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1. Meta's AI has suddenly started appearing on Cypriot phones...what exactly is it?

Meta’s new advanced AI chatbot has recently launched in Cyprus, appearing across all of the company’s apps, including Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp....

2. Tech giants and high-profile figures attend Trump’s inauguration

Tech leaders and media moguls were front and center at the inauguration of President-elect Trump today...

3. The week’s wildest stories: From bird droppings to book launches

One of the most absurd stories of the week was how the infamous car with the unfortunate Pakistani man had bird droppings that the Police mistook for bullet holes....

4. Democracy's Final Form: When Digital Capitalism Perfects the 'Free Market' of Power

The convergence of two recent developments signals a profound transformation in how democracy operates in the digital age....

5. Meta drops fact-checking just before Trump takes office

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Tuesday that Facebook and Instagram are dropping their fact-checkers. Instead, the platforms will rely on user-driven “community notes,” much like Elon Musk’s approach on X (formerly Twitter). ...

6. WhatsApp and Instagram teams face job cuts in Meta overhaul

Meta has started implementing layoffs across various departments, including WhatsApp, Instagram, and Reality Labs, according to sources familiar with the matter....

7. FT: Zuckerberg accuses Biden Admin of pressuring Meta to censor COVID-19 content

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has accused the Biden administration of pressuring the social media company to censor certain COVID-19 content during the pandemic....

8. Google and Meta secretly target underage YouTube users with Instagram ads

Google and Meta have been implicated in a secret agreement to push Instagram ads to underage YouTube users, bypassing Google's policies on advertising to minors, according to a report by the Financial Times....

9. Meta CEO to receive $700M dividend

Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta, the parent company overseeing Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, anticipates an annual dividend of $700 million (£549 million), according to recent announcements....

10. US senators grill social media CEOs over child safety concerns

In a heated session on Wednesday, U.S. senators confronted leaders of major social media companies, urging swift legislative action to address escalating threats of sexual predation targeting children on their platforms....

11. Cofounder, CEO, philanthropist, and now cowboy

The Meta chief's new addition to a list of titles comes as he revealed his latest venture is livestock farming....

12. Dex Hunter's vision for the disruptive next decade

In his presentation at the 6th Digital Agenda Cyprus Summit, Dex Hunter-Torricke, Head of Communications at DeepMind and a close associate of Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, forecasted that the next decade would be the most transformative in human history....

13. Foreign company hired to clean Cyprus' reputation – but is it really dirty?

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has assigned a foreign company the Herculean task of orchestrating a campaign to cleanse Cyprus' tarnished reputation abroad....

14. Parents to protect kids from Hamas hostage videos on social media

Schools in Israel, the UK and the US are advising parents to delete their children’s social media apps over concerns that Hamas militants will broadcast or disseminate disturbing videos of hostages who have been seized in recent days....

15. War in Ukraine nears potential 'dirty deal' conclusion

Thomas Friedman, American political commentator, author and weekly columnist for The New York Times, tells Kathimerini that the ongoing war in Ukraine will probably be resolved with “a dirty deal” that will include the loss of a part of eastern Ukraine in exchange for Kyiv’s accession to NATO and the European Union....

16. Meta encryption shields child abusers in shadows

Mark Zuckerberg’s plan to roll out encrypted messaging on his platforms will let child abusers “hide in the dark”, according to a government campaign urging the tech billionaire to halt the move....

17. Is home really the best office?

Working remotely has its advantages, but there's growing evidence to support what many managers have long suspected: Fully remote workers are less productive....

18. Google DeepMind CMO at the Digital Agenda Cyprus summit

Dex Hunter-Torricke, the Chief Communications Officer of DeepMind and a close associate of Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, is coming to Cyprus....

19. Elon Musk plans to create 'TruthGPT', a non-Liberal AI

Billionaire Twitter owner Elon Musk is again sounding warning bells on the dangers of artificial intelligence to humanity — and claiming that a popular chatbot has a liberal bias that he plans to counter with his own AI creation....

20. Meta lays off another 10,000 workers

Meta, the parent company of social media giant Facebook, has announced it will cut another 10,000 jobs as part of a company-wide restructuring effort....

21. Amazon announces immediate layoffs of 10,000 workers

Amazon plans to lay off approximately 10,000 employees from administrative and other positions in its technology departments....

22. Zuckerberg says 'sorry' as Meta lays off 1,000 employees

Facebook parent company Meta on Wednesday said it is laying off 11,000 employees, marking the most significant job cuts in the tech giant’s history....

23. Trump demands reinstatement as 'rightful' president

Former President Donald Trump demanded reinstatement as president or "a new Election, immediately" after news that Facebook temporarily limited a controversial story about Hunter Biden's laptop in users' news feeds before the 2020 election. Trump demands reinstatement as 'rightful' president or 'a new Election, immediately!' as some Republicans seek distance from him...

24. Researcher's avatar sexually assaulted on the metaverse

A researcher entered the metaverse, wanting to study users' behavior on Meta's social-networking platform Horizon World. But within an hour of her donning her Oculus virtual reality (VR) headset, she says she was raped in the virtual space....

25. Facebook company changes name to Meta

Facebook Inc is now called Meta, the company said on Thursday, in a rebrand that focuses on building the "metaverse," a shared virtual environment that it bets will be the successor to the mobile internet...

26. The mysterious world of the 'metaverse'

Last Sunday, Facebook announced plans to create 10,000 new jobs in the European Union over the next five years to build products that will serve the metaverse...

27. Social media enabling destruction of democracy

“It’s the enabler of the destruction of democracy. It’s the enabler of the destruction of the facts,” says the Filipino Nobel Laureate Maria Ressa...

28. Facebook: In a whirlwind of scandals and unprecedented blackouts

It took a few minutes for it to disappear from the internet and about seven hours for it to return....

29. No more apologies: Inside Facebook's push to defend its image

Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s chief executive, signed off last month on a new initiative code-named Project Amplify....

30. Facebook's Zuckerberg checks in from the Acropolis