On Friday, the Dutch government announced the possibility of discontinuing its use of Facebook following a caution from the Netherlands’ privacy regulator regarding the privacy risks associated with the social media platform owned by Meta.
Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, expressed reservations on Monday about the proposed ban of the Chinese-owned social media app TikTok in the United States. He suggested that such a ban would only strengthen Meta.
Meta's social media platforms, including Instagram, Facebook, and Threads, have resumed operation after experiencing an outage lasting approximately two hours on Tuesday morning.
Meta plans to unveil technology capable of identifying and categorizing images produced by AI tools developed by other companies.
Meta is considering introducing a monthly fee of $14 for ad-free subscriptions of Facebook and Instagram in Europe. If European users choose not to pay this fee, they will need to give consent for the platform to track their digital activity for targeted advertising, according to reports from the Wall Street Journal.
Meta, which owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, has been fined €265m (£228m) by the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC).
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