Questions remain around how Pennsylvania's part of Meta settlement will be spent
Nearly one month ago, the owner of Facebook and Instagram came to a landmark settlement with 48 states, including Pennsylvania.
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Nearly one month ago, the owner of Facebook and Instagram came to a landmark settlement with 48 states, including Pennsylvania.
The Consumer Federation of America accused Meta of allowing scam advertisements to "proliferate on its platforms."
The verdict, which caps a weeks-long trial in Los Angeles, could set a legal precedent for similar allegations brought against social media companies.
Instagram's parent company Meta and Google's YouTube dispute claims that their platforms deliberately addict and harm children.
In a potentially bellwether case, a plaintiff alleges that social media companies deliberately design their platforms to target children.
Facebook parent Meta has reached nuclear power deals with three companies as it continues to look for electricity sources for its artificial intelligence data centers.
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.
People who filed claims as part of Facebook's privacy settlement could get their money over the next 10 weeks.
Fake Facebook pages have been popping up claiming to be the iconic iceball cart, but the owner says they're all scams.
Instagram users reported violent and other inappropriate content showing up in their Reels feeds.
The company also said it was working to resolve an issue where some words, including "Democrats" and "Republican," were blocked from Instagram search.
Meta shocked the tech world this week by moving to overhaul its approach to fact checking. Here's what the changes mean for social media users.
The CBS News Confirmed team shares tips you can use to tell fact from fiction online.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg cites "cultural tipping point" of election in making major changes to practices.
Users reported problems accessing many of Meta's social media services, including Facebook, Instagram and Messenger.
Meta bills the new Instagram service as having built-in protections for teens that give parents peace of mind.
Surgeon General Vivek Murthy said that teens' mental health is facing an "emergency," and that social media is part of the problem.
Facebook and Instagram users earlier today reported that they were booted out of the social media platforms, with many unable to log back in.
"You have a product that's killing people," one lawmaker told Mark Zuckerberg as the Meta CEO testified in a hearing on protecting kids online.
Meta wants children and teens on Facebook and Instagram as long as possible so it can collect and sell their personal data, state prosecutors allege.
The suit alleges that Meta deliberately engineered its platforms to be addictive to children and teenagers.
Dozens of US states, including California, New York, Arizona and Indiana are suing Meta Platforms Inc. for harming young people's mental health and contributing the youth mental health crisis by knowingly designing features on Instagram and Facebook that addict children to the platforms.
The application to collect part of Meta's data privacy settlement is simple, requiring only a few minutes to fill out.
Elon Musk says the rebranding will see Twitter evolving into payments, banking and commerce, to go along with messaging.
The social-media service, which debuted Wednesday night, is the fastest-growing app of all time, outpacing ChatGPT.
