Category Meta

Ever since the launch of Threads, people have been speculating as to when Meta will look to insert ads in the app, and generate direct revenue from the millions of people signing up to its Twitter-like platform. Meta has fended…

Meta’s making more changes to its ad-free subscription offering in Europe, in order to meet ever-changing EU requirements on data usage and consumer protections. Today, amid ongoing scrutiny from EU officials, Meta has announced that it’s cutting the price of…

Meta’s informing users of some minor updates to both its Terms of Service and Community Standards, with a new in-stream pop-up alerting users to the update. The updated terms mostly relate to wording changes, with stronger language around platform misuse,…

Meta’s rolling out a new ad option called “Flexible Media”, which is its next step in enabling variable ad delivery approaches based on its systematic predictions of user response. Okay, that was a bit of a jargonistic explainer. The more…

Here’s the thing about Meta’s public stance on distancing itself from political content: That doesn’t mean that Meta’s apps aren’t going to be used for political influence anyway. Last week, Forbes reported that Facebook is hosting hundreds of ads that…

Meta has shared its latest performance update, showing a small increase in active users across its apps, and a big increase in revenue, in relative terms. Though its investments in next-level projects remain significant. Here’s a look at the latest…

Meta’s anti-politics stance could end up causing it as many headaches as allowing political discussion, with more questions being raised as to how the company decides what’s “political” and what’s not, and how that impacts the user experience. This week,…

Meta could soon let you refine its AI chatbot responses based on your personal preferences, with a new AI “Memory” option discovered in the back-end code of the latest version of WhatsApp. As you can see in this example, shared…

Meta has announced some new measures to combat the rise of sextortion scams, which is the fastest-growing cybercrime, now impacting thousands of Facebook and IG users. Indeed, according to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), sextortion cases…

Here’s one for the “Hollywood is in trouble” crowd, who proclaim the death of cinema every time a new generative AI tool for video is released. According to Variety, Meta is now working with several Hollywood filmmakers to help develop…