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A Wall Street Journal investigation has revealed that Meta’s AI chatbots on Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp are empowered to engage in “romantic role-play” with users that can turn sexually explicit, even with accounts belonging to children. In a statement to Breitbart News, the social media giant says it has “taken additional measures” 

During the ongoing antitrust trial against Meta, an email revealed that CEO Mark Zuckerberg contemplated separating Instagram from the company in 2018 due to the “non-trivial” risk the government would move to break up his social media empire.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg took the stand in federal court on Monday to defend his company against the FTC’s allegations that it acquired Instagram and WhatsApp to create a social media monopoly. 

The FTC’s high-stakes antitrust lawsuit against Meta kicked off today with opening arguments in Washington, DC. Mark Zuckerberg is expected to take the stand to defend his company against the federal government’s claims that the acquisition of Instagram and WhatsApp should never have been approved.

Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly lobbying the Trump administration to drop a pivotal FTC case against the company, in what would amount to a major political favor for Meta. Despite Zuckerberg’s multiple olive branches to the Turmp administration, a number of high-profile, pro-MAGA voices are still banned on Meta’s Facebook and Instagram platforms.

British police have been accused of acting in a “Kafkaesque” manner after they arrested the parents of a nine-year-old girl over complaints they made about her primary school on WhatsApp.

The president of Signal defended the messaging app’s security after top Trump administration officials mistakenly included a journalist in an encrypted chatroom they used to discuss looming U.S. military action against Yemen’s Houthis.

A recent survey conducted by the Pew Research Center has shed light on the shifting social media landscape among teenagers, with nearly half of them reporting being online almost constantly. Teens are moving away from X/Twitter and Facebook as they continue to embrace China’s TikTok as their platform of choice.

A joint Venezuelan journalistic investigation published on Monday across several local outlets revealed how socialist regime officials used social media to publicly hunt dissidents and brand them “enemies” and “terrorists” in the wake of the fraudulent July 28 presidential election.

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta, the parent company of Facebook, has started laying off employees in various departments, including WhatsApp, Instagram, and Reality Labs, as part of targeted reorganizations within specific teams.

Cuba sentenced dissident José Manuel Barreiro Rouco to two and a half years in prison for sharing anti-regime memes on WhatsApp.

Meta — the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp — said on Monday that Russian state media outlets have been banned from its platforms worldwide for “foreign interference activity.”

Venezuela’s socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro announced on Thursday that he would ban the social media platform Twitter (or “X”) in the country, accusing its owner Elon Musk of inciting “hate, civil war, and death.”

Venezuela’s socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro announced on Monday that he would “break ties” with WhatsApp, effectively declaring it illegal.

A federal appeals court has temporarily halted a ruling from a lower court that prevented key members of the Biden administration from pressuring social media companies to censor Americans.

Chris Clark, Hunter Biden’s attorney, admitted the 2017 WhatsApp text demanding money from a CCP-linked businessman while “sitting” next to his dad was indeed Hunter’s message.

Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp have all experienced widespread outages on Friday, impacting millions of users across the globe.

Facebook (now known as Meta) has vehemently denied claims that its WhatsApp messaging service persistently accesses smartphone microphones to snoop on users, even when the app is not active, attributing the issue to an Android bug.

A group accused Croatian police of using a clandestine WhatsApp group to share information about migrants trying to enter the country.

The past several months have revealed a huge amount of government pressure on social media platforms to censor public content. New emails revealed through Missouri v. Biden show the administration went further, urging Facebook to censor private communications on its WhatsApp messaging service too.

Facebook (now known as Meta) is delaying setting team budgets as it plans for yet another round of job cuts according to reports. Mark Zuckerberg seems to be taking his “year of efficiency” claims quite seriously.

The Supreme Court on Monday allowed WhatsApp, owned by Facebook (now known as Meta), to pursue a lawsuit against the NSO Group, the Israeli cyberintelligence company responsible for the “Pegasus” spyware exploit that enabled the surveillance of thousands of journalists and activists around the world.

Multiple newspapers in Brazil reported on Friday that the Superior Electoral Tribunal (TSE), the nation’s top election authority, had spent much of the week working to dismantle conservative chat groups on Whatsapp and Telegram in an attempt to “demobilize” massive nationwide roadblocks and protests.

Facebook (now known as Meta) is attacking Apple’s iMessage app in a new advertisement that further fuels the rivalry between the two companies.

A Spanish court has sentenced a man to ten years in prison after he was found guilty of encouraging a minor to end their own life by sending threatening and harassing messages on WhatsApp.

Facebook (now known as Meta) alleges that its social networking platforms have dozens of outside rivals, but a recently released internal memo reveals that top executives were more worried about threats posed by their own products rather than by competitors.

Russia has reportedly shut off access to the Facebook-owned photo-sharing app Instagram this week, cutting off Mark Zuckerberg and the Masters of the Universe from accessing the personal data of tens of millions of Russian users.

Facebook parent company Meta has announced it will be implementing a ‘fact checking’ service in its messaging platform WhatsApp, in order to counter so-called ‘fake news’ during the upcoming French presidential election.

A trial court in northern Pakistan’s Rawalpindi city sentenced a 26-year-old Muslim woman to death on Wednesday for blasphemy against Islam after finding her guilty of “sharing images deemed to be insulting to Islam’s Prophet Muhammad and one of his wives.”

The video shows a masked man who says he is a Sikh named Jaswant Singh Chail vowing to assassinate the Queen as revenge for a 1919 massacre.

Facebook (now known as Meta) has banned seven “Surveillance-For-Hire” companies that it claims spied on 50,000 users including human rights activists, government critics, celebrities, journalists, and more in over 100 countries.

In a recent article, the New York Times outlines why the recently leaked internal Facebook documents indicate that the company is in more trouble than previously believed. The Times forecasts a storm brewing in Facebook’s future, and that was before the Masters of the Universe suffered a catastrophic outage of services that lasted about seven hours on Monday.

Following the catastrophic outage of Facebook services including WhatsApp and Instagram that lasted about seven hours, users took to Twitter to mock the social media giant.

Facebook services have come back online following an outage lasting about seven hours, the longest downtime that the site has seen since 2008. The catastrophic outage also impacted the company’s Instagram and WhatsApp platforms, bringing the Masters of the Universe to a grinding halt for most of Monday. The company has blamed “configuration changes” for bringing its entire empire to its knees.

Cybersecurity expert Brian Krebs says Facebook, as well as its Instagram and WhatsApp platforms, are all suffering from ongoing global outages due to someone from inside Facebook updating the company’s Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) records, which took away the map telling the world’s computers how to find its online properties. According to a New York Times reporter, employees cannot even open doors with their security cards due to the catastrophic outage.

Facebook’s entire network is down as well as social media applications owned by the company including Instagram and WhatsApp.