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Back to news homeMass Layoffs and Absentee Bosses Create a Morale Crisis at Meta
“Raise your hand if you know who is getting fired?” a Meta employee wrote in an online chat group for the company’s engineers this month. “Fire emoji if you think […]
Meta, Facebook’s Parent, to Lay Off Another 10,000 Workers
Meta, the owner of Facebook and Instagram, said on Tuesday that it planned to lay off about 10,000 employees, or roughly 13 percent of its work force, the latest move […]
The Chatbots Are Here, and the Internet Industry Is in a Tizzy
Sridhar Ramaswamy, who led Google’s advertising division from 2013 to 2018, said Microsoft and Google recognized that their current search business might not survive. “The wall of ads and sea […]
The Perils of Working on a C.E.O.’s Pet Project
“We always said it was like a start-up,” Mr. Anderson wrote, “with zero risk if you failed.”The layoffs, which totaled about 18,000 across Amazon, came with a hiring freeze, limiting […]
How Some Gen Z Instagram Users Post to Facebook: Unwittingly
Meta has long been concerned about losing teenagers and young adults to rivals like TikTok and Snapchat, especially since that audience is highly coveted by advertisers. Facebook, which Mark Zuckerberg […]
Why Are You Seeing So Many Bad Digital Ads Now?
Digital ad spending, while still growing overall, “has decelerated precipitously,” according to an analysis last month by the research firm Insider Intelligence.Twitter seems to be faring the worst. The company […]
How Deepfake Videos Are Used to Spread Disinformation
Although the usage of deepfakes in the recently discovered pro-China disinformation campaign was ham handed, it opens a new chapter in information warfare. In recent weeks, another video using similar […]
Judge Is Said to Let Meta’s Virtual Reality Deal Move Forward
The lawsuit was the first of the cases developed entirely under Ms. Khan, a legal scholar who rose to prominence after she wrote a critique of Amazon that went viral, […]
GoodRx Leaked User Health Data to Facebook and Google, F.T.C. Says
Millions of Americans have used GoodRx, a drug discount app, to search for lower prices on prescriptions like antidepressants, H.I.V. medications and treatments for sexually transmitted diseases at their local […]