A lawsuit filed by 33 states accuses Meta of knowingly permitting children under 13 to use its platforms, particularly Instagram. The complaint, recently unsealed and reported by The New York…
Sen. Elizabeth Warren and other Congressional Democrats are urging federal agencies to investigate H&R Block, TaxAct, and TaxSlayer for sharing sensitive taxpayer data with Facebook's parent company, Meta. The lawmakers'…
Facebook owner Meta Platforms Inc has agreed to pay $725 million to resolve a class-action lawsuit accusing the social media giant of allowing third parties, including Cambridge Analytica, to access users'…
Facebook parent Meta says it has disrupted a large Russian network of fake accounts impersonating European news outlets to push a pro-Kremlin view of the war in Ukraine. Separately, the…
Meta Platforms says will no longer pay U.S. news organizations to have their material appear in Facebook’s News Tab as it reallocates resources in the face of the economic downturn…
Amazon on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against the administrators of more than 10,000 Facebook groups that allegedly acted as fake review brokers. The lawsuit filed in King County Superior Court in Seattle accuses the group…
Facebook and Instagram have begun promptly removing posts that offer abortion pills to women who may not be able to access them following a Supreme Court decision that stripped away constitutional protections…
This article was originally published on The Markup and is republished under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives license. Late last year, after facing years of criticism for its practices, Facebook announced…
Facebook's logo is seen during a meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in 2017. File Photo by Gian Ehrenzeller/EPA-EFE March 21 (UPI) -- Facebook and Instagram have…
Facebook and Twitter removed two anti-Ukrainian “covert influence operations” over the weekend, one tied to Russia and another with connections to Belarus, the companies said.One of the operations, a propaganda…
Facebook's parent company, Meta, said Monday that Peter Thiel, the venture capitalist who helped supercharge the social network's trajectory and later became a vocal supporter of former President Donald Trump,…
Topline Facebook lost daily users for the first time in its 18-year history, the platform’s parent company Meta reported Wednesday, which chief executive Mark Zuckerberg attributed to stiff competition from…
Facebook's parent company, Meta Platforms, just did a face plant on Wall Street.Shares of the social media giant were down more than 26% Thursday, the first day of trading after…
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said Monday she has been temporarily barred from posting on her Facebook account by the social network, less than a day after losing her personal Twitter…
Author of the article: Reuters Dawn Chmielewski and Helen Coster Rupert Murdoch renewed his attacks on Google and Facebook during News Corp’s annual shareholder meeting on Wednesday, accusing the tech…
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said his company is rebranding itself as Meta in an effort to encompass its virtual-reality vision for the future — what Zuckerberg calls the “metaverse.” Skeptics…
RIO DE JANEIRO — Facebook and Instagram have removed from their platforms a live broadcast that Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro delivered in which he said people in the U.K. who…
Facebook on Friday was hit with multiple reports stemming from documents provided to news outlets by Frances Haugen, a former employee turned whistleblower.The reports cite internal company research and documents…
WASHINGTON (AP) — As supporters of Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6th, battling police and forcing lawmakers into hiding, an insurrection of a different kind was taking…
Social media giant Facebook Inc is planning to rebrand itself with a new name next week, the Verge reported on Tuesday, citing a source with direct knowledge of the matter.