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Meta Will Use Your Activity On Other Websites To Personalize Your Feeds
Meta says it will expand how it uses off-platform activity shared by other businesses to personalize Facebook and Instagram feeds as well as AI responses, not just ads. The change starts in July and can be disabled through the “Activity from other businesses” setting, though Meta says it is not collecting new data as part of the upd … ⌘ Read more
Threats Against Politicians Skyrocketed After Meta Changed Its Speech Rules
New research finds that in the six months after Meta relaxed rules in the name of free speech, violent threats against lawmakers—including President Donald Trump—surged on Facebook. ⌘ Read more
Facebook is paying people overseas promoting Alberta separatism
Article URL: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/facebook-overseas-alberta-separtism-9.7223966
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48457181
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Diffamierender Facebook-Beitrag: Meta muss 100.000 Euro wegen verzögerter Löschung zahlen
Auf Facebook wurde ein Mann zu Unrecht als Kriegsverbrecher denunziert. Trotz gerichtlicher Anordnung reagierte Meta zunächst nicht. ( Meta, Soziales Netz)
Black Market Tinkerers on Facebook Marketplace Offer to Hide ‘Recording Lights’ on Meta Smartglasses
People are disabling the “recording light” on Meta’s Ray-Ban smartglasses — “by my count, thousands of people,” says tech journalist Joanna Stern in a new video report:
STERN: “They’re hiring people on Facebook Marketplace to drill out the light for as much as $100. According t … ⌘ Read more
Ask HN: So what happened to Facebook “localhost” tracking?
It was discussed a year ago.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44235467
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48397731
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Strengere Regeln für Facebook Messenger ⌘ Read more
Meta repeatedly snubs EU body over Facebook and Instagram user bans
Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c152yvwjwkko
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48371224
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Meta legal action forces Facebook whistleblower to sit in silence – Hay festival
Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/31/meta-legal-action-forces-facebook-whistleblower-to-stay-silent-at-hay-festival
Comments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48353965](https://news.ycombinato … ⌘ Read more
Meta tests AI subscriptions and rolls out new paid plans for Facebook, Instagram
By Dean Seal and Meghan Bobrowsky
Meta Platforms has started the rollout of subscription plans for Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, and is testing new subscriptions for users of its AI chatbot as the company seeks to recoup some of the costs from its expensive AI buildout. ⌘ Read more
Supreme Court Lets Vermont’s Meta Lawsuit Proceed, Opening Door To 50-State Legal Wave
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Fortune: The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a push to avoid a lawsuit alleging that Facebook and Instagram harmed young users, a decision that comes as social media companies increasingly face legal scrutiny. Parent company Meta appealed after Vermont’s highest co … ⌘ Read more
Meta Copies Snapchat’s Homework Again With ‘Plus’ Features for Instagram and Facebook
Meta’s upcoming Instagram Plus and Facebook Plus subscriptions are the latest example of the company seeing what works elsewhere and mimicking it. ⌘ Read more
Meta’s CacheLib Sees New Release After Two Year Hiatus For Helping With High DRAM Prices
Back in 2021 Facebook open-sourced CacheLib as a new caching engine. Back in 2021 it was done to help scale services with non-volatile memory caching to offset increasing DRAM costs at the time. Now in 2026, DRAM memory prices are astronomical compared to 2021 pricing given the AI surge. And, surprisingly, Meta is out with a new CacheLib release after being absent the past two years… ⌘ Read more
Texas woman arrested for Facebook post about town water quality
Article URL: https://reclaimthenet.org/texas-woman-arrested-for-facebook-post-about-town-water-quality
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48249747
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Amazon, Facebook, FBI have access to a private intelligence-sharing network
Article URL: https://prismreports.org/2026/05/20/seattle-shield-private-companies-surveillance/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48226588
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Le compte Facebook raciste d’un de ses représentants laisse le RN sans réaction
Franck Bernard (RN) est devenu il y a quelques semaines le premier élu d’extrême droite à occuper la fonction de vice-président de la métropole de Besançon. Depuis dix ans, sur son compte anonyme Facebook, il déverse sa haine raciste, sexiste et homophobe. Alerté, le RN regarde ailleurs. ⌘ Read more
Jobabbau befeuert Widerstand gegen KI
Der Jobabbau im Zuge des breiteren Einsatzes von künstlicher Intelligenz (KI) geht weiter: Die britische Großbank Standard Chartered kündigte an, über 15 Prozent ihrer Stellen zu streichen und stattdessen auf KI-Agenten zu setzen. Meta, Mutterkonzern von Facebook, will ebenfalls Tausende Stellen streichen. Mittlerweile formiert sich in den USA starker Widerstand gegen KI und auch gegen die dafür nötigen Rechenzentren. ⌘ Read more
South Korea Floats ‘Citizen Dividend’ Using AI Profits
South Korea’s presidential policy chief is calling for a “citizen dividend” that would return some AI-driven profits and tax revenue to the public. The Straits Times. From the report: Presidential policy chief Kim Yong-beom said in a Facebook post that a portion of the profits and tax revenue derived from the artificial intelligence boom “should be structurally returned to … ⌘ Read more
Meta will throw the toys out of the cot, again
Local journalism deserves saving. But the scheme designed to save it rests on assumptions that the Facebook and Instagram owner has already demolished, without consequences. ⌘ Read more
Meta Debuts ‘Muse Spark’, First AI Model Under Alexandr Wang
Meta has launched Muse Spark, its first major AI model under Alexandr Wang’s leadership. The model was built over the past nine months and is being positioned as a significant step up from Llama 4. Axios reports: Muse Spark will power queries in the Meta AI app and Meta.ai website immediately, with plans to expand across Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. Th … ⌘ Read more
Australia Readies Social Media Court Action Citing Teen Ban Breaches
Australia is preparing possible court action against major social media platforms that are failing to enforce the country’s social media ban on under-16s. “Three months after the ban came into effect, the eSafety Commissioner said it was probing Meta’s Instagram and Facebook, Google’s YouTube, Snapchat and TikTok for possible breaches of t … ⌘ Read more
Five social media giants face crackdown over under-16 ban
Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat and YouTube are under investigation and facing fines of up to $49.5 million for potential non-compliance with Australia’s world-first social media ban. ⌘ Read more
Five social media giants face crackdown over under-16 ban
Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat and YouTube are under investigation and facing fines of up to $49.5 million. for potential non-compliance with Australia’s world-first social media ban. ⌘ Read more
Parents like me are cheering these Facebook verdicts. But it’s not all good news
If these landmark court decisions against Meta and YouTube result in a dilution of free speech, the so-called victory will be hollow indeed. ⌘ Read more
Meta Begins $65 Million Election Push To Advance AI Agenda
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: Meta is preparing to spend $65 million this year to boost state politicians who are friendly to the artificial intelligence industry, beginning this week in Texas and Illinois, according to company representatives. The sum is the biggest election investment by Meta, which owns Facebook, Instagra … ⌘ Read more
Meta Plans To Let Smart Glasses Identify People Through AI-Powered Facial Recognition
Meta plans to add facial recognition technology to its Ray-Ban smart glasses as soon as this year, New York Times reported Friday, five years after the social giant shut down facial recognition on Facebook and promised to find “the right balance” for the controversial technology.
The feature, internally … ⌘ Read more
Supreme Court To Decide How 1988 Videotape Privacy Law Applies To Online Video
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The Supreme Court is taking up a case on whether Paramount violated the 1988 Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) by disclosing a user’s viewing history to Facebook. The case, Michael Salazar v. Paramount Global, hinges on the law’s definition of the word “consumer.” … ⌘ Read more
Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp To Test Premium Subscriptions
An anonymous reader shares a report: Meta plans to test new subscriptions that give people access to exclusive features on its apps, the company told TechCrunch on Monday. The tech giant said the new subscriptions will unlock more productivity and creativity, along with expanded AI capabilities.
In the coming months, Meta said it will offer a premium … ⌘ Read more
Pinterest Cuts Up To 15% Jobs To Redirect Resources To AI
Pinterest said on Tuesday it would trim its workforce by less than 15% and reduce office space, as the social media company looks to reallocate resources to AI-focused roles and initiatives. From a report: The announcement comes as the company competes with TikTok and Meta-owned Facebook and Instagram for digital advertising budgets, as these platforms continue to d … ⌘ Read more
Fake Video Claiming ‘Coup In France’ Goes Viral
alternative_right shares a report from Euronews: France’s President Emmanuel Macron discovered news of his own supposed overthrow, after he received a message of concern, along with a link to a Facebook video. “On Sunday (14 December) one of my African counterparts got in touch, writing ‘Dear president, what’s happening to you? I’m very worried,’” Macron told readers of French local ne … ⌘ Read more
Meta Is Using The Linux Scheduler Designed For Valve’s Steam Deck On Its Servers
Phoronix’s Michael Larabel writes: An interesting anecdote from this month’s Linux Plumbers Conference in Tokyo is that Meta (Facebook) is using the Linux scheduler originally designed for the needs of Valve’s Steam Deck… On Meta Servers. Meta has found that the scheduler can actually adapt and work very well on t … ⌘ Read more
Meta Is Using The Linux Scheduler Designed For Valve’s Steam Deck On Its Servers
An interesting anecdote from this month’s Linux Plumbers Conference in Tokyo is that Meta (Facebook) is using the Linux scheduler originally designed for the needs of Valve’s Steam Deck… On Meta Servers. Meta has found that the scheduler can actually adapt and work very well on the hyperscaler’s large servers… ⌘ Read more
Meta Is Considering Charging Business Pages To Post Links
Meta is informing some users that they will soon be restricted in how many link posts they can share each month, unless they pay for its Meta Verified subscription service. As per the notification message: “Starting December 16, certain Facebook profiles without Meta Verified, including yours, will be limited to sharing links in 2 organic posts per month. Subs … ⌘ Read more
Live: ASX to rise, as Facebook’s owner backs away from Metaverse
It has been a relatively calm day on Wall Street overnight, with Australian stocks set to follow. Follow the day’s events and insights as they happen with our business reporters on the ABC News live markets blog. ⌘ Read more
Australia’s social media lockout begins as teens face digital exile
Meta will start booting under-16s from Facebook and Instagram on Thursday, while YouTube finally “begrudgingly” confirms compliance. ⌘ Read more
Skyhooks guitarist Bob Starkie has died aged 73 after a battle with cancer
A statement released on Skyhooks’ official Facebook page announced his passing this morning. ⌘ Read more
New Research Finds America’s Top Social Media Sites: YouTube (84%) Facebook (71%), Instagram (50%)
Pew Research surveyed 5,022 Americans this year (between February 5 and June 18), asking them
“do you ever use” YouTube, Facebook, and nine of the other top social media platforms. The results?
YouTube 84%
Facebook 71%
Instagram 50%
TikTok 37%
WhatsApp 32%
Reddit 26%
Snapchat 2 … ⌘ Read more
Meta Plans New AI-Powered ‘Morning Brief’ Drawn From Facebook and ‘External Sources’
Meta “is testing a new product that would give Facebook users a personalized daily briefing powered by the company’s generative AI technology” reports the Washington Post. They cite records they’ve reviwed showing that Meta “would analyze Facebook content and external sources to push custom updates to its users. … ⌘ Read more
While Meta Crawls the Web for AI Training Data, Bruce Ediger Pranks Them with Endless Bad Data
From the personal blog of interface expert Bruce Ediger:
Early in March 2025, I noticed that a web crawler with a user
agent string of
meta-externalagent/1.1 (+https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/webmasters/crawler)
was hitting my blog’s machine at an unreasonable rate.
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‘We never thought anyone would be that crass’: Media code designer roasts Meta
Facebook will not be able to simply remove news from its platform again, according to Australia’s former competition tsar, who designed the original bargaining deal. ⌘ Read more
Meta Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun Plans To Exit To Launch Startup
According to the Financial Times (paywalled), Meta’s Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun, a deep-learning pioneer and Turing Award winner, is reportedly leaving the company to launch his own startup. Reuters reports: The owner of Facebook and Instagram has significantly increased its investments in artificial intelligence, with CEO Mark Zuckerberg r … ⌘ Read more
Meta Is Killing Off the External Facebook Like Button
Meta is retiring Facebook’s external Like and Share buttons for third-party websites on February 10, 2026, officially closing the book on a once-dominant traffic driver as usage declines and Facebook’s role within Meta continues to shrink.Engadget reports: The blog post from Meta explains that site admins shouldn’t have to take any additional steps as a result of the … ⌘ Read more
Facebook Dating Is a Surprise Hit For the Social Network
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: Facebook Dating, which debuted in 2019, has become a surprise hit for the company. It lets people create a dating profile free in the app, where they can swipe and match with other eligible singles. It has more than 21 million daily users, quietly making it one of the most popular online dating service … ⌘ Read more
Offline interactions predict voting patterns better than online networks, finds study
According to a new study, offline social networks, revealed by co-location data, predict U.S. voting patterns more accurately than online social connections or residential sorting. Michele Tizzoni and colleagues analyzed large-scale data on co-location patterns from Meta’s Data for Good program, which collates anonymized data collected from people who enabled location services on the Facebook smartphone a … ⌘ Read more
Tunisia: Man handed death sentence for criticizing the president on Facebook. ⌘ Read more
Dutch judge to Facebook: stop secretly disregarding your users’ settings
And here we have yet another case of the EU’s consumer protection legislation working in our favour. Dutch privacy and consumer rights organisation Bits of Freedom sued Facebook over the company’s little trick of disregarding a user’s settings under a variety of circumstances, such as when a user opts for a chronological, non-profiled timeline, only to have Facebook reset itself to the pro … ⌘ Read more
Bill Atkinson has died
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Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44210606
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184,162,718 Passwords And Logins Leaked — Apple, Facebook, Snapchat ⌘ Read more