Facebook in the U.S. are set to receive their long-awaited compensation for a data privacy breach that occurred over a decade.

The long-awaited payouts from the record-breaking $725 million Facebook settlement are finally being sent out to the millions of users who qualified. Here’s what you can expect.

People love talking to AI— some, a bit too much. And according to contract workers for Meta, who review people’s interactions with the company’s chatbots to improve their artificial intelligence, people are a bit too willing to share personal, private information, including their real names, phone numbers, and email addresses, with Meta’s AI.

The disruption appears to be far from over, as outage reports continue to climb. According to Downdetector, the number of users flagging issues with Facebook has risen from around 350 earlier to over 450 at the time of writing. This steady increase suggests that the problem may be spreading or affecting more users over time.

Facebook's parent company, Meta, removed millions of accounts and adopted stricter policies against unoriginal content to help authentic creators break through on the platform.

Like YouTube, Meta says it won't penalize users who are engaging with other people's content, doing things like making reaction videos, joining a trend, or adding their own takes.

SFGate tech reporter Stephen Council says Facebook icon Mark Zuckerberg probably doesn’t think of himself as an evil villain. “But read it here, read it twice: Zuckerberg is a genuine danger to our society,

U.S. Senator Josh Hawley launched a probe into Facebook parent Meta Platforms' artificial intelligence policies on Friday, demanding documents on rules that had allowed its artificial intelligence chatbots to “engage a child in conversations that are romantic or sensual.