Nick is a Features author who's been writing for fellow tech geeks since 2011. While he's mostly focused on phones, he's also thrilled by cameras and audio gear of all shapes and sizes. On weekends, ...

Thousands of ads on Facebook and Instagram have promoted “fuel filters” using videos demonstrating how they can be easily modified into gun silencers—a process that, without federal approval, could ...

Despite the rebranding at Meta – the company formerly known as Facebook – advertising options on Facebook and Instagram are expected to remain as we know them for the foreseeable future. One hopes ...

Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, said it will start releasing details in July about the demographics and interests of audiences who are targeted with ads that run on its two primary social ...

Instagram has announced that ads from "carefully selected brands" will start appearing for Australian users, confirming that advertising would be targeted using information shared with Facebook.

You can shut off Facebook and Instagram ads related to social issues, elections or politics ahead of the November presidential election. Managing Editor Alison DeNisco Rayome joined CNET in 2019, and ...

The discovery of tens of thousands of racy advertisements for artificial intelligence-generated "girlfriends" across Meta apps prompted the social media giant to scrub its platforms of the explicit ...

There's also a special rule if you have multiple accounts BRITS can soon pay a monthly subscription fee to stop seeing ads on Facebook and Instagram. Tech giant Meta says that you can pay £3.99 inside ...

If you’re in Europe, you can pay a fee to get no ads across Meta’s products. The subscription is meant to address concerns from European Union regulators. If you’re in Europe, you can pay a fee to get ...

Targeted advertising is big business. 98 per cent of Facebook’s revenue comes from advertising; in the first three months of 2019 alone, this equated to $14.9 billion and was up 26 per cent ...

Online ads are like salespeople. Sometimes they’re helpful – and sometimes they trail you while you shop, make suggestions, “check in” on you and all but shove you to the checkout. Those online ads ...