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Nolan Wells' mother subpoenas social media companies seeking answers in son's death

  • Jul 29

Lawsuit claims Meta's AI unfairly targeted employees on leave

  • Jul 15

New Instagram feature allows users to rearrange posts on profile grid

  • Jun 9

Teen safety updates coming to Facebook, Instagram, Messenger

  • Jun 2

Meta to cut 8,000 jobs, 10% of staff as it pours billions into AI

  • Apr 24

Facebook should nix accounts that defraud, DA says

  • Apr 10

Jury awards $6 million in damages in landmark social media trial

  • Mar 26

Jury says Meta harms kids' mental health, safety, violating state law

  • Mar 24

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Court orders Instagram and Facebook's Meta to pay $567M to address kids' mental health online

  • Aug 7
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Meta's new teen safety updates

  • Jun 2
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Jury deliberating in landmark trial over kids' safety risks on Meta

  • Mar 24
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Meta faces antitrust trial as FTC calls company an illegal monopoly

  • Apr 14, 2025
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New rules on kids live streaming on Instagram

  • Apr 8, 2025
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Facebook, Instagram dump fact-checkers for 'community notes'

  • Jan 7, 2025
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Facebook, Instagram and other Meta social sites appear to be down

  • Mar 5, 2024
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  • Oct 5, 2023

Latest Stories

Woman named Alysa Liu has Instagram suspended for sharing name with superstar skater

The 'other' Alysa Liu began getting messages intended for the superstar Olympic skater that became annoying, but worse, Meta kicked the young tech worker off Instagram as a possible imposter.

  • Mar 13

20-year-old plaintiff testifies she became addicted to social media as early as 6 in landmark trial

The woman - identified in court as KGM - is the key plaintiff in the case, which alleges she began using social media as young as age 6 and became dependent on the apps.

  • Feb 27

Facebook, Instagram pages disabled after being wrongly accused of 'child endangerment,' owners say

In cases the ABC7 I-Team looked into, social media account holders said that they were wrongly accused of "child endangerment" and their Facebook and or Instagram pages disappeared.

  • Feb 5

NorCal software rep loses $176K after accepting remote job she thought to be with Facebook

When her so-called mentor suggested she sell her car and all her physical belongings at a pawn shop to try and 'unfreeze' her account, Dawn Furseth realized she had been scammed.

  • Jan 23
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Australia to enforce social media age limit of 16 next week with fines up to $33 million

Social media platforms must report monthly how many children's accounts they close once Australia begins enforcing its 16-year age limit next week.

  • Dec 5, 2025