Facebook is down, interrupting your poking and Meta's ads business
Simon Sharwood / theregister - Go outside and smell some flowers Meta’s flagship service, Facebook, is experiencing an outage.…
Back to Top / Tuesday, March 3, 2026, 8:20 pm / permalink 20097 / 4 stories in 3 days
Meta is shuttering Messenger’s standalone website, which is a thing that exists
Lawrence Bonk / engadget - Meta is shutting down the standalone Messenger website, according to a company help page. The website will disappear in April, though web users will still be able to send and receive messages within Facebook."After messenger.com goes away, you will be aut…
Back to Top / Thursday, February 19, 2026, 2:21 pm / permalink 19433 / 4 stories in 15 days
Mark Zuckerberg Says Instagram Is Valuable, Not Harmful, in Social Media Addiction Trial
Eli Tan / nytimes - Meta’s chief executive said users spent a lot of time on the app because of its value, as he was grilled about child safety issues in front of a jury.
- Internal Meta fights: experts overruled, beauty filters, youth safety (5)
- Judge warns: no AI glasses; juror privacy at risk (4)
- Wider legal and policy ripple: global bans, bellwether cases (2)
- Zuckerberg defends Instagram as 'useful', denies engagement goals (9)
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Internal Meta fights: experts overruled, beauty filters, youth safety
Judge warns: no AI glasses; juror privacy at risk
Wider legal and policy ripple: global bans, bellwether cases
Zuckerberg defends Instagram as 'useful', denies engagement goals
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Back to Top / Wednesday, February 18, 2026, 5:21 pm / permalink 19386 / 21 stories in 16 days
Zuckerberg to testify in landmark social media addiction trial
techxplore - Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is set to testify Wednesday at a groundbreaking social media addiction trial, summoned by lawyers representing a plaintiff who alleges Instagram and other platforms were deliberately designed to make young users addicted.
- Families and plaintiffs converge in Los Angeles courtroom (2)
- Landmark legal test: can platform design be held responsible? (3)
- On the stand: Zuckerberg faces grilling from plaintiffs' lawyers (5)
- Social and community posts amplifying trial coverage (2)
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Families and plaintiffs converge in Los Angeles courtroom
Landmark legal test: can platform design be held responsible?
On the stand: Zuckerberg faces grilling from plaintiffs' lawyers
Social and community posts amplifying trial coverage
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Back to Top / Wednesday, February 18, 2026, 5:21 am / permalink 19342 / 13 stories in 16 days
Facebook Adding AI Profile Picture Animations and Story Editing Tools
Juli Clover / macrumors - Meta today announced several new AI features for popular social network Facebook. The capabilities will be available for profile pictures, photos, posts, stories, and more.Meta AI's image editing tools can be used to animate a profile picture, adding moti…
Back to Top / Tuesday, February 10, 2026, 3:21 pm / permalink 18989 / 8 stories in 24 days
Meta to test premium subscription plans for Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp
cnbc - Meta Platforms is set to test new subscription models across its apps, including Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp in the coming months.
- AI-powered perks boost premium features exclusively. (5)
- Meta tests subscriptions—free core remains intact. (10)
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AI-powered perks boost premium features exclusively.
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Back to Top / Monday, January 26, 2026, 10:21 pm / permalink 18428 / 17 stories in 5 wks
550,000 accounts gone: Meta’s first report on Australia’s social media ban
Kerem Gülen / dataconomy - Meta Platforms Inc. has deactivated nearly 550,000 accounts in Australia to comply with the nation’s new social media ban for users under 16, the company announced on Medium. This action includes 330,000 Instagram accounts, 173,000 Facebook accounts, and …
Back to Top / Monday, January 12, 2026, 9:20 am / permalink 17777 / 5 stories in 7 wks
Meta wins monopoly trial, convinces judge that social networking is dead
Ashley Belanger / arstechnica - People are "bored" by their friends' content, judge ruled, siding with Meta.
Back to Top / Tuesday, November 18, 2025, 4:21 pm / permalink 16087 / 11 stories in 3 months
Meta is making billions of dollars from scam ads on Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, report says
engadget - Meta is making billions of dollars every year from ads marketing scams and illegal products on its platform, according to a new report from Reuters. The report details the staggering numbers behind scam ads on Meta's platform, and raises fresh questions a…
Back to Top / Thursday, November 6, 2025, 1:21 pm / permalink 15735 / 7 stories in 4 months
MPA orders Meta to stop using “PG-13” label on Instagram teen accounts
Aytun Çelebi / dataconomy - The Motion Picture Association (MPA) has sent a cease and desist order to Meta, demanding that Instagram stop using the “PG-13” movie rating to describe the content standards for its teen-focused accounts. The trade group, which is responsible for the U.S…
Back to Top / Thursday, November 6, 2025, 4:20 am / permalink 15717 / 3 stories in 4 months
The MPA tells Meta to stop using PG-13 to describe teen accounts
Matt Tate / engadget - The Motion Picture Association doesn’t share Meta’s view that the content people under the age of 18 might encounter on an Instagram Teen Account is comparable to what you might find in a PG-13 movie. The MPA has reportedly hit Mark Zuckerberg’s company w…
Back to Top / Wednesday, November 5, 2025, 12:22 pm / permalink 15702 / 6 stories in 4 months
Facebook now lets private groups go public without exposing past posts
Kerem Gülen / dataconomy - Meta announced an update to Facebook Groups on Monday, enabling administrators to convert private groups to public status without exposing past private posts or member lists. This change addresses the need for groups to expand reach while preserving exist…
Back to Top / Tuesday, November 4, 2025, 5:20 am / permalink 15638 / 4 stories in 4 months
Facebook Messenger is about to stop working on these platforms
John Kanellakos / pocket-lint - Meta is deprecating its dedicated Facebook Messenger apps for PC and Mac in favor of a unified web-based alternative - full support ends in December.
Back to Top / Monday, October 20, 2025, 4:20 pm / permalink 15247 / 2 stories in 4 months
Trump admin pressured Facebook into removing ICE-tracking group
Jon Brodkin / arstechnica - Pam Bondi claims Facebook group was used to “dox and target” ICE agents
Back to Top / Tuesday, October 14, 2025, 4:20 pm / permalink 15128 / 6 stories in 4 months
Facebook brings back job listings in the US
Lauren Forristal / techcrunch - Facebook is reintroducing job listings to users in the U.S., focusing on entry-level, trade, and service jobs.
Back to Top / Tuesday, October 14, 2025, 12:21 pm / permalink 15119 / 4 stories in 4 months
Facebook Overhauls Reels With Smarter AI Recommendations and New Social Features
Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - Facebook is updating its Reels platform with a smarter AI-powered recommendation engine, new 'friend bubbles' for social sharing, and enhanced user controls.The post Facebook Overhauls Reels With Smarter AI Recommendations and New Social Features appeared…
Back to Top / Tuesday, October 7, 2025, 1:21 pm / permalink 15007 / 7 stories in 4 months
Dutch court rules Meta violated European law by pushing users to profiled feeds
therecord - The decision comes in response to a lawsuit filed by the Dutch nonprofit Bits of Freedom, which argued that by controlling users’ feeds Meta has been improperly skewing what news consumers receive.
Back to Top / Thursday, October 2, 2025, 12:21 pm / permalink 14962 / 5 stories in 5 months
Meta plans to sell targeted ads based on data in your AI chats
Maxwell Zeff / techcrunch - Meta plans to use data from your interactions with AI products to sell targeted ads on Facebook and Instagram.
AI chat data fuels ad personalization
Mosseri debunks spying rumors
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Back to Top / Wednesday, October 1, 2025, 9:21 am / permalink 14941 / 18 stories in 5 months
‘The Social Network’ sequel will focus on Haugen leaks, with Jeremy Strong as Mark Zuckerberg
Amanda Silberling / techcrunch - Fifteen years after "The Social Network," director Aaron Sorkin is making a sequel film about Facebook called "The Social Reckoning."
Back to Top / Friday, September 26, 2025, 4:21 pm / permalink 14882 / 3 stories in 5 months
Ad-free versions of Facebook and Instagram are coming to the UK – for a price
Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson / betanews - Meta has announced that it is launching a subscription service in the UK that will let users of Facebook and Instagram pay to avoid ads. The plan has already been rejected by the European Union, but this does not affect post-Brexit UK. Separate subscripti…
Back to Top / Friday, September 26, 2025, 8:21 am / permalink 14874 / 9 stories in 5 months