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Meta plans 10% layoffs as AI spending soars

NEW YORK – Meta plans to cut a tenth of its workforce, looking for productivity gains from its remaining workers as it invests heavily...

Gov’t agencies press Meta to take action vs. fake news

The Presidential Communications Office (PCO) and the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) have called on tech giant Meta to take immediate action...

Meta testing subscription tier for Instagram

San Francisco, United States—Instagram is testing a pay tier that offers features including letting subscribers discretely view "Story" posts that normally vanish after 24 hours,...

US jury finds Meta, YouTube liable in social media addiction trial

Los Angeles, United States—A Los Angeles jury on Wednesday (Thursday in Manila) found Meta and YouTube liable for harming a young woman because of an...

Jury begins deliberations in soc med addiction trial

LOS ANGELES – Jury deliberations are set to begin Friday (Saturday, Manila time) in a landmark social media addiction trial accusing Meta and YouTube...

Global crackdown targets Southeast Asia’s criminal scam networks

Washington, United States—Meta disabled more than 150,000 accounts and Thai police arrested 21 people in a sweeping international crackdown on Southeast Asian criminal scam centers...

YouTube exec says goal was viewer value not addiction

Los Angeles, United States—A landmark social media addiction trial resumed Monday with a YouTube executive insisting that the Google-owned company's aim was to give people...

Zuckerberg grilled over underage users at social media trial

Los Angeles, United States—Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Wednesday he regretted Meta's slow progress in identifying underage users on Instagram, as he faced stinging criticism...

Meta, PH reach deal to combat online scams

The Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) said Thursday Meta Platforms Inc. has agreed to intensify its crackdown on financial scams and the...

Instagram CEO denies addiction claims in landmark US trial

Los Angeles, United States—Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri on Wednesday rejected the notion that users could be clinically addicted to social media, as he testified in...

Lawmakers blast Meta over slow removal of Marcos deepfake

Senators on Wednesday criticized Meta for not quickly removing fake and harmful posts, pointing to a deepfake of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. that has...

Meta faces Senate subpoena over handling of misleading content

Sen. Rodante Marcoleta on Tuesday urged social technology company Meta to respond more swiftly to complaints about fake news to curb the spread of...

Facebook ‘supreme court’ admits ‘frustrations’ in 5 years of work

Paris, France—An oversight board created by Facebook to review content-moderation decisions trumpeted improved transparency and respect for people's rights in a survey of their first...

Meta to remove under-16 Australians from Facebook

SYDNEY – Australians younger than 16 will be removed from Facebook and Instagram on December 4, tech giant Meta said Thursday, as Canberra prepares...
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