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Whistleblowers have alleged that Meta Platforms Inc-owned (​​NASDAQ: FB) Facebook's act of blocking news pages in Australia was a deliberate negotiating tactic to thwart a potential law, according to The Wall Street Journal. What Happened: Meta had publicly called the resulting chaos...

Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ: FB) social media platform Facebook is reportedly pulling the plug on “Nearby Friends” and some other location-based features. What Happened: The Mark Zuckerberg-led platform said Time Alerts, Location History, and Background Location are also getting the ax,...

Investors who bought stocks during the COVID-19 market crash in 2020 have generally experienced some big gains in the past two years. But there is no question some big-name stocks performed better than others since the pandemic bottom. Meta's Bumpy Ride: One company that has been a roller...

Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ: FB) says it is giving away research surrounding a large language model in its commitment to “open science.” What Happened: The artificial intelligence (AI) language it is sharing is called Open Pretrained Transformer (OPT-175B). Meta says it...

Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ: FB) Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen, who leaked Facebook documents last year, has said that she is "cautiously optimistic" about Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) CEO Elon Musk's Twitter Inc (NYSE: TWTR) acquisition. During a recent interview, Haugen said that...

Former U.S. President Donald Trump is reportedly back on social media after a long hiatus. Not on Twitter Inc (NYSE: TWTR) or Meta Platforms Inc's (NASDAQ: FB) Facebook and Instagram, but TRUTH Social, a platform that has his...

Shares of social media and metaverse company Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ: FB) traded higher Wednesday after market close. The move came after the company reported first-quarter financial results. Here are the key takeaways from the earnings report from analysts. The Meta Platforms Analysts:...

Social media platform and metaverse company Meta Platforms (NASDAQ: FB) announced first quarter earnings after market close Wednesday. Here are the highlights. What Happened: First-quarter revenue of $27.91 billion was up 7%. The total came in below the consensus estimate of $28.21 billion,...

Jack Sweeney, the enterprising teenager who created a Twitter Inc (NYSE: TWTR) bot to track down Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk's movements, has a backup plan “just in case” his account on the microblogging account is shut down after the billionaire entrepreneur...

European Union countries and EU lawmakers have agreed upon a stringent regulation to curtail illegal content on online platforms.  The bloc agreed on the broad terms of the Digital Services Act, or DSA, which will force tech companies to take greater responsibility for content optimization on...

Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL) has called out Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ: FB) for charging creators close to 50% for all virtual sales in its metaverse. What Happened: Earlier this week, Meta said it would take a 47.5% fee from creators selling virtual assets in its Horizon Worlds metaverse.  ...

While snubbing cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase Global, Inc. (NASDAQ: COIN), India's central bank has approved another chunk of 60 million users on UPI for Meta Platforms, Inc (NASDAQ: FB)-owned WhatsApp. With this, WhatsApp will be able to expand the service to its 100 million users...

Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ: FB) on Sunday followed an Oversight Board’s recommendation to remove an exception that permitted users to share a person’s residential address as long as it’s “publicly available.” Last year, Meta asked the Oversight Board to weigh in on its...

In the lead-up to the Philippines' 2022 general elections, Meta Platforms, Inc (NASDAQ: FB) says it has taken down over 400 accounts, Pages, and Groups focused on fake engagements. This comes as a part of the Facebook parent company's move to crack down on hate speech and...

Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ: FB) is reportedly revisiting its digital asset plans after having failed to launch Diem, a cryptocurrency that it spent years developing. What Happened: Meta is looking to introduce virtual coins, tokens, and lending services to its apps, ...