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Meta promises it’ll soon be easier to recover your hacked Instagram account

5 December 2025 at 11:26

Meta is launching a new unified support hub across Facebook and Instagram designed to make account recovery far less painful.

The post Meta promises it’ll soon be easier to recover your hacked Instagram account appeared first on Digital Trends.

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ChatGPT hyped up violent stalker who believed he was β€œGod’s assassin,” DOJ says

4 December 2025 at 13:40

ChatGPT allegedly validated the worst impulses of a wannabe influencer accused of stalking more than 10 women at boutique gyms, where the chatbot supposedly claimed he’d meet the β€œwife type.”

In a press release on Tuesday, the Department of Justice confirmed that 31-year-old Brett Michael Dadig currently remains in custody after being charged with cyberstalking, interstate stalking, and making interstate threats. He now faces a maximum sentence of up to 70 years in prison that could be coupled with β€œa fine of up to $3.5 million,” the DOJ said.

The podcasterβ€”who primarily posted about β€œhis desire to find a wife and his interactions with women”—allegedly harassed and sometimes even doxxed his victims through his videos on platforms including Instagram, Spotify, and TikTok. Over time, his videos and podcasts documented his intense desire to start a family, which was frustrated by his β€œanger towards women,” whom he claimed were β€œall the same from fucking 18 to fucking 40 to fucking 90” and β€œtrash.”

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Australia Plans Social Media Ban for Under-16s

24 November 2025 at 06:19

Named platforms include Facebook, Instagram, Threads, Snapchat, TikTok, X, YouTube, Reddit, and the streaming services Kick and Twitch.

The post Australia Plans Social Media Ban for Under-16s appeared first on TechRepublic.

Australia Plans Social Media Ban for Under-16s

24 November 2025 at 06:19

Named platforms include Facebook, Instagram, Threads, Snapchat, TikTok, X, YouTube, Reddit, and the streaming services Kick and Twitch.

The post Australia Plans Social Media Ban for Under-16s appeared first on TechRepublic.

Meta wins monopoly trial, convinces judge that social networking is dead

18 November 2025 at 16:47

After years of pushback from the Federal Trade Commission over Meta’s acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp, Meta has defeated the FTC’s monopoly claims.

In a Tuesday ruling, US District Judge James Boasberg said the FTC failed to show that Meta has a monopoly in a market dubbed β€œpersonal social networking.” In that narrowly defined market, the FTC unsuccessfully argued, Meta supposedly faces only two rivals, Snapchat and MeWe, which struggle to compete due to its alleged monopoly.

But the days of grouping apps into β€œseparate markets of social networking and social media” are over, Boasberg wrote. He cited the Greek philosopher Heraclitus, who β€œposited that no man can ever step into the same river twice,” while telling the FTC they missed their chance to block Meta’s purchase.

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