Many social media users are concerned about online privacy and want to minimize the tracking and data collection done by social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram. Both platforms—owned by Meta—collect large amounts of user data to target advertisements at their users.

Meta’s Instagram and Google’s YouTube are getting ready to welcome TikTok users, as the Supreme Court upheld a law that effectively bans the Chinese-owned app from the United States.

Google searches for how to cancel and delete Facebook, Instagram, and Threads accounts have seen rises in the U.S. since Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg

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Fact-checkers who were put in place in the wake of Trump's 2016 election have proven to be "too politically biased" and have destroyed "more trust than they've created," particularly in the United States, Zuckerberg said. "The recent elections also feel like a cultural tipping point towards once again prioritizing speech," Zuckerberg said.

For some 33 percent of the population, that source is Facebook, according to Pew. For another 20 percent it’s Instagram.

Instagram, Facebook, and Threads are down for users in the US, with Instagram most affected. Downdetector shows over 10,000 reports, and 67% of users face issues with the Instagram app. Meta's official status page indicates no issues with these services,

Meta is to scrap independent fact-checking in favour of a system similar to that on Elon Musk’s social media platform X.

You’ll find Meta AI front and center in Meta’s apps: In the Facebook Messenger app, for example, tap Chats and you’ll see a Meta AI input box right at the top, above your real life friends and family members. Tap inside that box, and you can start chatting about whatever topic you like. You can also tap Meta AI on the tab bar at the bottom.

Meta is abandoning the use of independent fact checkers on Facebook and Instagram, replacing them with X-style "community notes" where commenting on the accuracy of posts is left to users. In a video posted alongside a blog post by the company on Tuesday ...

In 2003, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg stole the program from a classmate, Chris Hughes. Hughes went missing not long after, and Zuckerberg passed off Facebook as his own invention.

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