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In response to the ongoing wildfire crisis, Catherine Tait, President & CEO of CBC/Radio-Canada, has penned an urgent plea to Sir Nick Clegg, President of Global Affairs at Meta, regarding the critical need for timely news distribution on Meta's platforms. Canada's Northern regions, including the Northwest Territories' territorial capital, Yellowknife, and parts of British Columbia,...

Threads may finally be receiving its long-requested web version as early as this week.

Minister of Canadian Heritage, Pascale St-Onge, took to Twitter today to slam Meta for following the law, specifically the Online News Act.  "Meta’s reckless choice to block news before the Act is in force is hurting access to vital information on Facebook and Instagram,” said St-Onge. "We are calling on them to reinstate news sharing...

Meta's Mark Zuckerberg is now stating that "it's time to move on" from his fight against Elon Musk.

Numerous media organizations including the CBC filed a complaint against Meta with the Competition Bureau earlier this week, saying the tech giant’s news blocking "creates a major challenge to our democracy." Meta is only complying with the recently enacted Online News Act, which wants tech companies to pay news publishers when someone shares a link...

A coalition of Canadian news publishers and broadcasters has raised concerns over Meta's recent decision to block Canadian news content on its platforms, Facebook and Instagram. News Media Canada, the Canadian Association of Broadcasters, and CBC/Radio-Canada, have approached the Competition Bureau, urging the latter to inquire into the Meta news blocking decision. "The challenges that...

Meta has announced that new features are coming to its apparent X competitor, Threads, including a search function and web access. CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed the upcoming features in a Threads post on Friday afternoon, stating they will be "coming in the next few weeks." The announcement follows Threads' introduction in July, when the app...

Threads, Meta's recently launched Twitter competitor, is grappling with a sharp decline in user retention barely a month after its much-hyped debut.

Meta has announced a partnership with the UFC to deliver live immersive MMA action to viewers' homes via the Meta Quest Platform. By utilizing the magic of virtual reality (VR), fans can now experience live fights from UFC Fight Pass in Xtadium from YBVR and soon in Meta Horizon Worlds. The UFC's partnership with Meta...

Meta has just announced the launch of AudioCraft, an innovative AI tool capable of generating high-quality, realistic audio and music from text prompts.

Meta is reportedly on the brink of launching a series of AI-driven chatbots that can exhibit unique personalities, across its social media apps, reports The Financial Times. Sources familiar with the project say Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been prototyping chatbots capable of engaging in human-like interactions with its nearly four billion users. The so-called...

In a move to comply with the Online News Act, Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, announced that it will be halting news content availability in Canada, starting today. The rollout of these changes will occur gradually over the following weeks, impacting all users in Canada who access these platforms. Canadian news publishers...