The Facebook privacy settlement is real 鈥� how to claim your share
Facebook users can submit a claim for a share of the $725 million class action settlement of a lawsuit over the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Here's how to get your share.
Andrew Orr
Meta & Google shouldn't be allowed to bully their way out of paying for news
Journalism has been nearly destroyed by Google and Facebook stealing news 鈥� and they should not be allowed to use threats to escape regulation demanding that they pay for profiting from it.
William Gallagher
Facebook also launches blue-check Verified program
Meta's Facebook is rolling out its own verification program to users that gives access to a blue check mark and exclusive features, very similar to Twitter's paid offering.
Meta cuts another 10,000 jobs in 'year of efficiency'
Facebook owner Meta is almost doubling the number of employees that is laying off that it previously announced, and also plans to leave many further jobs that it has advertised, vacant.
Meta's 'year of efficiency' continues, thousands more expected to be laid off
Meta is not quite finished streamlining its workforce, with plans for another culling of thousands of employees being considered by management.
Malcolm Owen
Meta leaks its AR four-year plan before Apple can beat them
Meta has made sure its new AR/VR plans would leak, as it tries to leverage its five-year lead to establish itself as the headset company to beat 鈥� before Apple makes its announcements.
Facebook has decided that paid user validation is also the way to go
Meta is joining Twitter in providing a paid verification subscription to customers, with Meta Verified allowing other users to confirm the identity of its subscribers on Facebook and Instagram.
Meta is slowly recovering, but still 'at the whim of Apple' says exec
Following its precipitous stock value fall in 2022, and mass layoffs in 2023, Facebook owner Meta sees recovery on the horizon 鈥� but is warning staff that the hits it keeps taking from Apple's privacy moves are not going away.
EU hits Meta with $411 million fine for forcing users to accept personalized ads
Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, has been told by a European Union privacy regulator that it cannot require users to opt into personalized ads, fines them $411 million.
Wesley Hilliard
Mike Wuerthele
