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Business News > Mint Authors > Jeff Horwitz

Jeff Horwitz

ARTICLES BY JEFF HORWITZ

Meta struggles with rampant scam ads on Facebook & Instagram, harming users and businesses despite warnings and reports.

Meta battles an ‘epidemic of scams’ as criminals flood Instagram and Facebook

8 min read . 16 May 2025

ALEXANDRA CITRIN-SAFADI/WSJ

Meta’s ‘digital companions’ will talk sex with users—even children

14 min read . 27 Apr 2025

Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer of Meta Platforms Inc. (Bloomberg)

Social-media companies decide content moderation is trending down

6 min read . 08 Jan 2025

A rough internal analysis in November 2022 found that Snap was receiving 10,000 reports of sextortion each month, according to internal documents cited by New Mexico’s suit. (Reuters)

Snap failed to warn users about sextortion risks, state lawsuit alleges

4 min read . 01 Oct 2024

Meta said it had been transparent with researchers about its actions during the time of the study. (Reuters)

Science editors raise new doubts on Meta’s claims it isn’t polarizing

4 min read . 27 Sept 2024

Apple reiterated its allegation that Meta Platforms’s efforts to steer legislative responsibility toward Apple are an attempt to deflect responsibility for its challenges with child-safety issues. Jeenah Moon/Bloomberg News

Apple helped nix part of a child safety bill. More fights are expected.

7 min read . 02 Sept 2024

Meta’s new tool, the Meta Content Library, will be available only to academic and nonprofit researchers. PHOTO: DAVID PAUL MORRIS/BLOOMBERG NEWS

Meta to Replace Widely Used Data Tool—and Largely Cut Off Reporter Access

3 min read . 14 Mar 2024

When the team began studying inappropriate interactions between adults and minors on Facebook, it determined that the most frequent way adults found children to prey upon was Facebook’s “People You May Know” algorithm.

A ‘Recipe for Disaster’: Insiders Warned Meta’s Privacy Push Would Shield Child Predators

10 min read . 22 Dec 2023

Meta to Start Fully Encrypting Messages on Facebook and Instagram

Meta to Start Fully Encrypting Messages on Facebook and Instagram

1 min read . 07 Dec 2023

Meta Designed Products to Capitalize on Teen Vulnerabilities, States Allege

Meta Designed Products to Capitalize on Teen Vulnerabilities, States Allege

5 min read . 26 Nov 2023

ILLUSTRATION: TAYLOR CALLERY

His Job Was to Make Instagram Safe for Teens. His 14-Year-Old Showed Him What the App Was Really Like.

14 min read . 03 Nov 2023

Instagram said that its internal statistics show that users see child exploitation in less than one in 10,000 posts viewed. The platform, estimated to have more than 1.3 billion users, is especially popular with teens. (Reuters)

Dark truth: Meta's battle against child-sex content on Instagram

13 min read . 09 Jun 2023

Mark Zuckerberg and the board instructed the company to demote posts on “sensitive” topics as much as possible in the newsfeed that greets users when they open the app.

Facebook wanted out of politics. It was messier than anyone expected

11 min read . 13 Jan 2023

The report offers the most detailed review to date of cross check, which Meta has billed as a quality-control effort to prevent moderation errors on content of heightened public interest (Photo: Reuters)

Meta’s oversight board criticizes VIP user program

4 min read . 06 Dec 2022

While the quality of the top 100 posts had improved significantly, the company made less headway in the top 500 and top 1,000. Photo: Reuters

Facebook’s most popular posts were trash. Here is how it cleaned up

5 min read . 25 Nov 2022

Meta’s planned layoffs would be the first broad head-count reductions to occur in the company’s 18-year history. (Photo: Reuters)

Meta is preparing to notify employees of large-scale layoffs this week

3 min read . 07 Nov 2022

The moves come after weeks of Meta executives publicly discussing the need for hiring freezes and “ruthless prioritization” of its business, while avoiding use of the word layoffs (Photo: Reuters)

Meta quietly reduces staff in cost-cutting push

6 min read . 22 Sept 2022

Facebook said in its most recent quarterly securities filings that it estimates 11% of its monthly active users world-wide — which totaled 2.9 billion for its flagship platform in the second quarter — are duplicate accounts, with developing markets accounting for a higher proportion of them than developed ones. (AP)

How many users does Facebook have? The company struggles to figure it out

5 min read . 22 Oct 2021

FB says its rules apply to all. Company documents reveal secret exempted elites

18 min read . 14 Sept 2021

Donald Trump (REUTERS)

Trump’s ban from Facebook is upheld, but panel orders review

7 min read . 05 May 2021