Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, will carry out a new round of layoffs affecting approximately 10% of its workforce, which is about 8,000 employees. The measure will be applied on May 20, according to an internal memorandum leaked by Bloomberg this Thursday. In the communication addressed to employees, the company's chief people officer, Janelle Gale, confirms that the decision will also involve the closure of about 6,000 unfilled vacancies.

Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, will carry out a new round of layoffs affecting approximately 10% of its workforce, which is about 8,000 employees. The measure will be applied on May 20, according to an internal memorandum leaked by Bloomberg this Thursday. In the communication addressed to employees, the company's chief people officer, Janelle Gale, confirms that the decision will also involve the closure of about 6,000 unfilled vacancies.

Organizations advocating for child safety online are celebrating a significant victory. After years of controversy, Meta has agreed to prevent communications between Instagram users from being encrypted. The change was introduced discreetly, with an unpublicized update, and will begin to be implemented in May. The modification of this clause will allow the company that manages one of the most followed social networks by young people to view the content of messages sent by users if required by judicial authorities.

The president of the Generalitat (Catalan government) has posted a video on Instagram reacting to a clip published by Flaixbac. The video shows a group of young people attending the Saló de l'Ensenyament (Education Fair) being asked, "Who is the current president of the Generalitat of Catalonia?" Among the incorrect answers were names like Salvador Espriu, Joan Pera, Salvador Dalí, Jaume Collboni, and Pedro Sánchez, which they uttered amidst awkward laughter.

On the train, my neighbor across the way is looking reelsThere are categories, as in the PhilogelosThe book of jokes in Greek. For example, those that differentiate the way you jump a fence depending on whether you were born in the eighties, nineties, two thousand, or two thousand twenty-five. In general, this joke ridicules today's sugar-coated society, compared to their rough and carefree ancestors. A woman next to me is also watching. reelsFrom the category of parents of teenagers. It makes fun of teenagers' messiness. There's one—I've seen it many times—about some parents who go to their newly independent children's house. Then they do everything they're supposed to do. They sit on the sofa eating popcorn and throw it around, deliberately don't dry their hands and leave drops, open the refrigerator and take all the food...

The Commercial Court No. 15 of Madrid has ordered Meta to pay €479 million to 87 Spanish digital newspaper publishers and news agencies belonging to the AMI (Association of Information Media), including ARA. The ruling states that Mark Zuckerberg's multinational company gained a competitive advantage by including advertising on its Facebook and Instagram social networks using users' personal data protected by the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The decision responds to a lawsuit filed by the national digital press association, which argued that the improper use of users' protected personal data gave Meta an unfair advantage. The court ruled in favor of the association and ordered Meta to pay a multimillion-euro fine for unfair competition.

What should we do with the social media profiles of someone who has died? And with all the other accounts where they stored photos, emails, and contacts? How can we ensure that our online usernames will disappear with us or that they will continue to be managed as we would have liked? Among the legal experts consulted, there are different opinions on whether or not it is necessary for social media to be part of a will, but they agree that it is an option that will most likely gain significant popularity in the coming decades. The reason? That more and more people are living completely digital lives, many of whom own social media profiles with thousands of followers, or whose social media accounts are a source of income, such as those from the United States. influencers.

The last time that The writer Sergi Pàmies gave a title to one of his books, the title knocked directly on his door: "Hello, I'm Both will be three". This is how he explained it to me in an interview in which we were talking about how a book title is chosen. The summary, for him, is that it is not so much a choice as a matter of chance. In the middle of writing, not yet especially aware that his stories had the passage of time in common, he sat down in front of the television, and then the news came: "title," he knew immediately. He told me, it would never have occurred to him; he needed that external stimulus, but it was crystal clear: the book would be called At two it will be three (Cuadernos Quema). "Sometimes, the pedants of romanticism, speaking of their great love, would say: "I'll recognize her when I find her." The same thing happens with titles, without the romantic transcendence. If a title comes to mind, you recognize it: this is it."

They all do the same thing, and their Instagram is just that. They put on one of those songs with a Latin accent (which is obviously sexist, but I can't swear to it because I don't understand a word of what they're saying) and they do the same thing. playback. A video, another video...

When a public figure with more than six million followers expresses his opinion on social media, he must proceed with caution. Former Real Madrid player Javier Chicharito Hernández (1988) has been at the center of controversy for sexist statements on his Instagram account. The Mexican forward stated that women are "failing" and should allow themselves to be "led by a man who only wants to see them happy." Two days earlier, in another video on his social media, he questioned women who wanted a "providing man" but considered that "cleaning is patriarchal oppression." Sitting on the couch wearing a cap, the player begins to speak in these terms: "Women, you are failing and you are eradicating masculinity by making society hypersensitive. Embody your feminine energy by caring, nurturing, receiving, multiplying, cleaning, maintaining the home, which is the most precious place."

"Most people have at least two accounts on Instagram and TikTok," says 17-year-old Selma. Victoria, the same age, says she has three on Instagram and three on TikTok. No more having just one social media profile. In fact, in 2021, a UNICEF study on the impact of technology In adolescence, it already revealed that 61.5% of young people have multiple accounts or profiles on the same social network, while 83.5% have a presence on three or more platforms. But why do they want so many profiles and how do they use them?

Meta will use content posted by users of its platforms, such as an Instagram photo or a Facebook comment, to train its AI features, such as Meta AI, the assistant for WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook Messenger. Zuckerberg's multinational explained this in a statement on April 14: "Today we are announcing our plans to train AI in Meta using public content, such as public posts and comments, shared by adults, from our products available in the EU. People's interactions with Meta AI, such as questions and queries, are also shared."

Much of the political mobilization and bickering in today's world takes place on social media. In fact, a few years ago many spin doctors and other political communication experts considered more traditional methods and direct contact with people, such as door-to-door canvassing or organizing rallies and events, to be a thing of the past, a relic of yesterday's world that still needed to be realized until the new, purely digital world arrived. In recent years, new winds have blown and traditional political events have revived, but mobilization through social media remains a sort of mandate that obsesses political parties.

Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, has apologized after Instagram users reported that the thread reels – the algorithm’s personalized recommendations for short videos – was flooded with violent videos. On Friday, netizens around the world found that the app recommended violent videos that featured, among other things, animal abuse, murder and corpses. Some of these posts had thousands of likes and comments.

The web was born with a decentralized and democratic spirit. Tim Berners-Lee, its creator, conceived it as a space without central authorities in which anyone could participate and share without asking permission. "The individual was empowered," the engineer explained. "That feeling of individual control, that empowerment is something we have lost."

More and more we see how people with certain popularity in the digital sphere make the leap to big productions to give life to characters in both films and series. This is the case of Manu Ríos, in the series Élite; Álvaro Mel, in La Otra Mirada, or Marià Casals, in the film A través de mi ventana. It seems that there is beginning to be a change in the selection criteria of the casts of the productions, in which having followers on social media is a point that plays very much in favor.