations are about to get way better on Messenger. Today, Meta announced a slew of features that it will be adding to end-to-end …
Instagram adds Quiet Mode to tell people to stop DMing you
Instagram is giving you a way to tell people to stop DMing you. In a blog post, the company announced it is rolling out Quiet …
Horizon Worlds won’t uncontrollably shake you on moving platforms anymore
Standing on a moving platform with a friend won’t cause you both to shake uncontrollably anymore in Horizon Worlds. In a blog post, Meta announced …
Meta is further limiting advertisers’ ability to target ads toward teens
Meta is taking more steps to limit advertisers’ abilities to target their advertising campaigns to teens. In a blog post on Tuesday, the company announced …
Meta has fixed that ugly loading screen in Horizon Worlds
Meta is finally fixing that boring and ugly loading screen in Horizon Worlds. In a blog post, the company announced that it is releasing a …
The Meta Quest 2 is getting a GPU boost
The Meta Quest 2 might already be two years old but that doesn’t mean it can’t get more powerful…right? In a blog post, Meta announced …
Meta says it will rip news out of Facebook if journalism bill is passed
Facebook users could find themselves unable to share news in the future if Meta goes through with its threat. As reported by The Verge, Meta …
The Meta Quest Pro can now share video recorded in mixed reality
You can now see everything your Meta Quest Pro sees in your video recordings. Today, Meta announced a number of updates for the Meta Quest …
Your tax software may have shared your financial data with Facebook
If you have been using an online tax preparation website to file your income taxes, you might have had your information packaged up and sent …
Hold on, wasn’t there a worker shortage a few months ago? Suddenly it’s mass layoff season
Less than a month ago, a US Chamber of Commerce executive penned a blog post on the lobbying group’s website lamenting the degree to which …
Facebook parent company Meta is worth less than Home Depot today
Here’s just one example of the financial impact of the malaise that Facebook parent company Meta finds itself mired in these days. As of mid-day …
Mark Zuckerberg to let go 13% of Meta’s employees amid slow revenue and macroeconomic downturn
Today, Meta’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the company will lay off about 13% of its workforce, more than 11,000 employees, to “become a leaner and …
Meta Quest 3 is launching next year despite billions in losses
Mark Zuckerberg is going to run Meta into the ground if he has to in order to make the metaverse a reality. As reported by …
WhatsApp is down in a major outage
WhatsApp is one of the most popular chat apps, with about 2 billion users relying on it to exchange messages with their friends and family …
Facebook Groups adds Reels support, new communication features
During Facebook’s 6th Communities Summit, Meta announced new features coming to Facebook Groups such as the ability to add Reels to these pages as well …
Meta attacks Apple’s iMessage in new WhatsApp ad campaign
The Apple vs. Meta rivalry heated up this week as the company behind Facebook launched a new ad campaign targeting Apple’s iMessage. On Monday, CEO …
Facebook found 400 malicious apps that steal your login – here’s how to protect yourself
In a blog post, Meta says that more than 400 malicious Android and iOS apps that tried to steal people’s Facebook login credentials in 2022 …
Instagram’s latest innovation: More ads
Instagram is in the middle of an existential crisis as its parent-company Meta has been seeing revenue decline due to Apple’s App Tracking Transparency policy …
