In brief: Marne Levine has announced she will step down from her role as Meta’s chief business officer next week.
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Steve Hatch, VP for Northern Europe at tech giant Meta announced on LinkedIn and Facebook he would be leaving the company later this year.
Analysis: After a tough year for Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, Mark Zuckerberg is talking less about the metaverse and more about issues closer to advertisers’ hearts.
Paid advertisements and social media posts spreading false or misleading claims about the climate crisis spiked in the lead-up to and during COP27 in November.
Meta has announced it will remove gender and engagement with posts as ways to target teens on Facebook and Instagram from February.
In brief: Meta Ireland has been issued two fines totalling €390m by the Irish Data Protection Commission for breaching EU GDPR rules when providing personalised services and behavioural advertising.
Mastodon and Bluesky are offering a future of the internet where users are placed in charge of their own content moderation. Is it workable for big social media platforms?
Ireland’s data protection authority currently has 13 open investigations into Meta, The Media Leader has learned, following last week’s quarter-billion fine.
Websites funded by partisan groups posing as local news outlets are growing as local US newspapers continue to disappear or downsize.
The tech giants could belatedly be persuaded to take their responsibilities as publishers seriously, but only if there are laws backed up by large enough fines.