Meta Archive

Meta’s AI chatbot will soon have a standalone app

Emma RothFeb 27, 2025

Meta is firing about 20 employees for leaking information

Alex HeathFeb 27, 2025

The fallout of Meta’s content moderation overhaul

Verge StaffFeb 27, 2025

Jess WeatherbedFeb 27, 2025

Instagram’s video feeds got Reel graphic.

Some Instagram users experienced an error within the last few days that flooded their personal Reels feeds with violent and NSFW imagery, some (but not all) of which was hidden behind content warnings.

Meta says it has since fixed the error and apologized for the mistake that exposed Reels users to content “that should not have been recommended” — which, according to 404Media, included footage of animal abuse, gun violence, dead bodies, and outright gore.

Instagram 'Error' Turned Reels Into Neverending Scroll of Murder, Gore, and Violence

[404media.co]

Instagram’s Reels may get its own app

Jess WeatherbedFeb 27, 2025

Grok resets the AI race

Alex HeathFeb 21, 2025

Jay PetersFeb 20, 2025

Meta has opened waitlists for community notes.

As spotted by Engadget, Meta’s community notes website has links to sign up for waitlists for Facebook, Instagram, and Threads. Meta plans to phase in community notes “over the next few months,” according to the website.

Meta also shared some images on Threads showing how writing community notes will look, and I’ve added those to the below gallery.

Update: Added images from Meta’s Threads post.

A promotional screenshot from Meta showing how its Community Notes products will work.

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Jay PetersFeb 20, 2025

Meta has a new fund for Horizon Worlds creators.

The company is launching a $50 million fund and early access to a desktop editor for Horizon Worlds, its 3D social platform for mobile and VR.

“Each month, we’ll pay out bonuses from the Creator Fund to the makers of fun and engaging mobile and [mixed reality] worlds,” Meta says. “Bonuses will be tied to worlds’ contributions to the overall ecosystem across time spent, retention, and in-world purchases.”

Empowering Meta Horizon Creators With a New $50M Fund and Advanced Tools

[developers.meta.com]

Emma RothFeb 19, 2025

Mark Zuckerberg’s charity drops its DEI efforts.

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, which was founded by Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan, has told employees that it will no longer have a team dedicated to DEI, nor will it continue hiring efforts focused on diversity, according to a report from The Guardian. It also plans on ending “social advocacy funding.”

As reported by The Guardian, the organization told employees last month that it would uphold its DEI initiatives even after Meta eliminated its diversity team and programs.

Mark Zuckerberg’s charity guts DEI after assuring staff it would continue

[theguardian.com]

Instagram will now let you schedule and pin DMs

Quentyn KennemerFeb 19, 2025

Wes DavisFeb 19, 2025

Meta’s world-spanning subsea cable for AI has its route.

Meta has announced Project Waterworth, a previously-rumored “multi-billion dollar, multi-year” plan to build an over 50,000-kilometer undersea cable to support AI infrastructure. It would be the world’s longest, designed to resist “damage from ship anchors and other hazards.”

Its planned route snakes from the east to west coasts of the US at up to 7,000 meters deep, connecting to Brazil, South Africa, India, and Australia along the way.