Instagram and WhatsApp reportedly suffered some outages in the United States and some other countries Wednesday (April 3). For a period of time Wednesday afternoon, Eastern time, Downdetector displayed 3,100 users’ reports of outages for Instagram and 17,000 for WhatsApp, Bloomberg reported Wednesday. A status page of Meta Platforms, the parent company of...
Meta will close Facebook News in the United States and Australia in April. This move comes after the company did the same thing in the United Kingdom, France and Germany in September 2023, Meta said in a Friday (March 29) update. “This is part of...
Decentralization may be coming to social media’s walled gardens, and that means the future of social commerce could be more fediverse than it is metaverse. But what exactly is the fediverse? At a literal level, the fediverse is short for “federated universe” and it represents...
Meta’s development of a new AI model, designed to enhance video and user Feed recommendations, marks what could be a significant shift in the online commerce landscape. The new AI model could benefit advertisers by directing viewers to more relevant results, experts say. Meta’s progress unfolds...
Meta said it is giving advertisers a way to avoid Apple’s 30% service charge. Businesses that use boosted posts on Meta’s Facebook and Instagram platforms can go to Facebook.com and Instagram.com on mobile or desktop devices to boost their content and not pay the service...
Meta is working on detecting content generated by artificial intelligence (AI), and identifying that content to its users. In a Tuesday (Feb. 6) article by Meta’s President of Global Affairs Nick Clegg, the company addressed the challenge of distinguishing authentic content from AI-generated content and outlined its plans...
Meta has teamed with India’s ONDC to help smaller merchants do business on WhatsApp. The partnership with the Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC) is designed to “enable and educate small businesses in building seamless conversational buyer and seller experiences on WhatsApp through an ecosystem...
Qatari billionaire Wissam Al Mana reportedly emerged victorious in a legal battle against Meta over the unauthorized use of his image in cryptocurrency scam advertisements on Facebook. Al Mana, a prominent businessman in the Middle East and the former husband of pop star Janet Jackson,...
Meta-owned social media platform Threads has begun tests related to its previously announced plans to make posts available on other platforms as well. “Starting a test where posts from Threads accounts will be available on Mastodon and other services that use the ActivityPub protocol,” Meta CEO...
