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New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez speaks during a rally to protect kids online on Capitol Hill in Washington, January 31, 2024. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
August 8, 2026, 10:55 am
New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567 million, overhaul child safety measures
Ruling brings company’s total liability in case to $942 million; judge orders changes to addictive features, age verification and protections against child sexual exploitation
By Jeffrey Collins
Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer attends a press conference to announce government action to protect children online, at Downing Street in central London, June 15, 2026. (Carlos Jasso/ Pool Photo via AP)
June 15, 2026, 1:25 pm
UK PM Starmer announces ban on social media for under-16s
British premier says he’s ‘not prepared to compromise on the safety and happiness of our children’; kids will be barred from TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, X, but not WhatsApp, Signal
By brian melley
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg arrives for a landmark trial over whether social media platforms deliberately addict and harm children, February 18, 2026, in Los Angeles, California. (AP Photo/Ryan Sun)
March 25, 2026, 10:20 am
Meta ordered to pay $375 million in US trial over child exploitation, user safety
Parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp facing wave of lawsuits over how its social media platforms affect young people’s mental health; plans to appeal
By Diana Novak Jones
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg arrives for a landmark trial over whether social media platforms deliberately addict and harm children, February 18, 2026, in Los Angeles, California. (AP Photo/Ryan Sun)
February 18, 2026, 11:47 pm
Zuckerberg grilled over accusations social media geared to addict and harm kids
In unprecedented trial, plaintiff accuses Meta and YouTube of causing dependency on platforms, worsening her depression and suicidal thoughts
By KAITLYN HUAMANI and Barbara Ortutay
An AI-generated video shows a Jew claiming ownership of the moon (Screenshot used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
August 21, 2025, 6:52 pm
New antisemitic meme has Jews claiming items ‘promised 3,000 years ago’
A wave of AI-generated videos show Jewish people asserting ownership over cities, cars, and dogs, trivializing historical attachment to the Land of Israel
By Zev Stub
Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer of Meta, during an appearance at SIGGRAPH 2024, July 29, 2024, in the Colorado Convention Center in downtown Denver, Colorado. (AP Photo/ David Zalubowski/ File)
July 17, 2025, 8:07 pm
Zuckerberg settles lawsuit over Cambridge Analytica scandal
Suit said Meta CEO and former top exec Sheryl Sandberg ran Facebook as an illegal data harvesting operation during 2016 US election and during Brexit
By Agencies
The stone steps leading up to Clifford's Tower, York, site of the most notorious anti-Semitic bloodshed in medieval English history. (Times of Israel staff)
March 21, 2025, 8:44 am
Facebook group for British History ‘laughs’ at photo of antisemitic massacre site
Thousands respond to image of Clifford’s Tower, where 150 Jews were murdered in 1190, with ‘laugh’ reacts and antisemitic jokes
By Grace Gilson
US President Joe Biden speaks in the Roosevelt Room at the White House in Washington, January 10, 2025. (AP Photo/ Ben Curtis)
January 11, 2025, 11:31 am
Biden slams ‘really shameful’ Meta plan to scrap US Facebook, Instagram fact-checking
President says move ‘completely contrary to everything America’s about’; UN rights chief: Allowing hate speech to flourish online has ‘real-world consequences’
By Anuj Chopra
Illustrative: Graffiti reading 'From the river to the sea' is seen on a building adjacent to an encampment protesting the University of Washington's ties to Israel and Boeing on the university's campus in Seattle, Washington, May 12, 2024. (Jason Redmond / AFP)
September 4, 2024, 10:15 pm
Oversight panel tells Meta not to automatically delete ‘From river to sea’ phrase
Committee says slogan, viewed by critics as an antisemitic call to eradicate Israel, has several meanings, stresses need for debate even in times of conflict
By Reuters
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, testifies during the US Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, 'Big Tech and the Online Child Sexual Exploitation Crisis,' in Washington, DC, on January 31, 2024. (Brendan Smialowski/ AFP)
August 27, 2024, 7:10 pm
Meta CEO Zuckerberg says US pressure to take down COVID-19 posts was ‘wrong’
In letter seen by Republicans as a win, Facebook founder says US government pressured his company to ‘censor certain COVID-19 content, including humor and satire’
By AFP
People talk near a Meta sign outside of the company's headquarters in Menlo Park, California, March 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
July 10, 2024, 5:44 am
Meta says it will remove a wider swath of hate speech posts targeting ‘Zionists’
Under new policy, social media giant to take down Facebook and Instagram posts in which term is used as cover to push ‘antisemitic stereotypes, or threaten other types of harm’
By JTA and Jacob Magid
People talk near a Meta sign outside of the company's headquarters in Menlo Park, California, March 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
July 2, 2024, 10:26 pm
Meta to end ‘overbroad’ ban on Arabic word ‘shaheed’ on Facebook, Instagram
Oversight board finds prohibition on the term for ‘martyr,’ sometimes used to honor terrorists, has failed to account for a broad range of meanings
By Reuters
The Facebook logo is seen on a cell phone in Boston, October 14, 2022. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File)
June 5, 2024, 5:04 pm
Diaspora Ministry funded fake social media posts to spread pro-Israel content — NYT
Paper says influence campaign, which reportedly targeted Black US lawmakers, was commissioned by Israeli government, didn’t have widespread impact; ministry denies involvement
By ToI Staff
Demonstrators gather during a protest decrying sexual violence against women in the October 7 massacre, outside of United Nations headquarters in New York City, on December 4, 2023. (Yakov Binyamin/Flash90)
June 2, 2024, 4:35 pm
Online watchdog prods platforms to tackle posts denying sexual assault on Oct. 7
Antisemitism monitor CyberWell says social media moderators are not doing enough to remove content that casts doubt on credible accounts of rape and other Hamas atrocities
By Sharon Wrobel
Anti-Israel protesters rally in Edmonton, Canada, February, 25, 2024, (Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images, via JTA)
May 22, 2024, 6:46 am
Meta Oversight Board to decide whether users can post ‘all Israelis are criminals’
Independent body for Facebook, Instagram and Threads asks for public input as it reviews recent posts accused of using hate speech against whole nationalities
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
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