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Meta’s efforts to scale back political content on its platforms could limit the reach of people’s expressions of dissent or awareness during crises, including Venezuela’s post-election crisis. That’s according to a decision issued Thursday by the company’s oversight panel after reviewing two videos taken after the July election in the South American country. The quasi-independent Oversight Board urged the social...

NBC Bay Area Responds to a Peninsula viewer who had some questions about a settlement check he is expecting. Consumer Investigator Chris Chmura reports.

Meta said it would remove a dedicated section for news articles in April that will affect Facebook users in the United States and Australia.

is Mark Zuckerberg and other social media CEOs responsible for harming young people on their platforms? A court hearing in Oakland on Friday asked that question. Scott Budman reports. 

Facebook has a new sound that appears while scrolling on the app. The social media giant’s parent company, Meta, says the sound is part of a technical error.

Facebook says a technical error has caused the app to make a sound when scrolling through the app on your cell phone. While a fix is in the works, here’s how your can turn it off.

Facebook parent Meta Platforms deliberately engineered its social platforms to hook kids and knew — but never disclosed — it had received millions of complaints about underage users on Instagram but only disabled a fraction of those accounts, California Attorney General Rob Bonta said citing to a newly unredacted complaint.

Stunning new details are emerging in a federal lawsuit against Meta. The attorney general says a newly-unredacted complaint shows just how far the social media giant was willing to go to attract young children to its platforms. Ian Cull spoke with the attorney general, and explains the newly un-redacted information.

The Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether state laws seeking to regulate Facebook, TikTok, X and other social media platforms violate the Constitution.

A woman was found dead in her own home, face down in a pool of blood, after she posted a cryptic Facebook Live video in which she implied she might be in danger, according to senior law enforcement sources.

The deadline to file a claim in a class-action Facebook privacy settlement arrives Friday, and only eligible users who file a claim will be among those to receive a portion of the multi-million dollar payment.

Meta’s Twitter clone called Threads is now available on the web for people to access via their desktop computers.

Recalled baby products linked to more than 100 infant deaths, including Boppy pillows, are still being sold on Facebook Marketplace, lawmakers said.

You may be eligible for a payout as part of a $725 million class-action settlement against Facebook’s parent company Meta. But time is running out to file a claim — and you’ll need a few details on hand in order to do so correctly.

Time is running out for eligible Facebook users to file a claim in a new nationwide settlement involving the social media giant and its parent company Meta.

Small business owners say social media giants including Meta aren’t doing enough to prevent them from becoming hacking victims.

Elon Musk says he may need to get surgery before a proposed “cage match” with Mark Zuckerberg.

Eligible Facebook users have just one month left to file a claim in a new nationwide settlement involving the social media giant.

The deadline for Facebook users to file a claim in a new nationwide settlement is fast approaching.

Meta will officially release Threads, its text-based Twitter competitor, on Thursday, but you can access your invitation now using Instagram.