Meta’s move into the open social web, also known as the fediverse, is puzzling. Does the Facebook owner see open protocols as the future? Will it embrace the fediverse only to shut it down, shifting people back to its proprietary platforms and decimating startups building in the space? Will it bring its advertising empire to […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Monday won the dismissal of some claims in a dozen lawsuits accusing him of concealing from the public that Facebook and Instagram were harmful to children. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers in Oakland, California, came in the sprawling litigation by children pursuing hundreds of lawsuits accusing Meta and other social media companies of addicting them to their platforms. Twenty-five of those cases sought to hold Zuckerberg personally...
They are the peaceful havens in Sheffield where you’re neighbours are not likely to be throwing fireworks at 3am. When it comes to anti-social behaviour, there are some parts of Sheffield that see more complaints than others, and we have looked at the figures to find out the places with the fewest complaints of the problem. There are a number of crimes associated with anti-social behaviour (ASB), including those relating to fireworks, neighbours, alcohol, nuisance motorbikes or quad bikes or...
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FEATURE (THE CONVERSATION) — The U.S. government moved closer to banning the video social media app TikTok on Apr. 23 after the Senate approved a $95 billion foreign aid bill. The bill includes a provision to force ByteDance, the Chinese company that owns TikTok, to either sell its American holdings to a U.S. company or […]
HF Advisory Group LLC increased its holdings in Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ:META – Free Report) by 44.8% in the 4th quarter, according to the company in its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The firm owned 6,307 shares of the social networking company’s stock after buying an additional 1,951 shares during the […]
The unique relationship between social media and AI continues to develop in interesting ways, with Reddit’s recent deal with Google allowing their AI to train on its content, and tech companies’ sudden interest in once-popular social media sites like Photobucket. But there is a question looming in the background of these deals: Even if AI companies can train their models on social media, is doing so really such a good idea? AI companies have largely relied on the internet, especially...