Tag: Facebooks
Movement Labs Raises $38M For Rollup Based on Facebook’s Move Language
Movement's funding round saw participation from venture capital firms including Hack VC, Placeholder, Archetype, Maven 11, Robot Ventures, Figment Cap [...]
Facebook’s Algorithm Is ‘Influential’ but Doesn’t Necessarily Change Beliefs, Researchers Say
The algorithms powering Facebook and Instagram, which drive what billions of people see on the social networks, have been in the cross hairs of lawmak [...]
Meta fined €265M for allowing scrapers to steal Facebook’s centralized user data
The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) announced on Nov. 28 that it has fined Facebook developer Meta €265m for breach of the European Union’s Gen [...]
Terra could leave a similar regulatory legacy to that of Facebook’s Libra
New draft legislation on stablecoins in the United States House of Representatives proposed to impose a two-year ban on new algorithmically pegged sta [...]
Facebook’s metaverse will ‘misfire,’ says Vitalik Buterin
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin doesn’t believe that any of the existing attempts by corporations to create a Metaverse are “going anywhere,” poin [...]
Peter Thiel, the most outspoken Trump supporter in Silicon Valley, is leaving Facebook’s board
Early Facebook investor Peter Thiel plans to resign from its parent company Meta’s board, the company announced on Monday.
Thiel’s departure is sig [...]
Wall St falls as Facebook’s forecast disrupts tech recovery
Meta shares sank 24.5% and were set for their biggest single-day decline ever, as the company blamed Apple’s privacy changes and increased competitio [...]
How Facebook’s ambitious stablecoin project came to an end
On Jan. 31, Meta, formerly known as Facebook, announced that it was pulling from its stablecoin project, Diem, formerly known as Libra. Intellectual p [...]
Reflecting on Facebook’s Hilarious, Well-Deserved Crypto Failure
The privacy questions were closely linked to legislators’ skepticism that the Libra project would be a “nonprofit” independent of Facebook’s control. [...]
What Facebook’s Patents Tell Us About the Fight for the Soul of the Metaverse
This episode is sponsored by Nexo, Abra and FTX US.Download this episodeOn this week’s “Long Reads Sunday,” NLW reads David Z. Morris’ “Meta Leans In [...]
What Facebook’s rebranding tells us about Big Tech’s ‘Game of Platforms’
In his monthly crypto tech column, Israeli serial entrepreneur Ariel Shapira covers emerging technologies within the crypto, decentralized finance [...]
The Long Strange Journey of Facebook’s Libra Project
This episode is sponsored by NYDIG.Download this episodeOn today’s episode, NLW does a retrospective of Facebook’s libra project, which was re [...]
Facebook’s centralized metaverse a threat to the decentralized ecosystem?
Facebook has been planning its foray into the metaverse for some time now — possibly even several years. But it’s only recently that its ambitious [...]
Facebook’s Ad Policies Changed, but Political Campaigns Can Still Target You
Sign up here to get On Politics in your inbox on Tuesdays and Thursdays.During the 2020 election, both the Biden and the Trump campaigns ran Facebo [...]
Everything You Need to Know About Facebook’s ‘Meta’ Metaverse Play
This episode is sponsored by NYDIG.Download this episodeFacebook announced yesterday it is changing its corporate name to Meta. The name change ref [...]