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To the company’s disappointment, “people who stopped using Facebook for a week reported lower feelings of depression, anxiety, loneliness, and social comparison,” internal documents said.

The agency sought to force Meta to restructure or sell Instagram and WhatsApp in order to restore competition among social media networks.

This was the second major internet disruption of 2025, following the October malfunction of Amazon's cloud services unit, AWS.

The European Commission proposes to pause parts of AI legislation following months of urging from tech giants such as Meta and Alphabet and pressure from the Trump administration.

In 2025, the Index also measured the public's use of artificial intelligence services, particularly large language models (AI chatbots), which have become widely accessible.

The features will be built on protections already applied to teen accounts and will be guided by the PG-13 movie rating system.

At Connect 2025 in Menlo Park, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg unveiled new wearable AI products: Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses, the Neural Band bracelet, and Oakley Meta Vanguard glasses.

The company said on Monday that the controls will allow parents and teens to link accounts for stronger safeguards for teenagers.

The jury found Google liable on two of the three claims of privacy violations, but found that Google had not acted with malice, meaning it was not entitled to punitive damages.

After several weeks of testing, Reuters found that the bots routinely made sexual advances and asked users to meet up.