Meta’s brutal earnings report helps explain its metaverse shift

Why won’t men wear their masks over their noses?

Good morning, Broadsheet readers! Estonia gets its first female prime minister, it’s time to examine Vicki Hollub’s legacy at Occidental Petroleum, and men can’t seem to figure out how to wear their masks. Have a productive Monday. – Mask up? Last week, the New York Times tried to answer a question that has plagued us […]

Russia threatens Wikipedia with fines over “false information”

Enlarge / Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2021. (credit: RAMIL SITDIKOV/SPUTNIK/AFP via Getty Images) Roskomnadzor, Russia’s censorship authority, issued another demand on Tuesday for Wikipedia to remove what it called “unreliable socially significant information. ” The agency warned that failure to comply could lead to fines of up to 4 million rubles ($50, 000). The […]

U.K. antitrust probe targets Google Chrome privacy changes

Google has a habit of inviting regulatory scrutiny on both privacy and antitrust fronts, so why not both at once? On Friday, the U.K.’s competition watchdog opened a formal investigation into Google over supposedly pro-privacy changes the company is making to its market-leading Chrome browser. The government group said it will review whether the proposed […]