At Trial, Mark Zuckerberg Avoids Explaining Takeovers of Instagram and WhatsApp

At Trial, Mark Zuckerberg Avoids Explaining Takeovers of Instagram and WhatsApp

In a second day on the stand of a landmark antitrust trial, Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Meta, said on Tuesday that he bought Instagram and WhatsApp because it was difficult to build new apps and dodged questions about whether he was trying to snuff out competitive threats to his company. “Building a new … Read more

Opinion | The Tell-All Book That Facebook Doesn’t Want You to Read

Opinion | The Tell-All Book That Facebook Doesn’t Want You to Read

At first, the misbehavior she alleges is comically petty. She writes about realizing that Zuckerberg’s subordinates are letting him win at the board game the Settlers of Catan. (Another time, when she beats him, he accuses her of cheating.) Sandberg baffles her by appearing to claim, falsely, that she’d been booked on an Asiana flight … Read more

Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s Sprint to Remake Meta for the Trump Era

Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s Sprint to Remake Meta for the Trump Era

Mark Zuckerberg kept the circle of people who knew his thinking small. Last month, Mr. Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Meta, tapped a handful of top policy and communications executives and others to discuss the company’s approach to online speech. He had decided to make sweeping changes after visiting President-elect Donald J. Trump at Mar-a-Lago … Read more

Facebook Shifts Content Moderation to Its Users. Are You Ready?

Facebook Shifts Content Moderation to Its Users. Are You Ready?

Meta would like to introduce its next fact-checker — the one who will spot falsehoods, pen convincing corrections and warn others about misleading content. It’s you. Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s chief executive, announced Tuesday that he was ending much of the company’s moderation efforts, like third-party fact-checking and content restrictions. Instead, he said, the company will … Read more

From Tokyo to New York, stock markets are on a record-hitting spree around the world

From Tokyo to New York, stock markets are on a record-hitting spree around the world

From New York to London to Tokyo, if there’s one similarity among the world’s equity markets it’s this: record highs.Of the world’s 20 largest stock markets, 14 have hit all-time highs recently. The MSCI ACWI Index, which tracks developed and emerging markets, has been on a record-breaking run, setting another new high on Friday. In … Read more

Russia adds Meta to list of ‘terrorists and extremists’ organisations

Russia adds Meta to list of ‘terrorists and extremists’ organisations

Russia’s financial monitoring agency, Rosfinmonitoring took action against U.S.-based Meta Platforms Inc. Russia’s financial monitoring agency, Rosfinmonitoring took action against U.S.-based Meta Platforms Inc. Russia’s financial monitoring agency, Rosfinmonitoring, has added U.S. tech giant Meta Platforms Inc. to its list of “terrorists and extremists”, the Interfax news agency reported on Tuesday. A Moscow court in … Read more