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Facebook announces its new futuristic name

The company Facebook has announced its new name change in a bid to re-brand the company and diverge it from being known as just a social media platform. Speaking at his companies Facebook Connect conference on Thursday, CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed ...

29 Oct 2021 at 11:12

Arts & Entertainment

Facebook and Instagram to introduce new subscription service

Meta is testing a new subscription service that would let Facebook and Instagram users pay for a verified account. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Meta Verified on his social media accounts on Sunday. Testing will begin in New Zealand and ...

20 Feb 2023 at 20:00

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LATEST: Facebook parent company Meta to cut more than 11,000 jobs globally

Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, has confirmed it plans to cut more than 11,000 jobs globally as part of a major restructuring of the tech giant. The cuts will reduce the size of the company’s workforce by about ...

09 Nov 2022 at 14:30

National News

Latest Meta jobs losses in Ireland will be ‘relatively small’, Taoiseach says

The latest round of job cuts by tech giant Meta will result in a “relatively small” number of redundancies at its Irish operations, the Taoiseach has said. Leo Varadkar expressed sympathy with those set to lose their jobs but he insisted ...

15 Mar 2023 at 15:59

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Nora Quoirin’s parents settle lawsuit over Facebook posts

The parents of Nora Quoirin, a French-Irish schoolgirl from London whose body was found near a Malaysian jungle resort during a family holiday, have settled a case against Facebook. Lawyers for the social media giant, trading as Meta, ...

20 Jul 2022 at 12:53

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Gardai and Fastway among those reprimanded by watchdog for data breaches in 2022

An Garda Siochana and the Fastway delivery firm are among the organisations that were reprimanded over data breaches, according to a watchdog’s annual report. Gardai reported a breach to the Data Protection Commission (DPC) involving ...

07 Mar 2023 at 00:01

Arts & Entertainment

Facebook and Instagram to introduce new subscription service

20 Feb 2023 at 10:52

Arts & Entertainment

WhatsApp comes back online after service outage

WhatsApp has come back online for many users after a service outage knocked the popular messaging app offline for around two hours on Tuesday morning. The Meta-owned platform has not yet confirmed the cause of the fault but had ...

25 Oct 2022 at 13:37

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Kildare Trades Council says it is concerned over Meta and Twitter's handling of redundancy notices

The Kildare Trades Council (KTC) has said that it has 'serious concerns' regarding the approach used by social media companies such as Twitter, Meta and Instagram to inform workers of redundancies. Workers first heard of the ...

12 Nov 2022 at 14:00

National News

Supermac's Instagram and Facebook accounts suspended over April Fool's joke

Supermac's has found itself embroiled in a trademark dispute with the GAA following an April Fools' joke gone awry. The chain's social media platforms, including Instagram and Facebook, have been abruptly taken offline by ...

04 Apr 2024 at 13:35

Arts & Entertainment

'A sad moment' - Facebook parent company Meta to cut Irish jobs

09 Nov 2022 at 13:11

Northern Ireland

Gerry Adams seeking legal advice over Meta use of books for AI systems

Former Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams says he has sought legal advice after claiming Meta has used his books to train its artificial intelligence systems. The Society of Editors recently held a protest in London ...

09 Apr 2025 at 18:05

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