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Meta separates groups from Facebook and launches a new app

Meta is disconnecting one of the central and most popular features on the social network. The new app, Forum, will concentrate all group activity in one place.

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“Meta is unifying Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and more into a single account system, allowing users to manage all services from one place and sign in securely using one password or Passkey technology.”

Meta to lay off 100 in Israel, reassign 200 to AI

(ILLUSTRATIVE) A logo of Meta AI sits outside the Meta House on the opening day of the 55th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, January 20, 2025.

Meta employees launch protest against mouse-tracking tech at US offices

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Meta unifies all accounts under one roof


Facebook, Instagram launch paid monthly subscription

This marks the first time that Meta is deviating from its traditional model of a free platform supported by advertisements.


Israel-Hamas war: Recounting the first two weeks

As opposed to assigning or editing stories, or writing my own “official” journalistic prose for The Jerusalem Post, my “war minutes,” as I called them, were totally stream of consciousness.

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The soldiers who became social media stars during the fighting

The fighters behind the videos are talking about their new status as network stars, about the surprise at the number of views, and the desire to make the people of Israel happy.

Israeli reserve soldiers seen during a military training before heading to the Israeli-Gaza border in the Golan Heights, northern Israel, on October 25, 2023

Meta to limit some Facebook comments on Israeli, Palestinian posts

The social media company added it will disable the ability to see the first one or two comments on posts while scrolling the Facebook feed.

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Facebook’s design makes it unable to control vaccine misinformation

The world’s largest social media platform failed to eliminate falsehoods during the Covid-19 pandemic.

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Why has Facebook flagged searches of chicken soup as 'child sexual abuse'?

Translations of "chicken soup" in other languages are believed to act as coded language to post child pornography on social media without a trace.

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Meta’s handling of ‘SpongeBob’ Holocaust denial post is taken up by independent Oversight Board

Users complained about it six times — four times before the Holocaust denial ban went into place and twice after.

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Meta pins pro-China influence campaign on Chinese law enforcement

"This operation was large and noisy, but it struggled to reach beyond its own fake echo chamber," said Meta's Global Threat Intelligence Lead Ben Nimmo.

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Caught: Millionaire unveils partner's affair during engagement party

A shocking twist unfolded at a soiree in Italy, where a wealthy banker publicly confronted his partner's infidelity, leaving the attendees stunned.


Labeling Facebook accounts as state media results in reduced engagement

Negative public sentiment toward dictatorships in Iran, Russia and China among social media users in democracies is tied to their behaviors

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