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.
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In brief: the Facebook and Instagram parent company is reducing its workforce by 13%.
In brief: Meta is planning to lay off “many thousands of employees” beginning this Wednesday at the earliest.
Tech giant Meta is planning to stop human curation of the Facebook News tab and replace it with artificial intelligence.