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Meta says it is expanding AI-based age enforcement tools across Facebook and Instagram to identify potentially underage users.

Threat actors are using emojis as a form of visual shorthand to signal intent, evade detection, and coordinate activity across digital communications.

Australia's new social media ban for minors puts governments, platforms, and families at the center of a growing debate over online harm, privacy, and enforcement.

Children are growing up in an AI-driven world without the resilience or skills they need. Unsupervised online spaces and outdated classrooms are leaving a generation unprepared for the future, creating a crisis with lasting consequences.

Meta is gradually transforming WhatsApp with AI and payment features, aiming to create a super app, though user trust and competition remain challenges.

Americans may spend nearly 7% of their lives on social media, raising concerns about lost time, attention, and well-being, as well as the need for healthier habits.

While staring at screens for more than six hours a day may sound excessive, experts appear conflicted on the subject.

Although DeepSeek is barely out of the starting gate, questions have been raised about it as a threat to national security. Those are the kinds of questions that have sunk U.S. sales of companies like Kaspersky and Huawei and threaten the popular social media app TikTok.

Fact-checkers are headed to the dustbin of history at Meta. "We will end the current third-party fact-checking program in the United States and instead begin moving to a Community Notes program," Meta's Chief Global Affairs Officer Joel Kaplan announced in a company blog on Tuesday.

Many amazing products launched this year, and we’ll cover some of them. One product stood out well above the rest as revolutionary. What made it particularly special was that it was a bold bet that paid off and helped its manufacturer become one of, and for a time, the most valuable company in the...

The discussion at Siggraph between Mark Zuckerberg and Jensen Huang was fascinating, especially in terms of what they didn’t discuss -- the future of Facebook with AI. Based on their conversation, I believe I can fill that gap.

Nearly two dozen dating apps were flagged by Mozilla's Privacy Not Included researchers as failing to meet privacy and security standards, sharing customer data with third parties, and excluding the right of a user to wipe their data from the app.

Called Lantern, the initiative allows companies in the coalition to share information about potential child sexual exploitation, which will increase their prevention and detection capabilities, speed up the identification of threats, build situational awareness of new predatory tactics, and strength...

Large numbers of Gen Z and millennial TikTok users are frequently mining the platform for career advice, according to the results of a survey of 1,000 full-time workers from ages 21 to 40 released Tuesday by ResumeBuilder.com. These findings underscore social media's role in influencing professional...