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Epstein accusers face relentless harassment; threats and intimidation escalate after identities exposed in Justice Department filesVictims of Jeffrey Epstein face severe threats and harassment. Their identities were exposed in government files, leading to online abuse a...
US ends investigation into claims WhatsApp chats aren’t privateA US agency abruptly closed an investigation into claims that Meta Platforms can access encrypted WhatsApp messages. A Commerce Department ...
Meta ordered to pay $375 million in New Mexico trial over child exploitation, user safety claimsIn a landmark decision, a jury in New Mexico has convicted Meta, the tech giant behind Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, of breaching stat...
Meta awaits verdict in New Mexico child safety trialA New Mexico jury is deliberating in a major trial against social media giant Meta. The company is accused of endangering children by expos...
Meta faces New Mexico trial over child-exploitation claimsMeta will face a New Mexico jury over claims its apps exposed children to sexual abuse. The state says weak safeguards and addictive design...
US has investigated claims WhatsApp chats aren’t privateUS authorities are probing claims that Meta employees accessed private WhatsApp messages. Former contractors allege they and Meta staff had...
Elon Musk says WhatsApp is not secure; Meta executive hits backAs per a Bloomberg report, an international group of plaintiffs sued Meta Platforms alleging that the company has made false claims about t...
Meta sued over claims that WhatsApp messages are fully secureAn international group of plaintiffs has sued Meta Platforms, alleging false claims about WhatsApp's end-to-end encryption. The lawsuit cla...
Zuckerberg, Meta directors agree to $190 million settlement of shareholder privacy caseMark Zuckerberg and current and former leaders of Meta Platforms agreed to pay the company $190 million to resolve shareholder allegations ...
Whistleblower sues Meta over claims of WhatsApp security flawsAttaullah Baig, ex-security head of WhatsApp, alleged that Meta ignored critical security flaws, putting billions of users at risk. Baig cl...
Ex-Meta executive claims Facebook helped China develop AI, betrayed U.S. national security in shocking Senate testimonyEx-Meta executive Sarah Wynn-Williams testified that Facebook aided China’s AI development through secret briefings, risking U.S. national ...
Meta took advantage of teens’ emotions: WhistleblowerDuring a Senate hearing, former Meta director Sarah Wynn-Williams disclosed that the company targeted teenagers with ads based on their emo...
Meta taps Republican Joel Kaplan to lead global policy team, replacing Nick CleggThe change atop Meta's policy and communications teams comes in the run-up to US President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration, as the compan...
Meta turns to AI to protect minors from 'sextortion' on InstagramMeta said on Thursday it was developing new tools to protect teenage users from "sextortion" scams on its Instagram platform, which has bee...
Whistleblower allegation: Harvard muzzled disinformation team after $500 million Mark Zuckerberg donationIn a whistleblower disclosure made public Monday, prominent disinformation scholar Joan Donovan seeks investigations into "inappropriate in...
US states say Meta's Instagram linked to depression, anxiety, insomnia in kidsIn a complaint filed in the Oakland, California, federal court on Tuesday, 33 states including California and New York said Meta repeatedly...
Annual tech gathering takes aim at cryptoMore than 100,000 people are expected to gather in Lisbon for the four-day Web Summit, the first full-scale edition since 2019 following th...
Facebook whistleblower launches nonprofit to take on big techThe new Beyond the Screen nonprofit said that its first project will be to document ways big tech is failing in its "legal and ethical obli...
Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen criticises Meta's metaverse plansFrances Haugen said Meta has made "very grandiose promises" about the metaverse, but if they didn’t commit to openness, access, and other a...
Instagram tightens teen defenses as US hearing loomsInstagram will be stricter about what it recommends to teen users, and will stop people from mentioning teens who don't follow them on the ...