Meta Platforms revealed an Iranian hacker group targeting global political figures on WhatsApp. The Iranian state-sponsored threat actor APT42 used WhatsApp accounts to target individuals in Israel, Palestine, Iran, the U.K., and the U.S.

Meta has warned of troll networks originating from Russia and Iran ahead of the US elections. According to a report by Meta, Russia remains the top source of disrupted troll networks on Facebook and Instagram, followed closely by Iran.

Meta has taken down 63,000 Instagram accounts in Nigeria involved in sextortion scams, including a network of 2,500 accounts linked to 20 individuals targeting adult men in the US.

The Department of Justice investigated around 1,000 accounts on social media platform X, previously Twitter, which were used by the Kremlin to spread pro-Moscow propaganda created by the AI-driven Meliorator software.

Meta has announced that it is delaying the training of its large language models (LLMs) in the European Union using public content shared by adult users on Facebook and Instagram, following a request from the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC).

Instant messaging app Snapchat its artificial intelligence-powered tool under compliance after the U.K. data regulator said it violated the privacy rights of individual Snapchat users.

Users started noticing on Monday that X's programmers implemented a rule on its iOS app that auto-changed Twitter.com links that appeared in Xeets (tweets) to X.com links.

The US House of Representatives has passed a bill requiring ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, to sell the social media platform within 165 days or face a complete ban in the United States.

The company plans to set up a team in Europe to identify and mitigate election-related threats on its platforms in real time. It will also expand its fact-checking network with new partners in Bulgaria, France, and Slovakia.

The European Commission is investigating TikTok for potential violations of the Digital Services Act related to child protection, advertising transparency, and harmful content.