Meta Platforms (META) News & Analysis

The EU has hit Apple and Meta with hundreds of millions of euros in fines as it steps up enforcement of the European Union’s Digital Markets Act.

Systrom testified that Instagram had the potential to thrive independently and did not require Meta’s infrastructure or resources to scale.

The European Commission said the Silicon Valley companies violated the Digital Markets Act, a law meant to crimp the power of the largest tech firms.

Parul Gupta is an IC5 engineer who’s been promoted twice at Meta. Her formula for success has three components: The cake, the icing, and the cherry.

In the landmark antitrust case, tech executives have harked back to a Silicon Valley age when social apps like Facebook, Path, Orkut and Google Plus boomed.

Meta’s Oversight Board, the independent group created to help Meta with content moderation decisions, on Tuesday issued its response to the social media company’s new hate speech policies announced in January. The Board says that Meta&#8217…

After Meta took a big PR hit for its handling of recent layoffs, Microsoft spelled out what constitutes poor job performance. It’s a lesson for all business leaders.

"Succession" creator Jesse Armstrong’s new HBO movie "Mountainhead" stars Steve Carell, Jason Schwartzman, Cory Michael Smith, and Ramy Youssef as tech billionaires.

Chinese advertisers have been a major source of growth for Meta — but analysts say a sizable amount of revenue is at risk from Trump’s trade policies.

Meta announced on Tuesday that it’s officially launching Edits, its CapCut-like video creation app. Releasing globally, Edits will allow creators to do things like keep track of video ideas, get inspiration for new content, and create videos with…

As an AI engineer at Meta, Boris Valkov helped build PyTorch, one of the world’s largest machine learning libraries. During his time there, Valkov realized that artificial intelligence “was about to unlock capabilities…in the application layer in the s…

AI labs are increasingly relying on crowdsourced benchmarking platforms such as Chatbot Arena to probe the strengths and weaknesses of their latest models. But some experts say that there are serious problems with this approach from an ethical and acad…

Zuckerberg worried about Google diving into social media, and created a competitive buffer around Meta through M&A, according to allegations in court documents.

We know that social media can be harmful to teens. Meta has found in its own research that Instagram makes body image worse for one in three teen girls, and Snapchat has been sued several times for not doing enough to mitigate cyberbullying. Even the f…

France’s attempt to recruit U.S.-based researchers is a “smart move,” said Yann LeCun, who moved from France to the U.S. in 1988.

Internal Meta emails from the FTC’s antitrust lawsuit detail tensions between Instagram and Facebook.

The Primary School, a tuition-free private school co-founded by Mark Zuckerberg’s wife Priscilla Chan, will shutter its doors.

In an internal email surfaced as part of the Meta antitrust trial, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg fretted about the potential that the company’s Instagram acquisition may cannibalize Facebook. Were that to happen, it could lead to the “network co…

Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger offer the Teen Accounts feature, which provides restrictions around messaging and sensitive content.

Instagram is expanding its use of AI to determine if kids are lying about their ages on the app, parent company Meta said on Monday.

Meta is using AI technology to search for kids who are lying about their age on Instagram in order to bypass safeguards, the company announced on Monday. When Meta finds an account that it suspects belongs to a teen, the platform will enroll them into …

If it is determined that a user is misrepresenting their age, the account will automatically become a teen account, which has more restrictions than an adult account.

A software engineer who was rejected from Meta, Amazon, and Yelp before landing a role at Microsoft reflects on what he wishes he’d known earlier.

Meta’s Yann LeCun called France’s initiative to attract top scientists a "smart move" amid tightened US immigration and reduced research funding.

With the first week of Meta’s antitrust trial behind us, documents shared by the U.S Federal Trade Commission (FTC) offered more insight into Meta’s internal struggles to keep Facebook relevant. In emails from 2022, Meta executives mulled different vis…