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A weekend getaway turned into a nightmare for a man who says he was drugged and robbed of $200,000 in jewelry by a woman he initially met on Instagram.
A Gainesville man’s Instagram meetup with a woman in Miami Beach turned into a weekend armed robbery and the arrest of two suspects, police confirmed Monday.
Miami-Dade police said a self-described “hardcore biker” threatened a South Florida social media influencer and comedian who made an Instagram post that “made fun (of) and criticized bicyclists for disobeying traffic laws and obstructing roadways,” leading to his arrest on three felony charges.
Puerto Rican reggaeton singer Nicky Jam has withdrawn his endorsement of Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election a month after appearing at a rally for the candidate.
Google, Meta and TikTok have removed social media accounts belonging to an industrial plant in Russia’s Tatarstan region aimed at recruiting young foreign women to make drones for Moscow’s war in Ukraine.
Police on Friday arrested a 15-year old boy on charges related to threats on social media that prompted an increased police presence at multiple schools in the nation's capital.
Instagram is introducing separate teen accounts for those under 18 as it tries to make the platform safer for children amid growing backlash against how social media affects young people’s lives.
Broward County Public Schools administrators announced Sunday morning that a person had been arrested over threats.
On the 10th day, after creating the mountain goat, elephants, pelicans, a rhinoceros and a gorilla, among other animals, Banksy rested.
An inmate at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center is facing a new charge after police said he sent threatening messages to a southwest Miami-Dade man’s Instagram account last month.
European Union regulators have accused social media company Meta Platforms of breaching the bloc’s new digital competition rulebook by forcing Facebook and Instagram users to choose between seeing ads or paying to avoid them.
Julio Foolio was celebrating his 26th birthday when a shooter killed him early Sunday morning in Tampa after he shared with his one million Instagram followers that he had “the best birthday ever.”
Three comic books, each priced at $7,500, were stolen from TATE’s Comics + Toys + More last Thursday in Lauderhill, the company announced on its Instagram page.
A San Diego man was booked into the Broward Main Jail Thursday, one day before he’s scheduled to face a Fort Lauderdale federal judge in a child exploitation case being prosecuted in South Florida.
The families of a group of victims of the Uvalde school shooting have announced new lawsuits against Instagram parent company Meta Platforms, the maker of the video game Call of Duty and the gun company that made the assault rifle used in the shooting.
The European Union opened fresh investigations into Facebook and Instagram over suspicions that they’re failing to protect children online, in violation of the bloc’s strict digital regulations for social media platforms.
While a bill to ban TikTok if it doesn't change owners has received President Joe Biden's signature, it could still be years before the popular video-sharing app is actually blocked from U.S. app stores — if it is blocked at all.
Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta says its first-quarter profit more than doubled, boosted by higher advertising revenue and a 6% increase on the average price of ads on its platforms.
Japan’s imperial family has made an Instagram debut with a barrage of posts, hoping to shake off their reclusive image and reach out to younger people on social media.
Star couple Cameron Diaz and Benji Madden say they are “blessed and grateful” to have welcomed a baby boy.
Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, has returned to Instagram to tease a new brand that records show could feature jams, household items, cookbooks and cutlery.
Nearly three-quarters of U.S. teens say they feel happy or peaceful when they don’t have their phones with them, according to a new report from the Pew Research Center.
A group of 40 state attorneys general have sent a letter to Instagram and Facebook parent company Meta expressing concern over what they say is dramatic uptick of consumer complaints about account takeovers and lockouts.
The Meta outage that affected Facebook, Messenger and Instagram for a few hours on Tuesday was an inconvenience for most.
A technical issue had caused widespread login issues for more than an hour across Meta’s Facebook, Instagram, Threads and Messenger platforms on Tuesday.
Facebook and Instagram are experiencing outages Tuesday morning, with more than 500,000 users reporting to DownDetector that they could not access their social media accounts.
The European Union is expanding its strict digital rulebook to almost all online platforms in the bloc.
Catching a 32-year-old man with a reckless obsession for illegal drag racing that he documented on Instagram took the effort of specialized teams in 2022, but detectives said he couldn’t keep himself from speeding and after a police pursuit he was back behind bars, records show.
Newly unredacted documents from New Mexico’s lawsuit against Meta underscore the company’s historical reluctance to keep children safe on its platforms.
Meta says it will start hiding inappropriate content from teenagers’ accounts on Instagram and Facebook.
New Mexico's attorney general is suing the parent company of Facebook and Instagram claiming it failed to protect underage users from exposure to child sexual abuse material and let adults solicit pornographic imagery from them.
The parent company of Instagram and Facebook has sued the Federal Trade Commission in an attempt to stop the agency from reopening a 2020 privacy settlement with the company that would prohibit it from profiting from data it collects on users under 18.
The deaths of two people, heat-related illnesses and other misfortunes have left legions of Taylor Swift fans angry and disappointed in the three-day Rio de Janeiro leg of the pop superstar’s Eras Tour.
Taylor Swift has postponed a concert in Rio de Janeiro after a 23-year-old fan died during her Friday night show.
A Miami-Dade County Public Schools security guard was arrested Wednesday after trying to seduce three teenage girls on Instagram who attend the school where he was assigned to, authorities said.
On the same day whistleblower Frances Haugen was testifying before Congress about the harms of Facebook and Instagram to children in the fall of 2021, Arturo Béjar, then a contractor at the social media giant, sent an email to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg about the same topic.
Facebook and Instagram users in Europe are getting the option to pay for ad-free versions of the social media platforms as a way to comply with the continent’s strict data privacy rules.
Dozens of US states, including California, New York, Arizona and Indiana are suing Meta Platforms Inc. for harming young people’s mental health and contributing the youth mental health crisis by knowingly designing features on Instagram and Facebook that addict children to the platforms.
Dozens of US states, including California, New York, Arizona and Indiana are suing Meta Platforms Inc. for harming young people’s mental health and contributing the youth mental health crisis by knowingly designing features on Instagram and Facebook that addict children to the platforms.
New York is bidding to put new controls on social media platforms that state leaders say will protect the mental health of younger users.
Meta plans to give Facebook and Instagram users in Europe the option of paying for ad-free versions of the social media platforms as a way to comply with the continent’s strict data privacy rules.
Apple is blaming a software bug and other issues tied to popular apps such as Instagram and Uber for causing its recently released iPhone 15 models to heat up and spark complaints about becoming too hot to handle.
British lawmakers have approved an ambitious but controversial new internet safety law with wide-ranging powers to crack down on digital and social media companies like TikTok, Google and Facebook and Instagram parent Meta.
Google, Facebook, TikTok and other Big Tech companies operating in Europe must comply with one of the most far-reaching efforts to clean up what people see online.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is accusing Facebook of putting profits over people’s safety during Canada’s wildfire emergencies.
A 22-year-old man with a criminal record wasn’t allowed to hold firearms when he went to a gun range, recorded himself firing one, and shared it on Instagram.
Thousands of Bosnians took to the streets to demand authorities act to curb violence against women after a man last week killed his ex-wife while streaming the slaying live on Instagram.
Threads, the simple, bare-bones text-based social network created by Facebook owner Meta, burst onto the scene during a particularly bad week for the rival then still known as Twitter.
Police and news outlets in Bosnia say a man shot and killed his ex-wife while streaming the slaying live on Instagram and then killed two other people before taking his own life.
Christopher J. Wunsche was documenting his lifestyle on Instagram as GatorGuwop305 and he was sharing it publicly with his more than 16,000 followers — including the detectives who arrested him on Tuesday in Miami-Dade County.
Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta is keeping its promise to block news content in Canada on its platforms in response to a new law that requires tech giants to pay publishers for linking to or otherwise repurposing their content online.
A team of some of the world's leading social media researchers has published four studies looking at the relationship between the algorithms used by Facebook and Instagram and America's widening political divide.
A Miami-Dade County public school teacher was arrested Tuesday on multiple charges after authorities said he had an “inappropriate relationship” with a 12-year-old girl.
Celebrities, lawmakers, brands and everyday social media users are flocking to Meta’s freshly minted app Threads to connect with their followers, including many Twitter refugees tired of the drama surrounding Elon Musk’s raucous oversight of that platform since acquiring it last year.
In a cease-and-desist letter earlier this week, Twitter threatened legal action against Instagram parent company Meta over the new text-based app, Threads.
Canada's government says it will stop advertising on Facebook and Instagram in response to Meta’s decision to block access to news content on their social platforms as part of a temporary test.
Instagram and Facebook are adding new parental supervision tools and privacy features beginning Tuesday, but critics say the steps don't go far enough.
The corporate parent of Facebook and Instagram plans to open a digital gateway for kids as young as 10 years old to enter virtual reality through the Meta Quest headset, despite rising concerns about children spending too much time on social media.
An attorney for the victim of an alleged sexual assault by UFC fighter Conor McGregor releases Instagram text messages sent to a security guard.
Meta is preparing to block news for some Canadians on Facebook and Instagram in a temporary test that is expected to last through the end of June.
Just about 25 minutes before he shot a man in Miami-Dade County, an Instagram user known as “Lonboyyy” posted a selfie with the gun he used, according to an arrest warrant released on Tuesday.
Social media companies are once again in the spotlight after a bank employee in Louisville, Kentucky, killed five people in a mass shooting and livestreamed the attack on Instagram.
For the first time since being attacked at a LA Fitness in South Florida on March 21, rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine addressed his gym beatdown in a social media post on Friday.
A 25-year-old man stands accused of paying minors for sex in Miami-Dade County and preying on them on Instagram, according to prosecutors with the human trafficking task force.
