Shares of peers Alphabet (the parent company of Google) and Snap also rose after the social media giant issued its upbeat revenue outlook.

DPC had imposed the smaller fine after it found Meta had breached GDPR but European Data Protection Board rejected that decision

While the double-Irish structure impacted tax payments, it did not do so in Ireland, in other European countries.

Dramatic rise in amounts forked out, with ads placed across Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, LinkedIn, Snapchat, and YouTube

Data protection expert Daragh O’Brien of consultants Castlebridge said that the actions demanded of Meta "go to the fundamentals of how they operate”.

The company’s 3,000 permanent staff at its European head office in Dublin are anxiously waiting to hear if they will be among the expected Irish redundances

Large tech firms Twitter, Meta and Intel have made contact with his Enterprise department in recent days to alert it of potential redundancies.

The company directly employees over 3,000 people across Ireland 

Meta employs 3,000 people at its Dublin head office, and 6,000 more elsewhere in Ireland, including Clonee in Co Meath and Reality Labs in Cork

The system would allow internet users to request the removal of sensitive content, if unsuccessful when requesting removal from online sites themselves

A number of tech giants have announced hiring freezes and hinted at layoffs over the past few weeks - from Apple to Meta, here are some of the companies making trims

Instagram said it is partnering with British technology firm Yoti on the video selfie verification test, with the firm’s tech able to estimate someone’s age based on facialfeatures and share this with Meta.

Dr Niamh Lynch says digital child labour must stop.  We must consider the children's rights and their safety

Issues accessing Facebook and Instagram have been resolved after social media users reported problems accessing the sites.  Many reported outages for Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp , with all three owned by Meta, Facebook's parent company.

The fine comes following an investigation into a series of 12 data breach notifications received by the watchdog between June and December 2018

Facebook has 1.929bn daily users, but the first fall in numbers in 18 years triggered a share price collapse that wiped the equivalent of Portugal’s GDP off its value, writes Dan Milmo.

The change will now delete the "facial recognition templates" of more than 1 billion people.

NewsGuard said some pages did include Facebook labels offering links to 'the latest coronavirus information' but added that not enough was being done by platforms to inform users about the trustworthiness of sources

Frances Haugen said Facebook’s parent company, rebranded Meta last week, is unlikely to change if its founder remains in charge

Facebook has announced plans to hire 10,000 staff in Europe to work on the metaverse, its plans for a futuristic new computing platform

Asked about hate speech, Ms Haugen said: 'Unquestionably it is making hate worse'

Francis Haugen told UK MPs that Facebook’s own research suggested Instagram is dangerous for young people

Apple threatened to pull Facebook and Instagram from its app store two years ago over concerns about the platform being used as a tool to trade and sell maids in the Middle East, documents show.

The problems plaguing Facebook’s content moderation are systemic, internal company documents from a whistleblower suggest.

Monika Bickert, Facebook’s vice president of content policy,  believes that 'government regulation can establish standards all companies should meet'

Company under fire as news reports detail spread of misinformation and conspiracy theories even as staff raised concerns

Facebook's ‘metaverse’ sounds like Zoom on steroids, with a touch of magic mushrooms, according to University College Cork Philosophy lecturer, Vittorio Bufacchi, who thinks the social media giant's new virtual ‘reality’ has no virtues

A report found that a group of former and current healthcare professionals who claim Covid is a hoax reached millions of people despite the social media's giant vows to tackle disinformation.

Facebook also said it would launch in January a French version of its Facebook News product, where the group’s publishers could allow their stories to appear

As part of the investigation, the social network was ordered to keep the two businesses separate until a conclusion was reached

The social network’s founder, Mark Zuckerberg, is said to be keen to signal the company’s intent to move beyond just social media and the controversies that have faced the platform in that area.

Facebook has plans to hire 10,000 workers in the EU over the next five years to work on a new computing platform.

The high-skilled workers will help build 'the metaverse', a futuristic notion for connecting people online that encompasses augmented and virtual reality.

A global group of more than 50 child safety organisations and campaigners has urged Mark Zuckerberg to make Facebook safer for children, sending an open letter to the social network founder calling for more transparency on how the platform plans to ...

A global group of more than 50 child-safety organisations and campaigners has urged Mark Zuckerberg to make Facebook safer for children, by sending an open letter to the social-network founder and calling for transparency on how the platform plans ...

The UK’s data protection watchdog has written to a Facebook whistleblower, requesting her full evidence to see whether the social networking giant breached UK law.

Antisemitism is “rife” across social media, with young people being introduced to hateful content via platforms such as TikTok and Instagram, new research says.

Ireland has a particularly unusual relationship with Facebook and concerns raised by high level whistleblower have a real resonance 

How harmful is the culture of Facebook and Instagram and what can be done to protect young people in particular from the worst excesses in pursuit of profit?

It is the second time in a week that there has been an outage at Facebook

While Google struck a deal to pay publishers for content, Facebook wiped content from the pages of news outlets as tensions rise in Australia about the publication of content

Former Fianna Fáil TD Frank O'Rourke brings defamation action against Twitter, Facebook, and man not even from his Kildare North constituency

Users can now click the three dots next to a post that they would like to report as hate speech

Facebook is coming under increasing pressure to fact-check misinformation about vaccines. But, when it comes to Covid-19, how do you fact-check information about a vaccine that doesn't exist?