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Facing Disabled Accounts, Social Media Users Struggle to Reach Platform for Answers
People who said they lost access to their social media accounts and don’t know why have reached out to the NBC Responds team for help. They said they tried to troubleshoot and follow help center instructions, but could not connect to anyone at Facebook or Instagram who could help. At 18 years old, Cori Roberson has leveraged her love of…
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Meta to Lay Off 10,000 More Workers After Initial Cuts in November
Meta is laying off 10,000 more employees following a major round of job cuts in November.
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Supreme Court Considers Whether Tech Giants Can Be Sued for the Content Posted on Their Sites
The Supreme Court seemed skeptical Wednesday of a lawsuit trying to hold social media companies responsible for a terrorist attack at a Turkish nightclub that killed 39 people.
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Ralphie the ‘Demon' Dog Adopted by New Owner Who Is ‘Completely In Love'
Despite the dog shelter who looked after him having very few good things to say about Ralphie, the 26-pound “jerk” of a French bulldog, in a now-viral adoption ad, the pup has been re-homed!
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Facebook and Instagram Will Reinstate Trump After Two-Year Ban
The decision comes two years after Trump’s suspension on Facebook was enacted following the 2021 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
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Meta Threatens to Remove News From Facebook Platform if Congress Requires it to Pay for Content
The Journalism Competition and Preservation Act, if passed, would allow news companies to collectively negotiate with social platforms over the terms on which their material appears on their sites.
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Dating Dangers: Women Use Private Facebook Groups to Keep Each Other Safe
Some women are taking more control of their dating lives by joining private Facebook groups to share dirt on former dates so others don’t waste their time.
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Video: Zuckerberg Thanks Laid-Off Employees for ‘Putting Heart and Soul' into Meta
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg thanked about 11,000 laid-off employees for their work during a video call on Wednesday.
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Meta Laying Off More Than 11,000 Employees: Read Zuckerberg's Letter Announcing the Cuts
Meta is laying off 13% of its staff, or more than 11,000 employees, CEO Mark Zuckerberg told employees on Wednesday.
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Applying for College? Keep in Mind, What You Post Online Is Public Record
If you’re a college applicant, you may have fine-tuned your essays and submissions. It’s a good idea to clean up your online profiles, too. “If I was a student applying to college, I would assume that someone may look at my profiles,” said Christine Lilley, director of K-12 institutional partnerships at Kaplan. The company has inside information on what...
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How Social Media Could Help Or Hurt Your College Candidacy
It’s college application season, but high school seniors might be overlooking something big.
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Meta Fined $24.7M for Campaign Finance Disclosure Violations
A Washington state judge has fined Facebook parent company Meta nearly $25 million for repeated, willful violations of campaign finance disclosure laws.
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Meta Says it Disabled Sprawling Russian Propaganda Network Targeting Europe
Facebook said it was the largest and most complex Russian propaganda effort that it has found since the invasion of Ukraine began.
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Facebook Says It Took Down China-based Accounts That Tried to Interfere in the US Midterms
Facebook parent company Meta said fake accounts posing as Americans attacked politicians from both parties and posted divisive material about issues such as abortion and gun rights
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Hacked and Ignored? Frustration for Customers Locked Out of Their Social Media Accounts
Users saying the process to recover accounts is confusing and not helpful.
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Facebook Parent Settles Suit in Cambridge Analytica Scandal
Facebook’s corporate parent has reached a tentative settlement in a lawsuit alleging the world’s largest social network service allowed millions of its users’ personal information to be fed to Cambridge Analytica, a firm that supported Donald Trump’s victorious presidential campaign in 2016.
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Lost and Found: Missing Heirloom Ring Discovered at Beach in Hampton, NH
Francesca Teal’s Facebook post on a page for metal detector enthusiasts was shared over 3,000 times; eight days after Teal lost her heirloom ring at North Beach in Hampton, New Hampshire, metal detector hobbyist Lou Asci found it buried in four inches of sand.
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Facebook Misses ‘Blatant' Election Misinfo in Brazil Ads, Report Finds
Facebook failed to detect election-related misinformation in ads ahead of Brazil’s 2022 election, a new report from Global Witness has found.
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Instagram Now Allows Users to Remove Weight Loss and Weight Control Ads From Their Feeds
The new update to their Sensitive Content Control, introduced by Instagram last summer, allows users to filter content on more than just their Explore page.
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Facebook Goes Old School With a New Feed That Favors Friends and Family
The main news feed will now be known as “Home,” and will act as more of a “discovery engine” based on people’s online habits.