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.

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.

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.

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.

Mark Zuckerberg has used Meta’s might to push Threads to a fast start — but that may only work up to a point. In less than a day, Threads appeared to have taken the crown as the most rapidly downloaded app ever, easily outstripping ChatGPT. The newly released companion to Instagram aims at offering users an alternative to Twitter. 

The 19-second video went viral across multiple social media platforms almost immediately after it was posted on Instagram Oct 6, first by a private individual.

Under amendments made public June 30, only public prosecutors, such as the state attorney general and county district attorneys, would have the power to bring civil lawsuits against social media giants for deploying designs or features they know will addict kids.

San Jose police and the IRS discover that Amanda Riley faked cancer to defraud victims out of more than $105,000.

San Jose fire officials reported that no one was injured in the fire, the fire appeared to have started in the lumber area of the store and the cause of the fire was not suspicious.