Meta is expanding its teen safety infrastructure, bringing restrictive content controls that launched last October to a global audience, and extending them beyond Instagram to Facebook and Messenger. The company is also introducing a new content-balance feature designed to stop teenagers from being...
Meta has announced their subscription plans for their apps. They will be rolling out Facebook Plus, Instagram Plus, and WhatsApp Plus, as part of their broader push to offer tools across their apps and AI products. Those who will benefit from these Plus plans the most would be businesses and...
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australia has proposed taxing digital giants Meta, Google and TikTok a proportion of their revenue to pay for news reporters. The government released draft legislation Tuesday it intends to introduce to Parliament by July 2 that would create a financial incentive for...
The Philippine government has issued a firm warning to Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, along with WhatsApp and Threads, after the tech giant 's formal response to a joint government request was deemed insufficient in addressing the rapid spread of disinformation across its...
In the span of a single week last March, two American juries looked at the same company and arrived at the same conclusion. A jury in Los Angeles found Meta and Google guilty of harming young users by deliberately building their platforms with addictive design features. Days earlier, a separate...
You might ask, what is Instagram Plus? The simplest answer is, it is yet another subscription service from a trillion dollar company that thrives on user generated content and data. Your next question might be, what benefits does it offer? A few, which includes creating multiple Story audiences, so...
From the point of view of the law enforcement agency at cybercrime frontline, requiring social media firms to implement stricter regulations to shield their platform from fake news and disinformation is a welcome development. And that’s what officials of the Philippine National Police (PNP) felt...
As a global oil crisis drives fuel prices higher and deepens economic uncertainty, the Philippine government has escalated its response beyond traditional policy measures—turning its focus to the digital sphere by ordering Meta Platforms, Inc. to curb the spread of disinformation across its...
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has ordered Umeta Credit Lending Corp. to stop its unauthorized operation of unrecorded online lending platforms (OLPs)—FinLedger-Smart Ledger, Cash Twig, Meta Cash, and MorePautang-Loan Hub—and for engaging in unfair debt collection practices. In a...
(Unsplash) A ranking congressman hopes that more social media platforms would follow Meta's lead of supporting the House of Representatives' plan to establish a regulatory body to curb the spread of fake news online. “Kung ang Meta ay handang...
Antipolo City 2nd Rep. Romeo Acop (Contributed photo) Antipolo City 2nd district Rep. Romeo Acop said that Meta, formerly Facebook; and other social media platforms should show a level of responsibility for fake news and posts that have...
Dr. Rafael Frankel (left) and Rob Abrams, both from Meta Platforms, Inc. (Screenshot from livestream) Rob Abrams of American multinational technology conglomerate Meta has praised Philippine Congress and law enforcement...
