Social media giant Meta and its subsidiaries have copped $20 million in fines after an app that claimed to protect personal information was found to have collected user data for …
Anyone in the U.S. who used Facebook in the last 16 years can now collect a piece of a $725 million settlement by parent company Meta tied to privacy violations, …
The powerful algorithms used by Facebook and Instagram to deliver content to users have increasingly been blamed for amplifying misinformation and political polarization. But a series of groundbreaking studies published …
In the lead-up to the 2020 presidential election, Meta set out to conduct a series of ambitious studies on the effects its platforms—Facebook and Instagram—have on the political beliefs of …
For three months in late 2020, nearly 7,200 US adults on Facebook and 8,800 on Instagram received a radically different experience than the services’ billions of other users. When they …
TikTok is set to launch an e-commerce platform to sell Chinese-made goods to its millions of American users, according to a new report in the Wall Street Journal. The new …
As a music enthusiast, it’s no easy feat to choose between Spotify and Apple Music. Spotify currently has over 515 million users and 210 million Premium subscribers worldwide. Spotify offers …
Wrote Doughty, “Defendants ‘significantly encouraged’ the social-media companies to such extent that the decisions (of the companies) should be deemed to be the decisions of the government.” Doughty’s ban, which …
Threads may not be the “Twitter killer” app Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg hoped it would be. The Instagram-linked Threads has seen users flee in droves since it became the toast …
A Victorian tenant has been kicked out of their Geelong rental property because of their “hermit” vibes. The tenant shared a letter they received, notifying them of the decision, online …