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Forty U.S. states and Washington, D.C. called on Meta Platforms to crack down on scammers who hijack Facebook and Instagram accounts, to address a "dramatic" surge in account takeovers.In a letter to Meta's chief lawyer, states led by New York Attorney General Letitia James said fraudsters are "winning the war and running rampant on Meta," after the company in November 2022 announced thousands of job cuts focused on security and privacy.Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill CoursesOffering…

Image: Nikolas Kokovlis/NurPhoto (Getty Images)It’s not just you. LinkedIn is experiencing a widespread outage with users taking to other social media sites like X and Facebook to complain.Threads Needs These Five Missing Features to Be a Twitter KillerIt’s not immediately clear what caused the LinkedIn outage, but Down Detector has tens of thousands of complaints that appear to have started around 3:40 p.m. ET. Netblocks reports LinkedIn is down in “multiple countries,” suggesting this is a global problem.The outage…

Attorneys for Meta Platforms and several of its current and former leaders, including founder Mark Zuckerberg, are asking a Delaware judge to dismiss a shareholder lawsuit alleging the company has deliberately failed to protect users of its social media platforms from human trafficking and child sexual exploitation.The lawsuit, filed last year by several investment funds, claims that Meta’s directors and senior executives have long known about rampant human trafficking and child sexual exploitation on Facebook and…

A group of 41 state attorneys general are demanding that Meta step up its support services for users who have been victims of hacks and account takeovers. “We refuse to operate as the customer service representatives of your company,” the group writes in a letter addressed to Meta’s chief legal officer. “We request Meta take immediate action and substantially increase its investment in account takeover mitigation tactics, as well as responding to users whose accounts were taken over.”The letter, which was first by Wired,…

Forty-one state attorneys general penned a letter to Meta’s top attorney on Wednesday saying complaints are skyrocketing across the United States about Facebook and Instagram user accounts being stolen and declaring “immediate action” necessary to mitigate the rolling threat.The coalition of top law enforcement officials, spearheaded by New York attorney general Letitia James, says the “dramatic and persistent spike” in complaints concerning account takeovers amounts to a “substantial drain” on governmental resources, as…

Facebook, Instagram, and Threads are currently facing a widespread outage, with many users unable to access the platforms globally. Users attempting to log onto the websites and apps are encountering error messages, preventing them from refreshing their feeds as usual. Additionally, some users have been automatically logged out of their accounts and are unable to log back in. Update: Meta apologized and confirmed it is now “recovering” from the outage affecting the ability to log in to its platforms. Services are…

Update at 11 pm IST: Instagram, Facebook, and Threads services are back online. Several Instagram users are reporting an outage, and Downdetector, the website tracking real-time issues and outages, confirms it. Additionally, Meta's Facebook services also seem to be down with several users reporting issues to log-in. Notably, Threads was also down at the same time. Facebook shows a "password that you've entered is incorrect" message when trying to log inAt the time of writing this story, Downdetector had over 29,000 people…

Facebook and Instagram appears to be coming back online as of 12:30 p.m. ET after a nationwide outage. Roughly 580,000 Facebook users and 92,000 Instagram users experienced issues, according to Down Detector. White House officials are monitoring the outage, according to the Wall Street Journal, which started just after 10:00 a.m. ET on Super Tuesday, as 15 American states hold primaries for the 2024 Presidential Election.Nobody’s Really Watching Reels“We are recovering from an earlier outage impacting Facebook Login, and…

Social media platforms owned by Meta, Facebook and Instagram, have been down, several users reported on X (formerly Twitter) on late Tuesday evening.Realtime outage monitoring platform Downdetector also showed that nearly 15,381 people in India reported that Facebook is suffering an outage, while more than 19,200 users have reported a downtime on Instagram as of 8.59 pm.Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill CoursesOffering CollegeCourseWebsiteIIT DelhiIITD Certificate Programme in Data Science & Machine…

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg used to describe his company’s mission as “making the world more open and connected.” Tuesday it did the opposite, as nearly all of Meta’s social platforms, which include Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and Messenger, experienced widespread outages around the globe for around two hours.Some people found themselves being suddenly logged out of Facebook and Messenger. Instagram was not loading new content, starting around 10 am ET. “We're aware people are having trouble accessing our services,” Andy…