Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta made a decisive shift away from the news distribution business on Facebook and Instagram in 2023, which CNBC reports has had a massive impact on the media industry.
A New Mexico complaint against Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has been unredacted to reveal horrifying claims of sexual harassment against children on Facebook and Instagram. One internal presentation estimated that 100,000 children a day are targets by pedophiles on Zuckerberg’s platforms, including receiving ” pictures of adult genitalia.”
A recent study by Consumer Reports, in collaboration with The Markup, has unveiled the extensive scale of data tracking aimed at Facebook users. Some users in the study were tracked by as many as 7,000 companies.
In a major shakeup at Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta, Sheryl Sandberg, a key figure in Facebook’s growth, has announced her departure from the company’s board of directors. Sandberg previously stepped down from her COO position in 2022.
The evolving landscape of artificial intelligence in journalism and content creation has sparked a heated debate, with media outlets accusing AI companies of unfairly leveraging their content. Now, legislation may be on the way to regulate the space.
Ofcom, the UK’s broadcasting regulator has been hiring top staff from Big Tech firms as it prepares to enforce the Online Safety Act.
Meta – the parent company of Facebook – has announced new measures to restrict content related to suicide, self harm, and eating disorders from its teenage user base.
Facebook has recently launched a new feature called “Link History,” designed to keep track of all the links clicked by users within its mobile app. The technology is the latest demonstration of Mark Zuckerberg’s endless hunger to gather every speck of Facebook users’ personal data.
British authorities are currently investigating an unprecedented case of “virtual sexual assault” involving a minor on Mark Zuckerberg’s VR metaverse platform.
A recent study claims that almost half of all British teenagers view themselves as addicted to social media, reigniting debates on the impact of online platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter on younger users.
A recent study by the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health has revealed that social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok X/Twitter, and YouTube collectively earned nearly $11 billion in advertising revenue from U.S. users under 18 in 2022. The study found that the social media Masters of the Universe earned $2.1 billion by showing ads to children under 12.
Tech giants including Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta and Google have slashed their funding of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs in 2023 by up to 90 percent as the tech sector faces a tightening budget under the Biden economy.
Recent reports have emerged indicating that Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta implementation of encrypted messaging on Facebook and Instagram facilitated predatory behavior against children. A former executive explains, “It was a hundred times worse than any of us expected. There were millions of pedophiles targeting tens of millions of children.”
A landmark law in Utah, designed to limit social media use by children, faces a lawsuit from a major trade group representing social media giants. Companies including Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta and China’s TikTok are putting their resources into achieving unfettered access to young Americans.
Artificial intelligence (AI) resume screening systems used by major companies may be discriminating against mothers, researchers believe.
A recent report reveals that tech billionaire Mark Zuckerberg is constructing a sprawling $100 million compound in Hawaii, equipped with extensive security measures including a large underground bunker.
A former diversity program manager at Facebook has pleaded guilty to defrauding Mark Zuckerberg’s company of more than $4 million through a sophisticated kickback scheme.
Harvard University has blocked Instagram users from having the ability to comment on its posts, as well as from being able to tag the Ivy League school’s account in their own posts on the social media platform. The university, mired in an antisemitism scandal and allegations of plagiarism against President Claudine Gay, seems to think all of its problems will go away if no one can involve them in the conversation.
Facebook and Instagram are steering children toward explicit content — even in cases when no interest is expressed — and allowing child predators to find and contact minors, New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez said in a announcement this week revealing a lawsuit against Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta.
Tesla CEO and X/Twitter owner Elon Musk slammed Disney CEO Bob Iger for allegedly thinking “it’s cool to advertise next to child exploitation material,” adding, “He should be fired immediately.”
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta (formerly Facebook) has filed a lawsuit against the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), contesting new restrictions aimed at limiting how the company monetizes children’s data across its platforms.
The CEOs of Meta, X/Twitter, TikTok, Snapchat, and Discord are set to testify January 31 before the U.S. Senate “about their failure to protect children” on social media.
Google has agreed to pay approximately $74 million to Canadian news publishers for using their content, marking a significant shift in the tech giant’s approach to content compensation after a standoff resulted in the internet giant almost cutting off news in the country.
Instagram Reels, which were launched to compete with China’s TikTok, reportedly offers “risqué footage of children as well as overtly sexual adult videos” to adult users who follow children, with some of the content even being placed next to advertisements for major companies.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta, the parent company of Instagram and Facebook, is facing a lawsuit from 33 states alleging that the company knowingly allowed and pursued users under the age of 13 on its platforms. The latest revelations from the lawsuit claim that the Masters of the Universe “coveted and pursued” underage users.
Research psychologist Dr. Robert Epstein is launching America’s Digital Shield, a website that exposes Big Tech meddling in the 2024 elections through real-time “ephemeral manipulation” that can shift millions of votes.
A new report in CNBC confirms what many observers, including the House Judiciary Committee, have noticed: online censorship has become a global industry, worth billions of dollars. And with two major wars underway, one in Ukraine and one in the Gaza Strip, that industry is reportedly set to expand.
The new book “Controligarch” reveals that Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has invested billions into reengineering society through Virtual Reality (VR) and tech addiction, which has created a booming business for VR pornography.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has accused online magazine Quillette of violating Facebook community standards, then removed monetization and threatened its page with deletion, according to a post from the magazine’s founder, Claire Lehmann.
“Controligarchs” reveals Mark Zuckerberg’s $36 billion efforts to make the most addictive product in history: the metaverse.
Young people attending a New York City anti-Israel rally have admitted that they learned to hate Israel by watching pro-Palestinian videos on Chinese-owned app TikTok and Mark Zuckerbeg’s Instagram.
Facebook (now known as Meta) has announced a deal with Tencent Holdings to launch a new, lower-priced virtual reality headset in China, marking its return to the Chinese market after a 14-year absence.
Facebook (now known as Meta) CEO Mark Zuckerberg often overruled senior executives’ proposals aimed at improving the mental health of teenagers on Facebook and Instagram, according to internal documents revealed as part of a lawsuit against the company.
A former senior employee at Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook (now known as Meta) says Instagram is not doing enough to protect teens from sexual harassment.
Surveillance capitalism master of the world and martial arts enthusiast Mark Zuckerberg suffered a torn ACL during a mixed martial arts (MMA) training session. Zuckerberg revealed the injury on Friday afternoon, posting pictures from a hospital bed to his Facebook platform stating he had already undergone surgery to correct the injury.
Threads, the “sanely run” Twitter competitor launched by Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta, is nearing 100 million monthly users after several months in operation, according to Zuckerberg.
Pebble, a social network that branded itself as a “friendly” alternative to Elon Musk’s X/Twitter, and built by a team primarily made up of former Twitter employees, has announced its decision to cease operations due to financial constraints and a challenging competitive landscape.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta, formerly Facebook, is being sued by 42 U.S. states in multiple lawsuits accusing the tech giant of harming young people’s mental health with addictive Facebook and Instagram features. The states, however, have not filed a similar complaint against the Chinese-owned app TikTok, which has shown itself to be a danger to young people.
X (formerly Twitter) owner Elon Musk has slammed the European Union over its work with NewsGuard, an organization that is a significant component of the global internet censorship industry, calling the organization a “scam” that “ought to be disbanded.”
The European Union demanded Meta and TikTok detail their efforts to curb illegal content and disinformation during the Israel-Hamas war.
