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Facebook and Instagram owner Meta is to introduce facial recognition technology to try and crack down on scammers who fraudulently use celebrities in adverts.

The problems with Reddit began at around 5am, according to website disruption tracker Down Detector, and its website had shown a blank page with an error message

The assistant, which has sparked privacy concerns, can also be accessed on £299 Ray-Ban Meta sunglasses

TikTok star Taylor Rousseau Grigg has died aged 25.

Co-operative Bank’s mobile app and online banking are down, driving customers to vent frustration on social media.

X owner responds by saying people should avoid UK when ‘they’re releasing convicted pedophiles’

Nearly 550,000 individuals have shared a fraudulent Instagram story claiming that if they don’t post it, Meta will ’use their information.’ This statement is misleading and part of a broader scam aiming to exploit user fears about data privacy.

The massively popular video app follows Meta’s recent move and pulls down accounts associated with the Russian state.

After the arrest of Pavel Durov, Telegram’s administrators began providing French authorities with data that helped identify suspects in cases involving crimes against children.

Pavel Durov will probably use French legal disputes to position himself as a champion of free speech, say observers

Social media platform to be blocked by ISPs because it did not appoint legal representative in allotted time

Russian-born billionaire said to have ‘miscalculated’ by visiting France during inquiry into crime on his platform

IT is every parent’s worst nightmare that their child will go off the rails in their school years.

Residents of a Caracas neighbourhood who found their homes marked with a black "X" last week believe that regime loyalists are behind the overnight operation intended to indicate where opposition supporters live.

MPs leaving platform or scaling back use over its ‘deterioration’ under Elon Musk’s ownership

A Facebook page paid millions of pesos to promote content favorable to politicians from the Citizen Movement, including Samuel García, Mariana Rodríguez and Jorge Álvarez Máynez.

Experts warn growth of extremist influencers and ‘micro-donations’ could create even bigger wave of unrest

The charge relates to a post on X about Sweden and Newcastle footballer Alexander Isak

Kanykei Aranova says someone else created a Facebook profile in her name, and posted the anti-government messages that led to her conviction.

‘Unpredictable’ privacy regulations prompt Facebook owner to scrap regional plans for multimodal Llama

The futuristic tech is yet another supermarket anti-shoplifting ploy

Traditionally, the youth have been the most progressive demographic in nearly every society, often pushing the political spectrum to the left, much to the chagrin of their conservative parents.

The social media network’s new rules, announced on Monday, come after regulator pressure around the world to better protect children from inappropriate content

The actor-turned-politician has been ordered to pay £180,000 in damages after he called two people "paedophiles" during a row on social media.