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CyberWell sends social media companies recommendations to improve antisemitism moderation

The guidance was submitted as a public comment this month in response to a call for input from Meta's Oversight Board regarding the use of large language models in content moderation.

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A young Iraqi girl who has reached the age of wearing a hijab, is clothed in the head covering worn by many Muslim women for the first time during a ceremony organised at the Basra International Stadium in Iraq's southern city of Basra on December 11, 2025.

Iranian matchmaking app removed by Google after allowing girls as young as 12 to register

Meta launches paid subscriptions for Facebook and WhatsApp

Meta bans TikTok ads on its platforms in US

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Australia’s teen social media ban pushes content creators to look abroad

Australia's social media ban for children under 16 will take effect on December 10, and some content creators are considering moving abroad.

Dimi Heryxlim, 15, a social media content creator, poses while displaying his ‘House of Lim’ Instagram page at Burwood Chinatown in Sydney, Australia, November 14, 2025.

Hamas used fake Instagram profiles to map IDF bases, track soldiers before October 7 assault

Hamas worked for years to compile models based on information IDF soldiers personal social media and practiced infiltrating bases using VR technology.

A protester at Ben-Gurion Airport holds a phone displaying an image of Israeli hostage Naama Levy taken during her captivity in Gaza, in Lod, Israel, July 21, 2024

Meta buried 'causal' evidence of social media harm, US court filings allege

To the company’s disappointment, “people who stopped using Facebook for a week reported lower feelings of depression, anxiety, loneliness, and social comparison,” internal documents said.

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Meta does not hold social media monopoly, judge rules

The agency sought to force Meta to restructure or sell Instagram and WhatsApp in order to restore competition among social media networks.

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Cloudflare, Amazon, Meta: The biggest tech outages of recent years - explainer

This was the second major internet disruption of 2025, following the October malfunction of Amazon's cloud services unit, AWS.

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EU weighs pausing parts of landmark AI act in face of US and big tech pressure, FT reports

The European Commission proposes to pause parts of AI legislation following months of urging from tech giants such as Meta and Alphabet and pressure from the Trump administration.

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WhatsApp, YouTube, and Facebook: What are the most popular apps used in Israel in 2025?

In 2025, the Index also measured the public's use of artificial intelligence services, particularly large language models (AI chatbots), which have become widely accessible.

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Meta to give parents more control after criticism over flirty AI chatbots

The features will be built on protections already applied to teen accounts and will be guided by the PG-13 movie rating system.

Meta's CEO Mark Zuckerberg attends the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on online child sexual exploitation at the U.S. Capitol, in Washington, U.S., January 31, 2024

Seeing intelligence: Meta launches the next generation of AI glasses

At Connect 2025 in Menlo Park, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg unveiled new wearable AI products: Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses, the Neural Band bracelet, and Oakley Meta Vanguard glasses.

Mark Zuckerberg presenting at Meta's conference.

OpenAI to bring parental controls in ChatGPT after California teen's suicide

The company said on Monday that the controls will allow parents and teens to link accounts for stronger safeguards for teenagers.

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