Meta has been working to take down adversarial networks across the world that were operating on Facebook and engaging in behavior such as spreading false information, harassment, and attempting to …
Facebook owner Meta told to sell Giphy as British regulator blocks acquisition
Meta, Facebook’s parent, has been told by the U.K.’s competition watchdog that it must sell GIF-sharing platform Giphy. The Competition and Markets Authority said Tuesday the deal could harm social …
We can’t walk blindly into the Metaverse
In recent weeks, both Mark Zuckerberg and Microsoft’s Satya Nadella announced with great fanfare that the metaverse offers an antidote to the lack of human connection. Perhaps I’m old-fashioned but …
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The Metaverse is already here: 5 companies building our virtual reality future
If you believe Facebook, the future is a virtual reality "metaverse." The tech giant, which changed its name to Meta last month, plans to invest $10 billion this year to develop products that support …
Mark Zuckerberg’s metaverse could fracture the world as we know it — letting people ‘reality block’ things they disagree with and making polarization even worse
In the metaverse of the future, two people could be walking down the same street and see very different things thanks to the AR glasses they're wearing. One, who may lean conservative, could "reality …
Social Media Platforms Operate More As Independent States, Not Their Proxies
This is clearly a foreshadowing of the coming metaverse. On November 8, 2021, an independent watchdog journalism organization published a report that alleged that a team within Facebook attempted …
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Meta Platforms’ Facebook will Remove Detailed Ad Targeting Options; The Filter Bubble Transparency Act Pending in Congress
There have been two major developments on the “disinformation and influence campaign” front. First, Meta Platforms just announced that they will be removing certain ad targeting options and …
Do we really want Facebook and Amazon to rule AI?
A government commission is currently considering an innovation that could be as transformational for Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a hadron collider is for physics. It’s called a National Research …
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How Andrew Bosworth, Mark Zuckerberg’s old teaching assistant at Harvard, rose to become his key lieutenant in building the metaverse
Andrew Bosworth, also known as "Boz" inside the company formerly known as Facebook, is lined up to play a key role in the tech giant's future. Facebook announced in October it was rebranding as Meta, …
Facebook wants to build a metaverse. Microsoft is creating something even more ambitious
Microsoft Teams has 250 million users worldwide. And starting in 2022, they will be able to take meetings in virtual spaces, by donning virtual-reality and augmented-reality headsets. Instead of …