Meta has settled the first of many lawsuits brought by school districts across the country that sued social media companies seeking compensation for costs they say they incurred dealing with children’s social media addiction and mental health harms.

Social media CEOs have been called to testify before Congress amid growing pressure to protect young users.

Five publishing houses and author Scott Turow are suing Meta and CEO Mark Zuckerberg for copyright infringement.

A Canton small-business owner says he was hacked twice, had $950 stolen from his account and was then permanently banned from Facebook — accused of one of the most horrific crimes imaginable. Meta, he says, has done nothing to fix it.

Meta is raising the prospect of shutting down social media services in New Mexico in response to a push by state prosecutors for fundamental changes to platforms, including Instagram, to protect the mental health and safety of children.

In the latest round of tech industry job cuts, Meta is laying off about 8,000 workers and Microsoft is offering buyouts to a similar number.

Turkish lawmakers have kicked off a debate on a draft law package that includes restricting access to social media platforms for children under 15.

It’s too soon to tell if this week’s jury decisions will lead to fundamental changes in how social media treats its young users.

Two landmark jury verdicts against social media companies have arrived in a long line of lawsuits alleging harm to children who use platforms including Instagram and YouTube.

Parents are wondering what is next after juries in New Mexico and Los Angeles found social media providers failed to protect young users.

The first jury verdict in a series of social media child safety trials this year is in — and it’s not looking good for Meta.

A New Mexico jury finds that social media conglomerate Meta is harmful to children’s mental health and in violation of state consumer protection law.

Jury deliberations have begun in a landmark trial where New Mexico prosecutors are accusing social media conglomerate Meta of misleading people about the safety of its platforms for children.

Meta is acquiring Moltbook, a social network where AI agents post and chat with each other.

Jurors in a bellwether trial about the impacts of social media on children are studying a deposition from Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

New Mexico prosecutors are presenting never-before-seen video depositions of Meta executives at a trial that centers on impacts of the conglomerate's platforms on children.

Instagram will start alerting parents if their kids repeatedly search for terms clearly associated with suicide or self-harm.

For years, social media companies have disputed allegations that they harm children’s mental health through the way they design their platforms, deliberately addicting kids and failing to protect them from sexual predators and dangerous content.

Jurors in a landmark social media case that seeks to hold companies responsible for harms to children got their first glimpse into what will be a lengthy trial characterized by dueling narratives from the plaintiffs and the two remaining defendants, Meta and YouTube.

Meta is on trial in New Mexico to answer allegations that its social media platforms enable predators to target children for sexual exploitation.

That “easy money” or “rapid weight loss” ad in your social feed may actually be a scam.

The first stand-alone trial from state prosecutors in a stream of lawsuits against Meta is getting underway in New Mexico.

Meta’s fourth-quarter results jumped past Wall Street’s expectations thanks to solid advertising revenue, sending shares higher in after-hours trading Wednesday.

TikTok has agreed to settle in a landmark social media addiction lawsuit just before the trial kicked off, the plaintiff’s attorneys confirmed.

Facebook owner Meta has named Dina Powell McCormick, a former Trump administration adviser and longtime finance executive, as president and vice chairman of the tech giant.

Facebook parent Meta has reached nuclear power deals with three companies as it continues to look for electricity sources for its artificial intelligence data centers.

Meta is buying artificial intelligence startup Manus, as the owner of Facebook and Instagram continues a push to amp-up AI offerings across its platforms.

Australia has introduced a world-first social media ban for children under 16, starting Wednesday.

The developer behind a controversial AI data center proposal in Howell Township has withdrawn their rezoning request and text amendment application, township officials announced Monday.

Massachusetts’ highest court heard oral arguments Friday in the state’s lawsuit arguing that Meta designed features on Facebook and Instagram to make them addictive to young users.

A proposed AI data center in rural Livingston County has faced another delay after the Howell Township board voted to impose a six-month moratorium on rezoning approval.

New U.S. jobless claim applications fell last week, remaining within the healthy range of recent years, according to the government’s first weekly layoffs data since before the government shut down on Oct. 1.

Spanish legacy media companies in Spain have scored a victory against social media giant Meta after a Madrid-based court ordered that it must pay news outlets nearly half a billion euros in damages.

Meta has started notifying young Australians to download their digital histories and delete their accounts from Facebook, Instagram, and Threads.

The project, which is reportedly supported by Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, would transform agricultural land near Grand River Avenue and Flemming Road.

The European Union says Meta and TikTok have breached transparency obligations under the Digital Services Act.

It's a happy ending to a story Local 4 first shared with you on Oct. 15. A small business owner in Oakland County, who spent over 17 years building her company, had her social media accounts restored after one AI mistake devastated her business.

Meta is adding parental controls to kids’ interactions with artificial intelligence chatbots — including the ability to turn off one-on-one chats with AI characters altogether.

A small business owner in Oakland County spent 17+ years building her company. She said it only took one AI mistake to devastate her business.

The wedding floral and stationery designer, who has operated her business since 2007, estimates she has lost approximately $10,000 in potential new business this summer due to the account suspension.

Meta says teenagers on Instagram will be restricted to seeing PG-13 content by default and won’t be able to change their settings without a parent’s permission.

Despite years of congressional hearings, academic research, whistleblowers and testimony from parents and teenagers about the harms of Instagram, Meta’s wildly popular app has failed to protect children with its “woefully ineffective” safety measures, according to a new report from former employee and whistleblower Arturo Bejar and four nonprofit groups.

Meta is racing to construct its largest data center yet, a $10 billion facility in northeast Louisiana as big as 70 football fields and requiring more than twice the electricity of New Orleans.

At this time, it remains unclear whether the project will be revisited in the future.

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.

Meta’s newest artificial-intelligence powered smart glasses include a tiny display and can be controlled by a neural wristband that lets you control it with barely perceptible movements.

Parents of teenagers who died by suicide after interacting with AI chatbots testified before Congress.

Clinics, advocacy groups and individuals who share abortion-related content online say they are seeing informational posts being taken down even if the posts don’t clearly violate the platforms’ policies.

A federal appeals court has ruled that part of a first-in-the-nation tax on digital advertising in Maryland aimed at Big Tech is unconstitutional.

Instagram has a new map feature designed to connect users by sharing their locations, but there’s a way to check if yours is turned on or off.

Instagram just rolled out a new location-sharing map feature. Here's what to know about who can see your location, how to turn the feature on or off and more.

In the midst of an artificial intelligence spending spree, Meta posted stronger-than-expected results for the second quarter, buoyed by growing ad revenue even as its expenses increased.

Meta has announced it will stop all political advertising in the European Union by October.

The number of Americans filing for jobless aid fell for the sixth straight week, hitting the lowest level since mid-April.

Instagram parent company Meta has introduced new safety features aimed at protecting teens who use its platforms, including information about accounts that message them and an option to block and report accounts with one tap.

A settlement has been reached in a class action investors’ lawsuit against Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and company leaders over claims stemming from the privacy scandal involving the Cambridge Analytica political consulting firm.

Meta is making a $14.3 billion investment in artificial intelligence company Scale and recruiting its CEO Alexandr Wang to join a team developing “superintelligence” at the tech giant.

Meta’s 20-year deal with Constellation Energy follows similar maneuvers from Amazon, Google and Microsoft, but it will take years before nuclear energy can meet the tech industry’s insatiable demand for new sources of electricity.

Meta has cut a 20-year deal to secure nuclear power to help meet surging demand for artificial intelligence and other computing needs at Facebook’s parent company.

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.

All of a sudden, women contacting one of the biggest sources of information about abortion in Mexico through the encrypted messaging app WhatsApp were met with silence.

Conservative activist Robby Starbuck has filed a defamation lawsuit against Meta alleging that the social media giant’s artificial intelligence chat bot spread false statements about him, including that he participated in the the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

The United Nations says rebel groups in Colombia are using apps like Facebook and Tik Tok to recruit children and young adults, and social media companies must do more to moderate content.

President Donald Trump has signed the Take It Down Act, which seeks to enact stricter penalties for the distribution of non-consensual intimate imagery, sometimes called ‘revenge porn’ online.

Social media company Meta says that it will start using publicly available content from European users to train its artificial intelligence models, resuming work put on hold last year after privacy activists raised concerns about data privacy.

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.

A former Meta official’s explosive insider account sold 60,000 copies in its first week and reached the top 10 on Amazon.

The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits fell slightly last week, indicating a still-healthy U.S. labor market.

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.

Utah has become the first state to pass legislation requiring app stores to verify users’ ages and get parental consent for minors to download apps to their devices.

An insider account being billed as an “explosive” memoir about “seven critical years” at Facebook/Meta will be published next week.

The number of Americans filing for jobless benefits fell last week in a sign that the labor market remains strong.

Meta has agreed to pay $25 million to settle a lawsuit filed by President Donald Trump against the company after it suspended his accounts following the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.

Get ready for an onslaught of ads full of celebrities, cute animals and snack brands during breaks in the action at Super Bowl 59 on Feb. 9, when the Philadelphia Eagles face the Kansas City Chiefs.

Jobless claims applications ticked up modestly last week, but the total number of Americans collecting unemployment benefits rose to their highest level in more than three years.

The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits rose last week, but layoffs remain historically low and the job market broadly healthy.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg cohosting a reception with billionaire Republican donors next week for Donald Trump’s inauguration.

With a possible TikTok ban just days away, many U.S. users are looking for alternative social media platforms to help them keep up with pop culture or provide the type of entertaining videos that popularized the short-form video app.

The late New York Sen_ Daniel Patrick Moynihan put it this way decades ago: “Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.”.

It wasn’t just fact-checking that Meta scrapped from its platforms as it prepares for the second Trump administration.

Meta says it will allow some Facebook users to view eBay listings on its Marketplace service.

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.

Meta has appointed three new members to its board of directors.

The FBI says the New Orleans truck attacker who killed 14 people had previously scouted the French Quarter and recorded video with his Meta smart glasses.

The Australian government says it will tax large digital platforms and search engines unless they agree to share revenue with Australian news media organizations.

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.

In an era when online anger and social tensions are increasingly directed at the businesses consumers count on, Meta last year spent $24.4 million to surround CEO Mark Zuckerberg with security.

Facebook’s parent company Meta says it will build a $10 billion artificial intelligence data center in northeast Louisiana.

Donald Trump dined on Wednesday with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg at the president-elect’s Mar-a-Lago club in Florida.

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.

A federal judge in Delaware has dismissed a lawsuit filed by former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee against social media giant Meta over advertisements using his name and image to sell CBD products.

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.

Australia’s states and territories have unanimously backed a world-first national plan to ban children younger than 16 from most forms of social media.

The Australian government announced on Thursday what it described as world-leading legislation that would set an age limit of 16 years for children to start using social media, and hold platforms responsible for ensuring compliance.

Most people have accumulated a pile of data on their social media and digital accounts over their lifetimes.

Meta says it has laid off some employees, including staff at WhatsApp And Instagram, to realign its resources with its “strategic goals.”.

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.

Meta has unveiled updates to the company’s virtual reality headset and Ray Ban smart glasses along as it tries to demonstrate its artificial intelligence prowess and the next generation of computing platforms beyond smartphones and computers.