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Meta wants AI characters to fill up Facebook and Instagram 'kind of in the same way accounts do,' but also had to delete a humiliating first run of its official bots
By Ted Litchfield published
news I'm all smiles over here.

Mark Zuckerberg reckons he's a Civilization 'grandmaster' who could beat 'anyone in the world,' and we should all brace ourselves for his Twitch career
By Joshua Wolens published
News Beware: Zuck's words are backed by nuclear weapons.

'Goodbye Meta AI' is the next major spam chain mail, and no it doesn't stop Facebook scraping your data
By James Bentley published
News Opting out is slightly harder than this.

The CrowdStrike IT outage is pretty grim but let's hope it's not as bad as the infamous Dyn DDoS attack, Facebook mega-crash, and Rogers network disaster
By Nick Evanson published
news This one looks as bad as they come and there have been some truly massive IT problems in recent years.

Lawsuit filed by 33 US states alleges Meta knew Facebook and Instagram's 'addictive features harmed young people's physical and mental health'
By Andy Chalk published
news The lawsuit claims Facebook, Instagram, and other platforms were intentionally designed to keep kids hooked—and Meta lied about it.

A Snoop Dogg AI named 'The Dungeon Master' joins Meta's new fleet of bots, which you can 'invoke' in your group chats at-will
By Harvey Randall published
News Mr Beast and Paris Hilton also join the list of celebs you can summon at the push of a button.

Threads, Instagram's Twitter-like social media network, hits 30 million users on its first day even though it kinda sucks right now
By Andy Chalk published
news It's not very good, but it sure is popular.

7 things you could buy with the $30B Meta has lost to VR and AR research
By Tyler Colp published
news Is Twitter discounted yet?
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