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Okay, quick PSA: Meta says that some Page managers recently received an alert in error asking them to confirm that their Page is not aimed at kids under the age of 13. Late last week, Facebook marketing expert Mari Smith…

Meta’s looking to give advertisers more control over their ad placements, via an expansion of its support for third-party blocklists. Blocklists created by brand safety and measurement providers make it easier for brands to ensure that their ads are not…

Okay, don’t freak out, but Meta is about to start processing your private DMs through its AI tools. Well, kind of. Over the last couple of days, Meta users have reported seeing this new pop-up in the app which alerts…

In honor of Safer Internet Day, Meta has announced the launch of a new digital literacy program for middle schoolers, which aims to highlight the dangers of online interaction, and how kids can spot concerns, and avoid such, both in…

Amid rising competition in AI development, Meta’s re-aligning its workforce to maximize its AI efforts, by cutting around 4,000 jobs, while hiring more AI engineers. As reported by Business Insider, Meta’s looking to cull around 5% of its global workforce…

While I do think that Meta went early with its metaverse-inspired rebrand, which has negatively impacted the perception of its next-level initiatives, there are growing signs that the metaverse is coming, and that Meta will be the leader in the…

With Meta encouraging its users to try out its generative AI image creation tools at every turn, it’s also now looking to integrate more transparency into the usage of AI images, in order to help users ascertain what’s real and…

Meta’s coming video editing app is starting to look a lot more interesting. As you may recall, in the recent scramble to figure out what would happen after TikTok was banned in the U.S., Meta announced its own version of…

Meta’s Twitter clone app Threads continues to gain momentum, with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg today reporting that the app is now up to 320 million monthly active users. That’s up from the 300 million MAU that Meta reported last month,…

While many remain unconvinced about Meta’s next-level push, including VR and the metaverse, the stats don’t lie, with Meta’s CTO Andrew Bosworth today sharing with staff that Meta’s Reality Labs division, which is responsible for VR and AR, exceeded all of…