The initial roll-out of VR buying and selling is limited to the Horizon Worlds app. Fees to Oculus and Meta mean creators will lose almost half of their sales.
The suit claims Meta and Snap “knowingly and purposely” created defective services that harm teen mental health.
Ukrainian Facebook users are facing myriad online threats right now, from networks of a fake journalists to false reports of abuse to outright hacks.
Two previous attempts were abandoned amid threats of regulation.
The online platform is removing ads or content that claim climate change doesn’t exist.
The company said it would also stop amplifying and recommending government accounts from Russia.
Meta’s News Feed boosted the visibility of misinformation, nudity, violence, and Russian state media by 30 percent for six months.
The company reportedly hired Republican-aligned firm Targeted Victory to plant negative articles and attempt to influence public opinion against TikTok.
The Tech Oversight Project's site features dozens of pages on everything from tech anti-competitive practices to spreading anti-vaccine misinformation.
A 19-year-old Harvard student made a website to resettle Ukrainian refugees in three days. What could go wrong?
Two former moderators claim the company violated California labor laws by failing to offer proper treatment for trauma caused by exposure to harmful images.
The Russian government banned Instagram and said Facebook's parent company was an "extremist organization," and a court upheld that designation.
Russia banned Instagram after Meta allowed users' calls for violence against Russian soldiers and Vladimir Putin, so engineers made their own version: Rossgram.
Russian soldiers, politicians, and military leaders still seem to be fair game, though.
Reggie-Fils-Aimé said Facebook "is not an innovative company" and that the 20 million VR headsets sold to date would've been good single-year sales at Nintendo.
Meta and Twitter shifted their moderation policies to allow death threats against a variety of Russian officials after the invasion of Ukraine.
Groups users can now opt to automatically decline posts coming from sources Facebook fact-checkers have said contain false information.
I researched Google's proposed alternative to web-tracking cookies. But the company's secrecy made it much harder than it should be.
The man also sold unapproved "cancer vaccines" for years.
There's even a conspiracy theory claiming Queen Elizabeth II actually died last year.
