Meta is facing a fresh wave of scrutiny over allegations that it shut down internal research after finding that Facebook and Instagram were harming users’ mental health. The claims, surfacing in court ...

Climate change has a wide range of effects on wildlife. It affects seasonal migration, reproduction times, body size and mass ...

At her home in western Germany, a woman told a team of visiting researchers from Meta that she did not allow her sons to interact with strangers on the social media giant’s virtual reality headsets.

Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer of Meta Platforms Inc., during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Jan. 31, 2024 in Washington, D.C.Kent Nishimura—Bloomberg/Getty Images Senior ...

Newly released court documents allege that Meta ignored, downplayed, and hid internal research showing Instagram was harming children — while its own employees privately described the platform as ...

Meta’s own researchers called Instagram a “drug” while burying evidence that the company’s social media apps were hurting kids’ mental health, according to bombshell filings unsealed in California ...

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta stifled internal research into the safety risks of its virtual reality apps – including a stomach-churning claim that sickos had “sexually propositioned” a kid younger than 10, ...

Four whistleblowers have come forward to reveal that Meta has reportedly kept its safety research on VR headsets' dangers and risks for child and underaged teenage users. The latest revelation was ...

Is Meta, the tech giant behind Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, quietly dismantling one of the most influential forces in artificial intelligence research? For years, the Facebook AI Research (FAIR) ...

Former Meta AI scientist Yann LeCun warns that Meta may lose more AI researchers because its 29-year-old AI chief lacks the experience to lead serious research teams.