The auto-mod is out of control.

Google has settled a lawsuit with a minor known who claimed that social media platforms harmed them.

The experimental app, internally called “Arena,” would be independent of Facebook and Instagram. It could compete for attention with Polymarket and Kalshi, the biggest prediction markets.

The longtime critic of the online encyclopedia is accused of trying to use his online followers to influence an internal Wikipedia debate.

EU Escalates Its Meta Probe The European Commission is getting ready to widen its case against Meta, with

Meta's Oversight Board has made several suggestions to make reporting sexualized AI deepfakes easier and more effective for ordinary people.

A new study suggests Instagram may shape not just how people judge their looks but how their brains decide what counts as their own face

Starmer wants to force platforms like YouTube and Facebook to boost BBC content – in spite of the fact that trust in the BBC is collapsing.

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UK attorney general Richard Hermer told his staff his office was quitting X, according to The Guardian and The Observer.

Several countries have restricted the messaging app, a valuable platform for dissidents, criminals and extremists. Here’s an overview.

A US filing says Grok was used in military operations tied to Iran, surfacing through an environmental lawsuit over xAI gas turbines.

Social media feeds are becoming more customizable as platforms like Threads, Instagram, and TikTok introduce tools that let users directly influence the algorithms powering their recommendations.

According to Keir Starmer, a teenager doesn’t have the judgement to scroll through Instagram without state supervision, but does have the judgement to pick the next government. We are governed by idiots, says Clive Pinder.

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“People just really want to take back control of their time, their lives, their attention... They’re down for whatever helps them do that.”

The evidence from Australia is clear, says Dr Reuben Kirkham, Director of the Free Speech Union of Australia: Sir Keir Starmer's social media 'ban' is doomed to fail. And it targets the wrong things anyway.

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Almost three years in, Meta's X competitor is still growing.

Elon Musk’s trillionaire milestone raises a bigger AI question: Will the future belong to the best models or the companies that own the infrastructure behind them?

Your public Facebook posts could help inform AI-generated results in Meta's new AI Mode. When you search on Facebook, the "AI Mode" option will appear alongside the usual search modes like "People" and "Marketplace." It's one of several new AI features Meta is rolling out starting today, including photo presets that swap sports jerseys onto fans and suggestions for collage templates.

Instead of "just links," it gives users AI-generated results that pull from publicly-posted content across Meta's platforms, like the AI search feature in its new Reddit-like Forum app. Users can also ask Meta's AI follow-up questions in response to the search …

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For months, Big Tech's Washington lobbyists have chased after the holy grail of pro-AI legislation: preemption. This would be a comprehensive federal law, passed in Congress and signed by the president, applying one set of AI rules across the entire country and overriding the legally messy state-by-state approach to regulation. For months, lobbyists have run into roadblocks and incurred nationwide political blowback, and they now face the possibility that after the midterms, Congress will flip to hostile Democrats unwilling to work with them.

But their final, most desperate attempt at preemption is coming with new baggage, related to an ent …

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The ban is set to begin early 2027.