The FTC wants to prove Meta has a monopoly over personal social networking, so it wouldn’t view video app TikTok as a ...

In its telling of this alternate present, Instagram and WhatsApp are shadows of what they are in our world. They lacked the ...

The social media company called only a handful of witnesses as it sought to prove it helped Instagram and WhatsApp after ...

Meta used to be Facebook. Why state the obvious? The answer is that what’s obvious very much calls into question the FTC’s ...

Meta faces backlash for letting scam ads run, risking users' safety while prioritizing ad revenue over stricter fraud ...

Meta declined to comment further on the company's vision for social media's future. In a statement, a Meta spokesperson told Ars that "the FTC’s lawsuit against Meta defies reality," claiming that it ...

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The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on what to do when you’re conflicted about using an service you may rely on.

All of a sudden, women contacting one of the biggest sources of information about abortion in Mexico through the encrypted ...

Former Meta VP Stan Chudnovsky noted that efforts to introduce minor format innovations, such as Facebook Stories, were no longer sufficient amid the increasingly fragmented social media arena ...

Internal Meta surveys introduced by the FTC show that people primarily value Facebook and Instagram for keeping up with friends and family. Meta's defense: Social media has evolved into ...

But placing too much trust in chatbots’ outputs can be risky, in part because people struggle to know what ... as well as Cohere’s Command R+ and Meta’s Llama 3, which once underpinned ...