Tag: facebook

• Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show

  November 7, 2025

  Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, and it internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion scam ads a… more ›

• Tech CEOs Praise Donald Trump at White House Dinner

  September 6, 2025

  At a White House dinner Thursday night, America’s tech executives put on an uncanny display of fealty to Donald Trump. https://www.wired.com/story/tech-ceos-donald-trump-white-house/ more ›

• Unlocking global AI potential with next-generation subsea infrastructure

  February 15, 2025

  Today, we’re announcing our most ambitious subsea cable endeavor yet: Project Waterworth. https://engineering.fb.com/2025/02/14/connectivity/project-waterworth-ai-subsea-infrastructure/ more ›

• Mark Zuckerberg: publishers ‘overestimate the value’ of their work for training AI

  September 25, 2024

  Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says there are complex copyright questions around scraping data to train AI models, but he suggests the individual work of most creators isn’t valuable enough for… more ›

• Where Facebook’s AI Slop Comes From

  August 7, 2024

  Gyan Abhishek is standing in front of a giant touch screen, like Jim Cramer on Mad Money or an ESPN talking head analyzing a football play. He’s flicking through a… more ›

• Learning, Sophistication, and the Returns to Advertising: Implications for Differences in Firm Performance

  May 14, 2024

  2022 Nobel Prize Celebrates Banking Research Article Former NBER research associate Ben Bernanke, current research associate Douglas Diamond, and Philip Dybvig have been awarded the 2022 Nobel Memorial… https://www.nber.org/papers/w31201 more ›

• Testing the Waters: Scotland Surges Ahead on Ocean Power

  May 3, 2024

  By a quirk of geography, the Orkney islands, located off the northern tip of Scotland, are unusually well positioned to bear witness to the ocean’s might. On the archipelago’s western… more ›

• Facebook’s AI Spam Isn’t the ‘Dead Internet’: It’s the Zombie Internet

  May 3, 2024

  Over the last few months, many have proposed that the AI spam taking over Facebook is a great example of the “Dead Internet Theory,” which posits that large portions of… more ›

• How Not to Be Stupid About AI, With Yann LeCun

  December 23, 2023

  Do not preach doom to Yann LeCun. A pioneer of modern AI and Meta’s chief AI scientist, LeCun is one of the technology’s most vocal defenders. He scoffs at his… more ›

• Living in the Future

  December 18, 2023

  Making long-term bets on emerging technologies isn’t easy. It’s not guaranteed to work, and it’s certainly not cheap. It’s also one of the most valuable things a technology company can… more ›