For years, CrowdTangle has been a game-changer, offering researchers and journalists crucial real-time transparency into the spread of conspiracy theories and hate speech on influential Meta-owned platforms, including Facebook and Instagram.

That is according to Downdetector, which compiles reports from users at a national and global level

The lawsuit claims that social media companies use algorithms to generate feeds to manipulate and addict children and teens, promoting compulsive use.

Meta on Thursday said it had removed the Facebook and Instagram accounts of Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei for violating its content policy.

Meta and other platforms are under pressure to keep tabs on AI-generated content with fears that bad actors will ramp up disinformation, with elections due this year in countries representing half the world's population.

The Oversight Board said in a Monday statement that Meta's Manipulated Media policy needs to be reconsidered after a review of an edited video of President Joe Biden.

Key chapters in the history of Facebook, the world's biggest social media application, launched 20 years ago.

Meta on Thursday began blocking messages from strangers sent directly to young teens using Instagram or Messenger.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday said his company is joining the pursuit of creating super artificial intelligence, putting it in a race with Microsoft-backed OpenAI and Google.

Meta's independent oversight board on Tuesday criticized the social media titan of removing posts that showed human suffering in the Middle East conflict.

Threads went live in 100 countries earlier this year but not in the EU. Meta officials cited regulatory clarity as the reason for delaying the social network's arrival in Europe.

The US state of New Mexico filed a lawsuit Wednesday accusing Facebook and Instagram of being a "breeding ground" for predators who target children.

The Silicon Valley tech giant, known as Facebook when the $5 billion settlement was made, said that aspects of the Federal Trade Commission's very structure violate the US Constitution, making its proceeding against Meta unlawful.

Meta on Wednesday said that advertisers will soon have to disclose when artificial intelligence (AI) or other software is used to create or alter imagery or audio in political ads.

The European Data Protection Board said Wednesday it had adopted a binding decision that will ban Facebook and Instagram owner Meta from using the personal data of users for targeted advertisements.

Facebook and Instagram users in Europe will be able to buy subscriptions to use the social networks without being tracked for targeted advertising from next month, Meta announced Monday, to comply with tougher EU rules.

Dozens of US states on Tuesday accused Facebook and Instagram owner Meta of profiting "from children's pain," damaging their mental health and misleading people about the safety of its platforms.

Smart glasses are one of the many ways that tech companies have tried to move beyond the smartphone as a user-friendly device, but so far with little success.

A web version of Threads is seen as key to attracting professionals and media types who are the most active users of social media and post mainly from their computers during working hours.

The widespread disruptions impacted users across different regions, highlighting the magnitude of the issue.

Mark Zuckerberg has shared via a Threads post that "10s of millions of people are returning" to Threads.

Since its release on Wednesday, Threads has been making headlines for its remarkable user growth.

The social media feud has involved jibes, threats of legal action, promises of physical confrontation, and now a personal insult.

Meta aimed to capitalize on Twitter's weakened state following a series of controversial choices made by its owner, Elon Musk.

The app, Threads is scheduled to launch on Thursday and is already available for pre-order on the Apple App Store.

Twitter has started laying off workers with Elon Musk seeking to cut down cost and also to make room for the entry of his preferred people.

Ex-British Army officer was quoted saying western allies should consider all options to remove Vladimir Putin from power, even if this involved an undesirable plot of assassinating him.

A Russian influencer cried over the blocking of Instagram in her country on Friday after the company instituted a policy allowing for Ukrainians to call for violence against the invading Russian army.

The notorious “Tinder Swindler” got the taste of his own medicine after a pair of tricksters scammed him to fork out more than $7,000, promising they could have his Instagram account verified and get rid of all the fake accounts under his name.

Giant social media companies, such as Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok, have begun hitting Russia's state-backed news channels Russia Today and Sputnik with restrictions in their online platforms as the European Union (EU) moves to ban Russian state media.