Meta’s global team derailed WhatsApp India’s payment ambitions, as everything had to go through the global headquarters. This led to the departure of senior executives Abhijit Bose, Manesh Mahatme, and Vinay Choletti from the organization last year. When WhatsApp was given the approval to run Unified Payments Interface (UPI) in
If a bill, sponsored by Assemblymember Buffy Wicks, D-Oakland, passes, Meta threatens to pull news content in California unless it pays publishers. Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, threatened to remove news from its social media sites in California if the state passes a bill requiring big tech
According to investigative journalist Lee Fang, Google, Meta, and Amazon have been hiring low-paid foreign workers following layoffs in the United States. Some of the biggest companies in tech including Google, Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, and Salesforce have hired foreign workers just weeks after reducing headcount by thousands of employees, according to
In its first-quarter earnings report on Wednesday, Meta revealed that Zuckerberg’s Metaverse has taken a $4 billion loss.
The Irish Data Protection Commission has fined Meta €265 million for a data scraping leak that exposed the personal information of EU Justice Commissioner Didier Reynders, Luxembourg Prime Minister Xavier Bettel, and dozens of other EU officials.
According to a Cybernews article, WhatsApp data has leaked, resulting in 500 million users’ phone numbers from 84 countries, including India, being put up for sale.
In a blog post on Tuesday, Meta confirmed a US military-linked propaganda campaign was taking place on Facebook.
A report published Saturday revealed that social media giants Meta—Facebook’s parent company—and TikTok are driving traffic to content promoting a military coup to overthrow Brazil’s democracy.
Exhibiting the Instagram and Facebook logos, or advertising on those platforms, could be considered illegal under Russian law. Furthermore, Russia has added Meta to list of terrorist organizations.