A prominent disinformation scholar who left Harvard University in August has accused the school of muzzling her speech and stifling — then dismantling — her research team as it launched a deep dive in late 2021 into a trove of Facebook files she considers the most important documents in internet history.
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The nation’s biggest technology executives on Wednesday loosely endorsed the idea of government regulations for artificial intelligence at an unusual closed-door meeting in the U.S. Senate. But there is little consensus on what regulation would look like, and the political path for legislation is difficult.
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Threads users, get happy – you will finally be able to use the social media platform without an app.
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The feud between tech giants Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk has escalated in the past few weeks. The bizarre sequence of events unfolded as Zuckerberg’s Meta — the company that owns Facebook, Instagram, and Whatsapp — launched a new social media platform modeled after Musk’s Twitter. Here’s a look at the history of their feud.
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The Facebook-parent company on Wednesday reported revenue of $32 billion for its quarter ending in June, marking an 11% increase compared to the same period last year and beating Wall Street’s expectations. Meta’s shares rose after the news.
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Mark Zuckerberg’s post was promptly criticized by some who saw the decision to obscure the faces as a reflection of his privacy concerns for sharing pictures of his children online, despite his creating massive platforms that allow millions of other parents to do just that.
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Business rivalry seemingly isn’t enough for two of the tech industry’s most powerful billionaires. Now Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg say they want to settle their scores in a cage fight. Check out the details.
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Facebook-parent Meta plans to lay off another 10,000 workers, marking the second round of significant job cuts announced by the tech giant in four months. In his own words published in a blog post, Mark Zuckerberg explains why.
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RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – Social giant Meta is stepping up its own artificial intelligence efforts in the wake of major moves made by Microsoft, Google and other tech giants. And the plans are big. “We’re exploring experiences with text (like chat in WhatsApp and Messenger), with images (like creative...
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