A recent report in the US media has shaken up the already sensitive debate about privacy in the digital age. There has been a leak of a commercial offer by Cox Media Group (CMG), which advertises exactly the kind of service that conspiracy theories have warned about and that some people have feared for years - listening in on conversations via s...
Billionaire Mark Zuckerberg sold a portion of Meta's shares, the company that owns social networks like Facebook and Instagram, over the past two months of last year. Records from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) revealed that he earned a total of $428 million (9.6 billion CZK) from these sales. This marked Zuckerberg's first...
A timeless hoax was circulating the internet when news of an alleged rule change on Facebook began to spread. According to this misinformation, all users had to do was paste a special text on their wall and this would prevent the social network from sharing their posts. Although this rumour first surfaced in 2012, it has managed to come back rep...
A sunflower field on the British farm Stoke Fruit has become a major tourist attraction. Many visitors take photos in the fields of flowers, but some shed all clothing and inhibitions in the process. The owners have therefore had to remind people that this is an area where families with children are present, so public nudity is completely unacce...
The Norwegian regulatory authority has assessed Meta Platforms a million-dollar fine, which it should pay every day, for collecting user data to target advertising. But the mother of Facebook and Instagram understandably doesn't like that, so it has asked the Norwegian court to stop enforcing the fine. The fine was set at NOK 1 million, which...
Facebook is, without exaggeration, a money factory. But not all areas of the business that the US company Meta Platforms is involved in are ideal. In particular, the virtual reality (VR) division is showing unflattering figures, which company boss Mark Zuckerberg sees a future in. So now VR is trying to get into positive numbers, basically d...
Two of the world's most prominent tech billionaires, Twitter chief Elon Musk and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, have agreed to a cage match. Their communication has quickly spread across the internet and social network users are now debating who will win. Musk came up with the challenge when he tweeted that he was "ready for a cage match" wit...
The General Data Protection Regulation, known as GDPR, has been in force in the European Union (EU) for five years. Since its introduction - that is, since 25 May 2018 - a number of fines have been issued for breaches of the regulation. So far, the sovereign highest one was levied by the EU against Meta Platforms for sending European user data t...
Facebook has been offering free account verification for public figures, media, brands or businesses since 2018. Now, the service will be fee-based and expanded to include additional benefits for subscribers. However, only individual profiles can use the Meta Verified service for the time being. An extension to corporate profiles is planned, wit...
