The ruse starts with the message, ‘Is this still available?’
Hayley Taylor
The online classifieds will soon look a little different for Facebook users in three countries.
Kelvin Chan
The Australian Information Commissioner has dumped civil penalty proceedings against Meta over the Cambridge Analytica scandal after the owner of Facebook agreed to a $50 million settlement.
Daniel Newell
Westpac has accused Facebook owner Meta of failing to deal with scam posts through the social media platform after hundreds of incidents over the past year impacting customers.
Lisa Thomas
A potential Facebook news ban opens the door to peddlers of conspiracy theories and misinformation.
Donna Bates
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta is among six tech giants issued with legal notices forcing them to reveal what they’re doing to protect Australians from terrorist and violent extremist material and activity.
Remy Varga
Earlier this month, social media giant Meta announced it would not renew its commercial deals with Australian media businesses.
Lanna Hill
Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Snapchat appear to be affected by massive technical issues as Tuesday night became Wednesday morning in Australia.
Rachel Fenner
The social media giant says users will still be able to access content on Facebook and Instagram, but Australian publishers won’t be paid for it.
Sean Smith
Facebook’s parent company Meta has canned its multimillion-dollar deals with Australian news companies to pay for content it uses ahead of the existing agreement running out later this year.
Kimberley Caines
A young man has been charged over a Facebook Marketplace deal that turned violent.
Lauren Price
Mark Zuckerberg sold nearly half a billion dollars of Meta Platforms shares in the final two months of 2023 after a two-year hiatus in which the company’s stock price hit its lowest in seven years.
Rachel Phua
WA mining billionaire Gina Rinehart has slammed Mark Zuckerberg for failing to stop social media scams across his platforms using her identity to “fraudulently solicit money from vulnerable people”.
Sarah Makse
A Perth cameraman who trawled the suburbs for crime stories at night has been accused of child sex offences.
7News
The owner of Facebook and Instagram has conceded its filtering tools are not fully capturing harmful content targeted at First Nations people in the lead-up to the Voice referendum.
Gerard Cockburn
The victim of a brutal attack, allegedly by two teen girls who had arranged to buy his phone over Facebook, says he hopes the pair get the ‘justice they deserve’.
Jake Dietsch
Two teenage girls allegedly planned a Facebook marketplace robbery for days — buying knives last Friday before luring an unsuspecting phone seller to a Sunday shakedown which left him with a dozen stitches.
Tim Clarke and Caleb Runciman
A teenager has been charged after he allegedly tried to buy an iPhone off Facebook Marketplace with counterfeit money then threatened the seller with an imitation firearm during the sale.
Shannon Hampton
The social media giant says 2022 earnings fell $2m to $34.7m.
Meta Platforms plans to lay off about 10,000 employees and close about 5000 additional open roles in its second major round of job cuts in the past six months.
Kurt Wagner
Meta, the owner of Facebook and Instagram, is planning a fresh round of layoffs and will cut thousands of employees as soon as this week, according to people familiar with the matter.
Sarah Frier, Ed Ludlow and Kurt Wagner
An average of eight children were sexually extorted for money every day last month, using social media platforms like Snapchat and Instagram, according to police.
Daryna Zadvirna
The mother-in-law of Kylie Bazzo has shared a touching tribute to her late daughter-in-law who was one of two women killed in a tragic boating accident.
Meta Platforms chief executive Mark Zuckerberg says the company will cut more than 11,000 jobs in the first major round of layoffs in the social media giant’s history.
