Meta is slashing its costs by another $4 billion, and investors are thrilled

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Meta said it would spend less in 2023 — and investors cheered big-time, sending the stock up nearly 19% in after-hours trade.

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Meta Is Spending More Than $1 Billion per Month on the Metaverse

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Meta has released its final quarterly and full year financial results for 2022, and the results are...mixed for the company formerly known as Facebook.

Instagram Co-Founders Introduce Text-Based App

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Instagram co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger are returning to the app game with a new innovative startup since leaving the ‘gram in 2018. Artifact is a new social media platform that will provide a feed of articles and facts aimed to create a dialogue between users to discuss things of interest.

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Trump's return to Instagram and Facebook could doom Truth Social

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Were you on MySpace, reader? I wasn't. I'm Diamond Naga Siu, and I was barely a human yet when it was big. But I've lurked on platforms like YikYak, Stumbleupon, Clubhouse — back when they were still a thing.

Britney Spears said fans 'went too far' when they called the police to visit her home after she deactivated her Instagram

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Britney Spears confirmed the police visit occurred in a tweet on Thursday.

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Buzzfeed stock surges 200% on plans to use OpenAI to write stories

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Utilities Use Customer Dollars to Pay for Their Lobbying. Here’s How Lawmakers Can Stop It

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Now that Trump can return to Facebook, Truth Social could be all but doomed

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Donald Trump and a phone displaying his social-media app, Truth Social.

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Nick Clegg led Meta's decision to reinstate Trump to Facebook and Instagram. Here's how the former UK deputy prime minister charmed his way into Mark Zuckerberg's inner circle.

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Nick Clegg, Meta's president for global affairs, has quickly joined Mark Zuckerberg's inner circle of executives.

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Another Two Weeks Wasted as Twitter Reverses Dumb Decision

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Twitter has reversed course on its extremely unpopular decision to make an algorithmically generated timeline the default for all Twitter users.

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