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Reuters reported that internal documents from late 2024 stated that Meta expected to earn about 10% of its revenue that year – about $16 billion – from illicit advertising.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.