Facebook parent Meta provided Nebraska police with messages between a teenager accused of having an illegal abortion and her mother after the social media giant was served with a search warrant, court documents show.Police in Norfolk, Nebraska, star…
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Facebook parent company Meta is releasing a new AI-powered chatbot to the public as part of a research project.
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The social media giant’s research could help improve the quality and safety of chatbots, wh…
Twitter is pushing back against billionaire Elon Musk’s allegations that the company “hoodwinked” him into signing a $44 billion deal to purchase the social media platform.Musk, who’s trying to back out of the deal, filed a countersuit against Twitt…
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Meta has released a quarterly report that outlines the actions it’s taken against troll farms, fake accounts and hackers.
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The social media giant has faced scrutiny in the past for not doing enough to com…
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A Delaware Chancery Court judge ruled that a trial over billionaire Elon Musk’s attempt to back out of a $44 billion deal to buy Twitter will begin on Oct. 17.
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Getting to trial sooner could reduce the ha…
Facebook’s parent company Meta on Wednesday reported a revenue drop for the first time in its history as ad sales shrank amid growing economic concerns. The social media giant also missed earnings expectations for the second quarter. In the Apr…
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Two new lawsuits were filed against Instagram’s parent company Meta alleging that the photo-and-video sharing service harms mental health especially among teens and children.
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Meta has been facing more pr…
The number of people using Twitter every day jumped in the second quarter as the social network negotiated a deal to sell itself to billionaire Elon Musk for $44 billion, but the company’s revenue and profit took a hit.In the quarter ending on June …
Elon Musk on Thursday fielded questions from Twitter employees, who reportedly queried the billionaire over how his proposed $44 billion acquisition of the social media service could affect everything from content moderation to remote work.Musk told…
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An investigation by Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting and The Markup found that Facebook is collecting personal data about abortion seekers.
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Lawmakers and privacy experts are raising con…
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TikTok is releasing more tools to enable people to limit screen time.
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It’s another example of how social media companies are responding to criticism that their apps have harmful mental health impacts esp…
Twitter continued to chip away at an ambitious target by adding users in the first quarter, an improvement that’s overshadowed by the $44 billion deal Elon Musk struck earlier this week to buy the influential social media company. The social me…
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Facebook’s parent company Meta reported first-quarter earnings. Its daily active users grew in the first three months of this year.
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Meta’s stock plunged 26% in February when it reported a…
Elon Musk wants to buy all of Twitter.
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Billionaire Elon Musk has a big offer for Twitter.Musk proposed…
Tesla CEO Elon Musk is Twitter’s largest shareholder.
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Tesla CEO Elon M…