Media Perception Of Social Workers

Mark Zuckerberg Making Instagram a separate company. Buying Snapchat. Wiping everyone’s Facebook friends. Creating a feed of only ads.  These were some of the ideas that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg considered over the years as he built his social media empire. Over the past two days, he talked about them from the witness stand at a federal courthouse in Washington, DC, where Meta is fighting the Federal Trade Commission on an antitrust case that could ultimately require it to sell off Instagram and WhatsApp.  Zuckerberg has so far testified for roughly nine hours. He’s expected to continue testifying on Wednesday, followed by Sheryl Sandberg. So far, the FTC has prodded him to confirm its theory of the market and understand his motivation for acquiring nascent rivals.  The FTC’s theory of the case is that Meta gobbled up newer competitors by buying Instagram and WhatsApp in the early 2010s, when it feared the...

Meta has announced that it’s preparing to train AI on the data of EU users of its apps, including Facebook and Instagram. The company says that includes things like public posts, comments, and their chat history with Meta AI, but won’t include “private messages with friends and family.” It also only applies to those who are over 18, the company says. According to Meta, it will start notifying its EU users about the training this week, via in-app notifications and email, and will include a link to an objection form for those who want to opt out. You should be able to find such a link in its privacy policy , which says as of this writing that, based on regulator feedback, the company is still delaying its plans to train AI models on EU user data. Meta put its AI-training plans in Europe on hold last year after being asked to do so by Irish regulators . Meta claims it’s training AI on EU user data to help it create models that reflect the regions they’re being used in, includi...

My phone dings, and a notification from Instagram pops up: “Clark’s Closet Connection’s countdown has ended.” I click the alert to head to the profile page and start refreshing as new posts furiously come in on tonight’s “drop.”  Size 10 Mario sneakers. Moana -themed Hanna Andersson pajamas. A 3T Boden skort.  Users, mostly moms, comment “me!” on posts to claim the item. It’s first come, first served. Tonight, a total of 36 items are posted, and 24 are claimed in the short time it takes for owner Ashley Hauri to complete posting. She comments back to confirm the purchase, and then sends Venmo requests for the payment.  Hauri is one of a growing number of thrift store resellers, sometimes called thrift store flippers, moving their business from resale platforms like Poshmark to more ...

Meta is developing a version of Instagram for iPad, according to The Informatio n . Currently, running Instagram on an iPad is just a blown-up version of the iPhone app, so an official Instagram app from Meta would be a very welcome change. Why would Meta do this now, after ignoring Apple’s tablet for over a decade? According to The Information , the uncertain legal status of TikTok amid the divest-or-ban law and Trump’s tariffs might be the push required. The company has publicly resisted building an iPad Instagram app before. In February 2022 (more than three years ago!) Instagram boss Adam Mosseri replied to a post from Marques Brownlee about Meta still not having an Instagram app for iPad to explain why . “We get this one a lot,” Mosseri said . “It’s still just not a big enough group of people to be a priority. Hoping to get to it at some point, but right now we’re very heads down on other things.” Yup, we get this one a lot. It's still just not a bi...