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Mark Zuckerberg's 'Performance-Based' Layoffs Spark Backlash After Meta Fires Even Top Workers
Meta's layoffs targeting "low performers" spark backlash, with former employees questioning the company's AI shift.
Meta Accused of Silencing Women, Enabling Toxic Work Culture in New Lawsuit
Meta faces a lawsuit alleging a toxic culture that silences women and enables discrimination.
Meta to Lay Off 3,600 Jobs, With Zuckerberg Targeting "Low Performers" in 2025
Meta plans to lay off 5% of its workforce to focus on performance, affecting 3,600 employees as Zuckerberg reshapes the company's strategy and public image.
Meta Fact-Checkers Fight LA Wildfire Conspiracy Theories Ahead of Job Cuts
As Meta phases out professional fact-checkers, teams like Lead Stories work to combat conspiracy theories and misinformation about the recent LA wildfires.
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Meta believes banning Russian state media organizations would stop the rollout of deceptive propaganda online. But what will this mean for the social media platform?
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed that Biden administration officials pressured his company to censor COVID-19 content and admitted in a letter to Congress that some content removal decisions were incorrect.
Turkey blocked 50 million Turkish users' access to Instagram, reportedly in response to the platform removing posts about the death of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh.
Shares of the big tech company Meta jumped by about 7% in extended trading on July 31 after exceeding Wall Street expectations on revenue and profit for the second quarter of 2024.
The lawsuit accused Meta of illegally collecting the biometric information of millions of Texans without consent.
Meta’s Reality Labs has reported $45 billion in losses over the past four years due to chaotic management and frequent leadership changes. Further losses are expected as the division struggles in a competitive AR and VR market.
The new mini-model is an offshoot of GPT-4o, the company's fastest and most powerful AI model to date. Learn the features of this new model here.
Meta will start removing posts that label Jews as "Zionists" and target them for harm, as part of a policy update to balance free speech with preventing hateful attacks.
Meta cannot use Brazilian personal data to build its AI models, according to the country's data protection authorities.
The European Commission alleged that Meta violated digital laws under the Digital Markets Act (DMA) with its subscription-based ad-free model, and $13.5 billion in fines could be imposed.