Parents ‘don’t use’ parental controls on Facebook and Instagram, says Nick Clegg
Meta’s global affairs chief points to ‘behavioural issue’ around child safety tools on the social media platforms
Meta’s AI is scraping users’ photos and posts. Europeans can opt out, but Australians cannot
Meta’s director of privacy policy declines to say whether such an option would be offered to Australians in the future
‘Worrying lack of moderation’: how eating disorder posts proliferate on X
Users say harmful content from accounts they do not follow appears even after requests to block it
US gambling sector’s ‘relentless’ social media posts breached own rules, study claims
Exclusive: University of Bristol academics say gambling industry code ‘not being followed’ after analysis of social media posts by leading firms
Mark Zuckerberg says White House ‘pressured’ Facebook to censor Covid-19 content
Meta boss regrets bowing to government power and says he would not make the same choices today
A banned promoter of cancer ‘cures’ was hijacked by genAI. Now the internet is ‘flooded with garbage’
Australian Barbara O’Neill’s ‘natural self-healing’ remedies found a certain audience through her own efforts. But her image has run wild thanks to unaffiliated groups exploiting her name on social media
Just Eat advert that depicted McDonald’s broke junk food code
Advertising Standards Authority bans Facebook ad over lack of care to ensure it was not aimed at under-16s
Asic taking down average of 20 scam websites a day
Crypto scams accounted for 615 takedowns, the regulator says, as total number exceeds 7,300 in 12 months
Inciting rioters in Britain was a test run for Elon Musk. Just see what he plans for America
The presidential election is three months away. What if the billionaire contests the result? What if he decides democracy is overrated?
Half of crypto ads on Facebook are scams or violate Meta’s policies, consumer regulator alleges
ACCC court case against Meta revealed tech giant made money off scam ads using unauthorised star power of public figures including David Koch and Celeste Barber
‘Ultimate wife guy’ or ‘yikes’? Mark Zuckerberg reveals 7ft statue of wife
Facebook founder shares photo of sculpture of Priscilla Chan, rendered in green with a large silver cloak
Reform UK tracked private user information without consent
Observer reveals potentially millions of people had data shared with Facebook for use in targeted advertising
Strong earnings report pushes Meta shares up amid heavy AI spending
Stock price grew around 5%, which revealed the company outperformed analysts’ expectations for its second quarter
We unleashed Facebook and Instagram’s algorithms on blank accounts. They served up sexism and misogyny
Result of Guardian Australia experiment aligns with research showing social media automatically delivers troubling content to young men, largely without oversight
Tech broligarchs are lining up to court Trump. And Vance is one more link in the chain
Elon Musk and Peter Thiel, a longtime backer of the new vice-president pick, are among those pledging support