Lauren Feiner

Meta has found a growing number of accounts and pages linked to coordinated inauthentic behavior (CIB) from Russia, but they’re not gaining as many followers as before, the company said in a new report.

The Federal Trade Commission complained to a federal appeals court on Wednesday that Microsoft’s layoff of 1,900 employees in its video games division went against its representations in court as it fought to acquire Activision Blizzard.

PIR, the group that runs the .org domain, announced a new partnership to sponsor free access for groups that run top-level domains (TLDs) — think .com, .net, etc. — to the Internet Watch Foundation’s TLD Hopping List and Domain Alerts.

The company will face off in federal court against the US Department of Justice in Virginia, after the DOJ claimed in January 2023 that Google violated US antitrust law by illegally monopolizing the digital ads market, allegedly boosting its profits while raising costs for advertisers. Google has said the DOJ’s reasoning “would slow innovation, raise advertising fees and make it harder for thousands of small businesses and publishers to grow.”

The hearing just came to a close. Durbin wrapped the discussion by telling Zuckerberg he doesn’t think his opening statement about the positive mental health impacts of social media makes any sense. Durbin said social media’s negative impact on kids is evident to all parents.