Meta Ordered to Pay $567M and Overhaul Teen Safety on Facebook, Instagram
Meta’s latest legal headache comes with a $567 million price tag and a five-year to-do list for Facebook and Instagram....
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WhatsApp Users Say They’re Being Locked Out of Accounts by Mistake
WhatsApp’s effort to stop bad actors briefly swept up legitimate users, triggering unexplained account suspensions that the company now admits...
Meta Launches Free Facebook Verification Badge for Personal Accounts
As AI makes fake online identities harder to spot, Facebook is asking users to prove they’re human with a video...
France Bans Social Media for Under-15s, Requires Age Checks
Social media is about to come with an age check for everyone in France, not only children. French lawmakers approved...
Meta Removes Muse Image Instagram Feature After Consent Backlash
Meta’s newest AI image feature barely made it through the week. Days after launching Muse Image, Meta scrapped a feature...
Australia’s Teen Social Media Ban Exposes Age Verification Gap
Australia’s under-16 social media ban has a loophole: the honor system. A Reuters-reported study found that major platforms did not...
Meta Adds WhatsApp Usernames: Here’s What You Need to Know
WhatsApp is finally cutting one of the biggest privacy trade-offs baked into its messaging app: having to hand over your...
Google Adds New Android Controls for WhatsApp Backups, Password Transfers
Google’s June Android updates give users more control over WhatsApp backups, app checks, and saved passwords without requiring a full...
Meta: NSO Tried Targeting WhatsApp Users Despite Court Order
A court order told NSO Group to stay away from WhatsApp. Meta says the spyware maker came back anyway. Meta...
New WhatsApp Flaws Could Affect Billions of Users After Meta Security Patch
WhatsApp users should update their apps after Meta patched two flaws that could make risky files and links harder to...
Google AppSheet Abuse Helped Phish 30,000 Facebook Accounts
Cybercriminals are no longer just faking legitimacy. They are now using Google’s infrastructure to take over thousands of Facebook accounts....
Bluesky Outage: Coordinated Traffic Attack Causes Widespread Errors
Image: Generated via Google’s Nano Banana If Bluesky has been acting up lately, you’re not alone. Feeds won’t load. Notifications...
WhatsApp New Update Lets You Chat Without Sharing Your Phone Number
Image: WABetaInfo WhatsApp is preparing to introduce usernames, a feature that allows users to chat without sharing their phone numbers....
Instagram Users Urged to Save Encrypted DMs Before Feature Disappears
Image: Solen Feyissa (Unsplash) Instagram users who opted for extra privacy in their DMs may want to start saving those...
The Instagram API Scraping Crisis: When ‘Public’ Data Becomes a 17.5 Million User Breach
On January 7, 2026, a dataset containing 17.5 million Instagram user records appeared on BreachForums – a notorious dark...
