In July 2023, near the peak of animosity between scribes and studios during the writers strike, a picket outside ABC’s The View in New York welcomed an ally: Federal Trade Commission chair Lina Khan. Behind closed doors, the writers union had been sharing concerns of a wave of mergers that it said left just a handful of studios like Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery and Amazon as the lone arbiters of which movies and TV shows are made, what consumers watch and how they can watch it. Flanked by protest signs name-checking Wbd boss David Zaslav to “just give up one yacht” and chants embracing themes of “exploitation,” “concentrated power” and “corporate giants,” Khan delivered a fiery speech that also effectively served as a signal to moguls seeking more mergers and acquisitions.
Since that time, feverish speculation has centered on Shari Redstone relinquishing control of Paramount Global in a megadeal or Warner Bros.
Since that time, feverish speculation has centered on Shari Redstone relinquishing control of Paramount Global in a megadeal or Warner Bros.
- 3/14/2024
- by Winston Cho
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
HGTV star Erin Napier has blasted “Big Tech” for allegedly censoring her social media posts about her and her husband’s (Ben Napier) charity organization, Osprey (Old School Parents Raising Engaged Youth). The Home Town host took to her Instagram Stories to reveal how posts about her organization have supposedly been restricted by Instagram and Facebook’s parent company, Meta. This came after Osprey held its first-ever Osprey Festival in Laurel, Mississippi, on Saturday, March 9. After the event, where families took part in social-media-free activities and workshops, Erin claimed “something weird happened.” According to People, one of her Ig Story slides showed a “Try Again Later” error message popping up on someone’s phone after trying to post an image from the festival, which tagged Erin and Ben. “Meta wouldn’t let images of our #ospreykids logo be tagged in any photos by anyone,” Erin explained. “And wouldn’t allow...
- 3/12/2024
- TV Insider
(Photo by Minette Lontsie via Wikimedia Commons)
Facebook parent company Meta Platforms says its flagship social media platform will stop promoting news content this spring.
The move, which is schedule to take place in early April, will see Meta pull the dedicated Facebook News tab from its website and mobile apps for users in the United States and Australia. It comes about a year after Meta took a similar measure for versions of the Facebook website in the United Kingdom, Germany and France.
In a statement, a spokesperson for Facebook said the decision was intended to better reflect the type of “products and services people value the most,” suggesting news content was low on that list.
“As a company, we have to focus our time and resources on things people tell us they want to see more of on the platform, including short form video,” the spokesperson said. “The number...
Facebook parent company Meta Platforms says its flagship social media platform will stop promoting news content this spring.
The move, which is schedule to take place in early April, will see Meta pull the dedicated Facebook News tab from its website and mobile apps for users in the United States and Australia. It comes about a year after Meta took a similar measure for versions of the Facebook website in the United Kingdom, Germany and France.
In a statement, a spokesperson for Facebook said the decision was intended to better reflect the type of “products and services people value the most,” suggesting news content was low on that list.
“As a company, we have to focus our time and resources on things people tell us they want to see more of on the platform, including short form video,” the spokesperson said. “The number...
- 3/1/2024
- by Matthew Keys
- The Desk
A federal judge has tossed several claims in a copyright infringement case brought by authors — including Sarah Silverman — against Meta over the way it trains its artificial intelligence language models.
Silverman and her co-plaintiffs had accused the tech giant of improperly using their copyrighted books to train its LLaMA language models. The Meta suit was filed alongside a similar copyright claim against OpenAI over the way it trained ChatGPT; that case also remains ongoing.
Judge Vince Chhabria’s ruling wasn’t exactly a surprise, as he said he would grant...
Silverman and her co-plaintiffs had accused the tech giant of improperly using their copyrighted books to train its LLaMA language models. The Meta suit was filed alongside a similar copyright claim against OpenAI over the way it trained ChatGPT; that case also remains ongoing.
Judge Vince Chhabria’s ruling wasn’t exactly a surprise, as he said he would grant...
- 11/21/2023
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
A federal judge has dismissed most of Sarah Silverman’s lawsuit against Meta over the unauthorized use of authors’ copyrighted books to train its generative artificial intelligence model, marking the second ruling from a court siding with AI firms on novel intellectual property questions presented in the legal battle.
U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria on Monday offered a full-throated denial of one of the authors’ core theories that Meta’s AI system is itself an infringing derivative work made possible only by information extracted from copyrighted material. “This is nonsensical,” he wrote in the order. “There is no way to understand the LLaMA models themselves as a recasting or adaptation of any of the plaintiffs’ books.”
Another of Silverman’s arguments that every result produced by Meta’s AI tools constitutes copyright infringement was dismissed because she didn’t offer evidence that any of the outputs “could be understood as recasting,...
U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria on Monday offered a full-throated denial of one of the authors’ core theories that Meta’s AI system is itself an infringing derivative work made possible only by information extracted from copyrighted material. “This is nonsensical,” he wrote in the order. “There is no way to understand the LLaMA models themselves as a recasting or adaptation of any of the plaintiffs’ books.”
Another of Silverman’s arguments that every result produced by Meta’s AI tools constitutes copyright infringement was dismissed because she didn’t offer evidence that any of the outputs “could be understood as recasting,...
- 11/21/2023
- by Winston Cho
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
To comply with European regulators after getting on the wrong side of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (Gdpr), Meta said today it will be offering users in the EU, Eea and Switzerland the option of paying a monthly subscription fee to use Facebook and Instagram without any ads.
The key is that, while people are subscribed, their information will not be used for ads. If they continue to use the services for free, they will still get targeted advertising.
“Whether people choose to use our products for free with ads or subscribe to stop seeing ads, we are committed to keeping people’s information private and secure, under our own policies as well as the” Gdpr’s.
The subscription will cost €9.99 a month on the web or €12.99 a month on iOS and Android and apply to all linked Facebook and Instagram accounts. The iOS and Android pricing takes...
The key is that, while people are subscribed, their information will not be used for ads. If they continue to use the services for free, they will still get targeted advertising.
“Whether people choose to use our products for free with ads or subscribe to stop seeing ads, we are committed to keeping people’s information private and secure, under our own policies as well as the” Gdpr’s.
The subscription will cost €9.99 a month on the web or €12.99 a month on iOS and Android and apply to all linked Facebook and Instagram accounts. The iOS and Android pricing takes...
- 11/1/2023
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
Everyone in the business knows that CEOs at big media and entertainment companies get lavish pay packages: nearly always eight figures, and sometimes nine if there’s a big deal involved (like Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos’ $38 million haul last year, or Wbd CEO David Zaslav’s infamous $246 million haul in 2021).
Their compensation has been scrutinized amid the strikes — but beyond the hefty salaries, lucrative bonuses and stock options, most top executives also get their fair share of perquisites (ya know, “perks”). Some are standard (CEOs get access to company health insurance plans, too! And they also get their 401(k) contributions matched!), but there are others that, well, are unlike anything their employees would expect to see in their W-2s.
Peak Perk — the Private Jet
Most companies define private jet travel purely for work purposes as an essential part of the job (and many companies cite the security of...
Their compensation has been scrutinized amid the strikes — but beyond the hefty salaries, lucrative bonuses and stock options, most top executives also get their fair share of perquisites (ya know, “perks”). Some are standard (CEOs get access to company health insurance plans, too! And they also get their 401(k) contributions matched!), but there are others that, well, are unlike anything their employees would expect to see in their W-2s.
Peak Perk — the Private Jet
Most companies define private jet travel purely for work purposes as an essential part of the job (and many companies cite the security of...
- 10/31/2023
- by Alex Weprin
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
New Delhi, April 3 (Ians) Meta took down over 28 million pieces of content across 13 policies for Facebook and across 12 policies for Instagram in India for the month of February in compliance with the new It Rules, 2021.
From February 1-February 28, Meta actioned over 24.8 million pieces of content across 13 policies for Facebook and 3.3 million pieces of content across 12 policies for Instagram.
These include pre-established channels to report content for specific violations, self-remediation flows where they can download their data, avenues to address account hacked issues, etc, Meta said in its monthly report in compliance with the It (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021.
In February, Meta received 1,647 reports through the Indian grievance mechanism, and responded to 100 per cent of those reports.
“Of these reports, we provided tools for users to resolve their issues in 585 cases,” Meta added.
Of the other 1,062 reports where specialised review was needed, Meta reviewed content as per its policies,...
From February 1-February 28, Meta actioned over 24.8 million pieces of content across 13 policies for Facebook and 3.3 million pieces of content across 12 policies for Instagram.
These include pre-established channels to report content for specific violations, self-remediation flows where they can download their data, avenues to address account hacked issues, etc, Meta said in its monthly report in compliance with the It (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021.
In February, Meta received 1,647 reports through the Indian grievance mechanism, and responded to 100 per cent of those reports.
“Of these reports, we provided tools for users to resolve their issues in 585 cases,” Meta added.
Of the other 1,062 reports where specialised review was needed, Meta reviewed content as per its policies,...
- 4/3/2023
- by News Bureau
- GlamSham
Amazon is set to lay off more than 18,000 workers, CEO Andy Jassy said in a note to employees Wednesday.
The majority of the cuts will impact staffers in the Amazon Stores and People Experience and Technology divisions, the latter of which includes teams involved in Human Resources. Impacted employees will be contacted beginning Jan. 18, though the company had already begun laying off staff in November across its devices and books businesses, which include products like Alexa, Fire TV and Kindle.
The 18,000 figure — which represents roughly 1.2 percent of Amazon’s 1.5 million global workforce, as of last September — is larger than the latest reported layoff figures at the e-commerce giant; in November, timed to the earlier round of cuts, the company was expected to cut around 10,000 roles.
“This year’s review has been more difficult given the uncertain economy and that we’ve hired rapidly over the last several years,” Jassy said in his note,...
The majority of the cuts will impact staffers in the Amazon Stores and People Experience and Technology divisions, the latter of which includes teams involved in Human Resources. Impacted employees will be contacted beginning Jan. 18, though the company had already begun laying off staff in November across its devices and books businesses, which include products like Alexa, Fire TV and Kindle.
The 18,000 figure — which represents roughly 1.2 percent of Amazon’s 1.5 million global workforce, as of last September — is larger than the latest reported layoff figures at the e-commerce giant; in November, timed to the earlier round of cuts, the company was expected to cut around 10,000 roles.
“This year’s review has been more difficult given the uncertain economy and that we’ve hired rapidly over the last several years,” Jassy said in his note,...
- 1/5/2023
- by J. Clara Chan
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
San Francisco, Jan 4 (Ians) Google is reportedly developing a free moderation tool that smaller websites can use to identify and remove terrorist material.
According to the Financial Times, the software is being developed in collaboration with Google’s research and development unit Jigsaw and the Un-supported Tech Against Terrorism, an initiative that assists tech companies in combating online terrorism.
“There are a lot of websites that just don’t have any people to do the enforcement. It is a really labour-intensive thing to even build the algorithms [and] then you need all those human reviewers,” Yasmin Green, chief executive of Jigsaw, was quoted as saying.
“(Smaller websites) do not want Isis content there, but there is a tonne of it all over (them),” she added.
The move comes as internet companies will be forced to remove extremist content from their platforms or face fines and other penalties under laws, said the report.
According to the Financial Times, the software is being developed in collaboration with Google’s research and development unit Jigsaw and the Un-supported Tech Against Terrorism, an initiative that assists tech companies in combating online terrorism.
“There are a lot of websites that just don’t have any people to do the enforcement. It is a really labour-intensive thing to even build the algorithms [and] then you need all those human reviewers,” Yasmin Green, chief executive of Jigsaw, was quoted as saying.
“(Smaller websites) do not want Isis content there, but there is a tonne of it all over (them),” she added.
The move comes as internet companies will be forced to remove extremist content from their platforms or face fines and other penalties under laws, said the report.
- 1/4/2023
- by News Bureau
- GlamSham
San Francisco, Dec 31 (Ians) Meta (formerly Facebook) has acquired the Netherlands-based 3D smart glass maker Luxexcel, as it doubles down on its metaverse dream in 2023.
Luxexcel can integrate the elements needed to create an augmented reality (Ar) experience within a prescription lens, such as holographic film and projectors, reports The Verge.
Meta, however, did not disclose the sum it spent on acquiring the company.
“We’re excited that the Luxexcel team has joined Meta, deepening the existing partnership between the two companies,” Meta said in a statement.
Luxexcel’s 3D printed prescription lenses can be used inside Ar glasses.
In 2021, the company partnered with WaveOptics that provides the displays for Snap’s Spectacles.
Meanwhile, Meta has planned to shut down its video calling smart display ‘Portal’ and its two unreleased smartwatches projects, as the company eliminated 11,000 jobs.
At the company’s earnings call, Meta Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg said...
Luxexcel can integrate the elements needed to create an augmented reality (Ar) experience within a prescription lens, such as holographic film and projectors, reports The Verge.
Meta, however, did not disclose the sum it spent on acquiring the company.
“We’re excited that the Luxexcel team has joined Meta, deepening the existing partnership between the two companies,” Meta said in a statement.
Luxexcel’s 3D printed prescription lenses can be used inside Ar glasses.
In 2021, the company partnered with WaveOptics that provides the displays for Snap’s Spectacles.
Meanwhile, Meta has planned to shut down its video calling smart display ‘Portal’ and its two unreleased smartwatches projects, as the company eliminated 11,000 jobs.
At the company’s earnings call, Meta Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg said...
- 12/31/2022
- by News Bureau
- GlamSham
San Francisco, Aug 13 (Ians) Apple and Meta (formerly Facebook), at the loggerheads over privacy changes in iOS and App Store, once planned to “build businesses together” where Apple was in discussions with Mark Zuckerberg-run social network about how it could make more money from its ad revenue.
According to a report in The Wall Street Journal, Apple and Facebook discussed “revenue-sharing arrangements, including a potential ad-free, subscription version of Facebook”.
They discussed creating a subscription-based version of Facebook that would be free of ads.
Apple also reportedly argued that it deserved a cut of certain portions of Facebook’s ad revenue from so-called “boosted posts”.
A boost allows a user to pay to increase the number of people that see a post on Facebook or Instagram.
“Apple, which doesn’t take a cut of advertising from developers, argued that Facebook boosts should be considered in-app purchases, according to a person familiar with the matter,...
According to a report in The Wall Street Journal, Apple and Facebook discussed “revenue-sharing arrangements, including a potential ad-free, subscription version of Facebook”.
They discussed creating a subscription-based version of Facebook that would be free of ads.
Apple also reportedly argued that it deserved a cut of certain portions of Facebook’s ad revenue from so-called “boosted posts”.
A boost allows a user to pay to increase the number of people that see a post on Facebook or Instagram.
“Apple, which doesn’t take a cut of advertising from developers, argued that Facebook boosts should be considered in-app purchases, according to a person familiar with the matter,...
- 8/13/2022
- by Glamsham Bureau
- GlamSham
Earlier this week, a Nebraska teenager was charged with removing, concealing, or abandoning a dead human body and concealing the death of another person because she allegedly self-managed an abortion while 23 weeks pregnant. Nebraska outlaws abortions after 20 weeks.
Instrumental in her case is a series of Facebook DMs between her and her mother—who’s also being charged—that allegedly detail the abortion.
How did police get ahold of her DMs?
Simple: Facebook handed them over.
A statement from Meta on this case.
“Nothing in the valid warrants we received from local law enforcement in early June, prior to the Supreme Court decision, mentioned abortion. https://t.co/GNzdMP692H
— Andy Stone (@andymstone) August 10, 2022
Now, in a new company blog post, Facebook parent Meta says it’s “working hard to protect your personal messages and calls with end-to-end encryption by default on Messenger and Instagram.”
For those unfamiliar, end-to-end encryption...
Instrumental in her case is a series of Facebook DMs between her and her mother—who’s also being charged—that allegedly detail the abortion.
How did police get ahold of her DMs?
Simple: Facebook handed them over.
A statement from Meta on this case.
“Nothing in the valid warrants we received from local law enforcement in early June, prior to the Supreme Court decision, mentioned abortion. https://t.co/GNzdMP692H
— Andy Stone (@andymstone) August 10, 2022
Now, in a new company blog post, Facebook parent Meta says it’s “working hard to protect your personal messages and calls with end-to-end encryption by default on Messenger and Instagram.”
For those unfamiliar, end-to-end encryption...
- 8/12/2022
- by James Hale
- Tubefilter.com
New Delhi, Aug 12 (Ians) A new survey of American teenagers (ages 13 to 17) by the Pew Research Center has revealed a worrying trend for Mark Zuckerberg-led Facebook as the share of teens who use the social media platform has plummeted from 71 per cent in 2014-15 to 32 per cent as of now.
Chinese short-form video platform TikTok has rocketed in popularity and is now a top social media platform for teens among Instagram, Facebook and Snapchat.
Some 67 per cent of teens say they ever use TikTok, with 16 per cent of all teens saying they use it almost constantly.
Google-owned YouTube tops the 2022 teen online landscape among the platforms, as it is used by 95 per cent of teens.
TikTok is next on the list of platforms that were asked about in this survey (67 per cent), followed by Instagram and Snapchat, which are both used by about six in 10 teens.
After those...
Chinese short-form video platform TikTok has rocketed in popularity and is now a top social media platform for teens among Instagram, Facebook and Snapchat.
Some 67 per cent of teens say they ever use TikTok, with 16 per cent of all teens saying they use it almost constantly.
Google-owned YouTube tops the 2022 teen online landscape among the platforms, as it is used by 95 per cent of teens.
TikTok is next on the list of platforms that were asked about in this survey (67 per cent), followed by Instagram and Snapchat, which are both used by about six in 10 teens.
After those...
- 8/12/2022
- by Glamsham Bureau
- GlamSham
New Delhi, Aug 11 (Ians) Meta on Thursday announced that it is testing end-to-end encryption for individual chats on its Messenger app.
The company is testing secure storage on Messenger, a new feature that allows users to back up end-to-end encrypted chats.
“We’re also starting a test of automatic end-to-end encrypted chat threads on Messenger and expanding other features,” said the company.
“As with end-to-end encrypted chats, secure storage means that we won’t have access to your messages, unless you choose to report them to us,” said Sara Su, Product Management Director, Messenger Trust.
“This week, we’ll begin testing default end-to-end encrypted chats between some people. If you’re in the test group, some of your most frequent chats may be automatically end-to-end encrypted, which means you won’t have to opt in to the feature,” she added.
You’ll still have access to your message history, but...
The company is testing secure storage on Messenger, a new feature that allows users to back up end-to-end encrypted chats.
“We’re also starting a test of automatic end-to-end encrypted chat threads on Messenger and expanding other features,” said the company.
“As with end-to-end encrypted chats, secure storage means that we won’t have access to your messages, unless you choose to report them to us,” said Sara Su, Product Management Director, Messenger Trust.
“This week, we’ll begin testing default end-to-end encrypted chats between some people. If you’re in the test group, some of your most frequent chats may be automatically end-to-end encrypted, which means you won’t have to opt in to the feature,” she added.
You’ll still have access to your message history, but...
- 8/11/2022
- by Glamsham Bureau
- GlamSham
San Francisco, Aug 11 (Ians) Meta-owned photo-sharing platform Instagram is capable of tracking its users’ actions, text choices and even text input, such as passwords and confidential credit card information, if they visit a link inside the app, says a new report.
The analysis conducted by Felix Krause found that both Instagram and Facebook on iOS use their own in-app browser rather than the one offered by Apple for third-party apps.
Most apps use Apple’s Safari for loading websites, but Instagram and Facebook have been using their own in-app browser to load websites within the app, reports MacRumors.
With their custom-built browser, still based on WebKit, Instagram and Facebook inject a tracking JavaScript code-named “Meta Pixel” into all links and websites shown. With that code, Meta has total freedom to track users’ interactions without their explicit consent, Krause found.
This allows Instagram to monitor everything happening on external websites without the user’s consent,...
The analysis conducted by Felix Krause found that both Instagram and Facebook on iOS use their own in-app browser rather than the one offered by Apple for third-party apps.
Most apps use Apple’s Safari for loading websites, but Instagram and Facebook have been using their own in-app browser to load websites within the app, reports MacRumors.
With their custom-built browser, still based on WebKit, Instagram and Facebook inject a tracking JavaScript code-named “Meta Pixel” into all links and websites shown. With that code, Meta has total freedom to track users’ interactions without their explicit consent, Krause found.
This allows Instagram to monitor everything happening on external websites without the user’s consent,...
- 8/11/2022
- by Glamsham Bureau
- GlamSham
New Delhi, Aug 9 (Ians) Meta Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday announced three key privacy features in WhatsApp, giving users more control over their conversations and added layers of protection when messaging. New features allow WhatsApp users to exit group chats without notifying everyone, control who can see when you’re online and prevent […]...
- 8/9/2022
- by Glamsham Bureau
- GlamSham
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