Italy investigates Meta over WhatsApp AI integration

Italy’s antitrust authority says Meta may have breached EU competition rules by installing Meta AI in the messaging app without asking users first

YouTube to be banned for users under 16 in Australia

YouTube was first excluded due to its use by teachers, while platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and TikTok were included in the ban

Moscow court fines Zoom for failing to abide by Russian internet rules

79.6 million rouble fine is issued for failure to comply with legal requirements for foreign entities operating in Russia's internet space

Trump supports TikTok but wants U.S. ownership, says U.S. commerce secretary

You can't have the Chinese have an app on 100 million American phones, that is just not okay, says Lutnick

New EU law pushes Meta to end political and social issue advertising

The company says the upcoming regulation creates legal uncertainties and significant operational challenges

X will bring back video-sharing platform Vine in AI form, says Musk

New Vine is expected to use AI, fitting the original 6-second format as most AI tools focus on short clips due to higher costs for longer videos

TikTok will go dark in U.S. without sale clearance from China, says U.S. Commerce Secretary

China or ByteDance could retain a small stake, but the majority must be under American control, says Howard Lutnick

U.S. Supreme Court asked to halt Mississippi law on kids’ social media access

The law requires minors to get parental consent to join certain platforms and mandates companies to reasonably verify users' ages

Meta, X and LinkedIn appeal unprecedented VAT claim by Italy

Italian tax authorities say free user sign-ups are taxable as they involve exchanging personal data for account access

Paris officials clarify probe focuses on Musk’s X algorithm, not personal information

Musk’s company publicly rejects the investigation, calling it politically motivated and a threat to free speech

Musk’s X refuses to comply with French criminal investigation

The company denies all allegations and accuses authorities of distorting French law to serve a political agenda

WhatsApp faces possible exit from Russian market

Meta is designated as an extremist organization in Russia, says deputy head of the IT committee

Zuckerberg and Meta board reach $8 billion settlement over data privacy

Meta states on its website that it has spent billions of dollars since 2019 to improve user privacy

Austrian privacy group files privacy complaints against AliExpress, TikTok, WeChat

Noyb files complaints against Chinese tech firms for not providing full user data access as required under European Union law

Musk’s X faces EU complaints over use of sensitive user data for targeted advertising

Nine civil society groups say X may be breaching the Digital Services Act, which prohibits advertising based on user data