Friday, March 1, 2024

Facebook is getting rid of the News tab in the U.S (and Australia, Germany, France and the U.K.)

 Facebook is getting rid of the News tab in the U.S. and Australia (cnbc.com)

“At this point, it seems pretty clear from the comments that executives at Facebook and Meta made that they have just decided that news is more trouble than it’s worth and that they will show people a fairly minimal amount of it,” Monika Bauerlein, CEO of Mother Jones, said at the time.

Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg plans to visit South Korea. Reportedly, Zuckerberg is anticipated to meet with Samsung Electronics chairman Jay Y. Lee later this month to discuss AI chip supply and other generative AI issues, as per the South Korean newspaper Seoul Economic Daily, citing unnamed sources familiar with the matter.
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