Mark Zuckerberg once suggested wiping all Facebook friends lists to boost usage

Mark Zuckerberg once suggested wiping all Facebook friends lists to boost usage

Source: The Verge Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg had a “potentially crazy idea” in 2022 to get people using Facebook more: deleting everyone’s friends’ lists. The possibility was discussed on Monday via internal emails shown by the FTC as Zuckerberg testified during Meta’s antitrust trial. Zuckerberg floated the idea of considering “wiping everyone’s graphs” — their…

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Mark Zuckerberg suggested spinning off Instagram

Mark Zuckerberg suggested spinning off Instagram

Source: The Verge About a year before the Federal Trade Commission first opened its antitrust investigation into Meta’s acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp, CEO Mark Zuckerberg internally suggested “the extreme step of spinning Instagram out as a separate company.” In a 2018 email to his executives, Zuckerberg wrote that, ​​“while most companies resist break-ups, the…

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Europe must choose between US or Chinese satellite tech, says FCC chair

Europe must choose between US or Chinese satellite tech, says FCC chair

Source: The Verge European allies who have reservations about working with Elon Musk’s Starlink will have more to worry about if they side with Chinese satellite internet services, Federal Communications Commission chair Brendan Carr told the Financial Times. Carr said that politics having an influence on long-term decisions in Europe was “unfortunate,” and that “allied…

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Meta AI will soon train on EU users’ data

Meta AI will soon train on EU users’ data

Source: The Verge Meta has announced that it’s preparing to train AI on the data of EU users of its apps, including Facebook and Instagram. The company says that includes things like public posts, comments, and their chat history with Meta AI, but won’t include “private messages with friends and family.” It also only applies…

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People are turning on Elon Musk

People are turning on Elon Musk

Source: The Verge Elon Musk’s popularity with the American public is waning, according to the latest polling average from Nate Silver’s Silver Bulletin. The billionaire CEO of multiple companies wears many hats, but the most visible one of late has been as the face of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), an organization that has…

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