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Zuckerberg dines with Trump in Mar-a-Lago

Donald Trump dined on Wednesday with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg at the president-elect’s Mar-a-Lago club in Florida. The visit brought together the Facebook founder and the former president who was once banned from that social network.

Meta unveils cheaper VR headset, AI updates and shows off prototype for holographic AR glasses

Judge dismisses Meta shareholder lawsuit claiming that directors’ obligations extend beyond company

Meta attorneys ask judge to dismiss shareholder suit alleging failure to address human trafficking

Zuckerberg meets LG, Samsung chiefs in Seoul as Meta ramps up AI ambitions

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TikTok is designed to be addictive to kids and causes them harm, US states’ lawsuits say

More than a dozen states and the District of Columbia have filed lawsuits against TikTok on Tuesday, alleging the popular short-form video app is harming youth mental health by designing its platform to be addictive to kids.

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Meta unveils cheaper VR headset, AI updates and prototype for holographic AR glasses

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Meta posts sharp profit, revenue increase in Q4 thanks to cost cuts and advertising rebound

Meta Platforms Inc. tripled its profit and posted sharply higher revenue in the final quarter of 2023, boosted by a rebound in digital advertising as well cost cutting and layoffs in what CEO Mark Zuckerberg called the “year of efficiency.”

Mark Zuckerberg’s long apology tour: A brief history

Mark Zuckerberg has accumulated a long history of public apologies, often issued in the wake of crisis or when Facebook users rose up against unannounced — and frequently unappreciated — changes in its service.

Sheryl Sandberg, who helped to turn Facebook into digital advertising empire, to leave company board

Sheryl Sandberg, who helped to transform Facebook from a tech startup into a digital advertising empire, will step down from the board of Meta, Facebook’s parent company.

The year of social media soul-searching: Twitter dies, X and Threads are born and AI gets personal

We lost Twitter and got X. We tried out Bluesky and Mastodon (well, some of us did). We fretted about AI bots and teen mental health. We cocooned in private chats and scrolled endlessly as we did in years past.

Meta attorneys ask judge to dismiss suit claiming that directors’ obligations extend beyond company

Attorneys for Meta and Mark Zuckerberg are asking a Delaware judge to dismiss a shareholder lawsuit asserting that the loyalties of company directors should not lie exclusively with the social media giant.

Meta makes end-to-end encryption a default on Facebook Messenger

Meta is rolling out end-to-end encryption for calls and messages across its Facebook and Messenger platforms, the company announced Thursday.

Facebook parent sued by New Mexico alleging it has failed to shield children from predators

New Mexico’s attorney general is suing the parent company of Facebook and Instagram claiming it failed to protect underage users from exposure to child sexual abuse material and let adults solicit pornographic imagery from them.

Whistleblower allegation: Harvard muzzled disinfo team after $500 million Zuckerberg donation

A prominent disinformation scholar is accusing Harvard University in a whistleblower disclosure of muzzling her speech and stifling — then dismantling — her research team as it launched a deep dive into a damning trove of Facebook files.

A Meta engineer saw his own child face harassment on Instagram. Now, he’s testifying before Congress

On the same day whistleblower Frances Haugen was testifying before Congress about the harms of Facebook and Instagram to children in the fall of 2021, Arturo Béjar, then a contractor at the social media giant, sent an email to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg about the same topic.

Mark Zuckerberg undergoes knee surgery after the Meta CEO got hurt during martial arts training

Mark Zuckerberg’s latest martial arts sparring session sent him to the operating table. The Meta Platforms CEO and mixed martial arts enthusiast posted on social media Friday that he tore one of his anterior cruciate ligaments, or ACLs, while training for a fight early next year.

Social media is awash in misinformation about Israel-Gaza war, but Musk’s X is the most egregious

While Twitter has always struggled with combating misinformation about major news events, it was still the go-to place to find out what’s happening in the world.

Meta and X questioned by lawmakers over lack of rules against AI-generated political deepfakes

US Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota and U.S. Rep. Yvette Clarke of New York sent a letter Thursday to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and X CEO Linda Yaccarino expressing “serious concerns” about the emergence of AI-generated political ads on their platforms and asking each to explain any rules they’re craf

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg kicks off developer conference with focus on AI, virtual reality

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg kicked off the tech giant’s Connect developer conference on Wednesday with a focus on virtual and augmented reality and artificial intelligence.

Parkland school shooting survivor develops Joy, an app built on AI that helps people heal

Kai Koerber was a junior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School when a gunman murdered 14 students and three staff members on Valentine’s Day in 2018.

Tech industry leaders endorse regulating artificial intelligence at rare summit in Washington

At a closed-door Senate forum, tech leaders loosely endorsed the regulation of artificial intelligence.

Mark Zuckerberg says a web version of Threads will be available in the next few days

Threads users, get happy – you will finally be able to use the social media platform without an app. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a Threads post on Tuesday morning that a web version of the app will be rolling out over the next few days.

Elon Musk says he may need surgery before proposed ‘cage match’ with Mark Zuckerberg

Elon Musk says he may need to get surgery before a proposed “cage match” with Mark Zuckerberg. The two tech billionaires seemingly agreed to an in-person face-off in late June.

Musk says his cage fight with Zuckerberg will be streamed on X

Elon Musk says his potential in-person fight with Mark Zuckerberg would be streamed live on his social media site X, formerly known as Twitter. The two tech billionaires seemingly agreed to a “cage match” face-off in late June.

Republican-led committee calls off vote to hold Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg in contempt

A House committee has called off a vote on a recommendation that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg be held in contempt of Congress for failing to fully supply documents related to an investigation into supposed censorship of conservatives by tech companies.

House Republicans plan to hold Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg in contempt of Congress

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is being threatened with contempt of Congress. Republican Rep. Jim Jordan says his House Judiciary Committee will vote Thursday on a resolution to hold Zuckerberg in contempt.

Facebook parent Meta makes public its ChatGPT rival Llama

Facebook parent company Meta Platforms has built an artificial intelligence system that rivals the likes of ChatGPT and Google’s Bard but it’s taking a different approach: releasing it for free.

Quick grants from tech billionaires aim to speed up science research. But not all scientists approve

Patrick Collison, the now 34-year-old billionaire CEO of the online payments company Stripe, and economist Tyler Cowen worried scientific progress seemed to be slowing down. They wanted to chage that.

Meta’s new Twitter rival app Threads gets tens of millions of sign-ups in its first day

Tens of millions of people have quickly signed up to Meta’s new app, Threads, as it aims to compete with Twitter.

Tech billionaires’ cage match? Musk throws down the gauntlet and Zuckerberg accepts challenge

Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg are ready to fight, offline. In a now-viral back-and-forth seen on Twitter and Instagram this week, the two tech billionaires seemingly agreed to a “cage match” face off.

Facebook owner wants preteens to step into virtual reality with its Quest headset

The corporate parent of Facebook and Instagram plans to open a digital gateway for kids as young as 10 years old to enter virtual reality through the Meta Quest headset, despite rising concerns about children spending too much time on social media.