From likes to ‘for you’: How AI now drives social media algorithms
AI is now the hidden editor of the world’s biggest feeds, quietly deciding which posts rise, which sink and how long we keep scrolling. On...
Meta Targets May 20 for 8,000 Job Cuts, With More Layoffs Planned Later in 2026
Meta Platforms is preparing to cut about 8,000 jobs, roughly 10% of its global workforce, in an initial wave of layoffs scheduled for May 20,...
Meta Expands Teen Account Protections to Boost Online Child Safety: A Step Towards Safer Social Media Experience
Meta continues its initiative to increase online child safety by enhancing teen account protections, with several new features and policy changes geared at providing a...
Technology: Meta goes to trial over Instagram and WhatsApp acquisitions
The United States of America has accused the Meta group of purchasing Instagram and WhatsApp in order to restrict potential competitors. The trial of the...
One Tech Tip: Using Instagram’s new teen account settings to supervise young users
LONDON (AP) — Worried about your teen’s Instagram use? Faced with growing pressure to do more to stop online harm, the social media platform has...
French authorities arrest Telegram CEO Pavel Durov at a Paris airport, French media report
NICE, France (AP) — The founder and CEO of the messaging service Telegram was detained at a Paris airport, French media reported Sunday. Pavel Durov,...
Meta kills off misinformation tracking tool CrowdTangle despite pleas from researchers, journalists
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Facebook and Instagram parent Meta Platforms has shut down CrowdTangle, a tool widely used by researchers, watchdog organizations and journalists to...
Social media companies made $11 billion in US ad revenue from minors, Harvard study finds
Social media companies collectively made over $11 billion in U.S. advertising revenue from minors last year, according to a study from the Harvard T.H. Chan School...
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...