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| April 2025 | Meta was fined 200 million euros ($230 million) for breaking the Digital Markets Act by imposing a 'consent or pay' system that forces users to either allow personal data use for targeted ads or pay for an ad-free subscription. |
| April 5 2025 | Meta released the Llama 4 Series Models, including Llama 4 Scout (17B parameters with 16 experts and 10M context window), Llama 4 Maverick (17B parameters with 128 experts), and Llama 4 Behemoth (188B parameters with 16 experts, still in development). |
| March 2025 | Meta blocked former employee Sarah Wynn-Williams from promoting or further distributing her memoir 'Careless People', which includes allegations of unaddressed sexual harassment by senior executives. |
| 2025 | Following Donald Trump's election, sources noted potential censorship of Democratic Party-related content on Instagram and other Meta platforms. |
| February 2025 | Meta announced plans to roll back its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, citing shifts in the legal and policy landscape. |
| February 2025 | A Meta representative flagged journalist Gil Duran's article and other 'critiques of tech industry figures' as spam or sensitive content, limiting their reach following the election of Donald Trump. |
| February 2025 | U.S. Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler allowed three U.S. citizens, including Rajaram, to pursue a proposed class action lawsuit against Meta for alleged hiring discrimination. |
| January 2025 | Meta agreed to pay $25 million to settle a 2021 lawsuit brought by Donald Trump for suspending his social media accounts after the January 6 riots. |
| January 2025 | Meta ended its use of third-party fact-checkers and replaced them with a user-run community notes system, despite criticism from fact-checking institutions. |
| January 2025 | Meta faced significant criticism for removing LGBTQ+ content from its platforms, with activists arguing that the content moderation policies inadvertently stifled LGBTQ+ visibility and expression. |
| January 19 2025 | Mark Rabkin, Meta's Vice President of Horizon OS and Quest, attributed the device issues to a four-year-old Android file system bug that could cause file corruption during read/write operations, exacerbated by a security patch preventing OS rollback. The v72 rollout was temporarily halted for bug diagnosis. |
| January 2025 | Meta modified its hateful conduct policy while moving content review teams from California to Texas, eliminating restrictions on anti-LGBT and anti-immigrant hate speech. The changes explicitly allowed users to make discriminatory claims about LGBT individuals' mental health based on sexual orientation or gender identity. |
| January 2025 | Meta announced plans to roll back diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, citing shifts in the legal and policy landscape. The company also agreed to pay $25 million to settle a lawsuit brought by Donald Trump regarding the suspension of his social media accounts. |
| 2024 | The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) requested stricter measures to ensure Ray-Ban Meta glasses comply with Europe's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) rules. |
| 2024 | An academic study revealed that hacked Ray-Ban Meta glasses could potentially engage in real-time facial recognition, raising significant concerns about mass surveillance and profiling. |
| 2024 | Meta attracted criticism for continuing to disseminate a proven false video of US President Joe Biden. |
| December 2024 | In Horizon OS v71, OVRLipSync was replaced by the Audio to Expression feature, an AI-driven system that generates approximate facial gestures on avatars using speech recognition. |
| December 2024 | Meta donated $1 million to the inauguration fund for then-President-elect Donald Trump. |
| December 30 2024 | Meta responded to persistent headset issues by offering free replacements and store credits for affected users, including refurbished replacements for devices outside warranty. |
| December 28 2024 | Meta initially reported that the software issue causing Quest 2, 3, and 3s update failures was fixed after users experienced boot problems with a 'Your device is corrupt. It can't be trusted' error. |
| December 11 2024 | Meta experienced a global outage impacting accounts on all of their social media and messaging applications, with over 70,000 outage reports on DownDetector. |
| December 11 2024 | Meta experienced a global outage affecting all social media and messaging applications, with over 70,000 Instagram and 100,000 Facebook outage reports. |
| December 4 2024 | Meta announced a $10 billion investment in its largest AI data center in northeast Louisiana, to be powered by natural gas facilities. |
| November 2024 | Meta closed 2 million accounts on Facebook and Instagram linked to scam centers in multiple countries performing 'pig butchering' scams. |
| October 2024 | Meta faced lawsuits in Japan from 30 plaintiffs claiming they were defrauded by fake investment ads with false celebrity endorsements, seeking approximately 2.8 million dollars in damages. |
| October 4 2024 | Meta announced Movie Gen, a new AI model capable of generating realistic video and audio clips, with plans to collaborate directly with content creators. |
| September 16 2024 | Meta banned Russian state media outlets worldwide due to concerns about 'foreign interference activity', following allegations of covert influence campaigns. |
| August 2024 | Mark Zuckerberg sent a letter to Jim Jordan revealing that the Biden administration repeatedly requested Meta to limit COVID-19 content, including humor and satire, on Facebook and Instagram during the pandemic. |
| July 2024 | Meta agreed to pay Texas $1.4 billion to settle a lawsuit over collecting users' biometric data without consent, setting a record for the largest privacy-related state settlement. |
| July 23 2024 | Meta announced the incorporation of Meta AI with Vision into v68 of Horizon OS on the Meta Quest 3 and Quest Pro for physical object detection in passthrough mode, replacing the older voice assistant software. |
| June 27 2024 | Purushothaman Rajaram files a lawsuit alleging Meta discriminates in hiring by preferring H1B visa holders. |
| May 2024 | Meta AI chatbot began summarizing news from various outlets without direct links to original articles, raising ethical and legal concerns, particularly in Canada where news links are banned on Meta platforms. |
| May 16 2024 | The European Commission initiated an investigation into Meta over child safety concerns. |
| May 10 2024 | Metacapital Management and Meta Platforms resolve their trademark dispute and agree to a settlement. |
| April 2024 | NLRB ruled that Meta had unlawfully restricted employees' rights to organize by imposing non-disparagement and confidentiality restrictions that prevented former employees from raising workplace concerns. Meta was ordered to distribute a notice informing employees of their right to unionize. |
| April 23 2024 | Meta announced an update to Meta AI on smart glasses to enable multimodal input via Computer vision. |
| April 22 2024 | Meta announced the rebranding of the platform to Meta Horizon OS and revealed plans to open it to third-party headset manufacturers, including Microsoft, Asus, and Lenovo. |
| February 2024 | Meta removed the Facebook and Instagram accounts of Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, citing repeated violations of its Dangerous Organizations & Individuals policy. |
| February 27 2024 | Meta launched a standalone AI app, expanding its AI ecosystem beyond social media integration and introducing a premium subscription model. |
| January 2024 | Meta's stock reached an all-time high, bringing the company within 2% of achieving a $1 trillion market capitalization. |
| 2023 | Content moderators in Germany and Kenya formed unions and a works council, marking a significant milestone in Meta's labor organizing efforts. |
| 2023 | Meta was ranked #31 on the Forbes Global 2000 ranking, highlighting its significant position among global technology corporations. |
| November 2023 | Meta Platforms launched an ad-free service in Europe, allowing subscribers to opt-out of personal data collection for targeted advertising. |
| October 2023 | Mark Zuckerberg announced AI would be Meta's biggest investment area in 2024. |
| September 2023 | Meta paid £149m to British Land to break the lease on its Triton Square London office, with 18 years remaining on the original lease. |
| September 27 2023 | Meta AI was pre-installed on the second generation of Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses as a voice assistant. |
| August 2023 | Meta permanently removed news content from Facebook and Instagram in Canada in response to the Online News Act, which requires compensation for news outlets. |
| July 2023 | Meta unveiled its artificial intelligence model Llama 2, making it available for commercial use through partnerships with major cloud providers like Microsoft, marking the first project from its generative AI group. |
| July 7 2023 | Works council election takes place at Telus International, with the ver.di union list winning 80% of votes, securing 14 out of 17 seats on the works council. |
| July 6 2023 | Meta launched Threads, a new social media app designed to compete directly with Twitter. |
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