Discover how Meta leverages ads on Facebook and Instagram while expanding into the metaverse with VR technologies.

SAN FRANCISCO - Last year, Meta had to reckon with an ugly conclusion about its Chinese advertising customers: They were defrauding Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp users worldwide. Though China’s ...

Meta whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams, the former director of Global Public Policy for Facebook and author of the recently released tell-all book “Careless People,” told U.S. senators during her ...

That “easy money” or “rapid weight loss” ad in your social feed may actually be a scam.

SAN FRANCISCO - For a week in November, Facebook and Instagram featured ads that showed cash and cryptocurrency raining down on a man at his computer. The ads asked viewers if they wanted to make a ...

Now with some help from AI, scammers are still a big problem on Facebook's ad platform. Credit: Mateusz Slodkowski/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images The new iPhone, the Nintendo Switch 2, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Kate O’Flaherty is a cybersecurity and privacy journalist. Meta has confirmed it will collect interactions with its AI tools to ...

Rob Leathern and Rob Goldman, who both worked at Meta, are launching a new nonprofit that aims to bring transparency to an increasingly opaque, scam-filled social media ecosystem. When billionaire ...

Meta Platforms Inc., the parent company of Facebook, has been fined NT$15 million (US$512,864) by Taiwan’s Ministry of Digital Affairs (MODA) for failing to disclose key information about advertisers ...

On Wednesday, Meta announced that it would use conversations with its AI chatbot to tailor ads. Advertising is a core business for Meta, comprising over 97% of its revenue in 2023 and 2024. Meta AI ...