MARK ZUCKERBERG

The metaverse and Web3 won't be fully formed in 2022, but new jobs, new investments and a new global infrastructure are coming.

Newly unredacted documents from a state-led antitrust lawsuit against Google accuse the search giant of colluding with rival Facebook to manipulate online advertising sales. The CEOs of both companies were aware of the deal and signed off on it, the lawsuit alleges. The original, redacted lawsuit, filed in December 2021, accused Google of "anti-competitive conduct" and of teaming up with the social networking giant. But the unredacted version offers details on the involvement of Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in approving the deal. When the two sides hammered out the terms of the agreement, “the team sent an email addressed directly to CEO” Zuckerberg, the lawsuit states.

Newly unredacted documents from a state-led antitrust lawsuit against Google accuse the search giant of colluding with rival Facebook to manipulate online advertising sales.

Lawmakers have spent the last year looking into the role social media sites have played in the Capitol insurrection.

Lawmakers have spent the last year looking into the role social media sites have played in the Capitol insurrection.

The Washington Post and ProPublica examined millions of posts in Facebook groups to discover the extent of election deligitimatization posts ahead of Jan. 6, 2020. The social media company has downplayed its role in fueling the Jan. 6 violence.

From the metaverse to NFTs and everything in-between, what's made the news in tech this year?

Zuckerberg's Hawaiian estate, which he nicknamed Ko'olau Ranch, has grown to over 1,400 acres on Kauai's north shore.

Billionaire Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has purchased more property in Hawaii, including most of a reservoir that unleashed a deadly flood 15 years ago. Property records show Zuckerberg’s Kaloko LLC bought a 110-acre (44.5-hectare) site on Kauai last month for $17 million from a company owned by the Pflueger family, the Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported. The purchase includes most of a reservoir that flooded in 2006, killing seven people, after a section of a dam burst following 40 days of near-constant rain.

Wall Street delivered another strong year in 2021, as a spike in consumer demand fueled by the reopening of the global economy pumped up corporate profits.

So far, gaming companies like Roblox and Epic Games are the farthest ahead building metaverses.

Asana was the year's top tech stock until the correction hit in early November. CEO Dustin Moskovitz has used the pullback to add to his position.

The former Facebook manager who startled the world this fall by leaking tens of thousands of internal documents and accusing her former employer of caring more about money than about public safety has a book deal.

Fitness gadgets are supposed to improve your health, but often end up making you feel worse.

As the year winds down, I’m noticing that I encountered several topics that we touched upon in our most popular cartoons. This is all quite suspicious.

Instagram now counts more than 2 billion monthly active users around the globe, according to two employees who spoke with CNBC.

The head of Instagram, appearing before a Senate panel, met with deep skepticism over new measures the platform is adopting to protect young users nd the company’s commitment to transparency.

Two high-profile Republican candidates for the U.S. Senate, both of them close to tech entrepreneur Peter Thiel, are supporting an effort to merge former President Donald Trump’s lies about a stolen 2020 election with accusations of meddling against Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

The company that runs the philanthropy of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, is investing up to $3.4 billion to advance human health over 10 to 15 years, according to a spokesperson for the organization. Jeff MacGregor, a CZI spokesperson, said $500 million will be given to establish an institute at Harvard University that focuses on artificial intelligence. The institute, which will get the funding over the next 15 years, will be named after Karen Kempner Zuckerberg, Zuckerberg’s mother. MacGregor said $600 to 900 million will go towards a new biomedical imaging institute at CZI. Another $1 billion will be given to the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Network, a new initiative that seeks to bring together scientific institutions to pursue “grand scientific challenges.”A separate $800 million to $1 billion will be given over 10 years to the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub, which aims to develop technologies that treat disease.

A spokesperson for the company that runs the philanthropy of Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, said the company is investing up to $3.4 billion to advance human health over 10 to 15 years.

A group supporting former President Donald Trump's agenda is working to bypass Wisconsin's Democratic governor to change the swing state's election laws.

At 12 years old, Alhaji Siraj Bah was living on the streets of Sierra Leone. A decade later, his business employs nearly three dozen people as they work to create an alternative to wood-based charcoal.

Facebook said a user named Wilson Edwards for 2.5 weeks spread lies that the US was urging the WHO to blame COVID-19 on China. But he doesn't exist.

Facebook on Wednesday announced its decision to reverse long-standing policy that prevented most cryptocurrency companies from running ads on its services.

The Republican-hired attorney investigating the 2020 election told Wisconsin lawmakers during a testy hearing Wednesday he has filed a lawsuit to force officials in Green Bay and Madison to provide testimony. The simultaneous meetings come as Republicans in Wisconsin are increasing the pressure on election officials. Lawmakers have called for the resignation of the state's nonpartisan top election administrator and a sheriff who supports Donald Trump called for prosecuting five of the commission's six members.

Ex-Facebook employee and whistleblower Frances Haugen implored lawmakers to avoid falling into the usual congressional stalemate as they weigh proposals to curb abuses in social media platforms by limiting the companies’ free-speech protections against legal liability.

Hyundai has already using virtual world app Zepeto for new employee inductions and Samsung staged a virtual recruitment fair via a metaverse.

Meta, Facebook's parent, has been told by the U.K.'s competition watchdog that it must sell gif-sharing platform Giphy.

Newly named Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal (PUH-rag AH-gur-wahl) has emerged from behind the scenes to take over one of Silicon Valley’s highest-profile and politically volatile jobs.

After going on a tangent re-litigating his election fraud lies, Trump took a shot at the Facebook founder for visiting him at the White House.

Facebook now Meta Platforms is primarily an ad revenue company and Madison Avenue already is at work on figuring out how to rethink ads for the virtual future.

Brian Castrucci is an epidemiologist, public health practitioner and president and CEO of the de Beaumont Foundation. And what people are hearing on social media regarding Covid-19 in general, and the vaccines in particular, should scare you. As has been made clear during the Covid pandemic, we're already too late. The impact of social media on health goes beyond Covid. Regulators must hold social media companies and others accountable and responsible by engaging the public health community and ensuring that Internet regulations include common sense public health protections.

Ohio's largest public employee pension fund has sued Facebook, alleging that it broke federal securities law by purposely misleading the public about its product's negative effect on children.

The lawsuit alleges Meta, formerly Facebook, misled the public about the negative effects its products can have on kids' wellbeing.

The so-called metaverse has a "big time" investment case, according to Puerto Rican billionaire Orlando Bravo.

Twenty years ago, when Kyrsten Sinema was a Green Party activist running for the Phoenix City Council, she likened the practice of raising campaign cash to “bribery.”.

In this article FBIf the goal was to get people talking about Iceland, a new tourism video is more than succeeding. A video published yesterday by Inspired by Iceland, a marketing campaign for Icelandic tourism, takes aim at a Mark Zuckerberg video released in October announcing Facebook's name change to Meta. In it, Zuckerberg hypes the so-called "metaverse," a virtual world that "will be the successor to the mobile internet." The metaverse's defining quality, said Zuckerberg, is "the feeling of presence … like you're there with other people." The video extolls Iceland's "completely immersive" experiences, such as its real rocks, real humans and "skies you can see with your eyeballs."

Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen is warning that the virtual reality world at the heart of the social media giant’s growth strategy will be addictive and rob people of personal information while giving the company another monopoly online.

Metaverse Pitfalls FILE - Seen on the screen of a device in Sausalito, Calif., Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announces the company's new name, Meta, during a virtual event on Thursday, Oct. 28, 2021. Zuckerberg promises that the virtual-reality “metaverse” he’s planning to build will “let you do almost anything.” That might not be such a great idea. Zuckerberg, CEO of the company formerly known as Facebook, even renamed it Meta to underscore the significance of the effort. It's not clear how long it will take Meta, or anyone else investing in the metaverse, to consider such issues. “The open metaverse is created and owned by all of us,” said Ryan Gill, founder and CEO of metaverse-focused startup Crucible.

Mark Zuckerberg promises that the virtual-reality “metaverse” he’s planning to build will “let you do almost anything.”.

Thousands of documents uncovered by Frances Haugen reveal, among other things, how employees of Facebook—or Meta, as it’s now known—talk when they think that no one is listening.

Take-Two Interactive CEO Strauss Zelnick on Thursday cast doubt about Meta's grandiose metaverse aspirations.

Meta announced new features intended to help Facebook Groups moderators and administrators generate revenue

Facebook is wrong to shut down facial recognition, according to Gary Kasparov, the former world chess champion and chairman of Human Rights Foundation.

The reported outages are affecting Messenger, Workplace Chat and Instagram DMs.

"I think Facebook would be stronger with someone who was willing to focus on safety," Frances Haugen said Monday at the Web Summit conference.

Mark Zuckerberg announced earlier Thursday that Facebook's corporate name will be changing to Meta.

Scientists at Meta, have developed a new material and a touch sensor that they claim have the potential to support the development of a so-called metaverse.

Break up Big Tech.

Jason Rubin, Meta's vice president of metaverse content, wrote a document in 2018 that helped pave the way for Mark Zuckerberg's big announcement this week.

'Brand tax' is the term Facebook employees have used to refer to the negative impact Facebook has on its other brands.

It was terrible then, and it’s terrible now.

Alphabet has yet to deliver on its promise to deliver "another Google" out of its various projects like self-driving cars.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg used references to viral memes, such as a famous 2020 image of him slathered in sunscreen.

Mark Zuckerberg announced earlier Thursday that Facebook's corporate name will be changing to Meta.

Project Cambria is the new VR headset that was revealed at Facebook Connect by Mark Zuckerberg, and it's coming next year.

It's a world of endless, interconnected virtual communities where people can meet, work and play, using virtual reality headsets, augmented reality glasses, smartphone apps or other devices.

Shares of Canada's Meta Materials rose on Thursday after Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said his company was changing its name to Meta.

Mark Zuckerberg announced earlier Thursday that Facebook's corporate name will be changing to Meta.

Facebook is changing its corporate name to Meta against a backdrop of alleged mishandlings of misinformation, hate speech and teen harm.

Mark Zuckerberg wants to be the hero of the metaverse because he knows Facebook is boring.

Metaverse Explainer FILE - In this Oct. 12, 2021 file photo, Hadrien Gurnel, software engineer EPFL's Laboratory for Experimental Museology (eM+) explores with a virtual reality helmet the most detailed 3D map of the universe with the virtual reality software VIRUP, Virtual Reality Universe Project developed by Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, in St-Sulpice near Lausanne, Switzerland. But tech companies still have to figure out how to connect their online platforms. Essentially, it's a world of endless, interconnected virtual communities where people can meet, work and play, using virtual reality headsets, augmented reality glasses, smartphone apps or other devices. Making it work will require competing technology platforms to agree on a set of standards, so there aren't “people in the Facebook metaverse and other people in the Microsoft metaverse,” Petrock said. IS FACEBOOK GOING ALL IN ON THE METAVERSE?

The term “metaverse” is the latest buzzword to capture the tech industry’s imagination _ so much so that one of the best-known internet platforms is rebranding to embrace the futuristic idea.

Metaverse Explainer FILE - In this Oct. 12, 2021 file photo, Hadrien Gurnel, software engineer EPFL's Laboratory for Experimental Museology (eM+) explores with a virtual reality helmet the most detailed 3D map of the universe with the virtual reality software VIRUP, Virtual Reality Universe Project developed by Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, in St-Sulpice near Lausanne, Switzerland. Essentially, it's a world of endless, interconnected virtual communities where people can meet, work and play, using virtual reality headsets, augmented reality glasses, smartphone apps or other devices. Making it work will require competing technology platforms to agree on a set of standards, so there aren't “people in the Facebook metaverse and other people in the Microsoft metaverse,” Petrock said. IS FACEBOOK GOING ALL IN ON THE METAVERSE? He expects people to start seeing Facebook as a metaverse company in coming years rather than a social media company.

Facebook Inc. says it is changing its name to Meta Platforms Inc., joining a long list of companies that have tried to rebrand themselves over the years.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says his company is rebranding itself as Meta, an effort to encompass its virtual-reality vision for the future.

Philanthropy, Lucy Bernholz says, is like Chex Mix.

The senator leading a probe of Facebook’s Instagram and its impact on young people is asking Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to testify in the Senate.

Philanthropist Laurene Powell Jobs is gearing up to invest $3.5 billion into climate initiatives through her foundation in the next 10 years.

U.S. House lawmakers are threatening to seek a criminal investigation of Amazon, saying the tech giant has one “final chance” to correct previous testimony by executives on its competition practices.

Facebook says it plans to hire 10,000 workers in the European Union over the next five years to work on a new computing platform.

Facebook has recently taken a harsher tone toward whistleblower Frances Haugen, suggesting that the social network could be considering legal retaliation after Haugen went public with internal research that she copied before leaving her job earlier this year.

When whistleblower Frances Haugen this week revealed internal Facebook studies of the harms its Instagram service can cause, particularly for teenagers, she reinforced concerns about the popular photo-sharing app.

A former Facebook data scientist testified before Congress that the social network’s products harm children and fuel polarization in the U.S. while executives reject changes that could hurt company profits.

While accusing the giant social network of pursuing profits over safety, a former Facebook data scientist told Congress she believes stricter government oversight could alleviate the dangers the company poses, from harming children to inciting political violence to fueling misinformation.

Instagram is putting a hold on the development of Instagram kids, geared towards children under 13, so it can address concerns about the vulnerability of younger users.

Facebook’s Chief Technology Officer Mike Schroepfer is stepping down from the social media company, taking on a part time role while longtime executive Andrew Bosworth will replace him next year.

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg donated $400 million to help fund election offices as they scrambled to deal with the coronavirus pandemic last year.

A senior Federal Trade Commission official is criticizing Facebook’s move to shut down the personal accounts of two academic researchers and terminate their probe into misinformation spread through political ads on the social network.

In a story published August 4, 2021, about a Colorado judge's decision to levy penalties against lawyers in a 2020 election lawsuit, The Associated Press misspelled the judge's name.

Concerns about a revenue growth slowdown pushed Facebook’s shares lower in after-hours trading Wednesday, not long after the company reported that its second-quarter profits doubled thanks to a massive increase in advertising revenue.

If you’ve been scrolling around on social media this month, then you may have noticed that over the Fourth of July weekend, Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg was riding on some sort of wakeboard on a lake with an American flag in tow.

Facebook is launching podcasts and live audio streams in the U.S. to compete with emerging rivals.

Republicans in Congress are alarmed by the leak of confidential IRS data to ProPublica that has enabled the investigative news organization to reveal that famous billionaires including Warren Buffett, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg paid little in U.S. income tax at times.

The richest 25 Americans pay less in tax — 15.8% of adjusted gross income — than many ordinary workers do, once you include taxes for Social Security and Medicare, the nonprofit investigative journalism organization ProPublica found.

Facebook plans to end a contentious policy championed by CEO Mark Zuckerberg that exempted politicians from certain moderation rules on its site, according to reports from the tech site The Verge, the New York Times and the Washington Post.

Facebook says it will suspend former President Donald Trump's accounts for two years following its finding that he stoked violence ahead of the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection.

Last year's pandemic lockdowns could have been virtual reality’s chance to offer an escape for the homebound.

The leader of a national conservative group is taking credit for secretly helping to write laws tightening voting rules in several Republican-controlled states.

Suppose you were Mark Zuckerberg, ordered by an advisory board to decide how long former President Donald Trump should stay banned from Facebook.

Facebook's oversight board, which on Wednesday upheld the company’s ban of former President Donald Trump, also had some harsh words for its corporate sponsor: Facebook.

Former President Donald Trump won’t return to Facebook — at least not yet.

On Wednesday, former President Donald Trump will know his fate on the world’s biggest social platform, Facebook.

Donald Trump will find out whether he gets to return to Facebook on Wednesday.

Facebook’s stock is in record territory after the social media giant reported stronger-than-expected results for the first quarter thanks to soaring ad revenue.

Apple is following through on its pledge to crack down on Facebook and other snoopy apps that secretly shadow people on their iPhones in order to target more advertising at users.

Facebook is showing different job ads to women and men in a way that might run afoul of anti-discrimination laws, according to a new study.

A civil rights group is suing Facebook and its executives.

Scott Applewhite)WASHINGTON – The latest news from a House committee questioning the CEOs of Facebook, Google and Twitter. ___2:30 p.m.Rep. Steve Scalise, a Louisiana Republican, raised the long-running conservative talking point that Twitter, Facebook and Google are biased against conservative viewpoints and censor material based on political or religious viewpoints. Scalise highlighted Twitter’s blocking of a New York Post article on Hunter Biden, which CEO Jack Dorsey said was a mistake that the company corrected within 24 hours. AdThis would include product vice presidents of integrity, trust and safety and vice presidents of platform policy — at Facebook, Twitter, YouTube (rather than Google, which owns YouTube) and perhaps an upstart like TikTok. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and Sundar Pichai, CEO of YouTube parent Google, are facing questioning at a hearing by the House Energy and Commerce Committee.

Republicans raised long-running conservative grievances, unproven, that the platforms are biased against conservative viewpoints and censor material based on political or religious viewpoints. There is increasing support in Congress for legislation to rein in Big Tech companies. The tech CEOs defended the legal shield under Section 230, saying it has helped make the internet the forum of free expression that it is today. Trump enjoyed special treatment on Facebook and Twitter until January, despite spreading misinformation, pushing false claims of voting fraud, and promulgating hate. The tech blog Gizmodo eventually revealed the device was a “BlockClock” that shows the latest prices of cryptocurrencies like bitcoin and ethereum.