Meta deflects child harm inquiry by pointing to Apple and Google app stores
As US Senate began looking at the firm’s failures to shield children, it called for laws requiring parental approval of app downloads
Meta allows Facebook and Instagram ads saying 2020 election was rigged
Policy was reportedly introduced quietly in 2022 after the US midterm primary elections, according to the WSJ
How Scorsese, Coppola and Schrader went viral on social media
Hollywood’s old guard have been finding a new audience through frank opinions, unlikely videos and fan interaction
I resist sharenting on social media. Does that mean my son and I are missing out, or is it just safer?
Posting can turn into a privacy risk – and in a changing online landscape, it’s become another parental identity marker, says Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
Facebook and Instagram users in Europe can pay for ad-free versions
Charges of €12.99 a month smartphone users for and €9.99 for desktop introduced to comply with EU data privacy rules
Thousands of men in private Facebook groups that are ‘cesspits’ of racism and misogyny
While women’s groups on the platform support and warn others, men’s groups feature mostly derogatory comments
‘Musk destroyed all that’: Twitter’s business is flailing after a year of Elon
Advertisers are spending less, regulators are circling, staff is at less than 50% of what it used to be and user numbers are down
Meta earnings report reveals most profitable quarter in years
Company reports third-quarter revenue of $34.15bn, beating expected $33.56bn, and shares jumped in after-hours trading
Facebook and Instagram could charge for ad-free services in EU
Meta’s social networks considering charge of €13 a month on mobile and €17 on desktop, say sources
Meta to launch AI chatbots played by Snoop Dogg and Kendall Jenner
Host of celebrities to embody new assistants aimed at increasing young people’s interaction with AI
Meta encryption plan will let child abusers ‘hide in the dark’, says UK campaign
In in Home Office initiative, survivors urge Mark Zuckerberg to rethink changes to Messenger and Instagram
UK ministers seek to allay WhatsApp and Signal concerns in encryption row
Government says text scanning under online safety bill would only occur if ‘technically feasible’ after apps threaten to leave country
Revealed: how US immigration uses fake social media profiles across investigations
Records from the Department of Homeland Security show it sought to expand undercover operations online despite pushback from Facebook
Facebook groups exposed to hundreds of hoax posts, study shows
Charity Full Fact finds more than 1,200 false posts on topics from deadly snakes to serial killers at large
How is Meta’s news ban affecting communications amid Canada wildfires?
Concern over shortage of reliable news after articles blocked on Facebook in response to tech law