Tech founders took to X to dunk on Meta's new Vibes feature, calling it "AI slop" and a new way to get vulnerable users hooked on mindless content.

Meta said the report misrepresents its efforts on teen safety. The report evaluated 47 of Meta’s 53 safety features for teens on Instagram, and found that the majority of them a

Esperanza Gomez, who has over 5 million followers on Instagram, said Meta's decision to close her account affected her ability to work.

He has said his online safety bill, known as KOSA, would hold companies like Meta accountable and make more safety settings available on social platforms.

Meta, fresh off a hiring blitz that saw Mark Zuckerberg woo elite artificial intelligence researchers with enormous pay packages, has a new AI offering that’s being met with near-unanimous ridicule and even dismay.

A new report from a Meta whistleblower and university researchers found that many of Instagram’s teen safety features, introduced over the years in the face of congressional and public pressure, fall short of their aims and fail to protect younger users.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Wednesday that the once-humble photo-sharing app, which he had the foresight to buy for a mere $1 billion in 2012, now has more than 3 billion active users. That's an extraordinary achievement, and not just because Instagram had barely cracked 30 million monthly active users at sale time.

Despite several reports around town, a public relations firm says Meta, the owner of Facebook and Instagram, is not affiliated with a $12 billion proposed data center project near New Carlisle. “Meta is not affiliated with that project,