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Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg testifies before the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on "Foreign Influence Operations and Their Use of Social Media Platforms," on Capitol Hill in Washington on Sept. 5, 2018. Sandberg has informed Facebook owner Meta's board of directors that she doesn't plan to stand for reelection in the spring. “With a heart filled with gratitude and a mind filled with memories, I let the Meta board know that I will not stand for reelection this May,” Sandberg wrote in a Facebook post on Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Former Meta COO Sheryl Sandberg to leave company’s board of directors

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

In this June 10, 2020 file photo, cattle occupy a feedlot in Columbus, Neb. Frustrated with persistently low prices, ranchers and others in the beef industry are moving to reverse decades of consolidation and planning to open new slaughterhouses. The plants will be smaller than those owned by the four beef company giants that now slaughter over 80% of the nation's cattle. That has led to some skepticism about whether the new plants will succeed. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File)

Zuckerberg promotes cattle ranch where he feeds cows beer, nuts

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

ChatGPT-maker braces for fight with New York Times and authors on ‘fair use’ of copyrighted works

By Matt O'Brien - Associated Press

Meta’s initial decisions to remove 2 videos of Israel-Hamas war reversed by Oversight Board

Meta's app Threads is displayed on a smartphone in New York, on Thursday, July 6, 2023. According to new data from Apptopia, which researches social media platforms, Threads has blown by X in America's daily active user lane. Threads has seen a stable rise in its users and now houses around 28 million daily active users compared with X’s 22 million. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

Threads finally spreads to EU after delay over regulatory requirements

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

A group of young people with mobile phones on the street. (File photo credit: carballo via Shutterstock)

Research finds more teens turning to social media, not parents, for life lessons

By Sean Salai - The Washington Times

Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai speaks about Google DeepMind at a Google I/O event in Mountain View, Calif., May 10, 2023. Google took its next leap in artificial intelligence Wednesday with the launch of a project called Gemini that's trained to think more like humans and behave in ways likely to intensify the debate about the technology's potential promise and perils. Google DeepMind is the AI division behind Gemini. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

Google ups the stakes in AI race with Gemini, a technology trained to behave more like humans

By Michael Liedtke and Matt O'Brien

Spanish newspaper association files multimillion-euro suit against Meta over advertising practices

By Ciarán Giles - Associated Press

Meta's app Threads is displayed on a smartphone in New York, on Thursday, July 6, 2023. According to new data from Apptopia, which researches social media platforms, Threads has blown by X in America's daily active user lane. Threads has seen a stable rise in its users and now houses around 28 million daily active users compared with X’s 22 million. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

Threads outpaces X in downloads

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

FILE - Joan Donovan, then-research director of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, speaks remotely during a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law, on Capitol Hill, April 27, 2021, in Washington. The prominent disinformation scholar who left Harvard University in August 2023 has accused the school of muzzling her speech and stifling — then dismantling — her research team as it launched a deep dive in late 2021 into a trove of Facebook files she considers the most important documents in internet history. (Al Drago/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Harvard muzzled disinformation team after $500 million Zuckerberg donation, whistleblower alleges

By Frank Bajak - Associated Press

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer speaks at the SelectUSA Investment Summit, May 4, 2023, in Oxon Hill, Md. Campaigns will be required to clearly state that political advertisements airing in Michigan were created with the use of artificial intelligence under legislation expected to be signed in the coming days by Whitmer. The use of AI-generated deepfakes within 90 days of an election will be prohibited without a disclosure identifying the media as manipulated. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Michigan to join state-level effort to regulate AI political ads as federal legislation is pending

By Joey Cappelletti and Ali Swenson - Associated Press

Mark Zuckerberg speaks at Georgetown University, on Oct. 17, 2019, in Washington. Zuckerberg, the Meta Platforms CEO and mixed martial arts enthusiast posted on social media Friday, Nov. 3, 3023, that he tore one of his anterior cruciate ligaments, or ACLs, while training for a fight early next year. (AP Photo/Nick Wass, File)

Zuckerberg and CEOs of TikTok, X to testify in Senate on online danger to children

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

Russia puts spokesman for tech giant and Facebook owner Meta on wanted list

Associated Press

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., left, the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, confers with Chairman Dick Durbin, D-Ill., during debate over judicial appointments, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, May 11, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**

Senators pressure social media CEOs to testify before Congress on harm to children

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

Attendees visit the Meta booth at the Game Developers Conference 2023 in San Francisco on March 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu) **FILE**

Meta will let ads say 2020 election was stolen

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

Meta issues new restrictions on AI-generated advertising

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

Arturo Bejar, former Facebook employee and consultant for Instagram, testifies before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law during a hearing to examine social media and the teen mental health crisis, Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)

Ex-Facebook employee says executives knew social media harms children and failed to act

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

Rep. Ken Buck, R-Colo., arrives as House Republicans hold a closed-door meeting to vote by secret ballot on their candidate for speaker of the House, at the Capitol in Washington, Oct. 11, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Colorado Republican Ken Buck plans to challenge GOP’s direction under Trump as he leaves the House

Associated Press

Meta's app Threads is displayed on a smartphone in New York, on Thursday, July 6, 2023. According to new data from Apptopia, which researches social media platforms, Threads has blown by X in America's daily active user lane. Threads has seen a stable rise in its users and now houses around 28 million daily active users compared with X’s 22 million. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

Threads reportedly working on new privacy options

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

The ChatGPT app is displayed on an iPhone in New York, May 18, 2023. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

Two senators push bipartisan bill requiring AI warning labels

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times