Alex Belardinelli

Comms Director @Meta. Previously: @UKLabour govt special adviser, comms for @Uber, @EdBalls & @CPAGUK. Mr @BevaniteEllie.

[Alex Belardinelli @abelardinelli]

RT @nickclegg: How Europe and UK can avoid being left in the dust on tech - my By Invitation piece in @TheEconomist. Where there’s a will t…

[Meta @Meta]

We go together like AI and glasses—is that not an expression? It will be. Check out all the news from Connect 2025.

[Department for Science, Innovation and Technology @SciTechgovuk]

We want the UK's top AI experts to join us for a 12-month fellowship building cutting-edge AI tools for public services - funded by @Meta's $1m grant to @TuringInst.

From national security translation to planning approvals - deliver the Plan for Change with open-source AI.

[UK Prime Minister @10DowningStreet]

Tonight, in his first few hours as Prime Minister, @Keir_Starmer has spoken to allies and partners across the world.

The UK stands ready to continue to work with them to deliver security and growth at home and abroad.

[Meta Newsroom @MetaNewsroom]

Building upon our 30+ safety tools and features, we’re rolling out even more ways to help keep teens safe online. https://t.co/6rliqdtRqD

[Meta Newsroom @MetaNewsroom]

We’re adding more protections to help keep teens safe and limit the sensitive content they see on @Instagram and @Facebook.
https://t.co/RYSn43WRuc

[Nick Clegg @nickclegg]

In the New Year, advertisers who run ads about social issues, elections & politics with Meta will have to disclose if image or sound has been created or altered digitally, including with AI, to show real people doing or saying things they haven’t done or said. Full details in this blog.

https://t.co/wnkmFaxzY0

[Nick Clegg @nickclegg]

I’m looking forward to attending the AI Safety Summit in the UK this week. I hope we spend as much time as possible developing much-needed solutions to current problems – for example, on the transparency and detectability of AI-generated content

[Meta Newsroom @MetaNewsroom]

A conversational assistant you can use across our apps, new tools to easily edit your images, and AI characters played by Tom Brady, Kendall Jenner, Snoop Dogg and more … Get all the AI news from Connect 👇

https://t.co/EhCk7GFdbt

[Meta Newsroom @MetaNewsroom]

🧵News alert: we’re rolling out a web experience for Threads over the coming days 💻

More 👉https://t.co/cv2aapebmM

[Bloomberg Technology @technology]

Threads has rocketed to 100 million users in less than a week, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says https://t.co/qWjwbhG7y7

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

A good article by the BBC about my views on the future of AI.
A pretty good summary of opinions I expressed at the Innovation Press Day held at Meta-Paris Tuesday.

https://t.co/LCUDGBtA7y

[Meta Newsroom @MetaNewsroom]

New Analysis Shows News Industry Reaps Considerable Economic Benefit from Facebook https://t.co/F1YWbBOEfV

[Times Business @TimesBusiness]

@JordeeBrompton @deryamatras @hannahprevett "Metaverse is the next version of the internet. Instead of talking on the phone with my mum - I can be chatting with her hologram, face to face. We need all the pieces of technology, as well as policy makers & academia, to come together to make this happen." -
@deryamatras

[Meta Newsroom @MetaNewsroom]

.@facebook now has 2 billion actives every day 🌏

Whether you’re creating recipe reels or sharing photos from your latest trip, you can discover and engage with communities, friends and family that share your interests.

What have you discovered on Facebook? 👇

[Meta Newsroom @MetaNewsroom]

Introducing Quiet mode on @instagram: a new way to help you focus by silencing your notifications.

When you turn on Quiet mode:

🤫You won’t receive any notifications
➡️We’ll send an auto-reply to any DMs
✅Catch up on what you missed with a summary

https://t.co/8QwQIEakzp

[Alex Belardinelli @abelardinelli]

@FraserNelson Hi Fraser - thanks for flagging this. As you know, anyone who wants to run an ad that’s about politics or elections has to be authorised - per our process here https://t.co/NCFKADmYUX. If The Spectator resubmit it from an authorised Page admin the ad will be approved.

[Meta Newsroom @MetaNewsroom]

The future just got a little closer to the present 🔮Today at Meta Connect, we shared our progress in making the #metaverse a reality — from our first high-end mixed reality headset to research in helping build the next computing platform.

Read more 👉 https://t.co/puLyo9hkFL

[Meta @Meta]

Meet @MetaQuestVR Pro. Built to expand the possibilities of virtual and mixed reality — and get you closer to feeling like you're together in person, no matter where you are in the world.

Available 10.25. Pre-order today at https://t.co/CHKD8FfaV0

[Matt Navarra @MattNavarra]

This is @WhatsApp's wild new ad in Piccadilly Circus, London

watch to the end 😯