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The United States Federal Prosecutor’s Office is actively investigating how social media networks owned by Meta may have facilitated drug trafficking. Investigators are focusing on Facebook and Instagram, which, according to unofficial sources, could be used to conduct illegal drug transactions, bringing profit to the company. According to the Wall Street Journal, as part of […]
Apple became the most expensive brand in the world, while Amazon, which held the leading position last year, fell to fourth place. Apple’s brand value soared by 74% to $516.6 billion over the year, while Amazon’s grew by only 3.2% to $308.9 billion. This is stated in the annual Brand Finance Global 500 study. Microsoft […]
Meta has started implementing end-to-end encryption for all private chats and calls on Messenger and Facebook, Reuters reports. According to Meta, this feature is already available to users, but it may take some time for all Messenger accounts to be updated to end-to-end encryption by default. Previously, Messenger had an option to enable end-to-end encryption, […]
Facebook and Instagram will receive new AI-based tools that will allow users to edit photos and create “high-quality videos” using text descriptions. This was announced by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, The Verge reports. The new capabilities are based on Emu, the company’s basic model for creating images. The first tool is called Emu Edit and […]
The next few years will be marked by elections in many countries, and EU officials are trying to make political advertising on the Internet more transparent. Big tech firms will face new European Union rules to clearly label political ads on their platforms, who paid for them and how much, and which elections the ads […]
Facebook and Instagram users living in Europe will be able to view the content of these social networks without ads. To do this, they will need to sign up for a monthly subscription for €9.99 for the web version or €12.99 for iOS and Android devices. The company that owns these platforms, the American Meta […]
From December 1, the company Meta will remove information about their preferences and lives from the profiles of Facebook users, reports Engadget. These are addresses, sexual orientation, political and religious views. Earlier, this information was voiced by a specialist in social networks, Matt Navarre. Facebook is removing religious views and ‘interested in’ info from profiles […]
The American company Meta reported a possible data leak of at least one million users of its Facebook social network. Personal information may have been stolen due to security issues with apps downloaded from the App Store and Google Play. The company discovered more than 400 malicious services masquerading as photo editors, mobile games, VPNs […]
The Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine officially appealed to the American corporation Meta Platforms with a request to improve the quality of moderation — so that the publications of Ukrainians are no longer hidden, and their accounts are not blocked without reason. This was announced by the Minister of Digital Transformation Mykhailo Fedorov. It’s […]
The social network application Facebook has become available in Ukrainian for iOS users, and the Ukrainian version of the Messenger application for iOS will be available soon. This was announced by Minister of Digital Transformation Mikhail Fedorov. He noted that if the working language of the smartphone is Ukrainian, the Facebook application will also automatically […]