The European Commission has determined that Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta breached EU law by failing to adequately prevent children under 13 from accessing Facebook and Instagram, adding to mounting pressure on the company over its child safety practices.
The Chinese government has officially blocked Meta’s planned $2 billion acquisition of Manus, a Chinese-founded AI startup, marking a significant escalation in the ongoing technological rivalry between the United States and China.
Microsoft has announced a voluntary buyout program for longtime employees in the United States, impacting thousands of older and more experienced workers as the company hopes to trim its payroll without conducting a layoff.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta is monitoring employee activity across hundreds of popular websites and applications, including Google, LinkedIn, and Wikipedia, as part of an effort to collect data for training its AI models.
President Trump warned the UK against trying to “make an easy buck” on American big tech firms like Amazon, Google, and Meta.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has revealed plans to eliminate approximately 8,000 positions, representing 10 percent of its workforce, as part of a broader efficiency initiative aimed at balancing substantial investments in AI technology.
A MAGA influencer has been unmasked as an AI-generated persona, created by a man in India who used it to scam money off men on the internet. The scammer claims Meta’s Instagram algorithm helped spread his content far and wide.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg could soon have an AI clone of himself to interact with and provide feedback to employees, according to a report from the Financial Times.
Indonesian Communications and Digital Minister Meutya Hafid said Thursday that Google’s YouTube platform has not complied with Jakarta’s ban on social media accounts for children under 16 and could face “sanctions” if it does not begin meeting its obligations under the law.
JAKARTA — Indonesia issued a second round of summons letters on Thursday to Google and Meta for allegedly flouting a days-old ban on social media access for under-16s.
Australia’s online safety regulator has launched formal investigations into Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta, Snap, TikTok and Google’s YouTube amid concerns the tech giants may be failing to comply with the country’s landmark social media ban for children under 16 years old.
Breitbart News tech editor Colin Madine explained “the single largest threat to the conservative movement” posed by AI as part of a recent presentation to EmpowerU America.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has established specific goals for employee adoption of AI tools, including targets for how much code engineers should write using AI assistance, according to internal documents obtained by Business Insider.
Two significant jury verdicts against major social media companies have opened the floodgates for thousands of pending lawsuits alleging that popular platforms endanger the mental health of children.
A Los Angeles jury has found Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta and Google’s YouTube liable in a groundbreaking lawsuit concerning harm to children using their platforms, awarding $3 million in damages to a young woman who claims social media addiction during childhood worsened her mental health.
A New Mexico jury has ruled that Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta must pay $375 million in civil damages after finding the social media giant violated state law by failing to protect children from predators on its platforms.
The jury deliberating a landmark social media addiction case involving tech giants Meta and Google informed a Los Angeles judge on Monday that they are experiencing difficulty reaching a consensus regarding one of the defendants — but which one has not been made public.
Author Wynton Hall argues in the newly released book Code Red: The Left, the Right, China, and the Race to Control AI that conservatives who dismiss artificial intelligence as a glorified spellchecker or a turbocharged Google search are making a dangerous mistake. Hall writes that AI is not a neutral tool. It is political power, and the people who control it know that, even if many conservatives don’t.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has acquired Moltbook, the Reddit-like platform where AI agents communicate with each other, in a deal that brings the controversial viral sensation under the tech giant’s umbrella.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta is facing a lawsuit after reports emerged that contract workers in Kenya reviewed sensitive footage from customers’ AI smart glasses, including images of nudity, drug deals, and intimate activities.
Leaders from the leading companies in AI including Google, Microsoft, Meta, Oracle, xAI, OpenAI, and Amazon have signed a non-binding agreement at the White House committing to fund the electricity infrastructure needed for their data center operations.
An investigation by Swedish newspapers has uncovered that private and intimate footage captured by Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses is being reviewed by contractors in Kenya who see uncensored content recorded by the smart glasses including bathroom visits, people undressing, and sexual activity.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has entered into a multiyear AI content licensing agreement with News Corp that could generate up to $50 million per year for the media company that owns the Wall Street Journal among many other major publications.
A 20-year-old California woman told a Los Angeles court Thursday that years of social media addiction beginning in early childhood left her struggling with anxiety, depression, and body image issues in a case testing whether tech giants can be held liable for alleged harm to young users.
Over the next nine months leading up to the 2026 midterm elections, Americans should expect a torrent of messaging designed to heighten anxiety over real and perceived AI job losses, a plan left-leaning globalist billionaires hope will sour voters’ economic outlook and help Democrats return to power.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told a Los Angeles court on Wednesday that he cares “about the wellbeing of teens and kids.” The Big Tech mastermind whose platforms have notoriously censored conservatives including President Donald Trump added, “I genuinely want to err on the side of giving people the ability to express themselves.”
Meta on Thursday unveiled its policies regarding how the social media giant will handle political ads and transparency ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is scheduled to appear before a Los Angeles jury on Wednesday in a landmark lawsuit alleging that social media platforms were deliberately designed to addict young users and harm their mental health.
The FTC is ramping up its investigation of Microsoft, sending a new round of investigative requests to the company’s competitors regarding the tech giant’s practice of bundling of AI, security and identity software in its offerings.
Internal testing documents from Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta show that an unreleased chatbot product failed to protect minors from sexual exploitation in nearly 70 percent of test scenarios, according to court testimony presented on Monday as part of New Mexico’s child exploitation lawsuit against the internet giant.
The Trump administration is exploring measures to require technology companies building data centers to absorb all associated utility and infrastructure costs as electricity prices continue to rise across the United States.
Instagram head Adam Mosseri testified in a Los Angeles courtroom Wednesday that while “problematic” social media usage exists, he does not believe it constitutes clinical addiction.
A former OpenAI researcher has publicly resigned from the AI powerhouse in protest of its decision to introduce advertisements into ChatGPT, warning that CEO Sam Altman could be following the same troubled path as Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta and Google’s YouTube are defending themselves in a Los Angeles courtroom against accusations that they intentionally designed their platforms to addict young users, as opening statements began Monday in a landmark trial that could reshape how social media companies operate.
A senior Meta researcher alerted company executives that as many as 500,000 minors could be targeted daily by online predators on Facebook and Instagram, according to internal documents unsealed ahead of a major New Mexico trial.
Leading tech companies experienced a massive selloff over the last several weeks, with more than one trillion dollars erased from their combined market valuations as investors expressed concern over ballooning AI expenditures.
Amazon revealed plans Thursday to invest $200 billion in 2026 on data centers, satellites, and infrastructure as part of its aggressive push into artificial intelligence, surpassing Wall Street projections by $50 billion. Shares dropped almost eight percent in Friday morning trading.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta faces a trial this week in New Mexico. The lawsuit follows an undercover operation by New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez, a Soros-backed Democrat.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has implemented restrictions preventing users on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads from sharing links to the “ICE List” database that purports to contain identifying information of thousands of ICE agents, the company confirmed this week.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta, China’s TikTok, and Google’s YouTube are set to face their first courtroom trial this week over allegations that their platforms have contributed to a youth mental health crisis through addictive design features.
