The company formerly known as Facebook said Thursday that Horizon Worlds, a free app for socializing in VR that has been long in the making, is now open to anyone 18 and older with a Quest 2 headset in the United States and Canada.
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Instagram is planning to bring back a version of its news feed that would give users the option to sort media chronologically rather than ranked according to the platform’s algorithm, potentially addressing concerns over how algorithms push users into harmful rabbit holes, its top exec tells Congress.
Read MoreAdam Mosseri, the head of Instagram, is set to testify in a Senate subcommittee hearing in early December about the platform’s potentially harmful impact on younger users following months of scrutiny on the issue.
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North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein and a bi-partisan group of other state attorneys general have launched an investigation into Meta, the social media company formerly known as Facebook, focused on the potential harms of its Instagram platform on children and teens.
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Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost on Monday announced that he is suing Meta, the social media giant formerly known as Facebook, based on revelations from whistleblower Frances Haugen and the trove of internal company documents she leaked. Here’s the latest.
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One of the key moments of the day actually kicked-off the event with Meta presents Network Moments – a virtual event showcasing the collaboration and co-investments in new high-speed, scalable broadband connectivity made by MCNC and Meta (formerly Facebook) over the past year to help close the digital divide in western North Carolina counties of Rutherford, Burke, Caldwell, Wilkes, and Surry.
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Meta -the former Facebook -and Microsoft are partnering to integrate Workplace enterprise social network software with Microsoft Teams.
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No amount of corporate re-branding should let Mark Zuckerberg or anyone else off the hook for the real, tangible harms their product has manifested and continues to propagate without consequence.
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Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg announced that the company would change its name. The new entity will be “Meta.”
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