Meta Exploring Decentralised Social Networking App With ActivityPub Support Like Mastodon

Meta Exploring Decentralised Social Networking App With ActivityPub Support Like Mastodon

Meta is exploring a standalone decentralized social network for sharing text updates, a company spokesperson said on Friday, in what could be a direct competitor to billionaire Elon Musk’s Twitter. “We’re exploring a standalone decentralized social network for sharing text updates. We believe there’s an opportunity for a separate space…

Meta Oversight Board Announces Review of Moderation Policy for Arabic Word ‘Shaheed’

Meta Oversight Board Announces Review of Moderation Policy for Arabic Word ‘Shaheed’

Meta Platforms’ oversight board said on Thursday it would review the moderation of the Arabic word “shaheed”, which means “martyr” in English, as it accounts for more content removals on its platforms than any other single word or phrase. Meta has asked the board for advice on whether it should…

Facebook Begins Testing Ability to View Messenger Chats Within the Main Application: Details

Facebook Begins Testing Ability to View Messenger Chats Within the Main Application: Details

Facebook parent Meta is testing the ability to access Messenger chats via the Facebook app again. The feature was previously available in the Facebook app, but the company moved chats to the standalone messenger app in 2014. It also removed the feature from the mobile website, in 2016 in order…

Snapchat Removes Few Children Off Its Platform Every Month in Britain: Ofcom

Snapchat Removes Few Children Off Its Platform Every Month in Britain: Ofcom

Snapchat is kicking dozens of children in Britain off its platform each month compared with tens of thousands blocked by rival TikTok, according to internal data the companies shared with Britain’s media regulator Ofcom and which Reuters has seen. Social media platforms such as Meta‘s Instagram, ByteDance‘s TikTok, and Snap‘s…

Metaverse, AI Next Digital Markets to Come Under Regulatory Scanner, Says EU Antitrust Chief

Metaverse, AI Next Digital Markets to Come Under Regulatory Scanner, Says EU Antitrust Chief

The metaverse, shared virtual worlds accessible via the Internet, is the next digital market to attract regulatory scrutiny, EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager said on Thursday. The metaverse has come into sharper focus since Facebook changed its name to Meta Platforms two years ago to reflect its bet on the new…

Meta Steps Up Chatbot Buzz, Announces Research Tool LLaMA as Rival to Microsoft’s ChatGPT, Google’s LaMDA

Meta Steps Up Chatbot Buzz, Announces Research Tool LLaMA as Rival to Microsoft’s ChatGPT, Google’s LaMDA

Meta Platforms introduced a research tool for building artificial intelligence-based chatbots and other products, seeking to create a buzz for its own technology in a field lately focused on internet rivals Google and Microsoft. The tool, LLaMA, is Meta‘s latest entry in the realm of large language models, which “have shown…

China Directs Tech Companies Not to Offer Access to ChatGPT on Their Platforms: Report

China Directs Tech Companies Not to Offer Access to ChatGPT on Their Platforms: Report

In yet another clampdown on big tech companies, China has instructed them not to offer access to ChatGPT services on their platforms, either directly or via third parties, people with direct knowledge of the matter told Nikkei Asia. Beijing’s clampdown on ChatGPT, the hugely popular AI-powered chatbot, comes as little…

Around 95 Percent WhatsApp Users in India Receive Pesky Calls, SMS Through Online Business: Survey

Around 95 Percent WhatsApp Users in India Receive Pesky Calls, SMS Through Online Business: Survey

Around 76 percent of respondents have claimed that they have noticed a rise in pesky calls or SMS based on their conversations with WhatsApp business accounts and their activity on Facebook or Instagram, online survey firm LocalCircles said on Wednesday. According to the survey conducted between February 1 and 20, 95…