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A law passed last year requires TikTok's Chinese parent company to sell the video platform or face a ban.

Could there be ways to bypass the ban - and could president-elect Donald Trump find a way to stop the law?

A new report details how a covert influence operation linked to the Kremlin continued to place ads on Facebook despite U.S. and E.U. prohibitions on doing business with the organization.

The Supreme Court upheld a US law that bans TikTok on Jan. 19 unless it is sold to an owner not controlled by a foreign adversary, a ruling that creates new uncertainty for a social-media app used by 170 million Americans.

Investors are weighing what a reported gradual rollout of Trump tariff hikes could mean for inflation and the Fed.

(Bloomberg) -- Meta Platforms Inc. is cutting roughly 5% of its staff through performance-based terminations and plans to hire new people to fill their roles this year, according to an internal memo sent to all employees. Most Read from BloombergThese Homes Withstood the LA Fires. Architects Explain WhyAs E-Bikes Boom in NYC, Some Call for More RegulationsA Blueprint for Better Bike LanesAs of September, Meta employed about 72,000 people, so a 5% reduction could affect roughly 3,600 jobs. “I’ve

The company will shed roughly 3,600 roles but plans to backfill the roles later in the year.

Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, is cutting the lowest-performing 5% of its workforce and plans to fill those roles later this year, the company said in a memo.

Investors are weighing what a reported gradual rollout of Trump tariff hikes could mean for inflation and the Fed.

Chinese government officials have reportedly discussed selling TikTok's US operations to Elon Musk. Antitrust experts predict that the owner of X could clear any US legal hurdles if such a deal were to happen.

A swarm of "TikTok refugees" has made RedNote the most downloaded app on Apple's US App Store.

Amazon and Meta have now joined the growing list of major corporations that have dialed back their diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives in the past year.

Peter Kyle responds as internet safety campaigner Ian Russell says laws to protect children need fixing.

After visiting President-elect Donald J. Trump in November, Mr. Zuckerberg decided to relax Meta’s speech policies. He asked a small team to carry out his goals within weeks. The repercussions are just beginning.

It joins Walmart, McDonald's and other companies in a similar move regarding diversity efforts since Trump's re-election.

TikTok and its Chinese parent company are facing off against the Justice Department Friday in a hearing before the Supreme Court that will help determine the fate of the popular social media app.

Billions in advertising flows through TikTok, which could be banned in the U.S. as soon as Jan. 19. Brands and creators are racing to prepare.

Meta is joining X and YouTube in shifting moderation to users. Are you ready?

While Republicans praised the move, some groups cautioned that effectively ending Meta’s fact-checking program would also lead to more conspiracy theories.

The social networking giant will stop using third-party fact-checkers on Facebook, Threads and Instagram and instead rely on users to add notes to posts. It is likely to please President-elect Trump and his allies.

Fact-checking groups that worked with Meta said they had no role in deciding what the company did with the content that was fact-checked.

The longtime Republican lobbyist for Meta was named to the company’s top policy role last week.

Facebook and Instagram will instead rely on "community notes" from its users, an approached pioneered by X.

The move will end a third-party fact-checking system and rely on users to add notes or corrections to posts. It is likely to please the incoming Trump administration and its conservative allies.

Mr. White, a close ally of President-elect Donald J. Trump, further strengthens the social media giant’s connections with the incoming administration.

It comes days after former UK deputy PM Sir Nick Clegg left his top job at the social media giant.

The Supreme Court will hear several cases in 2025 with dramatic implications for corporate America, starting with the question of a looming US ban of the TikTok app.

In a post on Meta's Facebook, Sir Nick Clegg said he was departing after nearly seven years with the company.

Joel Kaplan, who was a former senior adviser to George W. Bush, replaces Nick Clegg, who was a former deputy prime minister of Britain, as Meta’s head of policy.

The major averages posted modest gains on Monday to begin the holiday-shortened trading week.

Palestinian news outlets have seen a steep drop in audience engagement since October 2023.

Elon Musk and Sam Altman are now locked in a simultaneous battle to advance AI and prevail in a courtroom fight over the future of OpenAI, the organization they founded together before parting ways.

The social media giant is currently seeking to delay a law that would see it banned or sold in early 2025.

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The NFIB's small business optimism index confirmed the obvious: Small business owners are feeling good. And that has real-world implications for some of the market's biggest stocks.

It was a week of frenzied activity, as Silicon Valley billionaires and their companies brandished checks and compliments for the President-elect.

It appears to be the latest attempt by the Meta boss to build a closer relationship with the incoming president.

The move follows a visit that Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s chief executive, made last month to Mar-a-Lago to meet with President-elect Donald Trump.

The Department of Justice asked an appeals court late Wednesday night to reject a temporary block to a law that could result in banning the popular TikTok app in America.

The long-awaited decision follows a standoff with Meta, and succeeds a world-first law from 2021.

Over 22,000 people reported issues with Facebook this evening and over 18,000 struggled to use WhatsApp, according to Downdetector.

Lina Khan’s time may be running out as boss of the Federal Trade Commission, but she is not going quietly.

The app says the Supreme Court - and incoming Trump administration - needs more time to consider the case.

The timing may finally be right for open platforms like Bluesky as social media moves toward a more fragmented future.

Banning TikTok would be a major win for Meta's Instagram.

The social media service was flooded with videos on Friday after a panel of judges upheld a law that could shutter the app in the United States.

The video app is now set to be banned in January unless it makes a new appeal - or Donald Trump intervenes.

The law will ban the video app in the United States by Jan. 19 if its owner, ByteDance, does not sell it to a non-Chinese company.

President-elect Donald Trump is making it clear he doesn't intend to ease up on the nation's technology giants once he is back in the Oval Office.

The country’s tech titans might need to start fortifying defenses against the agenda of incoming Federal Communications Commission chair Brendan Carr.

Relations appear to have improved markedly from Trump's threat earlier this year to throw the Meta boss in jail.

The regulator finds a fifth of children are pretending to be adults, potentially exposing them to harm.

Des Healey lost £76,000 in a scam using a deepfake of Martin Lewis and Elon Musk.

Its reset feature would cleanse a user's feed of personalised content suggested by algorithm.

The fledgling social media site has been flooded with new users since the election. It hasn’t all been easy.

If the election underscored anything about the internet, it was the ascendancy of social platforms for the right. That puts Democrats at a disadvantage.

The European Union says the tech giant crowded out rivals, breaching competition law.

Meta said it would appeal the decision by the European Union, which said the company had abused its dominance in social networking to strengthen its shopping and classified ads service.

As he continues to shake up his old image, Meta’s chief executive has collaborated with the singer on a version of the hit song that was playing when he met his wife.

The BBC speaks to social media moderators, whose job it is to find and remove distressing and illegal content.

Technology and loneliness are interlinked, researchers have found, stoked by the ways we interact with social media, text messaging and binge-watching.

The government says it wants to mitigate the "harm" social media is inflicting on children.

The shift in policy, covering government agencies and contractors working on national security, is intended to promote “responsible and ethical” innovations, the company said.

Meta and Microsoft earnings have stirred up worries about AI and Big Tech as investors digest a Fed-favored reading on inflation.

Meta (META) and Microsoft (MSFT) stocks tumbled Thursday as investors weighed their hefty AI expenditures against the time it will take to generate a return on their investment.

Meta and Microsoft earnings have stirred up worries about AI and Big Tech, as a Fed-favored reading on inflation looms.

Meta and Microsoft earnings have stirred up worries about AI and Big Tech, as a Fed-favored reading on inflation looms.

Traders reviewed results from Microsoft and Meta Platforms, and they looked ahead to a key inflation reading due Thursday morning.

The Silicon Valley company, which owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, said it does not plan to slow down its investments anytime soon.

Meta beat analysts' Q3 top and botto line estimates for the quarter, but heavy spending plans sent shares lower.

Tech megacaps are in the spotlight after Alphabet's quarterly results showed its high-spending push into AI is starting to pay off.

Tech megacaps are in the spotlight after Alphabet's quarterly results showed its high-spending push into AI is starting to pay off.

Meta will report its Q3 earnings after the bell on Wednesday.

The tech mogul is pushing even harder in the final days of the presidential race to get Donald Trump re-elected, with plenty at stake for his businesses.

With a slew of market-driving news set to greet investors over the next week, market strategists tell Yahoo Finance that what Big Tech earnings say about the fundamental story behind the stock market rally will matter most.

A torrent of falsehoods, from home and abroad, have undermined what was once a shared faith in the honesty of America’s democracy.

Celebrities including Elon Musk and Martin Lewis repeatedly feature in ads for products they have not endorsed.

Meta workers reportedly used vouchers that should have been spent on meals to buy household goods.

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‘Barron’s Roundtable’ panelists Jack Hough, Al Root and Megan Leonhardt discuss the top three headlines of the week.

Why, and how, Meta has become an AI monster.

NetChoice, backed by tech giants including Meta and Google, has successfully argued in court that Big Tech hosts protected speech.

In the U.K., a number of financial firms see themselves as bearing the brunt of the cost for scams taking place virtually.

The tech giant is among the many companies building technology that could remake Hollywood — or help spread disinformation.

Privacy activist Max Schrems claimed Meta unlawfully processed data relating to his sexual orientation.

British fintech Revolut criticized Meta over its approach to tackling fraud and said the U.S. tech giant should directly compensate fraud victims.

Some app makers worry that a subtle change to the iPhone’s contact-sharing permissions could make it hard for them to get the fast growth they need to compete.

Meta is working with U.K. banks NatWest and Metro Bank on an information-sharing agreement to help them prevent customers from falling victim to fraud.

As he releases “Revenge of The Tipping Point,” the best-selling journalist talks about broken windows theory, Joe Rogan and changing his mind.

Meta stock hit an all-time high as investors bet on its AI vision.

The firm also unveiled the first working prototype of Meta's augmented-reality glasses, called Orion.

Ahead of November’s election, Meta has de-emphasized political content on Facebook, Instagram and Threads and doesn’t want to talk about candidates or campaigns.

News outlets are experimenting with a feature in the world’s most popular messaging app that allows them to send links and headlines directly to followers.

Social media companies may try to ban RT, the Russian state media broadcaster. But the network has proved in the past to be a wily adversary when confronted with efforts to silence it.

Zuckerberg argued Apple seeks out praise over constructive feedback.

Evercore ISI head of internet research Mark Mahaney reveals his top Big Tech stocks during an appearance on ‘Varney & Co.’

Meta, YouTube and other sites collected more data than most users realized, a new report by the Federal Trade Commission finds.

The state joins dozens of others in regulating the A.I. fakery in ways that could impact this year’s presidential race.

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The app, which is popular with teenagers, introduced new settings and features aimed at addressing inappropriate online contact and content, and improving sleep for users under 18.