Meta, the parent of social media giant Facebook, is becoming more remote than ever as companies start going back to the office, The Wall Street Journal wrote Wednesday (March 23). The company’s management team is spreading out to new locations far away from the Silicon...
A Russian court has labeled Meta Platforms an “extremist organization” but said that ruling only applies to the already-outlawed Facebook and Instagram platforms, and not Meta’s messenger service WhatsApp. As Reuters reported Monday (March 21), Moscow’s Tverskoi District Court upheld a suit filed by Russian...
Meta Platforms has instituted parental supervision tools for Instagram in response to criticisms that the photo sharing app was harmful to young users. The new tools, announced on the company blog Wednesday (March 16), are part of what Meta calls its Family Center, which also...
Meta Platforms has been fined 17 million euros ($18.6 million) for violating the European Union’s privacy regulations by failing to prevent data breaches on its Facebook platform. As Bloomberg News reported Tuesday (March 15), Irish Data Protection Commission (IDPC), which oversees privacy issues in the...
South Africa’s competition regulator is seeking to prosecute Meta Platforms, formerly Facebook, and its subsidiaries, WhatsApp Inc and Facebook South Africa, for abusing its dominance in the social media sector. The Competition Commission has referred the complaint to the Competition Tribunal for action, the agency...
Meta is expanding its short-video product Facebook Reels for iOS and Android, now to be featured in 150 countries, according to a company blog post Tuesday (Feb. 22). Meta will also be adding new tools to help creators make money. Reels is the company’s “fastest...
Meta Platforms Inc. is facing an order to suspend data transfers to the United States by the European Union (EU) agency responsible for protecting personal information, The Irish Times reported. The Dublin-based Data Protection Commission’s (DPC) ruling could cause Facebook’s parent company to retaliate by...
There was a time when online platforms “moved fast, broke rules,” and were rewarded with massive consumer (and financial) growth while encountering limited regulatory pushback, if any at all. This was the case for Meta (formerly Facebook) and Uber, who were able to exploit some...
Facebook is rolling out its Facebook News service in France on Tuesday (Feb. 15), thanks in part to a collaboration with AFP Media Services, the company announced in a blog post Monday (Feb. 14). The service will “spotlight news stories from a diverse range of...
