Meta has agreed to pay President Donald Trump $25 million to settle a 2021 lawsuit he filed claiming he was wrongfully censored by Facebook and Instagram after the US Capitol riot, the company said Wednesday.

Blurred posts, downranked searches and deleted accounts: Since President Donald Trump's election, groups sharing information about abortion pills say they have faced a surge in online censorship—hindering their ability to reach women urgently seeking the procedure.

Facebook parent Meta has begun testing ads on its newest social network, Threads, an executive announced Friday, as the company continues to grow its alternative to Elon Musk's X. Launched in summer 2023, its debut came eight months after Musk's acquisition of Twitter—now called X—when changes like paid subscriptions and reduced content moderation were driving…

Social networking giant Meta has denied complaints from some users that they are being forced to follow accounts belonging to the new administration of US President Donald Trump.

Meta plans to dismiss approximately 3,600 employees identified as low performers and replace them with new hires, according to an internal memo Tuesday.

Internet giant Meta's fact-checking programme aims to counter false information on its social platforms -- Facebook, Instagram and Threads -- with the help of media organisations, including AFP. Here is a guide to how it works, following Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg's announcement on January 6 that he was halting the programme in the United States.…

Social media platform, Meta, has announced that it will bring an end to its third-party fact-checking programme, which allows users to comment freely across its platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, and Threads.

Social media giant Meta announced Tuesday a significant rollback of its content moderation policies, including the termination of its third-party fact-checking program in the United States. "We're going to get rid of fact-checkers and replace them with community notes similar to X (formerly Twitter), starting in the US," Meta Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg said…

An Irish regulator helping police European Union data privacy on Tuesday said it had fined Facebook-owner Meta 251 million euros ($263 million) for a data protection failure that saw users' accounts hacked. The Data Protection Commission (DPC) criticised Meta for a security flaw in its video upload function which hackers were able to exploit to…

Social media platforms such as Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp are currently down for users worldwide. Reports of outages are flooding in, with users unable to refresh feeds or send messages. Meta has yet to comment. "Over 42,000 users of Meta's Instagram and the company's other social media apps are reporting outages right now," DownDetector stated.…

Social media giant Meta announced Monday a worldwide anti-scam awareness campaign aimed at protecting users from fraudulent schemes during the holiday shopping season. The company, which owns Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram, revealed it has taken down over two million accounts linked to scam centers in Cambodia, Myanmar, Laos, the UAE, and the Philippines this year.…

Social media giant Meta announced Monday a worldwide anti-scam awareness campaign aimed at protecting users from fraudulent schemes during the holiday shopping season.