Tech CEOs told ‘you have blood on your hands’ at US Senate child safety hearing
WASHINGTON, Jan 31 (Reuters) – U.S. senators on Wednesday grilled leaders of the biggest social media companies and said Congress must quickly pass legislation, as...
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TikTok, Meta, X CEOs to testify at US Senate hearing in January
The chief executives of social media companies Meta (META.O), X, TikTok, Snap (SNAP.N) and Discord will testify on online child sexual exploitation at a Jan. 31 U.S. Senate...
Court document claims Meta knowingly designed its platforms to hook kids, reports say
Facebook parent Meta Platforms deliberately engineered its social platforms to hook kids and knew — but never disclosed — it had received millions of complaints...
EU fines Meta a record $1.3 billion for user data processing violations
The European Union on Monday ordered the transfer of user data across the Atlantic to stop by October and imposed a $1.3 billion privacy fine....
Tech: Facebook gives users new way to see all their friends’ posts
Facebook is rolling out an update that enables its 2 billion daily users to more easily view their friends’ posts in chronological order. The new...
Instagram and Facebook remove posts offering abortion pills
Facebook and Instagram have begun promptly removing posts that offer abortion pills to women who may not be able to access them following a Supreme Court...
Technology: Meta names Guy Rosen chief information security officer
Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc (FB.O) has named a company vice president as chief information security officer (CISO), the first person to fill that role at the...
Judge approves $650M Facebook privacy lawsuit settlement
A federal judge on Friday approved a $650 million settlement of a privacy lawsuit against Facebook for allegedly using photo face-tagging and other biometric data...
Zuckerberg part of $100M California Black Freedom Fund
More than two dozen philanthropic organizations and corporations on Thursday launched the California Black Freedom Fund, a $100 million, five-year initiative that they say will...
Facebook removes French, Russian accounts active in Africa
Individuals linked to Russia and the French military used fake Facebook and Instagram accounts to wage a covert disinformation campaign in the Central African Republic...