The European Union (EU) on Thursday (May 16) started a formal investigation into Facebook and Instagram on allegations that the Meta-owned platforms are leading to addictive behaviour in children.

EU starts formal investigation into Facebook, Instagram over child protection policies

According to report in March Meta got over 27,000 complaints on Facebook and Instagram from India about synthetic content. Watch in for more details!

Meta India: 27,000 complaints in March, fake FB & Instagram profiles key concern

Meta’s stock price took a nosedive after the company released its first-quarter earnings report. Investors reacted negatively to forecasts of higher expenses and lower-than-expected revenue. The stock price drop wiped nearly $200 billion off Meta's market capitalisation. This decrease brings Meta's market value down to roughly $1 trillion.

Meta stock plunges after AI spending forecast disappoints investors

Meta's Oversight Board has announced two separate investigations after explicit AI-powered images appeared on its platforms. Watch to know more.

Meta's oversight board probes handling of AI-generated explicit images

Meta Platforms on Monday said that it would temporarily shut down its social media platform Threads in Turkey from April 29 with an interim order. Watch to know more.

Meta platforms to temporarily shutdown shut down threads in Turkey

In a move experts have labelled "a grave step backwards", Facebook owner Meta has decided to decommission CrowdTangle, a vital digital tool for tracking viral falsehoods.

'A grave step backwards': Meta to scrap misinformation monitoring tool CrowdTangle ahead of 2024 US elections

U.S. prosecutors in Virginia are probing whether Facebook-parent Meta’s social media platforms facilitated and profited from the illegal sale of drugs, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday, citing documents and people familiar with the matter. Watch the video to know more.

US investigating Meta for role in illicit drug sales: Report

Meta Platforms Inc., the parent company of Facebook, has initiated legal proceedings against its former Vice President of Infrastructure, Dipinder Singh Khurana, accusing him of betraying the company's trust by allegedly stealing confidential documents before joining a "stealth" AI cloud computing startup.

Meta takes legal action against former executive for alleged document theft

Elon Musk took a dig at rival Meta after social media platforms Facebook and Instagram faced a global outage on Tuesday evening. Watch in for more details!

Global users report another Meta outage

Meta platforms Facebook and Instagram were down on Tuesday (Mar 5) for tens of thousands of users who faced a global outage caused by a technical issue for more than two hours.

Elon Musk shares meme mocking Meta after Facebook, Messenger and Instagram face global outage

Technical snag hits Facebook, Instagram & WhatsApp; users complain of login & logout issues

Pakistan is mining a ban on social media as resolution to ban social media platforms such as X, YouTube, Instagram, Tik Tok and Facebook has reached Pakistan's Senate. This resolution is scheduled for debate on Monday. As per Senate Secretariat documents, the resolution is aimed at the younger generation for what it perceives as negative and devastating effects of social media. Watch to know more!

Pakistan Social Media Debate: Resolution to ban social media reaches Pak senate

Increasingly there are a number of women who are falling prey to dating scams. There are an increasing number of men and women who are complaining of getting friend requests from fake profiles on Facebook. But here's the catch all of these profiles use the identity of a Danish doctor named Christian Gerhard Boving. Watch to know more!

Dating Scams: Women fall prey to Facebook dating scams with Danish doctor's face

A major rift has opened between Meta and the Australian government. The social media giant is ending payments to Australian news publishers for content shared on Facebook. Meta claims news represents only 3% of what users globally see on their feeds and has discontinued its dedicated news tab in Australia.

Meta to stop paying Australian news publishers for content

Facebook's parent company Meta on Friday (Mar 1) announced that they will stop making payments to news publishers in Australia for the content which appears on Facebook.

Meta stops paying news publishers in Australia, pulls down news tab in ongoing tussle

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg during his Asia tour this week explored Japan in true American fashion from posting a Threads-worthy scenic photo of a snow-capped mountain top, dining at McDonald’s, and even learning about the making of katanas – a Japanese sword.

Zuckerberg explores Japan as the typical American tourist; talks AI fears with PM Kishida

Facebook parent company Meta said it shut down thousands of fake Facebook accounts originating from China. These fake account holders posed as US military families and anti-war activists.

Meta shuts down thousands of fake China-based Facebook accounts

Eric Adams, Mayor of New York City, said on Wednesday (Feb 14) that his administration has taken prominent social media platforms to court for fuelling mental health crisis among young people.

New York mayor sues social media giants over children's mental health

If you were born in the 1990s or before, chances are that you are aware of major social media platforms that exist in the present day and the ones that were there in the days gone by during the early years of the internet.

What is 'enshittification', the term for decay of online platforms? Is Facebook going through it?

Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, as per reports, is considering removing posts on social media that use the word "Zionist." This step is being considered to counter a surge of antisemitism, hate speech online, especially during the Israel-Gaza conflict, reports The Washington Post citing people familiar with private deliberations and internal guidance on the topic.

Meta considers removing posts with word 'zionist'. Here's why

Trigger warning: Some readers may find details of this report disturbing. Discretion is advised. Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Vinod Ghosalkar's son Abhishek was shot dead in Mumbai, India, during Facebook Live on Thursday (Feb 8).

India: Shiv Sena (UBT) politician's son shot dead during Facebook live

Facebook and Instagram users will start seeing labels on AI-generated images that appear on their social media feeds, part of a broader tech industry initiative to sort between what’s real and not.

Meta to label AI-generated images on Facebook and Instagram

Researchers said they detected a fourfold rise in the level of misogynistic content suggested by TikTok over a five-day period as the algorithm served more extreme videos that were often focused on anger and blame directed at women.

Social media 'fuelling playground misogyny'

Meta was criticized Monday by a company-funded oversight board for its “incoherent” and “confusing” policies on manipulated media after an altered video of President Biden spread on Facebook.

Oversight Board rebukes Meta’s policies on deepfakes, amid AI fears

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