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National

Facebook parent Meta will pay $725M to settle a privacy suit over Cambridge Analytica

4:20pm December 23, 2022

by Ashley Ahn

The proposed settlement is a result of revelations that the information of up to 87 million people may have been improperly shared with the data analytics firm that worked for political campaigns.

Abrham Amare, one of the plaintiffs named in a new lawsuit filed against Facebook's parent company, Meta, claims that social media posts directly led to his father's murder in Ethiopia last year.

World News

A $1.6 billion lawsuit alleges Facebook's inaction fueled violence in Ethiopia

5:01am December 17, 2022

by Emily Olson

One of the plaintiffs says he contacted Facebook several times about posts threatening violence against his father, who was murdered by members of a militant group.

Amazon plans to lay off 10,000 of its corporate and technology employees, The New York Times reported Monday.

National

It's the end of the boom times in tech, as layoffs keep mounting

8:16pm November 14, 2022

by Laurel Wamsley

Amazon will reportedly lay off 10,000 employees as soon as this week. That follows job cuts at Meta, Twitter, and Stripe, with CEOs citing economic uncertainty and a slowdown in online ad buying.

A Washington state judge on Wednesday fined Facebook parent company Meta nearly $25 million for repeatedly and intentionally violating campaign finance disclosure law.

Facebook's parent is fined nearly $25M for violating a campaign finance disclosure law

11:55am October 27, 2022

by The Associated Press

The penalty issued by a Washington state judge was the maximum allowed for more than 800 violations of the state's Fair Campaign Practices Act.

Social media company Meta's headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. The Facebook parent company says it has removed a Russian network pushing a pro-Kremlin view of the war in Ukraine and a Chinese network targeting the U.S. midterm elections.

Politics & Government

Facebook takes down Russian network impersonating European news outlets

8:15am September 27, 2022

by Shannon Bond

Meta says it has disrupted a large Russian network of fake accounts pushing a pro-Kremlin view of the war in Ukraine and a separate Chinese campaign targeting the U.S. midterm elections.

Voters cast their ballots at a polling station set up in a fire station on Aug. 23 in Miami Beach, Fla.

Politics & Government

Social media firms are prepping for the midterms. Experts say it may not be enough

12:18pm September 12, 2022

by Shannon Bond

Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and TikTok are bringing back familiar strategies from 2020 to fight the spread of disinformation in the 2022 midterm elections.

A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in New York City on Aug. 5. The majority of America's top companies have reported strong earnings, but warning signs about the economy are also emerging from their corporate earnings.

Economy

3 warning signs about the economy coming out of America's top companies

7:29am August 12, 2022

by David Gura

Companies are bracing for potential trouble ahead by lowering their advertising budgets, cutting costs and adapting to their customers' changing spending habits.

Queue Listen Now

A Russian court has banned Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, for "extremist activities." WhatsApp is excluded from the ruling, however.

A Russian court bans Facebook and Instagram as extremist

12:42pm March 21, 2022

by Alina Selyukh

The ruling amounts to an immediate ban of Facebook and Instagram in Russia, where both platforms are already blocked. WhatsApp, which is owned by the same company, is still allowed.

A picture taken in Moscow in March 2018 shows the Russian language version of Facebook's "about" page, featuring the face of founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

Russia plans to limit Instagram and could label Meta an extremist group

7:56pm March 11, 2022

by Shannon Bond

Russia's top prosecutor called for Facebook and Instagram's parent company to be labeled an extremist group after Meta said it would permit some calls for violence against "Russian invaders."

Meta banned seven surveillance firms from Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp on Thursday, accusing the firms of using the platforms to spy on about 50,000 unsuspecting people.

Facebook bans 7 'surveillance-for-hire' companies that spied on 50,000 users

4:20pm December 16, 2021

by Shannon Bond

The parent company of Facebook and Instagram says the firms used its platforms to spy on human rights activists, government critics, celebrities and journalists in more than 100 countries.