Meta, the company behind Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, is about to change how the internet works. Right now, Meta powers a huge part of global internet traffic—10% of fixed internet usage and 22% of mobile traffic. That’s a massive chunk of the digital world. But Meta isn’t stopping there. It
Meta, the company behind Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, is in hot water again. South Korea’s privacy watchdog has fined the social media giant a staggering $15.67 million for secretly collecting and sharing sensitive personal information of users without their permission. Here’s what happened: South Korea’s Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC)
Decades ago, the famous intellectual Noam Chomsky, in his 1991 book Media Control, explained how the U.S. government uses propaganda to push its agenda. Fast forward to today, and a retired Indian Air Force officer is making a bold claim: social media giants like Facebook and Instagram, owned by META,
In a new book by former President Donald Trump, he’s making a dramatic threat against Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta. Trump’s book, called Save America, isn’t out yet, but a preview was shared with Politico, and it’s causing a stir. Here’s the scoop: Trump claims that Zuckerberg, who runs
Telegram’s founder, Pavel Durov, is in hot water in France. He’s been arrested and is facing multiple charges for not doing enough to control the content on his platform. But while Durov is dealing with legal issues, Meta’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, is catching attention for a different reason. Zuckerberg has
Nigeria has hit Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, with a staggering $220 million fine for violating local data privacy laws. After a thorough investigation revealed that Meta’s policies deny Nigerian users the right to control their personal data, the government demanded immediate changes and a hefty
The US Supreme Court will decide Facebook’s fate in a massive data-harvesting scandal following a class-action lawsuit alleging that Meta gave up to 87 million customers’ personal information to other parties, including Cambridge Analytica, on June 10. You can read the original article here. On June 10, the Supreme Court
According to data from companies like Apple, Amazon, and Microsoft, the largest cloud players, Microsoft and Amazon, have hundreds of data centers to meet growing commercial needs. The Big Tech firms are frequently pitted against one another in a variety of ways, including revenue, market capitalization, and the newest addition—generative
Former CIA Agent Aaron Berman, who served at the CIA between March 2002 and July 2019, takes over election policing at Facebook. Aaron Berman, a 17-year veteran of the CIA who already held a senior position in Facebook’s “misinformation” team during the 2020 election, has been promoted to “Head of
