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Brazil on Tuesday demanded Meta cease taking users’ data to train its generative AI models, a move the US tech giant called “a setback.” The decision was issued by Brazil’s National Data Protection Authority, which warned...

Following hours-long failures that disrupted its platforms across multiple countries, Facebook’s parent company Meta declared that they had “resolved the issue”. The messaging service Whatsapp, which is owned by Meta, appears to be unaffected by the...

Facebook’s parent company Meta said on Friday that it would stop paying Australian media outlets for news, which prompted a government alert claiming the company was “dereliction” of duty. Meta announced a global retreat from news...

Meta Platforms added $196 billion in stock market value on Friday, marking the biggest one-day gain by any company in Wall Street history after the Facebook parent declared its first dividend and posted robust results. Meta’s...

Tech giant Meta on Thursday was rolling out long-promised end-to-end encryption of chats and calls at Messenger and Facebook. Ramped up defenses against snooping that include disappearing messages come as the US company defends against lawsuits...

In a late-night lawsuit, Meta claimed that US regulators should be stopped for abusing their power and should not be allowed to alter the conditions of a 2020 privacy accord. The $5 billion settlement was announced...

A spokesman for Meta Platforms, Andy Stone, was added to Russia’s wanted list on Sunday for unidentified offenses. The US social media company, which owns Facebook, is categorized as “extremist” by Moscow. Since beginning its offensive...

The rollout of end-to-end encryption on Meta’s platforms, the interior minister of Britain said on Wednesday, “must not come at a cost to our children’s safety.” Suella Braverman and Tom Tugendhat, the security minister, have urged...

Meta is being accused of endangering lives by blocking news links in Canada at a crucial moment, when thousands have fled their homes and are desperate for wildfire updates that once would have been shared widely...

Shares of Facebook parent Meta rose on Wednesday as the internet behemoth posted a $5.7 billion profit in the first quarter of this year, above expectations despite a large wave of cost-cutting and layoffs. According to...