Barbara Ortutay

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  • Hock TanFinance

    Pay for executives skyrocketed 12.6% last year, dwarfing the 4.1% raises for rank-and-file employees

    By Mae Anderson, Paul Harloff, and others
  • FILE – Broadcom CEO Hock Tan speaks as President Donald Trump listens during an event on Nov. 2, 2017 in Washington. Tan topped the AP survey of CEO pay with a package valued at about $162 million in 2023. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)Leadership

    Typical S&P 500 CEO pay jumped nearly 13% to $16.3m last year—easily surpassing the gains for workers as inflation squeezes them

    By Mae Anderson, Paul Harloff, and others
  • FILE – The Meta logo is seen at the Vivatech show in Paris, France, Wednesday, June 14, 2023. The European Union opened fresh investigations Thursday, May 16, 2024 into Facebook and Instagram over suspicions that they’re failing to protect children online, in violation of the bloc’s strict digital regulations for social media platforms. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File)Tech

    Meta AI can answer search queries and recommend a cocktail bar—but you can’t really turn it off even if you want to

    By Barbara Ortutay and The Associated Press
  • Arati PrabhakarTech

    The White House is pleading with Big Tech to shut off the firehose of sexually abusive AI deepfakes—’if you’re a teenage girl, if you’re a gay kid, these are problems that people are experiencing right now’

    By The Associated Press, Matt O'Brien, and others
  • Diversity in work team using internet on phones and digital tablet for teamwork growth in the office. Professional staff work with 5g technology to match work schedule online the company websiteTech

    Professor who invented tool to mass unfollow people on Meta is preemptively suing because he’s afraid of the platform banning him

    By Barbara Ortutay and The Associated Press
  • FILE – Computer monitors and a laptop display the X, formerly known as Twitter, sign-in page, July 24, 2023, in Belgrade, Serbia. Attorneys for X Corp. and a research organization that studies online hate speech traded arguments in court Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024, after the social media platform sued the non-profit Center for Countering Digital Hate for documenting the recent increase in hate speech on the site since it was purchased by Elon Musk. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic, File)Tech

    Elon Musk’s X wants judge to penalize non-profit for documenting hate speech on the platform, costing it millions when advertisers fled

    By David Klepper, Barbara Ortutay, and others
  • Dating-app companies named in proposed lawsuitLifestyle

    Dateless? Lawsuit claims Tinder, Hinge, Match apps are addicting users instead of helping them find relationships

    By Barbara Ortutay and The Associated Press
  • Mark ZuckerbergPolitics

    Whistleblower says Zuckerberg grilling was just Capitol Hill talk: ‘They know how much harm teens are experiencing, yet they won’t commit to reducing it’

    By Barbara Ortutay, Haleluya Hadero, and others
  • People hold photos of their loved ones as they sit in the audience before the start of a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing with the heads of social media platforms on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday to discuss child safety. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)Family

    Meta, TikTok, other social media CEOs testify before Senate committee on child exploitation: ‘Constant pursuit of engagement and profit over basic safety’

    By Barbara Ortutay, Haleluya Hadero, and others
  • FILE – Meta’s logo is seen on a sign at the company’s headquarters, Nov. 9, 2022, in Menlo Park, Calif. Newly unredacted documents from New Mexico’s lawsuit against Meta released Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2024, underscore the Facebook and Instagram parent’s “historical reluctance” to keep children safe on its platforms, according to the complaint. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez, File)Tech

    Meta’s ‘historical reluctance’ to protect children on Instagram laid bare by freshly unredacted court documents

    By Barbara Ortutay and The Associated Press
  • Mark ZuckerbergTech

    Amid onslaught of lawsuits, Instagram and Facebook will start hiding posts about suicide, self-harm and eating disorders from teenagers’ accounts

    By Barbara Ortutay and The Associated Press
  • 27 September 2023, USA, Menlo Park: The founder and head of Facebook’s Meta Group, Mark Zuckerberg, presents new devices and AI offerings at the Meta Connect developer conference. Among other things, the Quest 3 glasses were announced, which are designed to integrate digital content into real environments. Photo: Andrej Sokolow/dpa (Photo by Andrej Sokolow/picture alliance via Getty Images)Tech

    Social media made $11 billion in U.S. ad sales from minors and therefore has ‘overwhelming financial incentives’ to avoid protecting children, study finds

    By Barbara Ortutay, Haleluya Hadero, and others
  • FILE – Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., takes his seat for a markup business meeting of the Senate Judiciary Committee, on Capitol Hill, Thursday, Nov. 9, 2023, in Washington. A Senate committee has issued bipartisan subpoenas to the CEOs of Discord, Snap and X, demanding that the heads of the three companies testify at a December hearing on protecting children online. Durbin and Rep. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., announced Monday, Nov. 20, that they had issued the subpoenas to Discord CEO Jason Citron, Snap CEO Evan Spiegel and Linda Yaccarino, the CEO of X, formerly known as Twitter. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)Tech

    X, Snap and Discord CEOs subpoenaed to testify about children’s online safety to Senate panel ‘after repeated refusals to appear’

    By Mary Clare Jalonick, Barbara Ortutay, and others
  • Satya NadellaEnvironment

    Microsoft’s Satya Nadella sets record straight on AI in Biden summit: ‘We finally have a technology that understands us, not the other way around’

    By Michael Liedtke, Barbara Ortutay, and others
  • Arturo BejarTech

    Former Facebook contractor who emailed Zuckerberg about child safety concerns briefs Congress: ‘Meta’s executives knew the harm that teenagers were experiencing’

    By Barbara Ortutay and The Associated Press