Meta skates past FTC in monopoly fight
Judge bins antitrust bid to break up Facebook parent
A federal judge has tossed the latest swipe from the Federal Trade Commission at Meta, leaving the social networking giant looking rather smug.
Instagram tops the list of privacy nightmares
Meta’s chat platforms lead Webshare’s hall of shame for leaky apps
Meta’s Instagram DMs have been named the least private digital service in a damning new study from proxy company Webshare.
Facebook forces users to follow Donald Trump
Censors the democrat hashtag
Facebook users are complaining that their accounts automatically now follow President Donald Trump and are being swamped with newspeak posts about him.
Meta cracks down on scams
Closes two million pig butchering accounts
Meta said it has removed more than two million accounts this year linked to overseas criminal gangs behind scam operations that have allegedly forced hundreds of thousands of people into scamming roles and cost victims billions of dollars worldwide.
Bluesky surges as users flee Elon Musk's X
A million new users since the US election
As the numbers of users at Elon [look at me] Musk’s social notworking site Twitter X have been falling faster than a free-falling elephant without a parachute, numbers at its rival Bluesky have been increasing.
AI-Generated content set to flood Facebook and Instagram
Who needs friends and influencers
Mark Zuckerberg has announced that users can expect a significant increase in AI-generated content on Facebook and Instagram.
Meta allows Europeans to opt out of data sharing
No more personalised adverts for a lucky few
Meta announced that starting next Wednesday, some Facebook and Instagram users in the European Union can opt out of sharing first-party data used to serve highly personalised ads.
Utah bans teens from social media
Parents allowed to spy on their kids
In a move which is likely to attract support of the State’s youth towards more extreme right-wing parties, the governor of Utah, Spencer Cox, has signed sweeping social media legislation requiring explicit parental permissions for anyone under 18 to use platforms such as TikTok, Instagram and Facebook.
Meta-backed tool helps people remove explicit images from the net
Operated by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
A new online tool aims to give some control back to teens, or people who were once teens, and take down explicit images and videos of themselves from the internet.
Instagram helps hacked clients
Restoring stolen accounts
Instagram is introducing a new set of features to help users who have had their accounts stolen by hackers.