Facebook’s rebrand isn’t quite as drastic as Twitter’s
Facebook’s new logo (right) beside the previous one. Meta There were probably many meetings, some of them drifting beyond regular work hours. Whiteboards likely saw much scrawling and a good…
“He Has His Apocalyptic Moods” Walter Isaacson on Elon Musk
If he wasn’t known for running EV car maker Tesla, Elon Musk would still be known for SpaceX, his spacecraft and satellite company with Martian ambitions. Or for Neuralink, a…
Salacious Chinese Disinformation Campaign Blames Maui Fires on Deadly American ‘Weather Weapon’
Researchers say they’ve discovered 85 social media accounts and blogs originating from China and working in tandem to amplify a conspiracy theory claiming the deadly fires in Maui were caused…
Facebook Supreme Court Says Posts About Abortion Are Not Death Threats
In March 2022, Meta removed a pair of posts on Facebook and Instagram criticizing a proposed South Carolina bill that would have horrifyingly applied homicide penalties to abortion seekers. One…
Facebook Is Killing the News Tab in Several Countries
Image: rafapress (Shutterstock) Meta is removing Facebook’s dedicated news tab in some European countries starting in early December, the company announced on Tuesday. The social giant claims users do not visit…
9 Tips and Hacks To Get More out of Notion
Notion combines note taking with project management, and has earned many fans because of its intuitive, open, flexible interface—it can essentially be anything you want it to be, giving you…
Meta Reportedly Looking to Give Europeans an Ad-Free Option on Its Platforms
Meta is a multi-headed behemoth of a tech company, but for all its hungry maws, it is also somewhat predictable. Give it a problem like new regulations that will force…
Meta’s Supreme Court Is Investigating a Nazi Squidward Meme on Instagram
Meta’s Oversight Board, the Supreme Court-like entity tasked with reviewing Facebook and Instagram’s most contentious content moderation conundrums, is taking on a case involving a bizarre and unpleasant mashup: a…
A New Facebook Setting Tells Meta Not to Use Your Data for AI
Meta, the maker of Facebook and Instagram, introduced a new privacy setting Thursday that lets you ask, pretty please, for the company not to use your data to train its…
Legs Have Finally Come to Mark Zuckerberg’s Metaverse
Meta, the benevolent maker of Facebook, is solving the most important problem in the tech industry, one that every person on the internet definitely knows and cares about. At long…