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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s government is expressing concerns that his reelection campaign has been compromised by Facebook’s internal features, which are favoring his opponent Péter Magyar, who is leading in the polls before Sunday’s critical election.

Tens of thousands of people have been compensated by a company partially owned by Meta to train AI by examining Instagram accounts, collecting copyrighted materials, and transcribing pornographic soundtracks, the Guardian can reveal.

It started with a tip-off. I was reporting on the trafficking and exploitation of migrant workers in the Gulf when a source I had known for more than ten years reached out. They told me that child sexual abuse trafficking in the US was increasing. As the Covid pandemic pushed predators online, some were using Facebook and Instagram to buy and sell children.

OpenAI has reached an agreement to acquire TBPN, a technology-focused talk show that is popular in Silicon Valley, marking an unexpected move into broadcasting after committing to abandon "side quests" and concentrate on its core business.

Google’s UK boss has cautioned that prohibiting social media for under-16s is not the "right approach" and might push children towards "more dangerous and unsupervised corners of the internet."

A California state jury determined that Meta and YouTube were liable in a significant social media case on Wednesday, granting $3 million in compensatory damages to a plaintiff who initiated the case, with the Instagram creator’s liability set at 70% and the Google company’s at 30%.

Meta did not succeed in protecting children from sexual predators and misled users regarding the safety of its platforms, thereby violating New Mexico law, a jury determined on Tuesday in a landmark case.

Tech mogul Mark Zuckerberg is stepping away from a social media project that was once intended to be a fundamental part of Meta’s transition into the metaverse. Horizon Worlds is gradually shutting down as a social network and game space designed for users of the Quest virtual reality headset.

Fraud in the United Kingdom soared to unprecedented levels in 2025, with reported cases reaching a record 444,000, according to new data released Thursday by the fraud prevention service Cifas.

West Virginia filed a lawsuit against Apple on Thursday, alleging that the tech giant allows predators to easily conceal child sexual abuse material in its iCloud storage. This marks the first time a state has sued the company over this issue.

Deals on Facebook Marketplace are becoming deadly, with two people killed this year while trying to sell items.

Mark Zuckerberg is among the wealthiest individuals globally, and his multimillion-dollar real estate holdings showcase that.

The most recent release of files on Jeffrey Epstein from the Justice Department reveals that the late sex offender had broader and more extensive connections in the tech industry than was previously understood. These revelations are now causing divisions in the typically close-knit world of Silicon Valley.

Meta’s second major trial of 2026 over alleged harms to children begins on Monday.

US authorities have reportedly examined claims that Meta can access users’ encrypted chats on the WhatsApp messaging platform, which is owned by Meta.

The Trump administration has prohibited five European individuals from entering the U.S., alleging they pressured American tech companies to censor online speech.

State supreme court decision on a deal once valued at $56 billion and now approximately $139 billion overturns a ruling that sparked a strong backlash from Musk

Thousands of Europeans are falling prey to online investment scams peddled on social media. Tech firms and public authorities are failing to shield citizens in the shadow of the Digital Services Act, Investigate Europe can reveal.

The former Meta executive who recommended banning President Donald Trump from Facebook says the decision still keeps him awake at night.

Thongbue Wongbandue, 76, tragically died in a New Jersey parking lot when he hurried to meet "Big Sis Billie," a generative Meta bot that not only made him believe she was real but also convinced him to meet face-to-face

Meta allowed its AI models to "have romantic or sensual conversations with a child," produce inaccurate medical information, and assist users in arguing that Black people are "less intelligent than white people."

Instagram’s controversial new “Map” feature carries “significant public safety and data privacy concerns" that could endanger kids, a bipartisan group of state attorneys general warned in a letter on Wednesday.

SoftBank and Meta are making major strides in their push to jumpstart multi-billion dollar data center projects.

Meta’s newest whiz kid, Matt Deitke bagged himself a mighty $250 million pay packet, but some users of the 24-year-old researcher’s last tech product called Vy have complained about its functionality.