A commitment to the Philippine government to remove harmful artificial intelligence (AI)-generated deepfakes from its platforms and cooperate with investigations on cybercrime and other online threats has been made by American technology firm Meta Platforms Inc., which…
OAKLAND, United States — With two convictions and nearly $1 billion in damages already stacked up, Meta will face another trial starting this week about alleged harms to children in a case brought by four US states.…
Meta, parent company of Instagram and Facebook, was ordered by a court to pay $567 million to address harms to young people from its platforms in the second phase of a landmark trial. Judge Bryan Biedscheid said…
LOS ANGELES, United States — A US teenager has withdrawn his lawsuit against Meta, his lawyers announced Wednesday, closing out a closely watched case over social media’s harms to children’s mental health without a trial. The withdrawal…
Users of Meta Platforms’ social media services reported experiencing issues with Instagram and Facebook late Wednesday, July 22, as thousands of outage reports poured into monitoring website Downdetector. Many users took to other social media platforms to…
CEBU CITY, Philippines — A Meta outage appeared to have hit some Facebook and Messenger users on desktop from past 3 p.m. to past 5 p.m. on Sunday, July 19. According to an inquirer.net Facebook post at…
A frenzied push for artificial intelligence dominance comes with a different kind of cost for Meta, where massive layoffs, employee surveillance and departures have fueled reports of a heated internal climate. As Meta spends billions annually to…
SAN FRANCISCO, United States — Meta has launched paid subscription plans for its flagship apps, marking a major push by the tech giant to diversify beyond its longtime reliance on advertising revenue. Meta head of product Naomi…
Meta is laying off about 8,000 workers, or about 10 percent of its workforce, the company said Thursday as it continues to ramp up spending on artificial intelligence infrastructure and highly paid AI-expert hires. The company said…
The Presidential Communications Office (PCO) and the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) have called on tech giant Meta to take immediate action against “false, misleading, and panic-inducing” content on social media.…
LOS ANGELES, United States — A Los Angeles jury on Wednesday found Meta and YouTube liable for harming a young woman because of an addictive design of their social media platforms, ordering the companies to pay $6…
A major change in the coming years will be seen by users who rely on browser-based messaging. This is after Meta Platforms confirmed that messenger.com will be phased out as a messaging service beginning April 2026. The…
