Tech giant Meta on Thursday was rolling out long-promised end-to-end encryption of chats and calls at Messenger and Facebook.

8 December 2023 · 2 min read

Meta filed a lawsuit late Wednesday arguing that US regulators planning to change the terms of a 2020 privacy settlement are overstepping their authority and…

1 December 2023 · 2 min read

Australia's government on Monday fired a powerful civil servant known as a hardliner on immigration following an investigation into WhatsApp messages he…

27 November 2023 · 2 min read

Meta on Wednesday reported that its quarterly profit more than doubled from last year's figure as it looks ahead at a volatile ad market and lawsuits accusing…

26 October 2023 · 3 min read

Canada "will not back down" in the face of opposition from tech giants to a new law requiring companies like Google and Meta to pay publishers for…

7 October 2023 · 2 min read

Meta is proposing to offer European users a subscription-based version of Instagram and Facebook if they would rather not be tracked for ads, a source said on…

4 October 2023 · 2 min read

Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday said the tech giant is putting artificial intelligence into digital assistants and smart glasses as it seeks to gain…

28 September 2023 · 2 min read

Britain's interior minister on Wednesday warned tech giant Meta that rolling out end-to-end encryption on its platforms must "not to come at a cost to our…

20 September 2023 · 2 min read

Social media giant Meta said on Tuesday it would pull the plug on the Facebook News tab in December in its biggest European markets — the UK, France, and…

5 September 2023 · 1 min read

Germany's antitrust regulator said Wednesday it had shelved an investigation into Google's News Showcase service, after the tech giant made "important…

21 December 2022 · 2 min read

An oversight panel said on Tuesday Facebook and Instagram put business over human rights when giving special treatment to rule-breaking posts by politicians,…

6 December 2022 · 2 min read

Amazon, Microsoft, gaming companies, and video streaming services also lost their value.

11 November 2022 · 2 min read

Facebook owner Meta will lay off more than 11,000 of its staff in "the most difficult changes we've made in Meta's history", boss Mark Zuckerberg…

9 November 2022 · 2 min read

US tech giant Meta confirmed a global outage was affecting its messaging service WhatsApp on Tuesday and said it was working to restore the app "as…

25 October 2022 · 1 min read

Google said that most of the apps Meta flagged had already been identified and removed from the Play store by its own vetting systems

8 October 2022 · 2 min read