Tech interests have spent tens of millions of dollars this year on state legislative races alone. Industry advocates say they want to protect innovation from overregulation.

The proposed settlement resolves claims that Meta designed its Facebook and Instagram platforms to addict children, misled consumers about their safety and improperly collected children's personal data.

Santa Clara County is going after Menlo Park-based Meta Platforms Inc., accusing the social media giant of facilitating 15 billion scam ads daily on Facebook and Instagram, accounting for $7 billion in revenues per year.

The parent companies of YouTube, Instagram and Facebook was ordered to pay $3 million to the family of a teenaged girl in a personal injury case in Los Angeles Superior Court.

New Mexico becomes the first state to win trial verdict against Meta for misleading consumers and endangering children and will ask a judge in May for an injunction against the tech giant.

Meta says its new AI Support Assistant will transform its approach to content enforcement, more accurately finding and removing severe content violations like scams and illegal content.

Lawsuits in California federal and state court are unearthing documents embarrassing to tech companies — and may be a tipping point into federal regulation. TikTok and Snap reached settlements in the case while Meta and Google are continuing as defendants.

The federal suit alleged that Facebook, which later became Meta, overpaid to acquire Instagram in 2012 and WhatsApp in 2014 as part of a strategy to eliminate social networking competitors.

The lawsuit by three Facebook users claimed that Meta misrepresented its data protection policies to suppress competition.

The restrictions on political ads around Election Day are being reinstated out of concern for political misinformation, heightened by the use of AI.

Ads connected to the attempted assassination of Donald Trump and Israel’s war in Gaza brought Facebook millions.

The parent company of Facebook and Instagram faced allegations that it had collected facial identification information on millions of users in violation of a state law.

The San Jose Police Department social media pages will showcase violent crime cases displaying suspects that have been identified but outstanding.

Victoriano Romero owns an automotive shop in San Jose where prosecutors say he received the stolen bicycles, took pictures of them, disassembled them, packaged them for delivery, and then had them transported to Mexico for sale.

Meta was accused of knowingly using features on Instagram and Facebook to hook children to its platforms, even as the company said its social media sites were safe for young people.

Research shows that sideshow posts can attract hundreds of people in a matter of minutes. We are asking social media platforms to work with our police department to suspend the accounts of people who post content promoting these events.