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The AI boom continues to reshape the globe, with chip manufacturer Nvidia outstripping rival giants Microsoft and Apple to become the most valuable company in the world.

Two people have been charged over what police allege was an "elaborate" Facebook Marketplace scam to steal a high-end designer handbag worth thousands of dollars.

A Shepparton grandmother has had two surgeries this week after being left with a shattered foot in a Facebook Marketplace sale gone wrong.

South Australian children under the age of 14 could be banned from social media under Australia-first legislation that could be proposed by the state's government.

The blue phenomina was first noted in a local Facebook group a few days ago.

The woman, who has chosen to remain anonymous, came forward to 9News after it was revealed that the pages were hosting abusive and harmful content.

More than 11,000 men are part of the private page which posts photos of women from dating sites and identifies their names and suburbs as well as rating their looks.

Billionaire Andrew 'Twiggy' Forrest's bid to hold Facebook's parent company Meta to account in Australia over an alleged cryptocurrency clickbait advertising scam has been stymied.

The mining tycoon claims social media giant Meta has been criminally reckless in allowing bogus advertisements of his image on its platforms.

WA Police are now calling on the public to help find the attacker, who is accused of knifing the seller in broad daylight, in a busy inner-city Perth suburb.

A woman has been scammed out of $10,000 by her Facebook friend who had been hacked with AI.

A technical issue has caused widespread login issues for a few hours across Meta's Facebook, Instagram, Threads and Messenger platforms early this morning.

Apple banned app developers from "fully informing iOS users about alternative and cheaper music subscription services outside of the app".

The social media behemoth confirmed today it won't renew its deals with the company's news organisations and also said it will remove its Facebook News tab next month.

The deepfake video used a genuine Forrest chat that was uploaded to the Rhodes Trust and manipulated it into a cryptocurrency scam.

Chief executive Mark Zuckerberg says the "year of efficiency" was the driving force behind a $7 billion jump in earnings.

The heads of some of the world's biggest social media companies were under fire in the hours-long hearing.

The Craigmore woman caught the moment the scammer dropped off the fake TV on CCTV about 11.30am yesterday morning.

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A buyer sent through his ID, a deposit and a video of himself. The victim could never have imagined what would happen when they met.

Scammers are increasingly targeting desperate renters on social media, with one woman losing $3200 in an elaborate Airbnb ruse.

The unsealed complaint also alleges that Meta knew that its algorithm could steer children toward harmful content, thereby harming their well-being.

Online travel giant red-faced after a post advertising holidays in Gaza was inexplicably posted on social media.

The country's richest person has written to the Meta boss in a letter obtained by 9News.

It seemed like a lucrative job that many others were doing - until money stopped flowing into Josh's account.

Welcome to the strangely satisfying world of garden clean-up content - where a video of a Sydney tradie trimming hedges has been viewed close to 10 billion times.

The 66-year-old was grieving the death of his wife and 'soulmate' when sophisticated scammers convinced him to invest.

"I just hope that years from now we will look back and feel good about the decision we made here," one executive told the Meta CEO.

Meta's top executives, including CEO Mark Zuckerberg, ignored warnings for years about harms to teens on its platforms, a whistleblower has told the US Senate.

Renters continue to face tough times with locals in some Aussie suburbs paying as much as 45 per cent of their income to secure a roof over their head. Some listings in particular show how bad the crisis has become.

For two years, Jane thought she was in a loving relationship with the Aussie TV and movie star. Instead she lost her life savings.

Facebook's parent company is today rolling out Meta Verified for Business in Australia.

A group of 33 US states are suing Meta Platforms Inc. for contributing to the youth mental health crisis by knowingly designing features that addict children to its platforms.

The company wants to charge users about 10 euros ($16.60) a month to use Instagram or Facebook without ads on desktop browsers.

The technology billionaire talked in Virtual Reality using a photorealistic avatar.

Karen purchased four Taylor Swift tickets from a mutual friend after seeing a post on a local church's Facebook group - but ended up losing $1800 with nothing to show for it.

Meta has unveiled its new innovation for the digital age.

Australian users were among those caught up in the 'Spamouflage' operation, tech giant Meta said.

A NSW Police district has jokingly listed its last Holden Commodore for sale on Facebook marketplace after retiring it.

Aussies running hot with Matildas fever are ripe targets for opportunist scammers looking to exploit the team's World Cup run.

When a post from a farmer selling free range eggs popped up in her local Facebook group, it seemed like perfect timing for Brisbane mum Hanna Mouhetta.

Social media giant Meta and subsidiaries have copped $20 million in fines after an app that claimed protect personal information was found to have collected user data for commercial benefit.

Threads is billed as a text-based version of Instagram that the company says provides "a new, separate space for real-time updates and public conversations".

Meta has good timing because Twitter users are growing frustrated with Musk's changes and looking for a viable alternative, an expert says.

Online behemoths have long struggled to combat misinformation, leading to all kinds of societal and political flash points and problems.

Posting photos of children online has become normal for the latest generation of parents but experts are increasingly warning of the dangers around the practice.

The two — who in the past jostled for a high spot on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index before Musk became the world's richest man — have clashed before.

A major bank warned today more people using websites such as Facebook Marketplace are at risk.

The European Union slapped Meta with a record $1.95 billion privacy fine and ordered it to stop transferring users' personal information across the Atlantic by October.

Instagram users across the world were met with error messages, indicating that the social media site was experiencing a worldwide outage.