My new book Broken Code tells the story ofFacebook’s — now Meta‘s — long-secret work to understand how its platforms shaped its users’ behavior and rein in societal-grade harms that the outside world didn’t understand. Drawing on records gathered by whistleblower Frances Haugen and other company employees, my book reveals …
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Thirty-three states have banded together to sue Facebook and Instagram’s parent company, Meta, accusing it of building and operating platforms that have caused serious harm to young people and adolescents. The lawsuit, filed Oct. 24 in district court in Northern California, claims Meta’s platforms have “profoundly altered the psychological and …
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Winged unicorns dance to a slow lullaby across a pink field of rainbows, cotton candy clouds, and smiling pastel stars. Black text interrupts the scene. “40 INFANTS WERE MURDERED IN ISRAEL BY THE HAMAS TERRORISTS (ISIS). JUST AS YOU WOULD DO EVERYTHING FOR YOUR CHILD. WE WILL DO EVERYTHING TO …
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Meta is going all in on the AI rush, revealing more than two dozen different chat bots with “personalities” loosely based on celebrities like Snoop Dogg and Kendall Jenner. The announcement, made Wednesday at Meta Connect, where the tech giant is unveiling its latest AI and virtual reality projects, confirmed …
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Twitter may be struggling to court advertisers, keep the site actually running, and prevent users from fleeing to eager competitors — but at least the Taliban likes it. On Monday, Anas Haqqani, a senior leader in the Taliban, praised Twitter in response to the launch of Meta’s Threads, a Twitter …
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Threads, a brand-new social app from Instagram that bears more than a passing resemblance to Twitter, has already pulled in a massive user base, notching 50 million signups just a day after launch. The Silicon Valley shakeup is exacerbating tensions between Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, with attorneys for the …
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Within four hours of launching Threads, Mark Zuckerberg posted that 5 million people had registered on the platform. The Twitter competitor went live in the App Store on Wednesday, a day earlier than expected, and as users signed up in droves, Zuckerberg highlighted the milestone. “Just passed 5 million sign …
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A lawyer representing Elon Musk‘s X Corp., which owns Twitter, has sent a letter to Mark Zuckerberg, accusing his company Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, of “systematic, willful, and unlawful misappropriation of Twitter’s trade secrets and other intellectual property” in the creation of its new Threads app. The app, …
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What happens when the world’s biggest keyboard warriors vow to take it to the streets? Well, we might be closer to finding out than ever thanks to a recent online exchange between tech billionaires Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk. The saga began on Tuesday when a tweet about Facebook potentially …
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Meta, the parent company of Facebook, has fired or disciplined dozens of employees and contractors — including Meta security guards — following an internal probe that revealed they were improperly accessing users’ accounts for reasons including bribery. The Wall Street Journal reports that, for years, the employees and contractors wrongly …
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