Mark was suggesting that the social network should be spun off
Facebook Co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg took the stand in US Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) antitrust case against Meta on Tuesday. Zuckerberg said that Meta’s market share of social media is around 30%. The FTC has alleged that Meta had illegally monopolized a subset of the social media market through its acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp, both of which the agency is seeking to unwind.
Before the backlash started, TikTok wasn’t even Banned
TikTok’s parent company ByteDance’s Chinese app Xiaohongshu has surged to the top of the charts on the country’s app store. “Started learning in Duolingo and from creators on Red Note [or Xiaohongshu],” an TikTok user wrote. China’s social media platform Instagram has also seen an increase in the number of Chinese users after TikTok’s shutdown.
There are harms to online misinformation
Social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and YouTube face the threat of “disinformation”, reported The Washington Post. “We’ve been facing a challenge…from social media companies like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr, who are making it harder for Americans to get information through their platforms,” said Washington Post. Facebook has removed over 300 accounts from its platform in the last few months.
When she saw the Met Gala photo, her mother fell for it
A viral Instagram post claimed to show an elaborately-dressed Rihanna in attendance, when she was actually home sick with the flu. “Couldn’t make it to the Met, had to work,” she wrote while sharing a video of herselfsinging in the studio. Earlier, The Witness had reported Katy Perry didn’t wear a photo of her dress on the theme of the Met Gala.
Gaza cease-fire talks inch forward while the Supreme Court hears a case
The US Supreme Court has been asked to rule on a case challenging Facebook’s removal of former US President Donald Trump’s posts from the platform. Facebook and Instagram had filed a lawsuit against the state over the removal of Trump’s content from their platforms. The social media giants said it was unconstitutional to force them to remove posts that could incite violence.
Meta says you should reveal your fakes or they will pull them
Meta has announced that it will begin labelling images created with its own artificial intelligence (AI) tools such as ‘Imagined with AI’. “We are adding a feature to reveal when they share artificial intelligence-generated video and audio so we can add a label to it,” Meta said. The labels will be applied to images posted by users on Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp.