Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta on Thursday began deactivating Instagram and Facebook accounts of Australian users under the age of 16 ahead of next week’s social media ban.
Two 15 year-old Australian teenagers are challenging the country’s upcoming social media ban at the nation’s High Court, local outlets reported on Wednesday.
A legal filing released on Friday alleges that Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, halted internal research suggesting that people who stopped using its social media platforms experienced less depression and anxiety.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta, the parent company of Instagram, Facebook, and Threads, has started notifying Australian users aged between 13 and 15 that their accounts will be shut down before the country’s upcoming social media ban for teens under the age of 16 takes effect in December.
Judge James Boasberg has rejected the FTC’s antitrust lawsuit against Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta, allowing the company to retain its acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp. Boasberg is facing articles of impeachment filed this month over his role in the “Artic Frost” probe of Republicans.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta projected that 10 percent of its 2024 revenue, amounting to $16 billion, would come from ads for scams and banned goods, according to internal company documents reviewed by Reuters.
The Motion Picture Association is asking Meta to stop referring to content shown to teen accounts on Instagram as “guided by PG-13 ratings,” saying it is misleading and could erode trust in its movie ratings system.
The Team Trump social media accounts, led by X Strategies and its co-founder Alex Bruesewitz, garnered nearly a billion views in October alone across platforms and smoked the official Democrat accounts on TikTok and Instagram.
A report citing internal research from Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has found that vulnerable teens who reported feeling bad about their bodies were exposed to significantly more “eating disorder adjacent” content on Instagram compared to their peers.
Meta has announced a set of upcoming parental control features aimed at safeguarding teens’ conversations with AI characters on its platforms, including Facebook and Instagram.
New York City has filed a lawsuit against major social media companies, accusing them of contributing to a youth mental health crisis through the design and operation of their platforms.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has announced that it will soon utilize user interactions with its AI digital assistant to inform ad targeting and content recommendations across its platforms, including Facebook and Instagram.
The Team Trump social media accounts, led by Alex Breusewitz and his firm X Strategies, drew nearly 1 billion views across platforms in September, continuing to outperform official Democratic Party accounts.
Pop megastar and “Wicked” star Ariana Grande reshared a social media post questioning if the lives of people who voted for President Donald Trump had “gotten better.”
Meta is set to launch paid, ad-free versions of Facebook and Instagram for users in the United Kingdom. The UK government welcomes the option of a paid social media subscription, saying that it “moves Meta away from targeting users with ads as part of the standard terms and conditions for using its Facebook and Instagram services, which we’ve been clear is not in line with UK law.”
The woke mob came after “White Lotus” star Jennifer Coolidge after some social media users realized that she had “liked” conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s Instagram account.
The FTC is investigating seven AI companies, including Google, Meta, and OpenAI, to determine how they protect children and teenagers who use their AI chatbots as companions.
Shortly after the shocking assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, many leftists took to social media to mock, deride, and laugh at Kirk with many expressing happiness at his death. A new website, named Charlie’s Murderers, aims to expose those that attacked Kirk in his final moments.
The @TeamTrump social media accounts on Instagram and TikTok outperformed the official Democrat accounts in August by over 160 million views.
A safety study released by consumer watchdog group Common Sense Media reveals that the Meta AI chatbot, integrated into Instagram and Facebook, can actively encourage and assist teens in planning dangerous activities like suicide, self-harm, and eating disorders.
Wired reports that a secretive nonprofit organization with ties to a powerful leftist dark money group is quietly bankrolling a network of high-profile Democratic influencers, offering them up to $8,000 per month to join an astroturf machine pushing leftist talking points online.
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) last Friday announced an investigation into if Meta’s AI bots enabled “criminal harms to children.”
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) is getting flak for apparently doctoring a photo to make himself look slimmer.
A mother’s lawsuit against Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta and China’s TikTok over her teenage son’s death while attempting a viral “subway surfing” challenge will proceed, as a judge largely denied the social media giants’ motions to dismiss the case.
The Team Trump social media accounts, led by Alex Bruesewitz and his firm X Strategies, are dominating the official Democrat accounts on Instagram and TikTok.
You will no longer read messages from Simone Biles on X. She deleted that account after being factually refuted and loudly shouted down by Riley Gaines and throngs of X users for her terrible takes on transgender athletes. However, that doesn’t mean she’s gone completely silent on social media.
Mark Zuckerberg’s comments on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast and his multiple olive branches to Donald Trump and the MAGA movement have reportedly left Meta employees horrified and disgruntled.
L.A. Dodgers player Enrique Hernandez took aim at U.S. immigration policy and blasted the U.S. for “violating” the “human rights” of illegals
Mark Zuckerberg is personally assembling a team of experts to achieve artificial general intelligence (AGI) in a move to accelerate Meta’s AI development.
The publisher that controls the early catalog of leftist rapper Eminem is suing Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta, accusing the tech giant of unauthorized use of his music.
The future of Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta is in a federal judge’s hands following the conclusion of a seven-week antitrust trial brought forth by FTC.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta released its integrity reports on Thursday for the first quarter of 2025, claiming it reduced enforcement mistakes by 50 percent since the beginning of the Trump presidency. Enforcement mistakes include removing content from Facebook and Instagram that doesn’t actually violate platform rules.
A new study led by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) has found that increased social media use among pre-teens is associated with a massive 35 percent rise in symptoms of depression.
Texas is on the verge of implementing the most stringent social media ban for minors in the United States, with a new bill making its way through the state legislature.
Disgraced former FBI Director James Comey has disabled comments on his Instagram account after a post that called to “86 47,” which some interpreted as a violent threat to “take out” President Donald Trump.
Internal Meta documents revealed during the FTC’s antitrust trial aiming to break up the social media giant exposed an alarming warning from an executive about the prevalence of “fake” activity on Instagram.
Actress Jamie Lee Curtis took to Instagram to directly address Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, urging him to remove AI-generated commercials that featured her likeness without her consent or endorsement. The personal appeal was successful — ads the actress called, “totally AI fake commercial for some bullshit that I didn’t authorize, agree to or endorse,” were removed from Meta’s platforms.
A study released by Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta claims that the tech company’s AI-driven advertising technologies have generated over half of a trillion dollars in economic activity and created 3.4 million jobs in 2024.
The Media Research Center claims Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta attempted to gain favor with the prominent conservative watchdog group just before the start of the company’s historic antitrust trial with the FTC, which seeks to unwind Meta’s acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp.
User-generated AI chatbots posing as licensed therapists on Instagram are providing mental health advice without proper qualifications, an investigation by 404 Media has found.
