A Detroit family is seeking answers after a viral Facebook Live video on Monday showed Family Dollar store employees dragging a woman, identified as Sunda Carter, out of the store during an alleged shoplifting incident at the chain’s Grand River location.
A Waterford man has been charged after making threats against the Oakland County GOP and the Michigan GOP Youth Chair, Krish Mathrani.
Meta has started notifying young Australians to download their digital histories and delete their accounts from Facebook, Instagram, and Threads.
Meta has prevailed over an existential challenge to its business that could have forced the tech giant to spin off Instagram and WhatsApp after a judge ruled that the company does not hold a monopoly in social networking.
A candidate for a city council position grabbed a microphone at a nightclub in Oakland County and targeted a mayoral candidate’s sexuality.
Lisa Ludwinski, owner of Sister Pie in Detroit, has reopened her bakery after a five-month closure, focusing on catering and special events as a preliminary phase before resuming full operations.
Aaron Sorkin is diving back into the world of Facebook with a new film called “The Social Reckoning.”.
A proposal to build a massive data center on more than 1,000 acres of farmland in Livingston County has sparked intense community debate, with residents set to voice their concerns at a township meeting Tuesday evening.
The South Lyon Community School District is set to resume classes on Thursday morning, after schools were closed for three days due to a cybersecurity issue.
The South Lyon Community School District is set to resume classes on Thursday, after schools were closed for three days due to a cybersecurity issue.
Metro Detroiters will wake up to damp and muggy conditions on Sunday morning. It will be mostly cloudy for much of the day and a few afternoon rain showers and an isolated thunderstorm will be possible. (WDIV)
A retired Michigan autoworker got a Facebook message this summer from a stranger: Did you lose your wallet.
The first Australian-made rocket to attempt to reach orbit from the country's soil has crashed after 14 seconds of flight.
An $8 billion-dollar class action investors’ lawsuit against Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and company leaders began Wednesday, with claims stemming from the privacy scandal involving the Cambridge Analytica political consulting firm.
The Taylor Police Department is working to take down photos and videos of marijuana-related content that was posted on its page on Google.
Eminem’s music publishing company, “Eight Mile Style” is accusing one of the largest tech companies on the planet of infringing on the artist’s copyrights.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is emphasizing that he bought Instagram and WhatsApp because he liked the companies — not to cut competition as the Federal Trade Commission alleges in a historic antitrust trial.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg once considered separating Instagram from its parent company due to worries about antitrust litigation.
A Facebook post from the Allen Park Firefighters Union is causing some buzz in the community. The union claims the department’s staffing is reaching dire levels, stretching firefighters too thin.
Sarah Wynn-Williams, a former executive at Meta and author of an explosive insider account of her time at the social media giant testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday, accusing the company of undermining national security and briefing China on U.S. artificial intelligence efforts in order to grow its business.
Facebook and Instagram owner Meta Platforms says it has been hit with a hefty fine for resisting Turkish government demands that it limit content.
The head of Meta’s artificial intelligence research division said she plans to step down, vacating a high-profile position at the parent company of Facebook and Instagram at a time of intense competition in the development of AI technology.
Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta Platforms Inc. says it will launch its crowd-sourced fact-checking program, called Community Notes, on March 18.
French publishers and authors are taking Meta to court, accusing the social media company of using their works without permission to train its artificial intelligence model.
An insider account being billed as an “explosive” memoir about “seven critical years” at Facebook/Meta will be published next week.
The stories of two nurses who survived a gunman's attack on an intensive care unit in a York, Pennsylvania, hospital are being shared in Facebook posts that reveal new details.
Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta Platforms is urging users to stay vigilant about “romance scams” ahead of Valentine’s Day, warning of unsolicited messages through its apps and other social media platforms, as well as general text messages.
Metro Detroit victim Kathy Lamphere shared her story about how Facebook hackers are no longer browsing your photos, but instead, high-tech thieves are now stealing identities and personal banking information, which is a trend that’s becoming increasingly common.
In a shocking case of animal cruelty, a young adult female pit bull mix was brutally stabbed multiple times by her owner in Detroit.
An injured dog was shown during a live stream on social media, and thanks to a tip from a community member, that dog and six other animals were rescued from a home in Detroit.
People are listing phones preloaded with TikTok for tens of thousands of dollars on eBay, Facebook marketplace and other online storefronts.
Some Facebook, Instagram and Threads users are wondering whether to delete their accounts after Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s announced changes to content rules and plans to its fact-checking program.
Some Facebook and Instagram users were surprised to find themselves automatically following the accounts of President Donald Trump or Vice President JD Vance this week after the president was inaugurated.
Facebook and Instagram owner Meta says it’s scrapping its third-party fact-checking program and replacing it with “community notes” written by users similar to the model used by Elon Musk’s social platform X.
Attorneys for Meta shareholders are asking a Delaware judge to sanction former Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg and fellow Facebook board member and current White House chief of staff Jeff Zients for deleting emails related to the Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal.
The Supreme Court is allowing a multibillion-dollar class action investors’ lawsuit to proceed against Facebook parent Meta stemming from the privacy scandal involving the Cambridge Analytica political consulting firm.
European Union regulators hit Facebook parent Meta with a fine of nearly 800 million euros on Thursday for what it calls “abusive practices” involving its Marketplace online classified ads business.
Facebook and Instagram users in Europe will get the option to see less personalized ads if they don’t want to pay for an ad-free subscription.
Meta Platforms Inc. has posted stronger-than-expected third-quarter results fueled by its advertising revenue growth and its push to incorporate artificial intelligence.
Just weeks before the U.S. presidential election, TikTok still approved advertisements that contained election disinformation even though it has a ban on political ads.
A congressional candidate who says he was tricked by Democrats into running as a spoiler in a competitive House race in Minnesota is suspending his campaign and endorsing his Republican rival.
Social media users across the European Union will soon have a new forum to challenge decisions by platforms to remove posts and videos for breaking their rules or leave up others that may violate them.
The European Union’s top court has said that social media company Meta can’t use public information about a user’s sexual orientation obtained outside its platforms for personalized advertising under the bloc’s strict data privacy rules.
Several little-known pro-Trump candidates are running for Congress in key races as independents, and an Associated Press review finds they were recruited and backed by the same shadowy group.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says senior Biden administration officials pressured Facebook to “censor” some COVID-19 content during the pandemic.
According to McLaren Northern Michigan's Facebook page, the disruption to their information technology and phone systems reported on Tuesday resulted from a criminal cyber attack.
Officials say Meta has agreed to a $1.4 billion settlement with Texas in a privacy lawsuit over allegations that the tech giant used biometric data of users without their permission.
Several major universities in Bangladesh have agreed to shut their doors after at least six people died in violent campus protests.
Facebook has lifted restrictions imposed on Donald Trump after the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
A deep dive into political ads on Facebook by researchers at Syracuse University has revealed a sprawling web of advertisements that contain misleading information or scams.
The Supreme Court has agreed to consider shutting down a multibillion-dollar class action investors’ lawsuit against Facebook parent Meta stemming from the privacy scandal involving the Cambridge Analytica political consulting firm.
Spain’s government has proposed a law to protect children from online threats that includes virtual restraining orders for felons and a higher age for opening social media accounts.
A spokesperson for the families of a young missionary couple from the U.S. says their bodies are going to be transported to Missouri this week.
A popular Facebook group helped catch a Macomb County man in the act of sending graphic messages and pictures to someone he thought was an 11-year-old girl, police said.
The European Union opened fresh investigations into Facebook and Instagram over suspicions that they’re failing to protect children online, in violation of the bloc’s strict digital regulations for social media platforms.
Several Democrats serving as their state’s top election officials have sent a letter to the parent company of Facebook, asking it to stop allowing ads that claim the 2020 presidential election was stolen.
Do social media users have the right to control what they see — or don’t see — on their feeds.
The European Union says it’s investigating Facebook and Instagram for suspected violations of the bloc’s digital rulebook, including not doing enough to protect users from foreign disinformation ahead of EU-wide elections.
Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta says its first-quarter profit more than doubled, boosted by higher advertising revenue and a 6% increase on the average price of ads on its platforms.
Generative AI is advancing so quickly that the latest chatbots available today could be out of date tomorrow.
Two tribal nations are accusing social media companies of contributing to high rates of suicides that disproportionately affect Native American youth.
Meta will be sunsetting Facebook News in early April for users in the U.S. and Australia as the platform further deemphasizes news and politics.
Reddit will enter a new era as a publicly traded company with a market value of $6.4 billion.
The Supreme Court is taking up a dispute between Republican-led states and the Biden administration over how far the federal government can go to combat controversial social media posts on topics like COVID-19 and election security.
House Republicans are moving ahead with a bill that would require Chinese company ByteDance to sell TikTok or face a ban in the United States even as former President Donald Trump is voicing opposition to the effort.
Nearly three-quarters of U.S. teens say they feel happy or peaceful when they don’t have their phones with them, according to a new report from the Pew Research Center.
A group of 40 state attorneys general have sent a letter to Instagram and Facebook parent company Meta expressing concern over what they say is dramatic uptick of consumer complaints about account takeovers and lockouts.
A technical issue had caused widespread login issues for more than an hour across Meta’s Facebook, Instagram, Threads and Messenger platforms on Tuesday.
Starting at 9 a.m., teams will build up the walls of a project at 966 N. Prospect Rd. in Ypsilanti for a future buyer.