Tag Archives: Meta

Meta Launches New Conversational AI Which Learns from Human Interactions, the Subsequent Stage of Bot Improvement

while the Messenger bot revolution Never took hold like Meta might have hoped, bots are still widely used, in a range of contexts, with many brands now implementing responder bots in messaging apps to streamline their customer connection process. And this could help further bot use. Today, Meta has released BlenderBot 3an advanced bot responder […]

Meta Outlines Evolving Efforts to Fight Mass Reporting and ‘Brigading’ in Newest Threat Report

Meta has published its latest Adversarial Threat Reportwhich looks at all the malicious and scam networks that it detected and took action against in Q2 2022. And much of it is as we’ve come to expect – Meta removed two clusters of hacker groups operating in South East Asia, as well as a troll farm […]

Meta Stories Slowdown in Person Progress and Income Amid Shifting Financial Circumstances

Tough times at Meta, with the company reporting a decline in monthly active Facebook usersand a further slowdown in revenue, as global economic trends continue to impact the company’s overall performance. First off, on usage – Facebook is currently seeing 1.97 billion daily active usersa slight increase on last quarter. The increases were almost entirely […]

Meta Commits $150 Million to Help the Ongoing Operation of its Oversight Board

While it remains an experiment, Meta’s Oversight Board provides an interesting case study in third-party regulation of social platforms, and how official rules and regulations could help to ensure more uniformity, and fairness, within platform rulings. Founded back in 2019, the Oversight Board is an independent group of experts to whom Meta and its users […]

Meta Assessments New Choice to Create Avatar-Aligned Cowl Photos for Your Facebook Profile

Avatars are the new ‘fetch’, with Meta trying many ways to show you just how cool avatars are, and will be in the metaverse future – and how you really should be using them right now as an extension of your digital identity. Meta’s latest avatar experiment is new graphic cover images for your Facebook […]

Meta Launches New Authorized Proceedings In opposition to Knowledge Scraping, Serving to to Set up Precedent Round Misuse

meta has launched two new legal actions against data scraping siteswhich have extracted user data from both Instagram and Facebook for unauthorized use, while it’s also seen a new victory in its battle against platform misusewith a court ruling in its favor in another case related to clone sites. First off, on its new actions […]

Meta COO Sheryl Sandberg Broadcasts Her Pending Exit from the Firm

As Meta gradually evolves from Facebook, and focuses on the next stage of digital connection, it will be doing so without one of the company’s key leaders, with COO Sheryl Sandberg announcing today that she will leave the company in the next few months. In a long post on (of course) FacebookSandberg has provided an […]

Meta Exams New Avatar Reactions in Instagram Stories

A key element of Meta’s metaverse push is the use of digital avatars in more ways, as it looks to turn these virtual representations into more habitual interaction tools, in all aspects. The main platform in this regard is VR, with users interacting via their cartoonish proxies within wholly immersive spaces. But Meta also wants […]

Meta Proclaims ‘Recurring Notifications’ for Business Messaging, a Important Shift in its Platform Strategy

This is an unusual switch up in Meta’s business messaging rules. This week, at its first ever ‘Conversations’ messaging conferenceMeta announced ‘Recurring Notifications’ on its Messenger Platformwhich will enable businesses to send ‘proactive, automated messages, to people who have opted in to receiving them’. As you can see here, businesses will soon be able to […]

Meta Provides Updated Congressional District Knowledge to Location Concentrating on Choices for Adverts

meta has announced an update to its US location targeting options for ads, with US congressional districts, as defined by the 2020 census, to be added as additional geo-targeting options. As explained by Meta: “Starting May 19, 2022, an additional set of location targeting options will be available for updated US congressional districts following the […]