New Mexico’s attorney general has accused Meta of not protecting children from sexual predators on its platforms. He now wants to know how it polices subscribers to accounts featuring children. By ...

Meta will start charging users in Europe for ad-free subscriptions on Facebook and Instagram starting next month, the company announced Monday, after previous reports indicated Meta would become the ...

After the Cambridge Analytica data scandal broke in 2018, things got bad enough for Meta (then Facebook) that Mark Zuckerberg had to face Congress to try to explain what had happened. The focus on how ...

If you are a regular user of Facebook and Instagram, you have certainly noticed an increased presence of ads and other non-user-generated content in your feeds lately. While it's understandable that ...

Meta Platforms is debuting ad-free Facebook and Instagram subscriptions in Europe in response to increasing regulations about how user data is collected and used on the continent. “In November, we ...

Meta Platforms' (NASDAQ:META) stock rose ~4% on Monday after the company said it will offer people access to Facebook and Instagram without any ads for a subscription fee in Europe, in an effort to ...

Facebook continues to refine the level of control granted to users over their News Feed. The social network’s newest feature, Subscriptions, functions similarly to the way you can follow people on ...

Pay for Facebook and Instagram? That may seem unthinkable to those of us who use the free apps. Parent company Meta announced Friday that users in the UK can choose to pay for a Facebook or Instagram ...

In a nutshell: Meta might be gearing up to pilot ad-free versions of Facebook and Instagram in the European Union. Insiders have leaked that the social media giant plans to offer subscriptions to its ...

Given the number of phishing scams we have all faced over the past decade, most of us have developed a basic skill to spot and avoid obvious phishing emails or SMS messages. Cybercriminals are aware ...

Firms like Meta use data to serve up highly targeted ads, and they have struggled to comply with strict EU rules - Copyright AFP MARCO BERTORELLO Firms like Meta use ...

CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The ...