Specifically, plans are to: 1) monitor Facebook and Instagram to protect against fake celebrity endorsement scams, and 2) aid in identity verification for account recovery.
As if concern over social media impact on teen mental health weren’t enough, now organized groups have been found engaging in ‘sextortion,’ a form of blackmail in which teens are persuaded to share nude or intimate photos and then they’re blackmailed into paying to keep the images private. Instagram, which has faced criticism over making their feed addictive to young users, has added new features to protect against ‘sextortion,’ but critics complain that its parent company, Meta, does not go far enough to protect young users.
If you still think that MCP stands for Male Chauvinist Pig, well, the 1970’s want their disco ball back. Today’s hep cats know that MCP stands for Model Context Protocol, a new-but-widely supported standard that lets large language models access structured data as context for their prompts. Early adopters include Salesforce and Adobe, and search platform Algolia is now using it to feed their data to customer-facing real-time AI agents.