Time to unfriend? Lawyer responds to Meta’s ‘descent’
Mark Lemley will stay on Facebook, he says. But there are other things he can do to salve his conscience
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Amazon races to transplant Alexa’s ‘brain’ with generative AI
Rollout of upgraded voice assistant hit by delays as Big Tech group struggles to overcome technical hurdles
Mark Zuckerberg’s pronouncements confirm that ‘woke’ is dead
Household names turn back the clock to darker times as they fall into step with the next occupant of the White House
EU to review investigations into Apple, Google and Meta as US pressure mounts
Tech groups urging president-elect Donald Trump to intervene against 'overzealous' European regulation
Moves by Meta and Amazon to drop diversity programmes in US unlikely to affect Ireland
Apple, which employs 6,000 here, has asked shareholders to vote against move seen as courting favour with Trump administration
Lovebombing Trump: How US multinationals in Ireland will deal with the incoming president
Meta, Pfizer and Google among companies aiming to keep in Donald Trump’s good books
Zuckerberg swaps fact-checking for Trump: a risky bet?
Meta investors don’t seem to be fretting – for now, anyway
Biden calls Meta’s decision to drop fact-checking ‘really shameful’
Comments follow Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to replace fact-checking departments with company-moderated community notes
Moves by Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg set scene for confrontation between EU and US
Meta will now allow ‘insulting language when discussing transgender rights, immigration or homosexuality’, and no longer bans describing women as ‘property’ or ‘household objects’
Greenland is the ‘large real-estate deal’ Trump doesn’t want to let slip away
Planet Business: Mark Zuckerberg’s watch, Michael Barr’s pre-emptive move and possible successors to Justin Trudeau
Why is Meta getting rid of fact-checking and will it affect my social media feed?
Move by company’s billionaire founder Mark Zuckerberg prompted alarm among social media experts
The Irish Times view on Zuckerberg’s changes: Meta goes Maga
It is hardly an accident that the new policies are almost identical to those of Elon Musk’s X
Winter wedge issue: On Oliver Callan, icy weather is one of Ireland’s ever-growing urban-rural divides
Radio: ‘I can tell you Dublin is getting off very lightly in the cold snap so far,’ Oliver Callan notes on Tuesday’s show, ‘much to our relief here’
Zuckerberg shifts to Trump, but will he pay a price?
Meta chief drops factcheckers, but don’t bet on move to go well with his advertisers
Calls for EU to resist social media giants regulation rollback
European Commission under pressure to combat Elon Musk’s ‘intolerable’ meddling in European elections
Meta to end third-party fact-checking programme: ‘It’s time to get back to our roots around free expression’
Company to rely on ‘community notes’ in free speech pitch
Meta elects UFC chief Dana White to board
Investor Charlie Songhurst, Exor chief executive John Elkann also join board
Broadcom becomes the latest tech stock trillionaire
Eight tech giants now hold combined market capitalisation of almost $19trn
Clegg out, Kaplan in: a sign of the Trumpian times at Meta
Former Lib Dem leader has been replaced by a Republican ally as tech sector races to appease the president-elect
YouTube chief Neal Mohan bets on AI and ‘creators’ to supercharge growth
Veteran executive seen as a potential Google CEO must tackle threats from Trump to tech rivals
Meta global affairs chief Nick Clegg to be replaced by Republican Joel Kaplan
Move comes just ahead of Donald Trump’s return to the White House
Meta executive told Taoiseach Europe should have ‘open approach’ to AI development
Nick Clegg contacted Simon Harris in the summer and also met him in Dublin in December
Musk leads race to be world’s first trillionaire
Lesson of the 20th century was that when a critical mass of citizens feel the system is rigged against them, we encourage radical politics
It’s fishmas time again as aquariums deck the tanks and embrace scuba Santa
Planet Business: Instagram advertising forecast, Chrystia Freeland’s resignation and the highest-paid female sports stars
Why do so many news sites look so boringly similar? Because they have to play by Google and Meta’s rules
But that hegemony will end, perhaps soon. If you value good journalism and good design, give someone you love a newspaper subscription this Christmas
The Irish Times view on social media regulation: Ireland caught in the middle
As the European home of some of the major tech players, the State has a crucial role in an area where tensions are likely with the US
Facebook owner fined €251m by Irish data regulator for breaches
Meta Platforms fine tied to 2018 data breach impacting 29m Facebook accounts globally
Meta ordered to take action after Facebook found to be exposed to ‘terrorist content’
Examples of terrorist content can include photos of crime scenes glorifying terrorist acts, or posts or comments which incite, solicit or advocate for the commission of terrorist offences
EU needs to be less ‘polite’ in resisting Russian attempts to sway elections
Worldview: Attacks include sabotage, assassinations, parcel bombs, cyber attacks, electoral interference, social media disinformation campaigns and the testing of military preparedness
Brussels looks into Google and Meta secret ads deal to target teens
Regulators request information after FT investigation intopartnership that skirted search giant’s rules on minors
Data centre boom under AI growth in Ireland threatening climate targets, report warns
Friends of the Earth calls for ‘moratorium on new data centres and expansion of existing ones until robust legislative framework is in place’
Advertising revenues set to hit $1tn in market dominated by technology companies
Omnicom and Interpublic in talks to merge in $30bn-plus deal to create the world’s largest advertising agency
US court upholds law that could ban TikTok
Further appeal expected for bipartisan measure targeting ByteDance-owned video app over security concerns
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