After years of fake news and memes about Facebook starting to charge for Facebook, it actually happened, albeit only in Europe. Here's why: Pressed with new regulations in the European Union, Meta ...

Meta just launched its first ad-free option for Facebook and Instagram. The update is in response to the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation, passed in 2018. Subscriptions for the ...

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, ...

If you are a regular user of Facebook and Instagram, you have certainly noticed an increased presence of ads and other non-user-generated content in your feeds lately. While it's understandable that ...

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 ...

The company wants to charge users about 10 euros ($10.50) a month to use Instagram or Facebook without ads on desktop browsers, the newspaper reported, citing unnamed people familiar with the proposal ...

TikTok may be going ad-free for five bucks a month, but you’ll have to pay a bit more for a similar experience on Meta’s platforms. A new report details Meta’s proposal to offer a version of Facebook ...

In a move to make up for potential lost ad revenue resulting from the European Union’s strict data regulations, Meta is considering charging European users almost $14 per month on mobile devices (and ...

Ty Roush is a breaking news reporter based in New York City. Meta will start charging users in Europe for ad-free subscriptions on Facebook and Instagram starting next month, the company announced ...

After the Cambridge Analytica data scandal broke in 2018, things got bad enough for Meta (then Facebook) that Mark Zuckerberg had to face Congress to try to explain what had happened. The focus on how ...