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Facebook parent Meta plans to cut thousands of jobs in fresh layoffs

SAN FRANCISCO: Meta Platforms Inc, the owner of Facebook and Instagram, is planning a fresh round of layoffs and will cut thousands of employees as soon as this week, according to people familiar with the matter.

The Times of India

Quest 3: Potential Release Date, Leaks, and Rumors for Meta's New VR headset

Quest 3 renders and leaks tease the potential design of Meta's Quest 2 VR headset successor.

Inverse

More than just risk: LGBTQIA+ young people use social media to sustain and make sense of family relationships

Much of World Pride has been about the visibility of LGBTQIA+ people. This is important to affirming who we are, our place in the world, and celebrating ourselves as LGBTQIA+ individuals. Social media offers new opportunities to be visible, and many people have shared their celebrations of Pride during this…

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Big tech in crisis: the cuts, lay-offs and worried workers at Twitter and Meta

After years of growth, the social media giants are slashing at budgets in post-Covid difficulties, leaving morale to slump...

Evening Standard

Why Meta’s embrace of a ‘flat’ management structure may not lead to the innovation and efficiency Mark Zuckerberg seeks

Big Tech, under pressure from dwindling profits and falling stock prices, is seeking some of that old startup magic.

The Conversation

Europe may try to force Netflix and Meta to pay up

Telecoms operators may have a shot at getting Netflix and Meta to pay for sending content to users.

Fortune

Big Tech companies aren't afraid of antitrust regulators, but they sure do dance for activist hedge funds

To judge by recent multibillion dollar deals, antitrust worries are not causing companies like Amazon or Microsoft to back off big acquisitions. But pressure from activist investors is a different story.

Fortune

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Meta’s Huge $500 Quest Pro Price Cut Reeks of Desperation

The Quest Pro will now cost $999.99, one-third of its original price, while the 256GB Quest will start at $429.99. These drastic price cuts could position Quest headsets as way more affordable than Apple's rumored $3,000 mixed reality headset.

Inverse

Zuckerberg warned not to open Horizon Worlds to minors

Democrats from New England call the Meta chief's purported attempt to attract teenagers to his Horizon Worlds as 'just another flagrant attempt to exploit young people for profit'.

Fortune

Here's the week's top NFT and metaverse news

NFT volume reached $2 billion—the highest level since May.

Fortune

Dangerous selfies aren't just foolish. We need to treat them like the public health hazard they really are

Selfies have been called everything from an artform to narcissistic and a sign of a dysfunctional society.

The Conversation

The Quest 3 Will Be a Make-or-Break Moment for Meta

Now that Meta's future Quest roadmap has leaked, it's clear that with Apple's headset arriving soon, Sony's PSVR 2 circling, and Quest Pro sales tanking, the Quest 3 needs to be successful or it could ruin the entire company.

Inverse

Meta Quest 3: new headset to be two times thinner and twice as powerful as Quest 2

The mixed-reality device will cost more than £400 when it lands later this year.

Evening Standard

Debate: The multiple paradoxes of Meta and Mark Zuckerberg

From Facebook’s psychological experiments on unwitting users in 2014 to the Cambridge Analytica scandal in 2018 or the Facebook files in 2021, controversies involving the company have been numerous. Despite an increased demand for transparency, Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta (formerly known as Facebook), has never been too inclined…

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The Independent UK

Flights and firefighting: Companies push into the metaverse

The push is still on for the metaverse even as doubts of its viability have been creeping in as the initial hype wears off

Inverse

Screw It, Put a Chatbot in Every App

Other apps are following Bing's lead and incorporating AI chat features. All the hype might accidentally help us figure out what chatbots are really good for,

Fortune

Mark Zuckerberg wants A.I. 'personas' for your Facebook and Instagram accounts

Meta says it hopes to bring A.I. features and "personas" to its social media platforms Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

Chicago Sun-Times

‘Take It Down:’ a tool for teenagers and anyone else to remove explicit online images

A new online tool lets you take down explicit images and videos of yourself from the internet. It’s from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and funded in part by Meta Platforms, owner of Instagram and Facebook.

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Axios

Companies scramble to incorporate generative AI in products

Microsoft, Meta, Google, Snapchat and more are trying to weave chatbots and other AI features into their offerings.

Al Jazeera

Twitter under fire for censoring Palestinian public figures

Digital rights groups say social media giants have restricted, suspended accounts of Palestinian journalists, activists.

WEKU

How Russia is losing — and winning — the information war in Ukraine

The war in Ukraine is also playing out online, where Russia is using propaganda, fake accounts, and manipulated videos and images to deflect blame and undermine support for Ukraine.

Tribune News Service

Meta's ‘Take It Down’ tool helps minors remove explicit photos from web

Meta Platforms Inc. has funded the creation of a tool that helps minors remove nude, partially nude or sexually explicit images of themselves from the internet in partnership with the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, a nonprofit child-protection group.

Pedestrian.tv

Meta Is Partnering With A New Service That Hunts Down Removes Leaked Nudes Off The Internet

The new service is a huge step in the right direction, but it's not a perfect solution.

Evening Standard

How to report Instagram posts as gruesome videos circulate on app

The clips contain animal cruelty and graphic violence but you can anonymously report them using these easy steps

The Independent UK

'Take It Down:' a tool for teens to remove explicit images

“Once you send that photo, you can’t take it back,” goes the warning to teenagers, often ignoring the reality that many teens send explicit images of themselves under duress, or without understanding the consequences

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