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The wife of the tech honcho exposed at a Coldplay concert as an apparent cheater had a Facebook page featuring happy photos of herself posing with her smiling husband and sons — before she deleted the entire social media account Thursday.
Ian Cleary, 32, who was raised in Silicon Valley before attending Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania, had hired a private lawyer to review the evidence as he considered a potential plea.
Threads is testing letting you sign up with a Facebook account rather than an Instagram account. The new option, spotted by Social Media Today, doesn't appear to be widely available yet, but is already mentioned in a Meta support article.
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Meta is working on ways to credit original creators and tackle spammy, repetitive content.
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CNET on MSNDone With Facebook? Don't Leave Your Data BehindDeleting your Facebook account will remove your visible presence from the social media network, but it doesn't remove everything you ever touched on the platform. Deleting Facebook also severs ties to Facebook Messenger, but your messages to friends will still be accessible to them.
Meta will begin removing monetization privileges and stop recommending content from accounts that repeatedly post unoriginal content, many times aided by AI.
Thirty-two-year-old Ian Cleary faces a proposed four- to eight-year sentence after Thursday’s plea. Shannon Keeler, the former Gettysburg University student who pursued the case for more than a decade,