News An interviewer made Mark Zuckerberg circle pictures of traffic lights to prove he’s not a robot by Lochie Schuster During an interview with Mark Zuckerberg, US Podcast host Lex Fridman asked the Meta CEO to complete an ‘I’m not a robot’ test. If you’re not around the long-running joke…
News Politics Facebook rejects Craig Kelly’s demand to stop fact checking during election campaign by Chloe Maddren In a laughable matter, the United Australia Party leader told a parliamentary committee that Facebook enforcing their rules on politicians’ posts is “foreign interference”. Unsurprisingly, Meta rejected Kelly’s demands and…
News Pop Culture Sex Metaverse allows kids access to virtual strip clubs by Chloe Maddren A researcher pretending to be a 13-year-old girl witnessed alarming and gross behaviour while touring the virtual reality world of the metaverse. A BBC news researcher posed as a young…
News Pop Culture World Since rebranding to Meta, Facebook has lost $500 Billion by Tom Bastick It’s been a tough few months for Facebook who, in the five months since rebranding to Meta, are said to have lost a staggering $500 billion Facebook’s parent company, now…
News Politics Trump launches new ‘Truth Social’ app, and of course, it doesn’t work by Lochie Schuster Donald Trump’s new social media app, ‘Truth Social’ launched today. Surprise, surprise, it doesn’t actually work. Donald Trump has finally launched ‘Truth Social’, an app created to rival the numerous…
News Google plans privacy changes similar to Apple, which cost Facebook $230 billion by Chloe Maddren On Wednesday, Google announced its new privacy restrictions will cut tracking across apps on Android devices. Google has said it is developing a new privacy-focused replacement for its advertising ID…
News Zucc robotically explains that Facebook staff will now be called “Metamates” by Lochie Schuster We are not making this up. Mark Zuckerberg has emotionlessly announced to Facebook employees that they will now be called “Metamates”. In a Meta company meeting dedicated to “explaining the…
News Wellbeing A lot of people are breaking up with social media, here’s why by Lochie Schuster Researchers surveyed a group of 2,000 Italians and found that 22 percent of respondents have stopped using social media in the past year. A new study has added to Mark…
News Politics France and Germany say they’re better off without Facebook after Zuckerberg’s threat by Chloe Maddren European leaders are calling Meta’s bluff after the social media conglomerate warned that they would shut down Facebook and Instagram across the EU. Germany’s Economy Minister Robert Habeck and French…
News Facebook just lost $237bn, here’s a list of things worth less than that by Lochie Schuster Meta lost an estimated $US237 billion last week after Facebook users dropped for the first time in the website’s 18-year history. Facebook investors are selling their shares in Mark Zuckerberg’s…
News Zucc threatens to shut down Facebook and Instagram in Europe by Lochie Schuster Mark Zuckerberg has chucked a hissy fit, threatening to shut down Facebook and Instagram in Europe because he didn’t get what he wanted. Our reliance on Meta’s social media monopoly…
News Facebook says Apple’s privacy update will result in $10 billion loss by Chloe Maddren Facebook’s parent company Meta admitted that the privacy change Apple made to its iOS system will cause the social media platform to lose roughly $10 billion of sales. Meta CFO…
Clocked News Facebook’s new Meta name is already taken, and the company wants $20 million for it by Alastair Cairns Just how strongly Facebook – I mean Meta – feel about their rebrand is about to be put to the test. A small PC company is asking for $20 million…
