Schroepfer’s move marks the most significant departure from the Menlo Park, Calif., company in

Facebook’s Chief Technology Officer Mike Schroepfer is stepping down from the social media company

their accounts. After going offline on October 5, Facebook's Chief Technology Officer Mike Schroepfer

The company has vowed to bring an end to the use of face-recognition.... Due to this, the fingerprints of one billion people will also be deleted. Jerome Pesenti, vice president of artificial intelligence for Facebook’s new parent company Meta, said in a blog post: “ This change will represent one of the largest shifts in facial recognition usage in the technology’s history.“ More than a third of Facebook’s daily active users have opted in to our Face Recognition setting and are able to be reco

It also showed that the company was aware that Instagram can harm teenage girls’ mental health. The Journal’s stories, called “ The Facebook Files, ” painted a picture of a company focused on growth and its own interests over the public good.... London-based internet monitoring firm Netblocks noted that the company's plans to integrate the technology behind its platforms — announced in 2019 — had raised concerns about the risks of such a move.... The company said the changes interrupted the co