The Facebook exposé Careless People is a body-horror classic in waiting
Sharks, wasps and billionaires combine to make this memoir by Sarah Wynn-Williams the gruesome blueprint for a much-needed update to The Social Network
News, analysis, and comment on Meta-owned social media firm Facebook
The Siren’s Call and Owned: Commodifying attention and journalistic guns for hire
Two books ask important questions about how our attention is manipulated and monetised
Honest influencers: I have ‘never made any money, ever’ from online content
Some high-profile influencers rarely label sponsored content as required by advertising rules, according to their peers
Meta AI to launch in Europe
Users will have access to intelligent chat features in WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook and Messenger
Burke family pays Facebook to promote its video of their Washington DC protest
Family member Josiah Burke has spent more than €45,000 since April 2019 promoting family campaigns on Facebook, data shows
Facebook whistleblower finds mischievous party animal Enda Kenny ‘almost charming’
Plus: James Dyson could be in for a land in Waterford; the Irish master of plaster; and the NCH’s bonus buyout
How does a Buddhist respond in a world where might is right?
Rite & Reason: To sit down and meditate or kneel down and pray is possibly the most radical option we have. Finding silence and stillness reminds us that compassion is the only reasonable response
False Facebook reports about alleged rape sparked fatal Myanmar riots, new book claims
Claims survived for hours as Dublin office scrambled to find ‘Burmese guy’ to review content
AI chatbots open a new frontier in fears for our children’s wellbeing
Access to sexualised, manipulative anthropomorphised technology in the psychologically challenging teenage years represents an alarming new threat
Garda pleads guilty to impersonating woman online and inciting two men to rape her
Shane Flanagan (39) also pleaded guilty to possession of four child sexual abuse images
Study shows few effective age controls at social media firms
More than 1m underage users of Meta, Snap in Australia, report says, ahead of law banning such users
Ireland’s EU commissioner snubs offer to meet top Meta executive
Michael McGrath dodged request to sit down with Facebook executive Nick Clegg, records show
As the global AI race intensifies, Europe tries to close the large gap
At a summit in Paris, the EU pledges to start putting its money where its mouth is when it comes to artificial intelligence
Facebook at 21: a lesson in patience and profits
The hardest part of investing isn’t picking winners; it’s having the stomach to hold them
No one is asking Meta to act as God - just not to pollute the public space with lies
Unthinkable: Meta’s stance on fact-checking resembles a philosophical position known as ‘epistemological anarchy’
Meta agrees to pay Trump $25m to settle lawsuit
Payment relates to suspension of US president’s accounts in wake of Capitol riot
Zuckerberg’s culture shift at Meta could make it hard to find new recruits willing to work in his macho organisation
Invention and product innovation require the best minds in cohesive teams, strong collegiality and respect, regardless of sex, skin colour, or religion
Free expression and privacy rights may not stop workers being dismissed over social-media posts - internet law experts
Personal opinion disclaimers on employee’s own social-media accounts ‘have zero value’
How Silicon Valley’s tech moguls discovered a new toy they could fight over: the American president
The digerati developed a monopoly on Americans’ attention, creating division, distrust and envy under the innocent guise of connecting us and making our lives better
Holocaust survivor: ‘I saw normal people in Auschwitz and I saw sadists there who killed people’
As Europe faces a new wave of extreme nationalism, one of the last survivors of Auschwitz looks back
Apple share slump amid iPhone woes should sound caution for new Government
Tech giant’s international operation in Cork believed to be largest taxpayer in Republic
‘Meta sees me as a golden goose.’ How Zuckerberg’s AI creations went rogue and gave the game away
Facebook and Instagram have pulled the plug on AI avatars Grandpa Brian and Liv but their successors will soon flood our lives with lies on a hitherto unimaginable scale
Moves by Meta and Amazon to drop diversity programmes in US unlikely to affect Ireland
Apple, which employs 6,000 here, has asked shareholders to vote against move seen as courting favour with Trump administration
Death and grief in the digital age: ‘We were able to let her say goodbye through a WhatsApp video call’
With grief bots, virtual bouquets and streaming of funerals now available to us, is technology making grieving processes easier?
Biden calls Meta’s decision to drop fact-checking ‘really shameful’
Comments follow Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to replace fact-checking departments with company-moderated community notes
Why is Meta getting rid of fact-checking and will it affect my social media feed?
Move by company’s billionaire founder Mark Zuckerberg prompted alarm among social media experts
The Irish Times view on Zuckerberg’s changes: Meta goes Maga
It is hardly an accident that the new policies are almost identical to those of Elon Musk’s X
Zuckerberg shifts to Trump, but will he pay a price?
Meta chief drops factcheckers, but don’t bet on move to go well with his advertisers
Meta to end third-party fact-checking programme: ‘It’s time to get back to our roots around free expression’
Company to rely on ‘community notes’ in free speech pitch
Are we becoming a post-literate society?
Technology has changed the way many of us consume information, from complex pieces of writing to short video clips
Why do so many news sites look so boringly similar? Because they have to play by Google and Meta’s rules
But that hegemony will end, perhaps soon. If you value good journalism and good design, give someone you love a newspaper subscription this Christmas
Daniel O’Donnell says friend was scammed by a fake social media account posing as him
Friend had already sent money via Apple Pay when ruse was discovered
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