Meta Platforms Inc, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, announced on Wednesday that it is using artificial intelligence (AI) to drive traffic to the two social media platforms and increase ad sales revenue. The news sent Meta shares soaring by 12% in after-hours trading, adding more than $50 billion to its market value. The announcement came after Google parent Alphabet Inc and Microsoft Corp both posted strong results on Tuesday, leading to a rally in tech shares.

The news and notifications about the 2023 Facebook settlement are legitimate; it’s not a scam. If you used Facebook at any time between May 24, 2007, and December 22, 2022, you are what is called a ‘member of the class’ and entitled to part of the settlement money (that’s how class action lawsuits work). That said, you can be sure that plenty of scams will piggyback on to this Facebook settlement, so only go to the link that you get from Facebook, or that we are giving you here as it’s the same link.

Elon Musk’s recent firing of Twitter’s customer support team and replacement of the support email with a poop emoji has caused quite a stir. If you were hoping to receive help with your Twitter account, you’re out of luck. It’s safe to say that Musk’s behavior was immature, but it’s not the only eyebrow-raising event since he bought Twitter.

A Pennsylvania county has filed a lawsuit against social media companies, claiming their platforms have contributed to a youth mental health crisis through addictive technology and harmful targeted content. The Bucks County commissioners and the district attorney jointly filed the lawsuit in a California federal court on March 14 against parent companies of tech giants such as Meta Platforms Inc., Alphabet Inc., TikTok owner ByteDance Ltd., Snap Inc. and their affiliated groups.

Tech giants such as Facebook and Google may soon have to pay publishers for news content under a new California bill aimed at reining in Silicon Valley’s dominance. The proposed California Journalism Competition and Preservation Act, introduced by Assemblymember Buffy Wicks, would require digital advertising giants to pay news outlets a “journalism usage fee” when they sell advertising alongside news content. The bill would also mandate that publishers invest 70% of the profits from that fee in journalism jobs.

Facebook enables abusers. And they know that they do it. In a world full of online stalking, cyber bullying, and intimidation of the abused and traumatized, the fact that Facebook has never given users the ability to turn off Facebook Messenger read receipts may be one of the most egregious hand-offs of power to abusers ever to be perpetrated by a social media platform.

The Facebook App can “surreptitiously” drain battery on your device, a former employee alleges in a lawsuit. This practice, known as “negative testing,” is essentially an app developer running down someone’s device battery, in the name of testing features or issues such as how fast their app runs or how an image might load, according to data scientist George Hayward.

Here’s how to get rid of that incredibly annoying Facebook comments pop-up (more correctly called a Facebook comments “pop out”). Whatever you call it, whenever you click to read or write a comment on Facebook now this hideous, interrupting thing pops the comments out of the main window into its own separate little window smack in the middle of your screen. Our method isn’t ideal, but it does get around that pop-out and keeps your comments flat on the page, where they belong.

If you are wondering how to delete a Facebook page in 2022, you’re not alone. You really can’t be blamed for not being able to figure out how to delete a Facebook page, because Facebook has made deleting a page so well-hidden, it’s almost like they don’t want you to figure out how to delete a Facebook page! So we uncovered it, and are laying it out in a step-by-step tutorial for you (nyah, nyah, Facebook!)

We’re imagining the evolution of the internet which will eventually be called the metaverse. What does metaverse entail? The metaverse concept is a tech-industry wide vision to create a tangible internet. Imagine a web of interconnected virtual spaces that will, in theory, operate much like spaces in the conventional world. In order to transform the internet as it is now into a more tangible space that we can interact with and experience in the same ways that we do real life. To create the metaverse, each of these interactive spaces need to be universally accessible.

If you’ve never found yourself hanging around the horned-rim glasses wearing literary fans or the all in black art crowd, you may not be familiar with the word “meta” and it’s many uses. Its origin story, like many others, takes place in ancient greek mythology. Meta was the first wife of the Athenian king, Aegeus. The word itself, Meta, is derived from μετά, meta, meaning “beyond” or “after”. Meta was the equivalent to the Latin “post-” or “ad-”. However, the contemporary version of Meta is not very old; meta appeared for the first time in 1988. Despite its age, Meta, has many definitions, all of which make it an uncanny name for the future of technology… or rather, of all things.

If you received an email saying ‘Notice of Proposed Settlement of Class Action’ for a Facebook lawsuit settlement, it’s legit. There is a settlement in the Facebook lawsuit class action over the Internet tracking of Facebook users, and the settlement payout date will be some time after September 22, 2022. That is because September 22 is the date by which you must submit your claim as part of the ‘class’ and receive your payout. Nobody knows how much the payout will be, and in part that is because it depends on how many people submit claims; the settlement itself is $90million. Of course, the attorneys will receive about a third of that, leaving a pool of about $60million to be divided between everyone who submits a claim (that’s generally how class action settlements work).

Need to change a payment method on Facebook, cancel a Facebook payment on Paypal, or just find your Facebook payment settings so that you can revoke and remove a credit card, debit card, or Paypal account? It is so frustrating when you are trying to remove a payment card, Paypal access, or other payment method from a service to which you had previously given it, only to be unable to find where and how to do it, even though they made it so very easy to give that payment information to them in the first place. Here’s how to find your payment methods on Facebook so that you can revoke and remove them.

Mark Zuckerberg personally encouraged Cambridge Analytica to exploit the data of more than 70million Facebook users. That’s the scathing indictment that Washington D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine leveled at Facebook (now Meta) founder Mark Zuckerberg in a lawsuit filed against Zuckerberg today. Painting a picture of an enormous online empire spanning the globe, “Atop it all is Mark Zuckerberg, the unelected leader of a massive digital empire with billions of inhabitants” says the lawsuit.

Yes, Facebook has once again admitted that there is seriously a problem with the way they are handling user data. Are we really that surprised? Maybe this is the first time you’ve seen the news that Facebook’s privacy issues are spiraling out of control. Or perhaps this is the first time you’ve cared to search for it. This isn’t a new occurrence.