A major outage on social media platform X left millions without access, but experts question Elon Musk’s claim that Ukraine-based hackers were responsible. Downdetector, a platform monitoring website outages, recorded...
The UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has launched an investigation into how social media platforms TikTok, Reddit, and Imgur handle the data of underage users. The regulator is focusing on...
Microsoft has confirmed that most Outlook services affected by a major outage on Saturday are now recovering. The tech giant faced disruption to several Microsoft 365 services, leaving thousands of...
Thousands of Facebook users are demanding that the company stop processing their personal data for direct marketing purposes. Around 5,000 people have written to Meta, Facebook’s parent company, asking it...
A new study from the University of California, Berkeley, has found that hate speech on X, formerly Twitter, increased by 50% in the months following Elon Musk’s acquisition of the...
Meta is testing a long-awaited pause feature for Instagram Reels, allowing users to stop and start videos with a single tap. The update signals Meta’s ongoing effort to capitalise on...
A lawsuit filed in the US accuses LinkedIn of sharing private messages from Premium users to train artificial intelligence models without proper consent. The claims state that LinkedIn introduced a...
A chatbot allegedly advised a teenager that murdering his parents was a “reasonable response” to screen time limits, according to a lawsuit filed in Texas. The families behind the case...
The Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) has started handling complaints under the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA). However, its ability to enforce the rules is delayed until the...
A U.S. federal appeals court is expected to rule by 6 December on a pivotal law affecting TikTok. The decision will determine if Chinese parent company ByteDance must sell TikTok’s...