Here’s the truth behind the ‘Goodbye Meta AI’ posts that are all over Instagram
It’s not what you might think The rise of AI across the internet has understandably led to an increased concern in recent years. Meta, who owns Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp are yet another tech giant who are exploring how user content can help them train AI. Content used to aid their AI scheme include ‘publicly […]
1 year ago
Meta reveals what caused global Facebook and Instagram outage
Meta has released a statement following the huge outage it suffered on Tuesday afternoon. At around 3pm, Facebook and Instagram began to suffer some serious problems as hundreds of thousands of people were logged out of their accounts. Downdetector, which monitors outages across the globe, shown over 230,000 reports of Facebook being down at one […]
2 years ago
Facebook and Instagram users will have to pay monthly fee for ad-free access
Some big changes are being made to both platforms Instagram and Facebook users will have to pay a monthly fee to stop seeing advertisements. Meta announced the monthly subscription fee in a blogpost explaining that the move was so the company would “comply with evolving European regulations”. “We made that change to address a number […]
2 years ago
Elon Musk challenges Mark Zuckerberg to a ‘d*** measuring contest’ as feud continues
A cage fight just wouldn’t settle it Not content with a proposed cage match against his tech rival, Elon Musk has taken his feud with Mark Zuckerberg to school-yard levels, proposing a competition of a very different sort. Sticking with the macho theme, Musk now proposes the two billionaires drop their trousers and see whose […]
2 years ago
MrBeast becomes first person to hit 1 million followers on ‘Twitter killer’ app Threads
He’s calling himself the future Threads CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s new ‘Twitter killer’ app is barely two days old – but it already has it’s first one million follower account in the shape of social media influencer, MrBeast. New figures show thirty million people have signed up to the new Meta app since it was launched on Thursday, […]
2 years ago
Elon Musk threatens to sue Zuckerberg over ‘copycat’ Threads platform
Twitter says Meta has engaged in systematic, wilful, and unlawful misappropriation of Twitter’s IP Elon Musk’s Twitter may take Meta to court over the launch of its ‘copycat’ Threads platform, it has warned. Thirty million people have signed up to the new app since it was launched on Thursday, wooed by its sleek functionality and […]
2 years ago