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Meta Faces EU Investigation Over Election Disinformation

The inquiry is intended to pressure the tech giant to more aggressively police Facebook and Instagram ahead of the European Union’s closely watched elections in June.

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Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, which is investigating Meta over election disinformation.

Meta Says It Plans to Spend Billions More on A.I.

Along with the higher spending, the owner of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp projected lighter-than-expected revenue, causing its stock to plummet.

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Quarterly results on Wednesday underscored Meta’s repositioning of itself as a company poised to capitalize on the industrywide fervor for artificial intelligence.

Apple Says It Was Ordered to Pull WhatsApp From China App Store

Apple said it removed WhatsApp and Threads from its China app offerings Friday on Beijing’s orders, amid technological tensions between the U.S. and China.

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A recently-opened Apple Store in Shanghai’s Jing’an district in March. Apple said it removed WhatsApp and Threads, which are owned by Meta, from its app store in China.
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