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Here’s where the money Meta spent on its $1 billion pledge for affordable housing has gone
Executives at Facebook’s parent company in 2022 stopped committing funding to the initiative, slowing progress.
Opinion
AI bots aren't just shaping your opinions. They're threatening your private data.
Meta's AI personas aren't your typical spam bots - they are powered by increasingly sophisticated language models that can understand context, maintain consistent personas and engage in nuanced ...
Opinion
AI chatbots taking over the internet aren't just shaping your opinions. They're threatening your personal data.
Meta's AI personas aren't your typical spam bots - they are powered by increasingly sophisticated language models that can understand context, maintain consistent personas and engage in nuanced ...
HuffPost5d
Brooklyn Cybertruck Goes Viral After Owner Is Trolled With Real Life X 'Community Note' Fact-Check
A lot of groveling and a lot of praying.” Days later, there was an update. Someone had crafted a sticker that looked like a community note from Musk’s social media site X and slapped it on the truck’s ...
Meta’s Community Notes program is promising, but needs to prioritize transparency
Overall, there is hope that Meta’s Community Notes program can be effective, but its success will depend on continuous ...
MIT Technology Review8d
Can crowdsourced fact-checking curb misinformation on social media?
Meta shut down their professional factchecker program and replaced it with Community Notes. What does this mean for the ...
Facebook Enables Extremist Views. Should I Quit and Risk Losing My Friends There?
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on what to do when you’re conflicted about using an service you may rely on.
Business Insider15d
I tried Ray-Ban's Meta Smart Glasses and they're definitely cool, but more of a novelty than essential tech
On that note, Meta has a few fancier tiers of smart glasses that it's reportedly working on — built-in screens and all, as the rumors go — which might feel a bit more futuristic than this ...
Yahoo Finance15d
X’s Community Notes Reaches 1M Contributors
This story was originally published on Social Media Today. To receive daily news and insights, subscribe to our free daily Social Media Today newsletter. While it’s not perfect, and it remains a ...
Hosted on MSN18d
Meta intros tools to counter payment scams
Meta launches new anti-scam initiative to help people spot and avoid online investment and payment scams. Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, has launched a global ...
ITWeb19d
Meta intros tools to counter payment scams
Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, has launched a global initiative to help people spot and avoid online investment and payment scams. In a statement, Meta announced ...
The Daily Gazette19d
Artist, advocate: Heather Hutchison helps Schenectady community, landscape
SCHENECTADY — On any given day, CREATE Community Studios is bustling with budding artists, some learning to wield a paintbrush, others delving into a new clay project. The bright studio space on ...