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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 it to be far more transparent about its targeted advertising business, and it will comply—but only on its own terms. The owner of Facebook and…

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Jen Glantz is a solopreneur who's started using ChatGPT to make running her business easier.
Jen Glantz is a solopreneur who's started using ChatGPT to make running her business easier.
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A white text bubble set against a brown background chomps a row of apps that are being threatened by groupchats from right to left--Be Real, Instagram and TikTok.
As people have run into the consequences of constant sharing, social media has become less social — and users are shifting to messaging apps and group chats.
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Meta’s decision to block news in Canada has seemingly been met with a shrug by its user base. Data shows that Facebook’s users have remained steady even though the social media platform has banned news links.

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Meta says it has identified and removed more than 7,700 shady accounts and 990 pages on Facebook linked to Chinese law enforcement in what the company is calling the “largest known cross-platform covert influence operation in the world.” The accounts, which ten

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The Threads app
Threads is the latest Meta app to launch.
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Google is pinky-swearing it will be more transparent in the future about how and why you keep seeing the same ads that seem to know you much better than you know yourself, though only if you live in the European Union.

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Adult creator OnlyFans model Bryce Adams.
Bryce Adams always wears sunglasses or a mask in the content she posts publicly, as a way to protect her identity.
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Meta announced it is implementing new “transparency measures” on Instagram and Facebook on Tuesday in response to the European Union’s Digital Services Act (DSA) which requires Meta to comply by August 25.