Meta Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg, in a letter to the House Judiciary Committee, has alleged that the Biden-Harris administration “repeatedly pressurized” the company to censor posts related to Covid.
He further said that the platform had to make some changes, that “with the benefit of hindsight and new information”, they won’t make today. Zuckerberg also said he ‘regrets’ not being “more outspoken” about it.
Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Monday announced that billions of WhatsApp users can now modify a message within 15 minutes of sending it. This feature has started rolling out to users globally and will be available to everyone in the coming weeks. All that the users need to do is long-press on a sent message and choose ‘Edit’ from the menu for up to 15 minutes after.
Wall Street banks have moved to end the US’s spiraling banking crisis by agreeing to prop up troubled First Republic, a mid-sized bank whose shares have been pummeled amid a wider banking turmoil. Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan and others will deposit $30 billion in First Republic, which has seen customers yank their money following the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and fears that First Republic could be next.
Meta Platforms, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, said it will cut 10,000 jobs, just four months after it let go 11,000 employees; the first big tech company to announce a second round of mass layoffs.
Vinita Gupta – After a cozy pre-Thanksgiving dinner cooked and hosted by our hi-tech luminary friends in Silicon Valley, we converged on visiting what is good about America — before discussions could drift towards frustrations with the political affairs. We naturally gravitated towards technology, and how the internet was originated in America by DARPA — a […]
