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Meta Considers Offering Paid Ad-Free Versions of Facebook and Instagram in Europe

Those who opt for the paid subscriptions would experience Facebook and Instagram without advertisements. This move aims to address privacy concerns and regulatory scrutiny from EU authorities.

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Facebook Has over 3 Billion Monthly Active Users

Despite facing a decline in popularity among younger users, Facebook continues to show growth in daily active users, with 2.064 billion people engaging with the platform daily, up from 2.037 billion in the previous quarter.

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Meta Introduces Real-Time Avatar Calls on Instagram and Messenger

The new avatar calling feature is similar to Apple's FaceTime Memoji, where avatars mimic users' facial expressions and articulations. Users can even swap their own avatar with animated stickers of animals like cats, dogs, owls, llamas, and more.

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Meta Ends Support for NFTs on Instagram and Facebook

A company spokesperson said that Meta is shifting its investments away from NFTs to products such as Meta Pay, as well as other tools that allow creators to earn money directly on Meta's platforms.

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Meta Is Testing a Paid Verification Scheme on Facebook and Instagram

To sign up to become Meta Verified, users must be 18 or older and provide an official government-issued ID that matches the profile name and photo they have on Facebook or Instagram.

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Meta Now Lets Users Share Their NFTs on Both Facebook and Instagram

In May, Meta announced that it would test the NFT sharing feature on a small number of users in the US. Now the company has officially introduced the option to all of its social media users from the United States.

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Facebook Parent Meta Reports Its First-Ever Quarterly Revenue Decline

Outgoing Meta COO Sheryl Sandberg blamed this decline on the decreasing value of the Euro. Had it not been for the decreasing value of the Euro, the company's revenue would have been up 3 percent year over year, she said.

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Meta Launches a Digital Clothing Store for Virtual Avatars

Virtual clothes will be much cheaper than the real designer clothes of the mentioned brands. In the future, the number of brands for the meta-universe is expected to grow. There will still be free clothing options for virtual avatars.

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Meta Adds New "Calls" Tab to Its Messenger App on iOS and Android

Meta is launching a new "Calls" tab in its Messenger app for iOS and Android users. The new tab will track every call you make or receive in the app in one place, making it easy to connect calls with one tap.

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Mark Zuckerberg Announced Meta's Updated Values

The head of Meta noted that the current values were defined back in 2007. And while they have proven remarkably durable, the time has come to update them since the company is now heading towards developing a metaverse.

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Facebook Is Losing Daily Active Users for the First Time in History

In the third quarter of 2021, Facebook had 1.93 billion daily active users, while in the last three months of 2021, this number decreased to 1.929 billion, the quarterly earnings report of Meta revealed.

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Meta Launches a New Tool to Stop the Spread of Revenge Porn

This platform is the first global initiative to help people concerned that their intimate photos might have been shared or may be shared on social media platforms like Instagram or Facebook without their consent.

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Meta Delays Facebook and Instagram's End-To-End Encryption

The company decided to postpone the encryption of messages after the child safety campaigners expressed concerns that E2EE would help cybercriminals and child abuse go unnoticed on the social media platforms.

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Meta's AI Team Is Working on a Thin Robot Skin and Touch Sensors

The metaverse the company is working on should provide a close imitation of reality in the virtual world. That is why Meta is developing new sensors to simulate one of the human sensations – the touch.

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Facebook Changed Its Company Name to Meta

The name Meta should reflect the new direction the company plans to take – creating the so-called metaverse. The main goal of the metaverse is to connect people and help them communicate easily even if they are far away from each other.

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Facebook to Change Its Name to Reflect Focus on the Metaverse

Facebook, which owns the social network of the same name, as well as Instagram and WhatsApp, intends to announce plans to rename itself, which would reflect the company's focus on the metaverse.

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Facebook Is Developing AI That Will See the World Through Human Eyes

Ego4D will record and analyze real-time videos from the users' devices to help people in their daily lives. The project is being developed by Facebook specialists and scientists from 13 universities and labs across nine countries.

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Facebook Launched Reels Section for Users in the USA

In terms of functionality, Facebook's Reels are no different from those you can see on Instagram: users can record short videos and add music, edit them directly on Facebook, as well as apply effects. Other users can share, like, and comment on Reels.

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Facebook Pauses the Development of Instagram Kids Over Criticism

The company emphasized that they will continue to pay special attention to teens' safety on the platform and expand parental control features over the accounts of children over the age of 13 in the primary app.

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Facebook Partnered With Ray-Ban to Release Smart Glasses With a Camera

Ray-Ban Stories can now be bought online and in select stores in the USA, the UK, Italy, Ireland, Canada, and Australia. The companies did not specify when the novelty would enter the market in other countries.

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Facebook Launches Horizon Workrooms for Virtual Work Collaboration

Facebook has released an open beta version of the Horizon Workrooms app for the Oculus Quest 2 VR headset for all countries. This is the company's first attempt to create a VR collaboration app.

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Facebook Messenger Will Have End-to-End Encrypted Calls

Facebook has introduced end-to-end encryption for Messenger calls in light of the growing interest in voice and video calls over the past year. The new feature will help position the company's service as more private and secure.

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Amazon Acquired Facebook's Satellite Internet Team

A team of 12 specialists from Facebook will be working at Amazon to create communication satellites able to provide high-speed wireless Internet throughout the world.

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Joe Biden Signed a Decree to Limit the Monopoly of Big Tech Giants

The document contains about 70 initiatives that relate to agriculture, healthcare, and technology companies. These initiatives will help lower prices, raise workers' wages, and promote innovation and rapid economic growth.

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WhatsApp Will Limit the Functionality of Some Users on May 15

WhatsApp reminded users that new rules for using the messenger will come into force on May 15, as well as told users what will happen to the accounts of those who do not accept the changes.