Meta blocked a local paper that published a column criticizing Facebook. The tech giant said it was accidental.
New studies claim that the absence of news content on Facebook has undermined political discourse on the platform.
Meta announced today that it would begin labeling content it identifies as made by AI-based tools on its Instagram, Threads, and Facebook social media networks in May, along with more fact-checking.
Here's how to disable (or at least ignore) Meta AI on the Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and WhatsApp apps
Meta is pushing ahead with its efforts to make its generative AI-powered products available to more users. Apart from testing Meta AI chatbot with users in countries like India on WhatsApp, the company is also experimenting with putting Meta AI in the Instagram search bar for both chat with AI and content discovery. The search […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
The chatbot is being integrated as a feature across Meta platforms. Here's what we know.
'The ambient presence of journalism and true information in our feeds, the signals of reliability that were there, that's gone,' Taylor Owen, founding director of McGill University's Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy, says
Since Meta blocked links to news in Canada last August to avoid paying fees to media companies, right-wing meme producer Jeff Ballingall says he has seen a surge in clicks for his Canada Proud Facebook page. Our numbers are growing and we're reaching more and more people every day, said Ballingall, who publishes up to 10 posts a day and has some 540,000 followers. Media is just going to get more tribal and more niche, he added. This is just igniting it further. Canada has become ground...
Parent company Meta also to add ‘high-risk’ label to Al-altered content that deceives the public on ‘a matter of importance’Meta, owner of Facebook and Instagram, announced major changes to its policies on digitally created and altered media on Friday, before elections poised to test its ability to police deceptive content generated by artificial intelligence technologies.The social media giant will start applying “Made with AI” labels in May to AI-generated videos, images and audio posted on...
April 11 (UPI) — Meta said Thursday it is testing new features designed to help protect young people on its Instagram platform from being coerced into providing explicit images of themselves and then coerced for money. To combat the practice, known as “sextortion,” Meta said it will take a series of steps including introducing a […] The post Meta testing auto-blurring nudity in Instagram DMs to fight ‘sextortion’ first appeared on Gephardt Daily.
Meta AI is rolling out across its social media platforms WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook and Messenger.
Taylor Swift and US Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have been victims of artificial intelligence-generated deepfake porn in recent months.