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Spanish intelligence warned of the looming Ceuta migrant invasion, despite Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s claim the flood of over 70,000 migrants was a surprise.

Meta will pay out a whopping $17 billion in a landmark trial that will see the social media giant impose stricter limits on kids using its platforms.

Meta, the social media giant behind Facebook and Instagram, will pay up to $16.68bn (£12.26bn) to settle its landmark child safety social media case.

A former engineering director at Meta said CEO Mark Zuckerberg fostered a culture that treated child safety as secondary to growth and engagement on Facebook and Instagram.

A jury will decide whether or not Meta designed its apps to “hook the users, hold them for as long as they can, harvest their data and hide the truth from the public"

Mark Zuckerberg has faced questions over why a small cruise ship in south-east Alaska rescued a stranded skiff and its crew when his 387ft superyacht had been closer.

African migrants are plotting a second invasion of Ceuta, with an imminent date set for a second wave of mass border crossings.

Hired hands in an underground takedown market are charging up to $5,000 to scrub reporting from social media by filing fake copyright claims.

A 19-year-old woman whose images were used to create fake Tinder, TikTok and Instagram profiles leading men to believe she was their girlfriend is to be paid compensation.

A Reform branch has apologised for an ‘administrative oversight’ after an AI-generated picture of road signs was posted on its Facebook page.

Social media sites should be faced with restrictions during elections in a similar way to broadcasters, Labour’s deputy leader said.

Age verification means that the sector’s biggest players will now have access to information that will only make them richer and more powerful

Hackers may be mass-reporting Instagram accounts and charging users thousands to restore them.

The social media ban for under-16s is not a “silver bullet”, the Technology Secretary acknowledged as she faced a backlash from firms which will be hit by the restriction.

Britain’s plans to ban social media for under-16s will push teenagers towards more harmful platforms, the world’s biggest technology companies have said as ministers push to enact the new restrictions by next spring.

A US lawyer who sued tech giants Meta and Google for $6 million in a historic case after they were found liable for social media addiction has told LBC the UK ban is a "landmark moment" and said tech firms must be hit in the pocket.

Keir Starmer will ban under-16s from major social media apps such as TikTok, Instagram and X in sweeping restrictions described as “Australia plus”, the Guardian understands.

A Dutch court artist has received damages after an MP for the far-right Party for Freedom (PVV) used one of her drawings without permission and altered it with AI to make the subjects appear more menacing.

Three in four European adults encountered a scam over the past 12 months, according to a sweeping new report that warns of a rapidly evolving digital underworld where criminal networks are increasingly harnessing artificial intelligence to target victims.

It’s a dank evening in Peterhead and someone is walking the streets of the north east town filming people. The man, seemingly drunk, is live streaming himself on Facebook and announces he’s on night patrol to protect the community.

Media has received a series of Facebook messages and posts from a Reform UK candidate appearing to mock disabled residents.

A wannabe Reform councillor standing in a key battleground despite initially failing vetting over racist posts claims he was a victim of Nigerian scammers.

The tech company Meta has been found to be in breach of EU law for failing to prevent children under 13 from using its Facebook and Instagram platforms.