Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk, the owners of competing social media platforms, could soon get into a cage match if their talk on social media is to be believed. Zuckerberg—who co-founded Facebook and whose Meta Platforms Inc. owns Instagram—has reportedly been preparing a new social media platform to compete with Twitter. Musk, who bought out…
Facebook’s Zuckerberg Responds to Cage Match Challenge From Twitter’s Musk
June 22, 2023
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Liberal Bill Requiring Google and Meta to Pay for News Content Passes in Senate
A federal bill that will require Google and Meta to pay media outlets for news content that they share or otherwise repurpose on their platforms is set to become law. The Senate has passed the bill in a final vote and it is now awaiting royal assent amid a standoff between the Liberal government and…
Meta Tests Blocking News Content for Some Canadian Users in Response to Liberals’ Online News Bill
Meta has begun a test that will temporarily block access to news content for some Canadian users on its Facebook and Instagram platforms in response to the Online News Act, a Liberal government bill, and Canadian publishers are not happy. The legislation, Bill C-18, would require digital giants such as Google and Meta to pay Canadian news organizations…
Meta Lowers Minimum Age of Quest Headsets in Bid to Lure Children Into VR
June 17, 2023
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Facebook parent company Meta announced plans to enable children as young as 10 years old to enter virtual reality through its Meta Quest headset later this year, despite a recent advisory warning social media can negatively impact the mental health and well-being of children. “Today we’re announcing changes to give families even more ways to…
Meta’s Facebook, Instagram Down for Thousands of Users, Says Downdetector
Meta Platforms on Friday said it was aware of issues with its Ads Manager, its advertising tool that lets brands buy and create Facebook ads. “Our engineering teams are aware and are actively looking to resolve the issue as quickly as possible,” Meta said on its status page. The status update came just after thousands…
Local News, Quebec Publishers First Targets of Facebook’s Block on Canadian News
Meta has started blocking news for some Canadians on its Facebook and Instagram platforms in response to a Liberal government bill that could soon become law. Chris Dell, news editor of ChrisD.ca, a Winnipeg-based digital news outlet, said some readers informed him Monday that they are no longer able to access content the outlet had posted…
Zuckerberg: Establishment Asked to Censor COVID-19 Posts That Ended Up Being True
June 10, 2023
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Big Tech firms were asked to censor COVID-19 information that ended up being true, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has assessed. “Just take some of the stuff around COVID earlier in the pandemic where there were real health implications, but there hadn’t been time to fully vet a bunch of the scientific assumptions,” Zuckerberg, whose company…
Cory Morgan: The Online News Act Is Nothing but a Cash Grab Foisted on Social Media Platforms
Commentary The standoff between the Trudeau government and large social media platforms over the Online News Act (Bill C-18) is heating up. Meta and Google are both musing about cutting off links to Canadian news sites in response to the proposed shakedown, and it is making news providers dependent upon internet traffic nervous. In today’s…
Meta Introduces Broadcast Tool Channels on WhatsApp
Meta Platforms on Thursday introduced WhatsApp Channels, a feature that the social media giant said would help make the app a “private broadcast messaging product.” Users in Colombia and Singapore will be the first to receive access to Channels. Over the coming months, Meta will expand the availability of the tool for users in more…
Meta to Test Blocking News on Instagram, Facebook for Some Canadians
Meta is preparing to block news for some Canadians on Facebook and Instagram in a temporary test that is expected to last the majority of the month. The Silicon Valley tech giant is following in the steps of Google, which blocked news links for about five weeks earlier this year for some of its Canadian…
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