Meta is heading to trial this week to face antitrust allegations from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission over its acquisitions of Instagram (2012) and WhatsApp (2014). The FTC claims the purchases were illegal and is pushing for Meta to divest both apps. Key Meta figures, including CEO Mark Zuckerberg and former COO Sheryl Sandberg, are […]
I was talking with DJ Ease the other day after I found out Instagram doesn’t let you follow more than 7,500 people. So I had to go through and unfollow a bunch of accounts—and while doing that, I came across a few people who had passed away. Some I knew personally, others I didn’t. As […]
Users on Facebook and Instagram reported receiving notifications that they had followed Trump and Vice President JD Vance’s pages, prompting alarm. Meta clarified that these changes are standard procedure during administrative transitions. Additionally, some users noticed the hashtag #democrat was not displaying results but instead showing a message about potentially sensitive content. This occurred amid […]
Irondequoit police say a person selling a car on Facebook Marketplace had their car stolen by the person that agreed to meet up to purchase the vehicle. The incident happened on August 21st the incident is still under investigation. Car sale on Facebook Marketplace turns into car theft in Irondequoit – WHEC.com
A new report says people have been scammed out of billions of dollars on social media according to the Federal Trade Commission. Online shopping from social media ads on Facebook and Instagram made up for 44% of the scams. Scamming people with fake investment opportunities was at 53% and online romance also played a role in the […]
Schools are taking on social media giants including Facebook, TikTok, Snapchat, and YouTube, asserting that the platforms have caused their students harm – particularly regarding issues like cyberbullying and mental health issues linked to social media usage. Approximately 200 school districts have joined the lawsuit against the platforms’ parent companies so far, which has been consolidated in […]
Families of the victims involved in the mass shooting at the Tops supermarket in Buffalo last year have come forward with a lawsuit stating that websites like social media and gun sellers helped cause the attack. According to the lawsuit, the families said the shooter was influenced by hateful lies he found online. “They helped […]
According to an announcement on her verified Facebook page, Tina Turner, the remarkable rock and soul vocalist who emerged from modest origins and triumphed over a widely known abusive marriage, has passed away. She achieved incredible success and became one of the most beloved female artists in history. Tina Turner was 83 years old. Source: […]
Jada Pinkett Smith, Willow Smith, and Adrienne Banfield-Norris are taking a break, for now, from their popular show, Red Table Talk. The Daytime Emmy Award-winning web talk series has come to an end after its network, Facebook Watch, was closed down by Meta. Red Table Talk premiered on Facebook Watch in 2018 and became famous […]
Are you a Facebook users? Did you have an account from May 2007 to December 2022? Well, you can now apply for their share of a $725 million privacy lawsuit settlement. Facebook’s parent company, Meta, is doling out the payments to settle a lawsuit alleging it allowed Cambridge Analytica, a former British political consulting firm […]
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