Meta says it has taken down about 20 covert influence operations in 2024

Firm names Russia as top source of such activity but says it is ‘striking’ how little AI was used to try to trick voters

‘His Facebook was a shrine to my face’: the day I caught my catfish

I stumbled on a profile with my picture as the photo. What was this man doing with my identity? I set out to track him down …

Australian-style social media ban for under-16s ‘a retrograde step’, say UK charities

Child safety experts say similar move in Britain would penalise young people for the failings of tech companies

Violence on social media making teenagers afraid to go out, study finds

Quarter of teens who see violence online are being served clips via algorithms, survey in England and Wales finds

Meta rides AI boom to stellar quarterly earnings, but slightly less than expected

Company beats financial predictions but does not increase daily users as much as Wall Street thought it might

Watchdog opens investigation into anti-immigrant posts on Facebook

Oversight Board says parent company Meta has ‘serious questions’ to answer over two posts allowed to remain online

Opt out: how to protect your baby’s photos on the internet

Tech companies aren’t transparent about what they do with our photos – we asked experts about best baby-pic practices

Zuckerberg Augustus: Meta’s emperor rebrands in new clothes

Mark Zuckerberg’s new revamp is a far cry from the zip-up hoodies and suits emblematic of earlier eras of Facebook

Posting ‘Goodbye Meta AI’ is pointless. But we can stop big tech stealing our Facebook pictures

Sharing these posts may seem harmless, but don’t be drawn in. There are better ways to combat the threats to our data, says technology writer Chris Stokel-Walker

By showing Musk’s X the red card, has Brazil scored a goal for all democracies?

A Brazilian justice ordering the platform to be blocked until it complies with state laws is a first among non-autocratic nations

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

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

Reform UK tracked private user information without consent

Observer reveals potentially millions of people had data shared with Facebook for use in targeted advertising