DoorDash to deliver Facebook Marketplace purchases in US

DoorDash will deliver certain smaller items purchased on Facebook Marketplace as part of a new partnership. Here's what can be delivered.

Mother sues Facebook, claiming harm to addicted teenage daughter

Cecelia Tesch says her 13-year-old daughter suffers from an eating disorder, depression and other mental health problems after six years of using Facebook.

Facebook, Instagram to reveal details on how ads target users

Meta will publicly share information about demographics and money spent on ads created to target people in states posted on their social media platforms.

Meta employees can't talk about abortion on internal platform

Some Facebook employees are not happy about the company's policy that bans them from talking about abortion on the job.

Instagram ‘negligent’ over harassment in women’s DMs, study claims

Researchers combed through thousands of misogynistic, hate-filled messages in women’s DMs on Instagram and found that Meta failed to act on their incident reports 90% of the time.

Facebook parent Meta agrees to pay $90M to settle decade-old privacy lawsuit

Facebook parent company Meta will pay $90 million to settle a privacy lawsuit over its use of “cookies” in 2010 and 2011 that tracked people online.

Facebook's daily active users fall for 1st time in its history

Facebook’s fourth-quarter earnings report shared this week revealed a drop in its daily active users, a first in its history.

Facebook parent company Meta to expand in Austin, leasing high-rise

Facebook arrived in Austin 10 years ago with only seven employees and that number continues to grow. The company will now lease space in what's expected to be Austin's tallest building.

Senators question Instagram CEO about app's potential harm to young users

Adam Mosseri is testifying Wednesday at a Senate hearing as Facebook, whose parent now is named Meta Platforms, has been roiled by public and political outrage over the disclosures by former Facebook employee Frances Haugen.

Instagram unveils new teen safety tools ahead of congressional hearing

Instagram is rolling out new features, including one that urges teens to take breaks from the app, amid scrutiny on the Facebook-owned platform.

Nearly 1,000 Facebook, Instagram accounts deactivated over COVID-19 misinformation

In total, Meta deleted 979 accounts, groups and pages across its platforms last month, most of which were found to belong to a sprawling network from China trying to spread COVID-19 misinformation.

Facebook owner Meta ordered to sell Giphy by UK antitrust watchdog

The U.K.'s antitrust watchdog has blocked Facebook's acquisition of Giphy and ordered the social network to sell off the GIF-sharing platform.

State attorneys general investigating Instagram's effects on children, young adults

A group of state attorneys general are investigating Instagram and its effects on children and young adults, saying its parent company Facebook — recently renamed Meta Platforms — ignored research about the harms it causes to young people.

Protesters say Facebook incites violence against Muslims

Demonstrators want Meta, aka Facebook, to remove hateful speech, identify dangerous groups, moderate posts, and invest resources in stopping violence.

Facebook to end facial-recognition system for more than 1B users

More than a third of Facebook’s daily active users have opted in to have their faces recognized by the social network’s system.

Facebook changes company name to Meta to emphasize its ‘metaverse’ vision

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says his company is rebranding itself as Meta, an effort to encompass its virtual-reality vision for the future.

Facebook Papers: Company froze as anti-vaccine comments swarmed users

As false claims about vaccine safety threatened to undermine COVID-19 response, documents reveal that Facebook took a full month to implement changes.