CEO of Meta Mark Zuckerberg says the company is getting rid of fact-checkers from Instagram, Facebook, and Threads in a move that will "dramatically reduce the amount of censorship" on the platforms. [Read More]
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Amid considerable fears about the impact that AI-generated content may have on the 2024 Presidential Election in the United States, Meta claims that less than one percent of election misinformation was created by AI, at least on its platforms, which include Facebook, Instagram, and Threads. [Read More]
Over the weekend, Meta's official Threads account posted a series of AI-generated images of major cities with the Northern Lights overhead along with the line, "You missed the northern lights IRL, so you made your own with MetaAI.
Hundreds of thousands of people have fallen for a hoax that claims to deny Meta the right to use their photos for training the company's AI. [Read More]
Meta will add a "Made with AI” label to images and videos detected to be AI-generated across Facebook, Instagram, and Threads starting next month. [Read More]
Meta properties, which includes Facebook, Instagram, and Threads, all experienced a widespread outage this morning.
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In what could be one of the most impactful changes to the algorithm, Instagram and Meta's answer to X, Threads, will no longer suggest political content to users who don't opt in. [Read More]