Instagram to scan under-18s’ messages to protect against ‘inappropriate images’

Feature will work even on encrypted messages, suggesting platform plans to implement client-side scanning

Digital afterlife – how to deal with social media accounts when someone dies

Dealing with a departed loved one’s digital life can be complicated and time consuming but there are some shortcuts

Meta documents show 100,000 children sexually harassed daily on its platforms

Employees fretted over company’s ‘negligible’ response to child grooming, according to internal documents made public in lawsuit

$2bn woman: how Sheryl Sandberg became one of tech’s most successful bosses

Sandberg was once considered so critical to Facebook’s success that her exit was seen as potential risk to investors’ money

Slew of deepfake video adverts of Sunak on Facebook raises alarm over AI risk to election

Research finds more than 100 paid ads impersonating PM were promoted on social media platform in last month

Facebook and Instagram ran content sexualizing minors next to corporate ads, lawsuit says

Filing claims Meta did not adequately respond to Walmart and Match Group’s complaints of ‘deeply disturbing’ images and videos

Instagram and Facebook will hide more harmful content from teenagers

Move comes as regulators around the world press Meta to protect children from sensitive posts on its apps

Meta censors pro-Palestinian views on a global scale, report claims

Rights group says Facebook and Instagram routinely engage in ‘six key patterns of undue censorship’ of content supporting Palestine

TechScape: Will Meta’s encryption plans be a ‘devastating blow’ to child safety online?

The Facebook and Instagram owner is miles ahead of the competition, say regulators, who suggest that could change when it rolls out default end-to-end encryption for Messenger

Child safety groups and prosecutors criticize encryption of Facebook and Messenger

Meta submitted nearly 95% of 29m reports of child sexual abuse material in 2022 and encryption will make it harder to detect

Meta platforms are marketplaces for child predators claims lawsuit

Facebook and Instagram ‘enabled adults to find, message and groom minors’ for sexual exploitation, alleges state of New Mexico legal filing

Is Meta’s ad-free service just another way to make people pay for privacy?

The owner of Instagram and Facebook thought an ad-free subscription service would satisfy European data cops – some advocacy groups aren’t so sure

Scammer paid Facebook 7c per view to circulate video of deepfake Jim Chalmers and Gina Rinehart

Video is designed to appear like A Current Affair interview and features altered versions of treasurer and rich listers

A dead friend seemed to contact me on Facebook. The truth was sadder

Social media ‘ghosts’ are increasingly common - and platforms have an incentive to keep those profiles up if they drive engagement