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The Facebook app is down for many — here's what know about the outage

By Mark Wilson Last updated

The Facebook app isn't playing ball today

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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.

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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

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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

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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'.

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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

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'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.

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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.

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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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Meta cloud computing business ‘definitely on the table’, Mark Zuckerberg says – excess data center capacity could be used to enter the market

By Craig Hale Published

If Meta has surplus compute, CEO Mark Zuckerberg says he wouldn't rule out selling this under a potential cloud business.

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