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Meta lost a bid to dismiss claims from US states that its platforms Facebook and Instagram addict children.
Meta has revived Facebook Creator Studio as a standalone AI companion app, featuring an AI assistant that provides performance insights, tailored growth recommendations, and automated reply drafting for creators.
Facebook reimagines its Creator Studio as a standalone AI companion app, integrating an AI assistant to help creators with content ideas, performance analysis, and audience engagement, aiming to compete with TikTok and YouTube.
The author describes the discovery of AI-generated videos on Facebook that impersonate individuals with disabilities to sell low-quality merchandise, highlighting the ethical concerns and impact on real disabled businesses.
Meta launches AI Mode in Facebook search, which grounds its answers in public posts from Facebook and Instagram, raising concerns about misinformation. Early testing shows mixed results with trip planning and some controversial responses.
Facebook's new AI Mode turns its search bar into a conversational tool that mines public posts, Reels, and Marketplace data to answer questions, aiming to boost engagement and support subscription tiers, though critics raise privacy and accuracy concerns.
Facebook's new AI Mode search uses public posts to generate AI-powered answers, rolling out alongside other AI features like photo presets and collage templates.
Meta launched 'AI Mode' on Facebook, a search feature that uses its AI to synthesize answers from public posts, Groups, and Reels, along with AI-powered photo editing tools like virtual wardrobe try-ons.
Peter Thiel recounts how he became the first investor in Facebook, investing $500,000 for a 10.2% stake after a quick meeting with Mark Zuckerberg in 2004.
This paper describes Scuba, a distributed in-memory database system developed at Facebook for real-time analytics and data exploration.
Sony released the first trailer for 'The Social Reckoning', a sequel to 'The Social Network', set 17 years later and following Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen. The film stars Jeremy Strong as an older Mark Zuckerberg and premieres October 9th.
A new report from the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) reveals that racist comments targeting politicians tripled after Meta relaxed its content moderation rules, with violent threats and hate speech quadrupling and bullying doubling.
A CBC investigation reveals that overseas accounts are posing as Albertans and posting divisive content in Alberta separatist Facebook groups to exploit Meta's monetization program, often by stealing content from real users.
Meta is rolling out an AI creator assistant on Facebook that provides personalized recommendations on posting times, audience insights, and content ideas based on creators' performance data. The company is also expanding AI translation support to additional languages including Arabic, French, and Vietnamese.
The article examines how AI-generated disinformation (slop) is infiltrating grassroots activism against AI data centers, with fake memes and inaccurate search summaries fueling distrust and confusion.
Meta repeatedly fails to respond to EU dispute body Appeals Centre Europe in cases of user bans, providing evidence in fewer than 100 of 4,600 cases.
A large-scale dataset of 299,329 public Facebook posts about climate change, with metadata and analysis of themes and engagement, aimed at supporting research on climate discourse.
A Texas woman was arrested on a felony charge for a Facebook post reporting alleged hospitalizations from bacteria in the town's water, despite the city later issuing a boil water notice. She has filed a federal lawsuit claiming political retaliation.
This paper presents the Arabic Women and Society Corpus, a ten-year collection of over 250,000 Arabic Facebook posts related to women's empowerment and social wellbeing, with engagement metrics for analyzing gender discourse and sentiment.
ArabDiscrim is a decade-long lexical resource and corpus of 293K Arabic Facebook posts about racism and discrimination, with engagement signals, morphological regex families, and discrimination axes, supporting fairness-oriented Arabic NLP research.