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Source: Meta plans to launch two small non-multimodal versions of Llama 3 next week; the biggest Llama 3 model will be multimodal and is expected this summer (Sylvia Varnham O'Regan/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/me

Meta Platforms to Launch Small Versions of Llama 3 Next Week
Meta Platforms is planning to launch two small versions of its forthcoming Llama 3 large-language model next week, according to a Meta employee. The models will serve as a precursor to the launch of the biggest version of Llama 3, expected this summer. Release of the two small models will likely ...

#Verpasstodon
Threads von Meta: Account von US-Präsident Joe Biden ans Fediverse angebunden
In mehreren Staaten können Accounts auf Threads nun an Mastodon & Co. angebunden werden. Davon hat jetzt auch US-Präsident Joe Biden Gebrauch gemacht.

Netzwerktreffen offene Kulturdaten am 14. Juni in Berlin, organisiert von @… : Infos und Anmeldung unter: https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Netz

Meta announces an update to its AI ad tools, which can now make full new images, not just backgrounds, and claims it's adding strong guardrails to prevent abuse (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/07/meta

Meta's AI tools for advertisers can now create full new images, not just new backgrounds | TechCrunch
Meta claims that it has strong guardrails in place to prevent its system from generating inappropriate ad content or low-quality images.

Forty-one state attorneys general penned a letter to Meta’s top attorney on Wednesday saying complaints are skyrocketing across the United States about Facebook and Instagram user accounts being stolen and declaring “immediate action” necessary to mitigate the rolling threat.
Law enforcement doesn’t want to be “customer service” reps for Meta any more | Ars Technica

Law enforcement doesn’t want to be “customer service” reps for Meta any more
“Dramatic and persistent spike” in account takeovers is "substantial drain" on resources.

Meta announces an update to its AI ad tools, which can now make full new images, not just backgrounds, and claims it's adding strong guardrails to prevent abuse (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/07/meta

Meta's AI tools for advertisers can now create full new images, not just new backgrounds | TechCrunch
Meta claims that it has strong guardrails in place to prevent its system from generating inappropriate ad content or low-quality images.

“The Kansas Reflector published an artical about Meta censoring environmental articles about climate change — deeming them ‘too controversial’.
Facebook then censored the article about Facebook censorship, and then after an independent site published a copy of the climate change article, Facebook censored it too.”

Facebook is Censoring Stories about Climate Change and Illegal Raid in Marion, Kansas
It is, sadly, not entirely surprising that Facebook is censoring articles critical of Meta. The Kansas Reflector published an artical about Meta censoring environmental articles about climate chang…

Meet the Women Taking On Big Tech in Europe
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-03-08/europe-s-female-data-regulators-keeping-meta-google-and-apple-reined-in

Here's the column Facebook /Meta doesn't want you to see
Read the Kansas Reflector's piece about Facebook's climate change ad policy
https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/kansas-reflector-meta-facebook-column-censored

Here's the column Meta doesn't want you to see
Read the Kansas Reflector's piece about Facebook's climate change ad policy

DMA: Google ändert Suche, Meta teilt Konten, Tiktok legt Einspruch ein
Mehr Fairness und Wettbewerb fordert der Digital Markets Act. Jetzt müssen die Gatekeeper ihre Dienste ändern.
https://ww…

In a letter, 41 state AGs call on Meta to address the "dramatic increase" in Facebook and Instagram account takeovers and say hackers buy ads on its services (Dell Cameron/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/meta-hacked-users-draining-resources/…

Meta Abandons Hacking Victims, Draining Law Enforcement Resources, Officials Say
A coalition of 41 state attorneys general says Meta is failing to assist Facebook and Instagram users whose accounts have been hacked—and they want the company to take “immediate action.”

https://bsky.app/profile/marisakabas.bsky.social/post/3kpfrzykjhj2z

Meta: Facebook, Instagram und Thread weltweit down – nichts geht mehr https://appletechnikblog.com/de/2024/03/05/meta-facebook-instagram-und-thread-weltweit-down-nichts-geht-mehr/

Meta: Facebook, Instagram und Thread weltweit down - nichts geht mehr < appletechnikblog
Wer sich gerade auf facebook und Co. nicht einloggen kann, Ihr seid nicht allein

#Meta will kommerzielle Erweiterungen zu #ActivityPub.
Wenn ich sehe, dass sich #Threads zu einem Werbe- und Präsentationsmedium entwickelt, was gar kein Interesse an sozialer Interaktion hat…

Copas-Heckman-type sensitivity analysis for publication bias in rare-event meta-analysis under the framework of the generalized linear mixed model
Yi Zhou, Taojun Hu, Xiao-Hua Zhou, Satoshi Hattori
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.03603

Copas-Heckman-type sensitivity analysis for publication bias in rare-event meta-analysis under the framework of the generalized linear mixed model
Publication bias (PB) is one of the serious issues in meta-analysis. Many existing methods dealing with PB are based on the normal-normal (NN) random-effects model assuming normal models in both the within-study and the between-study levels. For rare-event meta-analysis where the data contain rare occurrences of event, the standard NN random-effects model may perform poorly. Instead, the generalized linear mixed effects model (GLMM) using the exact within-study model is recommended. However, no…

FTC lawsuit filings: Instagram had ad revenues of $22B in 2020, or 26% of Meta's total revenue, $32.4B in 2021, or 27% of Meta's revenue, and $16.5B in H1 2022 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Meta (META) Brought In Almost 30% of Its Revenue From Instagram in Early 2022
Meta Platforms Inc. brought in almost 30% of its revenue from Instagram in the first half of 2022, according to court filings that reveal for the first time how much money the popular photo and video service has generated.

Given the demographic of my follower base on this account, I'm mentioning this as a curiosity, but...
I spent quite a few months translating Meta in Myanmar series by @… to Polish.
It happened. It's live.
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Meta w Mjanmie
Tłumaczenie serii artykułów autorstwa Erin Kissane na temat działalności firmy Meta – twórcy Facebooka – w Mjanmie, znanej też jako Birma....

How Meta wants to create messaging interoperability with third parties safe for users in Europe.
Nice sentence in this article which indicates which app you should anyway.. "In order to maximize user security, we would prefer third-party providers to use the Signal Protocol. "
h…

Making messaging interoperability with third parties safe for users in Europe
To comply with a new EU law, the Digital Markets Act (DMA), which comes into force on March 7th, we’ve made major changes to WhatsApp and Messenger to enable interoperability with third-party messa…

SplAgger: Split Aggregation for Meta-Reinforcement Learning
Jacob Beck, Matthew Jackson, Risto Vuorio, Zheng Xiong, Shimon Whiteson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.03020

SplAgger: Split Aggregation for Meta-Reinforcement Learning
A core ambition of reinforcement learning (RL) is the creation of agents capable of rapid learning in novel tasks. Meta-RL aims to achieve this by directly learning such agents. One category of meta-RL methods, called black box methods, does so by training off-the-shelf sequence models end-to-end. In contrast, another category of methods have been developed that explicitly infer a posterior distribution over the unknown task. These methods generally have distinct objectives and sequence models …

“The Kansas Reflector published an artical about Meta censoring environmental articles about climate change — deeming them ‘too controversial’.
Facebook then censored the article about Facebook censorship, and then after an independent site published a copy of the climate change article, Facebook censored it too.”

Facebook is Censoring Stories about Climate Change and Illegal Raid in Marion, Kansas
It is, sadly, not entirely surprising that Facebook is censoring articles critical of Meta. The Kansas Reflector published an artical about Meta censoring environmental articles about climate chang…

The countdown is on for petition #e4769! Just 12 days! Can we get over 1000 signers!?
I urge you to share the link to your Meta, X, Bluesky, or Threads timelines! Email, IM, or all of the above!
https://tinyurl.com/e4769Canada<…

No thank you. (I even blocked Meta AI and it still sends me shit.)

Meta, LinkedIn, now cisa.gov web pages having some problems.

Don't miss today's packed Metacurity for the most critical infosec-related developments you should know, including
--Chinese Google engineer charged with stealing AI trade secrets,
--41 state attorneys general warn Meta about stolen Facebook and Instagram accounts,
--VMWare releases fixes for critical flaws,
--Top AI image generators can create phony election images,
--Top Microsoft engineer warns of harmful AI image tools,
--Spain stops Worldcoin eyeball scanning,
--FBI says online fraud is escalating,
--Meta and Apple elaborate on EU sideloading plans,
--Ransomware attack stops Belgian beer bottler,
--Big VC deals announced,
--much more
https://www.metacurity.com/p/chinese-google-engineer-charged-stealing-ai-trade-secrets

Touch can reduce pain, depression and anxiety, say researchers
While myriad studies have suggested #touch is beneficial for our health, few have attempted to draw the vast field of research together.
Now experts have done just that, revealing a simple message: touch helps.
Dr Helena Hartmann, a co-author of the research from University Hospital Essen, said: “More consensual touch events thr…

Investors when Meta fires 10,000 people: 25%
Investors when Meta literally stops working: -1.6%

An Overview of Intelligent Meta-surfaces for 6G and Beyond: Opportunities, Trends, and Challenges
Mayur Katwe, Aryan Kaushik, Lina Mohjazi, Mohammad Abualhayja'a, Davide Dardari, Keshav Singh, Muhammad Ali Imran, M. Majid Butt, Octavia A. Dobre
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.03356

An Overview of Intelligent Meta-surfaces for 6G and Beyond: Opportunities, Trends, and Challenges
With the impending arrival of the sixth generation (6G) of wireless communication technology, the telecommunications landscape is poised for another revolutionary transformation. At the forefront of this evolution are intelligent meta-surfaces (IS), emerging as a disruptive physical layer technology with the potential to redefine the capabilities and performance metrics of future wireless networks. As 6G evolves from concept to reality, industry stakeholders, standards organizations, and regula…

DatologyAI, which aims to help researchers better curate AI training datasets, raised a $46M Series A led by Felicis, after a $11.65M seed in February 2024 (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
https://www.theinformati…

Ex-DeepMind and Meta AI Researcher Raises Nearly $50 Million To Help Developers With LLMs’ Secret Sauce
For all that’s leaked about the sizes and architectures of the advanced large language models developed by OpenAI and its ilk, we still don’t know what data they were trained on.A pessimist might say that’s because of the numerous lawsuits LLM developers would face if the amount of copyrighted ...

More #xenophobia and anti-#chinese #racebaiting. TikTok isn’t doing anything more egregious than what Meta, X, Snapchat, or any number of popular social media platforms are doing. If these committee members …

US lawmakers vote 50-0 to force sale of TikTok despite angry calls from users
Lawmaker: TikTok must "sever relationship with the Chinese Communist Party."

EU opens disinformation probe against Meta as elections loom
Comes as Meta closes key disinfo tracking tool
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/4203332/eu-disinformation-probe-meta-elections-loom

EU opens disinformation probe against Meta as elections loom
The European Commission has launched a formal investigation into Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, for potentially violating the bloc's new online content regulations.

AI News – Locus Online
https://locusmag.com/2024/05/ai-news-2/

Meta is accused of censoring a non-profit newspaper and an independent journalist who criticized the company | CNN Business
https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/05/tech/meta-nonprofit-newspaper-independent-journalist-alleged…

#Threads zu blocken, ist nicht die alleinige Lösung für das stetig wachsende „Trust & Safety“ Problem. Neben simplen Block-Listen, brauchen wir zukünftig bessere Strategien um diesem Problemen Herr zu werden. Wir brauchen mehr Initiativen wie IFTAS und Services, die sich ähnlich wie mit E-Mail- oder Kommentar-Spam, zukünftig auch mit

This is why I want Australia to join the EU. Besides we're already eligible to compete in Eurovision.
#QT - https://social.network.europa.eu/@EU_Commission/112194773928292…

European Commission (@EU_Commission@social.network.europa.eu)
Attached: 1 image 📞🇪🇺 New upgrade available... From 7 March, the designated gatekeepers – Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, ByteDance, Meta, and Microsoft – must comply with all obligations in the Digital Markets Act. These changes give you control of your: 📱 data: decide freely how your data is used 📱 phone: choose your default apps, browsers and search engines 📱 apps: install the apps you want and remove pre-installed apps Learn more → https://europa.eu/!7YNvdp #Dig…

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Meta hat 2016 den Brexit ermöglicht (micro-targeting, cambridge analytica) und jetzt nach acht jahren soll das auf einmal falsch sein? Ist die politik da nicht etwas voreilig?

"They also talked about how they had summarized books, essays and other works from the internet without permission and discussed sucking up more, even if that meant facing lawsuits. One lawyer warned of 'ethical' concerns around taking intellectual property from artists but was met with silence, according to the recordings. Mr. Zuckerberg demanded a solution, employees said."

How Tech Giants Cut Corners to Harvest Data for A.I.
OpenAI, Google and Meta ignored corporate policies, altered their own rules and discussed skirting copyright law as they sought online information to train their newest artificial intelligence systems.

FTC lawsuit filings: Instagram had ad revenues of $22B in 2020, or 26% of Meta's total revenue, $32.4B in 2021, or 27% of Meta's revenue, and $16.5B in H1 2022 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Meta (META) Brought In Almost 30% of Its Revenue From Instagram in Early 2022
Meta Platforms Inc. brought in almost 30% of its revenue from Instagram in the first half of 2022, according to court filings that reveal for the first time how much money the popular photo and video service has generated.

Spike-driven Transformer V2: Meta Spiking Neural Network Architecture Inspiring the Design of Next-generation Neuromorphic Chips
Man Yao, Jiakui Hu, Tianxiang Hu, Yifan Xu, Zhaokun Zhou, Yonghong Tian, Bo Xu, Guoqi Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03663

Spike-driven Transformer V2: Meta Spiking Neural Network Architecture Inspiring the Design of Next-generation Neuromorphic Chips
Neuromorphic computing, which exploits Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) on neuromorphic chips, is a promising energy-efficient alternative to traditional AI. CNN-based SNNs are the current mainstream of neuromorphic computing. By contrast, no neuromorphic chips are designed especially for Transformer-based SNNs, which have just emerged, and their performance is only on par with CNN-based SNNs, offering no distinct advantage. In this work, we propose a general Transformer-based SNN architecture, t…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.05716 has been replaced.
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Task Aligned Meta-learning based Augmented Graph for Cold-Start Recommendation
The cold-start problem is a long-standing challenge in recommender systems due to the lack of user-item interactions, which significantly hurts the recommendation effect over new users and items. Recently, meta-learning based methods attempt to learn globally shared prior knowledge across all users, which can be rapidly adapted to new users and items with very few interactions. Though with significant performance improvement, the globally shared parameter may lead to local optimum. Besides, the…

i hope meta will open up bootloader unlocking for the quest 1 like they did for the oculus go, john carmack had to fight the whole company to make it happen and he's not there anymore so it's definitely less likely but hopefully they'll do it again.
either way, i don't see the store not accepting new games as a big deal, barely any new apps supported it already, and you can still use existing apps and use it as a pcvr headset, it got pretty good support for a headset that sold a fract…

Meta Issues Warning That Impacts Many Quest Headset Users
Meta has issued a warning regarding the termination of support for the original Meta Quest headset, signalling the end of an era for mainstream VR.

https://bsky.app/profile/marisakabas.bsky.social/post/3kpfrzykjhj2z

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Opinion | I’m Suing Meta So Users of Facebook Can Control the Content They See - The New York Times
https://www.

Opinion | I’m Suing Meta So Users of Facebook Can Control the Content They See
We must be able to create a more civic-minded internet, with tools that would empower users to better control what they see.

https://www.wired.com/story/meta-hacked-users-draining-resources/
Meta Abandons Hacking Victims, Draining Law Enforcement Resources, Officials Say

Analysis: Temu and Shein are spending heavily on Facebook, X, and YouTube ads in the US; Temu placed ~1.4M ads globally on Google services in the past year (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/06/busines<…

Big American Tech Profits From Chinese Ad Spending Spree
Temu, Shein, and streaming and gaming apps looking to break into the U.S. market are spending huge sums to get their wares in front of American consumers.

Analysis: Temu and Shein are spending heavily on Facebook, X, and YouTube ads in the US; Temu placed ~1.4M ads globally on Google services in the past year (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/06/busines<…

Big American Tech Profits From Chinese Ad Spending Spree
Temu, Shein, and streaming and gaming apps looking to break into the U.S. market are spending huge sums to get their wares in front of American consumers.

Mehr Konto-Diebstähle bei Facebook und Instagram nach Kündigungswelle
Bei Facebook und Instagram werden immer mehr Konten gekapert und für Straftaten missbraucht. Betreiber Meta unternehme viel zu wenig, sagen US-Justizminister.​

Sources: Temu became Meta's top advertiser by revenue in 2023 by spending nearly $2B, and became one of Google's top five advertisers by spending in 2023 (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.w…

Learning to Defer to a Population: A Meta-Learning Approach
Dharmesh Tailor, Aditya Patra, Rajeev Verma, Putra Manggala, Eric Nalisnick
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.02683

Learning to Defer to a Population: A Meta-Learning Approach
The learning to defer (L2D) framework allows autonomous systems to be safe and robust by allocating difficult decisions to a human expert. All existing work on L2D assumes that each expert is well-identified, and if any expert were to change, the system should be re-trained. In this work, we alleviate this constraint, formulating an L2D system that can cope with never-before-seen experts at test-time. We accomplish this by using meta-learning, considering both optimization- and model-based vari…

Sources: Temu became Meta's top advertiser by revenue in 2023 by spending nearly $2B, and became one of Google's top five advertisers by spending in 2023 (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.w…

"They also talked about how they had summarized books, essays and other works from the internet without permission and discussed sucking up more, even if that meant facing lawsuits. One lawyer warned of 'ethical' concerns around taking intellectual property from artists but was met with silence, according to the recordings. Mr. Zuckerberg demanded a solution, employees said."

How Tech Giants Cut Corners to Harvest Data for A.I.
OpenAI, Google and Meta ignored corporate policies, altered their own rules and discussed skirting copyright law as they sought online information to train their newest artificial intelligence systems.

https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/kansas-reflector-meta-facebook-column-censored

Here's the column Meta doesn't want you to see
Read the Kansas Reflector's piece about Facebook's climate change ad policy

Spike-driven Transformer V2: Meta Spiking Neural Network Architecture Inspiring the Design of Next-generation Neuromorphic Chips
Man Yao, Jiakui Hu, Tianxiang Hu, Yifan Xu, Zhaokun Zhou, Yonghong Tian, Bo Xu, Guoqi Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03663

Spike-driven Transformer V2: Meta Spiking Neural Network Architecture Inspiring the Design of Next-generation Neuromorphic Chips
Neuromorphic computing, which exploits Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) on neuromorphic chips, is a promising energy-efficient alternative to traditional AI. CNN-based SNNs are the current mainstream of neuromorphic computing. By contrast, no neuromorphic chips are designed especially for Transformer-based SNNs, which have just emerged, and their performance is only on par with CNN-based SNNs, offering no distinct advantage. In this work, we propose a general Transformer-based SNN architecture, t…

Mittwoch: US-Sanktionen gegen Spyware-Manager, Warnung vor KI-Konvention der EU
USA gegen Predator-Spyware Überwachung durch KI Google mit DMA-Updates Ende der Android-Apps in Windows Feinschliff für Powertoys Störungen bei Meta

Meta (Facebook, Instagram, #Threads, etc.):
1. Doesn’t moderate anti-transgender hate on its platforms.
https://glaad.org/smsi/report-meta-fa…

Report – Unsafe: Meta Fails to Moderate Extreme Anti-trans Hate Across Facebook, Instagram, and Threads | GLAAD
GLAAD’s Social Media Safety Program reported the following anti-trans hate content across Instagram, Facebook, and Threads; Meta deemed all of it non-violative or did not take action on it.

https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/kansas-reflector-meta-facebook-column-censored

Here's the column Meta doesn't want you to see
Read the Kansas Reflector's piece about Facebook's climate change ad policy

"Das ist Krieg": Meta will in Australien nicht mehr für Journalismus zahlen
Seit drei Jahren zahlt Meta in Australien Millionensummen an Verlage, die über Facebook Inhalte verbreiten. Das soll nun enden. Die Kritik ist scharf.

Meta details WhatsApp and Messenger interoperability under the EU's DMA, saying third-parties must use Signal's protocol, which Meta already uses for encryption (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/06/to-c

To comply with DMA, WhatsApp and Messenger will become interoperable via Signal | TechCrunch
Meta today is offering more details about how it plans to make its messaging apps, WhatsApp and Messenger, interoperable with third-party messaging

Meta plans to label a wider range of video, audio and image content as "Made with AI" starting in May, following feedback from its independent Oversight Board (Ryan Heath/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2024/04/05/meta-broader-ai-labeling

Meta to broaden labeling of AI-made content
The company says its previous labeling efforts were "too narrow."

Meta is testing giving cash bonuses to creators who post engaging content on Threads, as part of an invite-only program (Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-instagram-pay-for-engagement-threads-posts-creators-2024-…

Meta will pay creators of Threads posts if they are good enough
Meta is testing cash bonuses for creators who post engaging content on Threads as it seeks to retain its 130 million monthly active users.

Meta plans to label a wider range of video, audio and image content as "Made with AI" starting in May, following feedback from its independent Oversight Board (Ryan Heath/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2024/04/05/meta-broader-ai-labeling

Meta to broaden labeling of AI-made content
The company says its previous labeling efforts were "too narrow."

Threads von Meta: Account von US-Präsident Joe Biden ans Fediverse angebunden
In mehreren Staaten können Accounts auf Threads nun an Mastodon & Co. angebunden werden. Davon hat jetzt auch US-Präsident Joe Biden Gebrauch gemacht.

More than 100 top AI researchers sign an open letter imploring AI companies to provide a legal and technical safe harbor for researchers to study their products (Nitasha Tiku/Washington Post)
https://wapo.st/3uYvZJu

Top AI researchers say OpenAI, Meta and more hinder independent evaluations
Firms like OpenAI and Meta use strict protocols to keep bad actors from abusing AI systems. But researchers argue these rules are chilling independent evaluations.

Meta: Llama 3 soll mit kontroversen Fragen umgehen können
Während Googles Gemini jüngst mit historischen Ungenauigkeiten für Kontroversen sorgte, will Meta es mit Llama 3 besser machen.
https://www.

Filing: Meta rejects the FTC's bid to amend its 2020 privacy settlement, saying it voluntarily disclosed two Messenger Kids bugs and had no parent complaints (Leah Nylen/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Meta Pushes Back on FTC Bid to Amend Privacy Accord Over Kids Chat App
Meta Platforms Inc. pushed back on the US Federal Trade Commission’s bid to amend its 2020 privacy settlement, saying that the company voluntarily disclosed two flaws in its kids chat app to the agency and received no complaints from parents.

In a letter, several Democrats serving as their state's top election officials ask Meta to repeal a policy allowing ads that claim the 2020 election was stolen (Christina A. Cassidy/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/facebook-el…

Democratic officials criticize Meta ad policy, saying it amplifies lies about 2020 election
Several Democrats serving as their state’s top election officials have sent a letter to the parent company of Facebook, asking it to stop allowing ads that claim the 2020 presidential election was stolen. In the letter addressed to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, the secretaries said allowing such ads will further erode trust in elections and fuel threats of political violence against election workers. On Friday, Meta defended its work around elections and said it would remove election-related cont…

In a letter, several Democrats serving as their state's top election officials ask Meta to repeal a policy allowing ads that claim the 2020 election was stolen (Christina A. Cassidy/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/facebook-el…

Democratic officials criticize Meta ad policy, saying it amplifies lies about 2020 election
Several Democrats serving as their state’s top election officials have sent a letter to the parent company of Facebook, asking it to stop allowing ads that claim the 2020 presidential election was stolen. In the letter addressed to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, the secretaries said allowing such ads will further erode trust in elections and fuel threats of political violence against election workers. On Friday, Meta defended its work around elections and said it would remove election-related cont…

Facebook, Instagram, Threads und weitere Dienste gestört
Am Dienstagnachmittag sind verschiedene Dienste von Meta gestört. Die Ursache ist unbekannt.
https://www.heise.de/news…

Researchers: Meta's Canada news ban resulted in news outlets posting much less on Facebook, and posts with screenshots of news stories increasing dramatically (Laura Hazard Owen/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/05/screensh

Screenshots are one big winner of Meta’s news ban in Canada
"We observe a dramatic increase in posts containing screenshots of Canadian news stories in the post-ban period."

Sensor Tower: Instagram's total app downloads grew 20% YoY in 2023 to 768M, making it the most downloaded app worldwide; TikTok had 733M downloads, up 4% YoY (Eleanor Olcott/Financial Times)
https://t.co/MOhKl7pryl

Meta Platforms scheffelt Geld für mehr KI, Aktie fällt
Meta-Aktien stürzen nachbörslich um ein Sechstel ab. Dabei ist der Geldhahn bei Meta weit geöffnet.​
https://www.heise.de…

Court filings from FTC lawsuit against Meta show Instagram made $32.4B in ad revenue in 2021, which is more than YouTube's $28.8B in ad revenue that year (Peter Kafka/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/instagram-ads-revenue-y…

Instagram makes more ad money than YouTube, court filings show
Meta bought Instagram for $1 billion in 2012. Now it's a giant part of Mark Zuckerberg's empire.

Court filings from FTC lawsuit against Meta show Instagram made $32.4B in ad revenue in 2021, which is more than YouTube's $28.8B in ad revenue that year (Peter Kafka/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/instagram-ads-revenue-y…

Instagram makes more ad money than YouTube, court filings show
Meta bought Instagram for $1 billion in 2012. Now it's a giant part of Mark Zuckerberg's empire.

Meta Platforms scheffelt Geld für mehr KI, Aktie fällt
Meta-Aktien stürzen nachbörslich um ein Sechstel ab. Dabei ist der Geldhahn bei Meta weit geöffnet.​
https://www.heise.de…

Source: late last year, Google suggested Meta partner on Android XR, a new software platform for VR and AR, but Meta executives decided against a partnership (Sylvia Varnham O'Regan/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/me

Meta Rebuffed Google Proposal For a VR and AR Tie-Up
Late last year, in a meeting between Google and Meta Platform staffers, Google suggested that Meta partner on Android XR, the new software platform Google is developing for virtual reality, augmented reality and mixed-reality headsets, according to a person involved in the talks. The two ...

Court filings from FTC lawsuit against Meta show Instagram made $32.4B in ad revenue in 2021, which is more than YouTube's $28.8B in ad revenue that year (Peter Kafka/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/instagram-ads-revenue-y…

Instagram makes more ad money than YouTube, court filings show
Meta bought Instagram for $1 billion in 2012. Now it's a giant part of Mark Zuckerberg's empire.

Filings in FTC lawsuit: Instagram had revenues of $22B in 2020, or 26% of Meta's total revenue, $32.4B in 2021, or 27% of Meta's revenue, and $16.5B in H1 2022 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Facebook, Instagram, and Threads are all suffering an outage, which seemed to start around 10am ET (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/5/24091207/meta-outage-facebook-instagram-threads-down-signed-out

Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and Threads are all down
Facebook is down, along with Instagram, Messenger, and Threads. Meta’s status page confirmed a login issue, but there is no ETA for when access will be restored.

Meta verkündet eine "neue Ära für Mixed Reality"
Der US-Internetkonzern Meta benennt seine Quest-Softwareplattform in Meta Horizon OS um und öffnet sie für Headset-Hersteller von Drittanbietern.
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Facebook, Instagram, and Threads are all suffering an outage, which seemed to start around 10am ET (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/5/24091207/meta-outage-facebook-instagram-threads-down-signed-out

Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and Threads are all down
Facebook is down, along with Instagram, Messenger, and Threads. Meta’s status page confirmed a login issue, but there is no ETA for when access will be restored.

Meta announces Batman: Arkham Shadow, the next entry in the iconic Batman: Arkham video game series, exclusive to the Meta Quest 3 and launching later in 2024 (Ash Parrish/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/24145849/batman-arkham-shadow-tr…

The next Batman: Arkham game is a Meta Quest exclusive
Batman: Arkham Shadow, a new VR game from Iron Man developer Camouflaj, is the next entry in the celebrated Batman: Arkham series and exclusive to the Meta Quest 3.

Donnerstag: TikTok zuversichtlich gegen US-Verbot, Meta mit mehr Geld für KI
TikToks Kampf in den USA Meta-Aktie fällt trotz Wachstum Getir vor dem Ende Hannover Messe im Video Ärzte zum E-Rezept #heiseshow: Europol, TikTok, KI

Meta says it plans to deprecate the Facebook News tab in the US and Australia in early April 2024 and won't sign new deals for news content in those countries (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024…

Meta to Wind Down Facebook News Feature in US, Australia
Meta Platforms Inc. is winding down its news feature in the US and Australia, part of a broader shift away from the category for the social media giant.

Eight EU consumer rights groups lodge GDPR complaints with national data protection authorities, accusing Meta of coercing users with its "pay-or-consent" model (Natasha Lomas/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/28/meta-consent-or-p…

Meta's 'consent or pay' data grab in EU faces fresh charges of privacy coercion | TechCrunch
A controversial move by Meta last year, when it switched to charging users in the Europe Union for an ad-free subscription for access Facebook and/or Meta is facing a fresh set of complaints from consumer protection authorities in the EU over a controversial switch to charging users for an ad-free subscription unless they agree to being tracked and profiled for ad targeting.

Donnerstag: TikTok zuversichtlich gegen US-Verbot, Meta mit mehr Geld für KI
TikToks Kampf in den USA Meta-Aktie fällt trotz Wachstum Getir vor dem Ende Hannover Messe im Video Ärzte zum E-Rezept #heiseshow: Europol, TikTok, KI

Eight EU consumer rights groups lodge GDPR complaints with national data protection authorities, accusing Meta of coercing users with its "pay-or-consent" model (Natasha Lomas/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/28/meta-consent-or-p…

Meta's 'consent or pay' data grab in EU faces fresh charges of privacy coercion | TechCrunch
A controversial move by Meta last year, when it switched to charging users in the Europe Union for an ad-free subscription for access Facebook and/or Meta is facing a fresh set of complaints from consumer protection authorities in the EU over a controversial switch to charging users for an ad-free subscription unless they agree to being tracked and profiled for ad targeting.

Reach reports FY 2023 revenue down 5% YoY to £568.6M, pre-tax profit down 45% YoY to £36.7M, and digital page views down 24% YoY due to Meta's 2023 news rules (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)
https://t.co/kFPR6FsOfD

Smart Glasses von Meta und Ray-Ban bekommen Videocalls per WhatsApp
Mit den Smart Glasses von Ray-Ban und Meta kann man künftig Videocalls führen. Möglich wird das mit WhatsApp und dem Facebook Messenger.

A day after apologizing for blocking Kansas Reflector posts, Meta blocked links to two sites that reposted a Reflector column; Meta says it's investigating (Sherman Smith/Kansas Reflector)
https://kansasreflector.com/2024/0…

Facebook apologizes for blocking Kansas Reflector, then expands crackdown to other news sites • Kansas Reflector
TOPEKA — A day after a Facebook spokesman apologized for blocking Kansas Reflector articles by mistake, the social media giant blocked all links to two other news sites that republished a Kansas Reflector column. Facebook on Friday removed posts pointing to The Handbasket, which is written by independent journalist Marisa Kabas, as well as posts […]

An interview with Andrew Bosworth on the 10th anniversary of Reality Labs, the past and future of VR/AR/AI, Meta's next AR glasses prototype, and more (Scott Stein/CNET)
https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/ten-years-aft…

10 Years After Facebook Bought Oculus, What's Next for Meta's VR Plans?
Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth talks with CNET about the past and future of VR, AR and AI.

Flugmodus für Meta Quest: Funde deuten auf neue Funktion hin
In der Firmware v65 für die Meta Quest steckt ein Travel Mode für den Gebrauch in Flugzeugen. Damit könnte Meta zur Apple Vision Pro aufschließen.

A day after apologizing for blocking Kansas Reflector posts, Meta blocked links to two sites that reposted a Reflector column; Meta says it's investigating (Sherman Smith/Kansas Reflector)
https://kansasreflector.com/2024/0…

Facebook apologizes for blocking Kansas Reflector, then expands crackdown to other news sites • Kansas Reflector
TOPEKA — A day after a Facebook spokesman apologized for blocking Kansas Reflector articles by mistake, the social media giant blocked all links to two other news sites that republished a Kansas Reflector column. Facebook on Friday removed posts pointing to The Handbasket, which is written by independent journalist Marisa Kabas, as well as posts […]

Meta Reports First Quarter 2024 Results (Meta Investor Relations)
https://investor.fb.com/investor-news/press-release-details/2024/Meta-Reports-First-Quarter-2024-Results/default.aspx

Meta Reports First Quarter 2024 Results
Meta Platforms, Inc. (Nasdaq: META) today reported financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2024. "It's been a good start to the year," said Mark Zuckerberg, Meta founder and CEO. "The new version of Meta AI with Llama 3 is another step towards building the world's leading AI. We're seeing healthy growth across our apps and we continue making steady progress building the metaverse as well." First Quarter 2024 Financial Highlights Three Months Ended March 31, % Change In millions, …

Meta says it plans to deprecate the Facebook News tab in the US and Australia in early April 2024 and won't sign new deals for news content in those countries (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024…

Meta to Wind Down Facebook News Feature in US, Australia
Meta Platforms Inc. is winding down its news feature in the US and Australia, part of a broader shift away from the category for the social media giant.

Meta reports Q1 revenue up 27% YoY to $36.46B, net income up 117% YoY to $12.37B, and family daily active people up 7% YoY to 3.24B for March 2024 (Meta Investor Relations)
https://investor.fb.com/investor-news/…

Meta Reports First Quarter 2024 Results
Meta Platforms, Inc. (Nasdaq: META) today reported financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2024. "It's been a good start to the year," said Mark Zuckerberg, Meta founder and CEO. "The new version of Meta AI with Llama 3 is another step towards building the world's leading AI. We're seeing healthy growth across our apps and we continue making steady progress building the metaverse as well." First Quarter 2024 Financial Highlights Three Months Ended March 31, % Change In millions, …

Sources: Meta aims to reveal and demo the first version of its AR glasses, codenamed Orion, during its Connect developer conference in the fall (Kali Hays/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-reveal-first-ar-glasses-fal…

Meta aiming to reveal first AR glasses during fall Connect conference
Meta's first "true" AR glasses, codenamed Orion, have been in the works for several years.

AI is making Meta's apps basically unusable, as the company adds Meta AI everywhere and viral user-generated AI images proliferate on Facebook and Instagram (Scott Nover/Fast Company)
https://www.fastcompany.com/91113437/ai-making-meta-apps-basicall…

AI is making Meta’s apps basically unusable
If Meta thinks that users are craving more AI, they’re ignoring the fact that the Facebook and Instagram experience is already full of AI.

Sources: Meta debated buying a publisher like Simon & Schuster for AI training data and weighed using copyrighted online data even if that meant facing lawsuits (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/06/technology/fo…

Four Takeaways on the Race to Amass Data for A.I.
To make artificial intelligence systems more powerful, tech companies need online data to feed the technology. Here’s what to know.

Study from Meta researchers suggests that training LLMs to predict multiple tokens at once, instead of just the next token, results in better and faster models (Ben Dickson/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/ai/metas-new-multi-token-p…

Meta’s new multi-token prediction makes AI models up to 3X faster
Multi-token prediction instructs the LLM to predict several future tokens from each position in the training corpora at the same time.