Morning Minute: Meta Is Building a Prediction Market
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Workers signed petition against tool that tracked staff keystrokes, mouse clicks and computer screen content Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has paused a program that tracked employees’ computer activity amid data privacy concerns and a staff backlash. The owner of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp had introduced a tool that tracked staff keystrokes, mouse clicks and content displayed on computer screens in order to collect data for training its AI models. Continue reading...
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Arena revives Meta's earlier attempt at prediction markets after the shutdown of its Forecast app in 2022.
Prediction markets are one of the fastest-growing sectors of the digital economy, and Meta is apparently getting ready to enter it. An internal team has been assigned by CEO Mark Zuckerberg to create a stand-alone platform called Arena. It will function independently of Meta’s core products, such as Facebook, Instagram,
Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has directed employees to develop a prediction markets app called Arena that would operate separately from the company’s existing social media products, The New York Times reported on Tuesday, citing two employees familiar with the…
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