Meta's $18 billion child safety settlement requires TikTok and YouTube to adopt similar protections and pay $5.3 billion combined. Meta tried running ads on TikTok urging them to join the deal, but TikTok rejected the ads citing a ban on political content. Both TikTok and YouTube have remained publicly silent and pulled out of related safety events, raising questions about their cooperation. The outcome affects how major social platforms address teen safety and regulatory pressure going forward.
Scotiabank analyst Nat Schindler set a $650 price target for Meta Platforms, about 6.8% below its then-current price of $697.52. Despite Meta's strong revenue from Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, investor concerns over increased artificial intelli...
Tesla's shares fell following a flat Q3 revenue report and a year-over-year decline in electric vehicle deliveries, despite slightly better-than-expected earnings per share. CEO Elon Musk highlighted efforts to expand full self-driving approvals and ...
A New Mexico judge ordered Meta to pay $25 billion for misleading Facebook users about privacy in the Cambridge Analytica scandal, far exceeding the $5 billion FTC fine in 2019. The ruling implicates CEO Mark Zuckerberg and former COO Sheryl Sandberg...
Meta Platforms posted a negative free cash flow of $2.12 billion in Q3 2026, the first since its 2012 IPO, driven by $34.91 billion in capital expenditures mainly for AI infrastructure. Despite generating $32.79 billion in operating cash, the company...
Meta Platforms' ad revenue growth is now driven mainly by price increases, with impression growth nearly halving over three quarters, increasing recession risk. The company launched Muse, an AI agent enabling 'pull' advertising where users specify wh...
