Meta's VR division is under investigation by the Federal Trade Commission and multiple US states, Bloomberg reported Friday. The FTC and an undisclosed number of US states led by New York have been questioning third-party Oculus app developers over the last few months, sources with knowledge of the matter told Bloomberg.

Elon Musk has said that social media accounts tracking his travel movements are "becoming a security issue." The Tesla CEO on Monday responded to a Twitter post discussing the risk posed to Musk and his family in publicly posting details about his travel plans. "Yeah, unfortunately this is becoming a security issue," Musk said, without providing further detail.

Social media posts are having a significant impact on employability

The social-media platform’s status as a relic of the Internet has attracted prodigal users as well as new ones.

Mozilla's "Facebook Pixel Hunt" study will run until mid-July—and the company wants your help.

FACEBOOK IS A lot like a landfill, not only because it’s full of other people’s shit but because, while everyone agrees something needs to be done about it, nobody seems to quite know what. What most (American) commentators have in common, though, is where they look for the answer: the late 19th and early 20th century trust-busting and progressive movements, when activists and politicians broke harmful concentrations of economic power in everything from oil to railways.

TIME spoke to 19 Reddit moderators around the world who say Reddit has ignored their pleas for the company to rein in hate-speech in non-English language subreddits

Facebook is once again being accused of inciting violent behavior and hate crimes. Angela Underwood Jacobs, the sister of a federal officer who was murdered during the racial justice protests of 2020, sued Facebook's parent company Meta this week for allegedly "knowingly promoting extremist content" that contributed to the death of her brother, Dave Patrick Underwood.

The iPod shuffle is making a comeback in 2022 as a fashion trend on TikTok.

Facebook worried that an algorithm change would harm right-wing media, so it dinged traffic to liberal news outlets, The Wall Street Journal reported.

The recent Facebook leak accused the company of chasing profits over safety. So how can we trust Mark Zuckerberg’s metaverse?

Anti-vaccine activists have spent the past few days spreading lies about Betty White, the beloved actress who passed away at 99 years old on Dec. 31. But contrary to internet rumors, Betty White didn’t die after getting a covid-19 booster shot. “Betty died peacefully in her sleep at her home. People are saying her death was related to getting a booster shot three days earlier but that is not true,” White’s agent, Jeff Witjas, told Yahoo Entertainment.

In the approximately two months between the November 3, 2020, US presidential election and the January 6, 2021, attempted insurrection at the US Capitol, Facebook "took its eye off the ball" on moderation of political groups, a former Facebook employee told the Washington Post.

What we really know about the social media giant's impact on mental health

It's almost inevitable that social media forces us to see ourselves as objects—so why not opt out of the human image?

Social media and many other facets of modern life are destroying our ability to concentrate. We need to reclaim our minds while we still can

Twitter suspended a personal account for Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene after "repeated violations" of the Covid-19 misinformation policy, the company said Sunday. "We permanently suspended the account you referenced (@mtgreenee) for repeated violations of our COVID-19 misinformation policy," Twitter said in a statement. "We’ve been clear that, per our strike system for this policy, we will permanently suspend accounts for repeated violations of the policy."

Tumblr has restricted what its users can see on its iOS app in an effort to make sure it doesn't get kicked out of Apple's App Store again.

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A rapid uptake in technology has made living through a pandemic easier and safer. But regulators are starting to ask: at what cost? A new year is approaching and, thanks to the pandemic, brings with it the prospect of New Year's Eve celebrations built around the video calls and digital health passes that became a norm in 2021.