Instagram, Facebook Ran AI ‘Nudify’ Ads from China, NGO Says July 29, 2026 By Newley Purnell The advertising partner has reportedly been responsible in recent months for 7,600 ads for mobile apps that can transpose women's...
Meta Loses Bid to Dismiss States’ Claims That Facebook, Instagram Addict Children July 1, 2026 By Jonathan Stempel A federal judge rejected Meta Platforms’ bid to dismiss a lawsuit by 29 U.S. state attorneys general accusing it of...
Meta Challenges UK Regulator Over Online Safety Fees, Fines May 8, 2026 By Sam Tobin Facebook and Instagram owner Meta is challenging Britain’s media regulator Ofcom over how fees and penalties under the Online Safety...
Italian Court Allows Class Action Against Meta Over Facebook Data Scraping April 15, 2026 By Claudia Cristoferi A Milan court on Tuesday accepted a class action brought by a consumer group against Meta Platforms over the theft...
Meta Loses Insurance for Defense in Major Social Media Addiction Litigation March 3, 2026 By Andrew G. Simpson A Delaware judge has ruled insurers do not have a duty to defend Meta Platforms in the thousands of lawsuits...
Meta Survey Found 19% of Young Teens on Instagram Report Unwanted Nude Images February 23, 2026 By Courtney Rozen Nearly one-in-five users aged 13 to 15 told Meta that they saw “nudity or sexual images on Instagram” that they...
Meta’s ‘Playbook’ Was to Fend off Pressure to Crack Down on Scammers, Documents Show December 31, 2025 By Jeff Horwitz Japanese regulators last year were upset by a flood of ads for obvious scams on Facebook and Instagram. The scams...
Meta Buried ‘Causal’ Evidence of Social Media Harm, Lawsuits Allege November 24, 2025 By Jeff Horwitz Meta shut down internal research into the mental health effects of Facebook after finding causal evidence that its products harmed...
Meta Board Resolves Investors’ Privacy Claims for $190 Million November 21, 2025 By Jef Feeley Mark Zuckerberg and other Meta Platforms Inc. directors agreed to a $190 million settlement of claims they failed to rectify...
‘Massive Legal Siege’ Against Social Media Companies Looms October 20, 2025 By Olivia Carville Thousands of complaints, millions of pages of internal documents and transcripts of countless hours of depositions are about to land...