Social media
Meta’s court defeats add to Zuckerberg’s recent woes, represent ‘watershed event’ for social media
Meta CEO and Chairman Mark Zuckerberg arrives at Los Angeles Superior Court ahead of the social media trial tasked to determine whether social media giants deliberately designed their platforms to be addictive to children, in Los Angeles, on Feb. 18, 2026. Frederic J. Brown | AFP | Getty Images Meta suffered stinging rebukes in two […]
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Jury in Los Angeles reaches verdict in blockbuster Meta, YouTube social media trial
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg leaves the Federal Courthouse in downtown Los Angeles after defending the company in a landmark social media addiction trial in Los Angeles, United States, on February 19, 2026. Jon Putman | Anadolu | Getty Images A jury has reached a verdict in a major trial involving Meta and Google that could […]
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UK government to trial social media ban for hundreds of teens
In this photo illustration a 13-year-old teenage boy looks at an iPhone screen displaying various social media apps on January 12, 2026 in Bath, England. Matt Cardy | Getty Images News | Getty Images The U.K. government is trialing a social media ban for hundreds of teens, after the country’s lawmakers rejected a blanket ban […]
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Meta cutting several hundred jobs across Reality Labs, Facebook and other departments
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg wears the Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses, as he delivers a speech presenting the new line of smart glasses, during the Meta Connect event at the company’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California, U.S., Sept. 17, 2025. Carlos Barria | Reuters Meta is laying off several hundred employees on Wednesday, CNBC confirmed. The […]
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New Mexico seeking changes to Meta’s platform after jury finds company liable
New Mexico is continuing to seek changes from Meta following a jury’s decision to hold the company liable for failing to safeguard children on its platforms, Attorney General Raúl Torrez told CNBC on Wednesday. “We’re going to be asking for injunctive relief,” Torrez said on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” about the next phase of the trial […]
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Hugo Barra’s return to Meta 5 years after exit underscores Zuckerberg’s AI urgency
Hugo Barr, formerly VP of VR at Facebook, has returned to Meta Money Sharma | AFP | Getty Images During Hugo Barra’s first stint at Meta — still known at the time as Facebook — he was a top executive in the virtual reality business. In the nearly five years he’s been gone, Meta’s obsession […]
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Meta makes ‘big bet’ on top leaders with stock options as pressure builds to catch up in AI
Arda Kucukkaya | Anadolu | Getty Images Meta is granting stock options to key leaders in an effort to retain talent as pressure intensifies on the company to bolster its position in artificial intelligence. The executives in the incentive plan include CFO Susan Li, technology chief Andrew Bosworth, Chief Product Officer Christopher Cox and operating […]
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OpenAI shutters short-form video app Sora as company reels in costs
Six months after launching the Sora app and seeing it quickly go viral, OpenAI is shuttering the service, the company said on Tuesday. “We’re saying goodbye to Sora. To everyone who created with Sora, shared it, and built community around it: thank you,” OpenAI wrote in a post on X. “What you made with Sora […]
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Jury reaches verdict in major Meta child safety trial in New Mexico
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg arrives at Los Angeles Superior Court on Feb. 18, 2026. Jill Connelly | Getty Images A jury has reached a verdict in a major New Mexico trial in which the state’s attorney general alleged that Meta failed to safeguard its family of apps from child predators. The civil trial, in which […]
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Baltimore is first U.S. city to sue over Grok deepfake porn as legal pressure mounts on Musk’s xAI
The logo of the artificial intelligence company xAI appears on the screen of a smartphone placed on a surface reflecting an abstract blue illustration. Samuel Boivin | Nurphoto | Getty Images Lawsuits against Elon Musk’s xAI are piling up, with Baltimore becoming the first major U.S. city to file a complaint against the company concerning […]
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