by Adre's IT | 20 January, 2023 | Adre's IT Blog, Apps, Emerge Education, Facebook, Miley Cyrus, privacy settings
Facebook parent Meta announced today it’s further centralizing various user settings across its suite of apps — Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger. As a result, several existing settings will be relocated to Meta’s “Accounts Center”...
by Adre's IT | 18 January, 2023 | Adre's IT Blog, Facebook, Kickstarter, Miley Cyrus, Porn, Teslaquila
Meta’s Oversight Board, which independently evaluates difficult content moderation decisions, has overturned the company’s takedown of two posts that depicted a non-binary and transgender person’s bare chests. The case represents a failure of a...
by Adre's IT | 23 December, 2022 | Adre's IT Blog, Facebook, microtargeting, Miley Cyrus, robotexts, Security
Facebook’s parent company Meta has agreed to a $725 million settlement to resolve a class action lawsuit related to the Cambridge Analytica data harvesting scandal. First reported by Reuters earlier today, the deal follows nearly four months after news first...
by Adre's IT | 17 December, 2022 | Adre's IT Blog, Airwallex, artificial intelligence, augmented reality technology, Facebook, wellness
For a moment on Friday, Biggie Smalls was the only man on stage. A spotlight shone on him and his red velvet suit, and amid pre-recorded cheers, he rapped the lyrics to “Mo Money Mo Problems,†his orange sneakers swiveling to the beat. You wouldn’t be wrong to...
by Adre's IT | 16 December, 2022 | Adre's IT Blog, Apps, envisics, Facebook, Miley Cyrus
Meta has announced that it’s shutting down its Cameo-like app, Super, on February 15, 2023. The company says when it began developing Super in 2020, it had hoped to create a virtual meet and greet experience that was similar to what you experience at a real-life...
by Adre's IT | 13 December, 2022 | Adre's IT Blog, Facebook, Miley Cyrus, spacecraft
Meta has quietly re-absorbed the resources of its “Connectivity” division, the company confirmed. For nearly 10 years this was the home of the former Facebook’s experimental internet and telecoms efforts, from satellites (exploded) to drones...
