Italy’s competition authority has levied a hefty fine of €10 million ($11 million) against TikTok for its failure to adequately control the dissemination of content that poses risks to minors and vulnerable individuals, exposing them to potentially harmful material. The antitrust agency, AGCM, criticized TikTok, owned by China’s ByteDance, for its neglect in addressing the specific vulnerabilities... 

Shocking new reports show that Facebook’s parent company, Meta, knew that parents were monetizing photos of their own children for pedophiles and even went so far as to actively promote accounts with “underage modeling” to people who were under suspicion of inappropriate behavior toward children online. Activists are calling for the international permanent BAN of Instagram or at least being... 

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) exposed Facebook, Instagram and parent company Meta’s lack of tools to protect minors from being preyed upon and exposed to sexualized content. In a Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law congressional hearing last week, Sen. Josh Hawley addressed Meta whistleblower Arturo Béjar, questioning him about a 2021 memo in which Béjar... 

Journalist Maria Sveland photographed a man who had been falsely accused of rape in the courtroom – and posted him on Instagram. Now the 48-year-old radical feminist is sentenced to 24,000 kroner in daily fines for violating the court code. The incident occurred in May 2021. At the time, the main hearing was underway in the Stockholm district court against a woman who was charged with gross... 

Mark Zuckerberg, the owner of Facebook and Instagram is expected to soon launch a new app similar to Twitter. The app is said to have been tested by celebrities and influencers in secret and is expected to be available to the public in June. The new addition will be different from Instagram and users will be able to link their accounts in the different apps. A social media marketing professor named... 

After a two-year suspension, the ownership company Meta has now restored former US President Donald Trump’s access to Facebook and Instagram, reports Reuters. Trump was suspended from the platforms after the so-called storming of Capitol Hill on January 6, 2021. Meta said in January that it would lift Trump’s suspension “in the coming weeks” but block the ex-president again... 

Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, was fined $24.7 million on Wednesday for “repeatedly and intentionally” violating campaign finance disclosure law. King County Superior Court Judge Douglass North in Washington state ruled Meta be fined the maximum amount allowed for over 800 violations of Washington’s Fair Campaign Practices Act the company committed. The ruling is said to... 

Denouncing Facebook’s “insidious” operating practices, iconic Pink Floyd rocker Roger Waters did not mince words in rejecting the social media giant’s request to use his song ‘Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)’ in an ad campaign. At a public forum event in support of imprisoned WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in New York last week, Waters held up a sheet of paper and claimed that Facebook... 

For some, social media sites like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter are avenues for connecting more closely with relatives and friends. For others, they’re ego-boosters fueled by the showering of praise via “likes” and comments from one’s followers. According to a new international study, however, social media users who chase “likes” have thinking patterns similar to lab rats seeking food. Data... 

Popular platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, as well as messaging services like Telegram and video site TikTok could become unavailable in Russia if they fail to ban illegal calls to participate in protests. Alexey Pushkov, the Chairman of the Federation Council’s Commission on Information Policy, set out the tough new proposals to reporters on Thursday. According to him, the panel... 

29-year-old Raymond Michael Weber, brother to the popular Sacramento rapper Uzzy Marcus, was arrested Saturday morning and is expected to be charged with the death of two women in a Vacaville, California apartment complex, MTO News has learned. A video online surfaced that purports to show Uzzy Marcus’ brother at the murder scene, after killing two women on Instagram Live. One of the women was... 

The 22-year-old posed for Glossier’s new holiday ad campaign, while her previous pictures on social media mostly featured her personal daily life, including hangouts with friends and horseriding. The youngest daughter of the late Apple CEO Steve Jobs, Eve Jobs, has posted her first modelling pictures on Instagram, gaining almost 8,500 likes so far. One of the pictures features Eve lying in a... 

There may soon be a social media manager opening at the Vatican after the Pope’s Instagram account was caught ‘liking’ a photo of a Brazilian bikini model in a sexy schoolgirl outfit. According to reports and alleged screenshots purporting to show the social media faux pas, none other than Pope Francis gave his blessing to 27-year-old Brazilian glamour model Natalia Garibotto. “At least I’m... 

Parler, the social-media platform touted as a bastion of free speech, is suffering overload-related glitches as it struggles to absorb a massive inflow of new users who were alienated by Twitter’s latest round of censorship. “Parler has exploded,” radio host and Parler stakeholder Dan Bongino said Sunday on Twitter. “We’re adding thousands of users per minute, and we’re working out the... 

Instagram has refused to remove an image depicting two black women holding the severed heads of white people, claiming that “people may express themselves differently” and that the picture doesn’t violate community guidelines. The image, produced by an artist working under the name ‘sugarygarbage’, was shared to a page called ‘supportblackart’ and shows two obese black women posing with...