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UK bans social media ban for under-16s — all the latest news live
By Mark Wilson last updated
The UK has become the latest country to ban social media for under-16s — here's everything you need to know.

Facebook was down – here's everything we know about the disruption that impacted Meta platforms
By Jacob Krol last updated
The issues started right before 10AM ET

Quote of the day by Mark Zuckerberg: 'Metaverse isn't a thing a company builds. It's the next chapter of the internet overall' — a prediction that hit wide of the mark
By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published
The Meta CEO's pandemic-era predictions on the future of technology failed to materilaize

The Social Reckoning trailer divides opinion as Jeremy Strong praised for Mark Zuckerberg voice
By Jasmine Valentine published
The trailer for The Social Reckoning has now been released — and it's at almost exactly the same time as another Facebook whistleblower controversy is being 'silenced'.

Quote of the day by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg: 'Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough' — on the nature of disruption
By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published
The Facebook co-founder has long run his company with a philosophy that promotes speed in innovation

'We have heard your concerns': Meta workers can request pauses in computer activity tracking, but only in temporary, half-hour increments
By Craig Hale published
Workers can ask Meta to pause monitoring software, but only if they think the data on screen should be hidden.

How a former Facebook whistleblower is being silenced 'regardless of whether what she says is true'
By Craig Hale published
Former Facebook exec and whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams was silenced from promoting her book at 2026 Hay Festival.

Meta's subscription plans are the tip of a terrible pay-to-engage iceberg and may be the beginning of the end for social media as we know it
By Lance Ulanoff published
Meta's Plus subscription plan is probably the worst thing to happen to social media since the dislike button.
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