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Meta Whistleblower Exposes Alleged China Censorship Plans

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Meta’s Secretive Efforts to Enter the Chinese Market Revealed

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Ridgewood NJ, a whistleblower complaint filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) alleges that Meta developed a censorship tool and offered data access to China in an attempt to break into the Chinese market. The complaint, backed by internal documents, was filed by Sarah Wynn-Williams, a former global policy director at Meta who worked on China-related initiatives.

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Meta’s Bold Move into Humanoid Robots: The Future of Household Chores?

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Ridgewood NJ, imagine a world where robots handle your household chores—folding laundry, loading the dishwasher, and even carrying a glass of water. That future might be closer than you think. According to reports, Meta is developing a platform for humanoid robots, aiming to revolutionize home automation.

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Mark Zuckerberg : “Facebook’s Censorship Was Something Out of 1984”

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Ridgewood NJ, in a candid three-hour conversation on the Joe Rogan Experience, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg opened up about the controversies surrounding Facebook’s content moderation, the influence of the Biden administration, and the evolving role of social media in the modern information ecosystem. Zuckerberg didn’t hold back, describing his company’s fact-checking efforts as “something out of 1984.”

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Meta Admits to Content Moderation Errors, Downplays Censorship

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Ridgewood NJ, Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and Threads, acknowledged challenges in enforcing its content moderation policies, admitting its error rates remain “too high.” The statement, made by Nick Clegg, Meta’s president of global affairs, comes as the company faces scrutiny over balancing free expression with safety on its platforms.

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Regulatory Setbacks Stall Amazon and Meta’s Plans for Nuclear-Powered Data Centers

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Ridgewood NJ, tech giants Amazon and Meta recently hit unexpected regulatory hurdles in their plans to power data centers with energy from nuclear facilities. While the move to locate data centers near nuclear plants aimed to meet growing power demands sustainably, neither company’s setback had anything to do with nuclear concerns.

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Meta Rolls Out Ray-Ban Smart Glasses

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Ridgewood NJ, Meta has rolled out multimodal AI to its Ray–Ban Meta Smart Glasses, allowing users to process photos, audio, and text through voice commands for tasks like identification and translation, although the AI’s capabilities are limited and sometimes inaccurate.

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2023 the Death of Internet Censorship

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Ridgewood NJ, the landscape of content moderation underwent significant changes in 2023, signaling the evolving dynamics of online platforms. Twitter, particularly under the influence of Elon Musk, broke content moderation norms, foreshadowing broader shifts in the industry. Major tech companies, including Meta Platforms Inc., Google, Amazon.com Inc., and Microsoft Corp., downsized their workforces amid economic challenges, impacting content moderation (Censorship) efforts. The trend toward utilizing artificial intelligence for moderation increased, with companies like Meta and Twitter embracing AI solutions.

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WhatsApp back online after global outage

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Ridgewood NJ, WhatsApp, the messaging app owned by Facebook parent Meta, suffered a global outage on Tuesday. Problems were first detected around 3:17 a.m. ET, according to Downdetector.com, which monitors outages across internet services. Normal service on WhatsApp had appeared to be restored at around 5 a.m. ET.

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Facebook Cuts Back on Hiring and Threaten to Let Go Underperformers

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Ridgewood NJ, Mark Zuckerberg warns staff Facebook will be ‘turning up the heat’ to weed out underperformers: ‘You might decide this place isn’t for you, and that’s OK with me’. Meta (Facebook)  is cutting back on hiring as slow growth and macroeconomic headwinds push the company to downgrade its economic outlook. It will hire 30% fewer engineers this year than planned. The company will also start weeding out staff who are unable to meet certain KPIs. Meta ended the first quarter of 2022 with 28% more full-time employees than it had a year earlier. It started a hiring freeze in May as user growth and ad revenue started decreasing. Continue reading Facebook Cuts Back on Hiring and Threaten to Let Go Underperformers

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Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg Stepping Down

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Ridgewood NJ, Sheryl Sandberg is stepping down from her role as Chief Operating Officer at Meta. Sandberg joined Facebook in 2008 and helped turn the company into an advertising juggernaut. Javier Olivan will take over as COO this fall. Sandberg will now be able to focus more on her philanthropic work. She will continue to serve on Meta’s board of directors.

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Facebook Officially Becomes Fakebook

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Ridgewood NJ, Facebook employees, who have been colloquially known as ‘Facebookers’, will now be known as ‘Metamates’. Zuckerberg tells Facebook employees they are now ‘Metamates’ .The change comes after an all-hands meeting detailing the company’s new direction. Facebook is not the only company that uses these types of phrases to refer to its employees. The new nickname for workers comes with new company values such as being direct and respectful of colleagues.

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Congressional Candidate Says Facebook Censorship is Causing the Company to lose Subscribers

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Ridgewood NJ, for the first time in its 18-year history, Facebook lost close to 500,000 subscribers over the last three months. As a result, the parent company’s stock, Meta, plummeted 26%, shaving more than $220 billion of its value. That’s more than one-fifth of a TRILLION dollars lost in one day. This freefall comes on the heels of Facebook blocking US Trucker’s from their social media site for allegedly violating established policies. Watch out. US Truckers are now organizing a convoy to Washington, DC, similar to the movement sweeping across Canada. Some people speculate that limbo music might be in order for the newly named Meta stock: “How long can you go?”

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