Minnesota to receive up to $307M in historic Meta settlement
Minnesota will receive between $214 million to $307 million after tech giant Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, settled a landmark social media addiction lawsuit Wednesday.
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Minnesota will receive between $214 million to $307 million after tech giant Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, settled a landmark social media addiction lawsuit Wednesday.
A bipartisan proposal to set guardrails around social media sites for children advanced in the Minnesota House on Thursday, one day after a landmark case against tech companies in which they were found liable for creating products that led to harmful behavior.
The verdict, which caps a weeks-long trial in Los Angeles, could set a legal precedent for similar allegations brought against social media companies.
Michelle Mildred, the owner of Minnesota-based e-commerce business Coloring Your Own, says she has seen ads using her voice and face to promote counterfeit products with her designs, sending customers to scam sites overseas.
Videos showing extreme violence are easily accessible on Instagram — and people are making thousands posting graphic content on the platform, a CBS News investigation found.
The new restrictions for teen users are gradually rolling out starting Tuesday and will be fully implemented by the end of the year, Meta said.
With just a click of the mouse or tap on your phone, many have felt a rush of embarrassment.
The CBS News Confirmed team shares tips you can use to tell fact from fiction online.
Randy Moss told fans worried about his health he's a "cancer survivor" in an Instagram livestream Friday afternoon.
The move comes two weeks after Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg traveled to Florida and dined with President-elect Donald Trump in Mar-a-Lago.
Users reported problems accessing many of Meta's social media services, including Facebook, Instagram and Messenger.
Australia's Macquarie Dictionary picks "ens***tification" as its word of 2024, tapping into a sense that digital services are getting worse as companies prioritize profits.
A study found that Elon Musk is the most common celebrity used in deepfake scams.
The lawsuit was filed earlier this year by several tribal nations, including Minnesota's Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin and two other tribes in the Dakotas.
"It's shocking. Our youngest victim at the time of the occurrence was nine years old," Houston-based lawyer Tony Buzbee said.
Meta bills the new Instagram service as having built-in protections for teens that give parents peace of mind.
Once afraid to tell her story, Natalee Cramer now wants her voice heard.
Four church elders, including Morris' son, have taken a voluntary temporary leaves while an internal review is done.
The charges come more than two years after a teenage gunman killed 19 students and two teachers at Robb Elementary School.
Surgeon General Vivek Murthy said that teens' mental health is facing an "emergency," and that social media is part of the problem.
The Dallas Police Department issued arrest warrants Wednesday for the 23-year-old Rice and 21-year-old Theodore Knox.
The separation comes just weeks after Gypsy Rose Blanchard deleted her TikTok and Instagram accounts, saying social media is a "doorway to hell."
The North Texas man is being remembered across the world for his inspirational story of resilience, after living in an iron lung for more than 70 years after contracting polio.
Assistant Chief of Police Homer Delgado will be named interim chief of police, Smith said.
Facebook and Instagram users earlier today reported that they were booted out of the social media platforms, with many unable to log back in.
