> "From now on, we will be metaverse-first, not Facebook-first". - Mark Zuckerberg, commenting on the rebranding. Announced at the Connect 2021 event on Thursday, Facebook is changing its corporate name to Meta as part of a rebranding effort to reflect its commitment to developing “the successor to the mobile internet....
A previously hidden internal research conducted by Facebook found that Instagram makes body image issues worse for one in three teen girls. The Wall Street Journal recently disclosed [https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-knows-instagram-is-toxic-for-teen-girls-company-documents-show-11631620739] the in-depth study after gaining access to the research Facebook was unwilling to share with the...
Facebook has launched its long-awaited smart glasses, developed in partnership with Italian luxury eyewear manufacturer Luxottica. The glasses, released under the Ray-Ban brand as Ray-Ban Stories [https://about.fb.com/news/2021/09/introducing-ray-ban-stories-smart-glasses/], allow users to capture photos and videos, listen to music, and take phone calls. The prices...
Facebook will soon be testing ads on its Oculus VR headsets, marking the end of an ad-free era in VR. Facebook had already started placing ads on its Oculus mobile app in May. The VR ads will appear in the shooter game “Blaston” and two other unnamed Oculus apps in...
US President Joe Biden has named Lina Khan, a 32-year-old antitrust law scholar and a leading critic of Big Tech, as the chairwoman of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). The FTC’s mission is to investigate issues regarding antitrust law, data privacy, and false advertising. Confirmed by the Senate with...
Privacy-focused messaging app Signal claims that a series of Instagram ads it tried to run got the company banned from Facebook’s ad platform. The highly targeted and detailed ads aimed to show users the enormous amount of data Instagram and its parent company Facebook collect about them and how...
