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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"

Ariana Grande has confirmed her rekindled romance with ex-boyfriend Ricky Alvarez by sharing photographs of the pair on Instagram, just two days before she arrives in London for the final leg of her Eternal Sunshine world tour.

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.

A Singapore court has fined a French student S$600 ($465; £348) for licking a straw from an orange juice vending machine and putting it back into its dispenser.

New Yorkers who want to see their Instagram or TikTok feed curated by an algorithm, or receive notifications after midnight, will soon have to verify their ages to access those features.

Scots schoolboys as young as 12 have been targeted online in a social media sextortion plot as police issued an urgent warning to parents.

Zack Polanski has condemned an image of a man wearing a guillotine t-shirt and the words ‘making plans for Nigel’ after Reform UK branded it an ‘incitement to murder’.

A Geordie construction worker who went viral as the ‘Ibiza Final Boss’ has garnered a large fortune in just a year.

Twice-deported Albanian criminal Dorian Puka is flaunting his wealth on social media, having snuck back into the UK once more.

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.

Norway may have headed home from the World Cup – but star player Erling Haaland is arguably the biggest winner from this year’s tournament.

Texas-born influencer and bodybuilder Connor Murphy died on Tuesday night after jumping into a lake near where he lived in Samut Prakan, a province just south of Bangkok.

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

Alexandra Jost, known online as “Sasha Meets Russia,” responded to being sanctioned by the EU, by saying the designation showed she was “on the right path.”

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

“Why are minorities always the ones held responsible for the actions of a single perpetrator?” a 47-year-old Sikh man from the Midlands, who requested anonymity, told the media.

David and Victoria Beckham are ’devastated’ after their son Brooklyn appeared in an advert that joked about family estrangement, friends of the couple have said.

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 drug dealer who showed off his luxury lifestyle on Instagram by posing with Rolex watches, driving a Lamborghini and splashing more than £1,200 in cash on a meal at Salt Bae’s restaurant has been jailed.

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.