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  • 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
  • FILE – A workman removes a character from a sign on the Twitter headquarters building in San Francisco, July 24, 2023. One year ago, Elon Musk began transforming the social media platform into what is now known as X. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez, File)Tech

    Twitter’s first year under Elon Musk: Ad revenue in free fall, fights with the EU over false news, and finally hiring a long-awaited CEO

    By Barbara Ortutay and The Associated Press
  • Elon Musk's XTech

    Israel-Hamas disinformation isn’t just going viral on X, Elon Musk is financially incentivizing it

    By Barbara Ortutay and The Associated Press
  • Elon MuskTech

    The man who wrote the book on Twitter says ‘It’s kind of become a fabric of society. And even Elon Musk may not be able to break it.’

    By Barbara Ortutay and The Associated Press
  • Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer of Meta Platforms Inc., arrives at federal court in San Jose, California, US, on Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2022. The Federal Trade Commission claims Meta’s plan to buy the competitor will give it an unfair advantage in the burgeoning VR market. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesTech

    Facebook users have just a month left to apply for part of a $725 million privacy settlement over Cambridge Analytica

    By Barbara Ortutay and The Associated Press
  • FILE – A sign at Twitter headquarters is shown in San Francisco on Nov. 18, 2022. The Los Angeles District Attorney has left Twitter due to barrage of “vicious” homophobic attacks that were not removed by the social media platform even after they were reported, the office confirmed on Thursday, June 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)Tech

    Los Angeles county DA’s office quits Twitter over sharp rise in ‘vicious’ homophobic attacks

    By Barbara Ortutay and The Associated Press
  • Elon MuskTech

    Elon Musk’s Twitter is so fragile it crashed from just 420,000 people trying to watch Ron DeSantis launch his campaign

    By Barbara Ortutay and The Associated Press