Exclusive: Meta to be hit with first EU antitrust fine for linking Marketplace and Facebook, sources say  Reuters

Bloomberg:Donald Trump says “I'm for TikTok, because you need competition”, and “if you don't have TikTok, you have Facebook and Instagram” and “that's Zuckerberg”  —  It's late June, and Donald Trump is plotting his next presidency in the gilded offseason isolation of the Mar-a-Lago Club.

Facebook zieht in den USA und Kanada wieder mehr junge Leute auf die Plattform

Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump sought to blame President Joe Biden for legislation that would force the sale of social media platform TikTok, even though he attempted to ban the company himself when in office.

The next stage of the EU's data privacy regulations come into effect in March. 

Wer mehrere Produkte von Meta wie Facebook oder Instagram nutzt, hatte bislang keine Wahl, als dass die jeweiligen Konten untereinander Daten austauschen.

The once-prophesized future where cheap, AI-generated trash content floods out the hard work of real humans is already here, and is already taking over Facebook.

A group representing 83 Spanish media outlets has filed a 550 million euro ($600 million) lawsuit against Facebook owner Meta Platforms, citing unfair competition in the advertising market in a case that could be replicated across the European Union.

Meta darf Nutzern in Europa bis auf weiteres keine personalisierte Online-Werbung mehr zeigen, entscheidet der Europäische Daten­schutz­ausschuss. Das EU-Gremium stimmt einem Antrag von Norwegen zu, das Meta bereits seit August verbietet, Nutzer­daten wie Standort oder Browser­verlauf für Werbung zu verwenden. Bei Verstößen drohen umgerechnet knapp 85.000 Euro Strafe pro Tag.

Meta is launching a paid subscription that will remove ads from Facebook and Instagram. The service is available throughout the European Union and will be offered for around €9.99 per month on the web or €12.99 / month on iOS and Android to account for additional fees for those platforms.

After the roll-out on Instagram and WhatsApp, Facebook currently is testing the ability for Facebook-Pages to create broadcast channels; the roll out is in the coming weeks.

Meta ist im Channel-Fieber: Im Februar 2023 launchte das Unternehmen die Broadcast Channels für Instagram.

Some new ad considerations for Facebook Reels.

Traffic referrals to the top global news sites from Meta's Facebook and X, formerly Twitter, has collapsed over the past year, according to data from Similarweb.

Um die Zustimmung seiner Nutzer zu personalisierter Werbung zu erhalten, will Meta Instagram und Facebook kostenpflichtig machen.

At a keynote speech at the annual Meta Connect conference today, Mark Zuckerberg announced massive AI updates, building "state-of-the-art AI into the apps that billions of people use."Read More

The original Ray-Ban Stories didn’t catch on quite like Meta had hoped.

Not, it's not just you, the Facebook logo does look different.

Users will be able to create alternative profiles and feeds in the app. 

Facebook owner Meta has unveiled a new logo and some other design changes for the social network, though the new look is much like the old one.