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TikTok and Meta are filing legal challenges against new European Union rules designed to counter the dominance of digital giants and make online competition fairer by giving consumers more choice.

Lake Nona businessman Tom Keen will face Osceola County School Board member Erika Booth in the special election for a Florida House seat after Democrats and Republicans voted in party primaries Tuesday.

Residents of several Brevard County towns and cities went to the polls for municipal elections on Tuesday, Nov. 7, to find some of the elections have already been decided for them.

Voters in Oviedo decided Tuesday whether to keep the city’s mayor and decide on two ballot questions that speak to the big issue in the city — how to handle growth.

Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer cruised to another term in office Tuesday night, handily defeating three challengers to return as the city’s top official.

The Ohio-based chain known for putting chili on pasta is set to open its first location in Central Florida.

Residents of several Brevard County towns and cities will go to the polls for municipal elections on Tuesday, Nov. 7, to find some of the elections have already been decided for them.

Voters in Oviedo will decide on Tuesday, Nov. 7 whether to keep the city’s mayor, and decide on two ballot questions that speak to the big issue in the city — how to handle growth.

Facebook and Instagram users in Europe are getting the option to pay for ad-free versions of the social media platforms as a way to comply with the continent’s strict data privacy rules.

Facebook parent Meta has posted sharply higher earnings for the third quarter, boosted by an increase in advertising revenue and lower expenses after it laid off thousands of workers.

A crash involving four vehicles sent two people to the hospital Sunday in Daytona Beach, according to firefighters.

2023 is an off-year for politics usually, but in Orlando, residents will go to the polls for a big and consequential race in the next few weeks.

It’s almost Halloween time, and the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office is sharing tips to help you avoid “the evil of the thriller.”

Democratic and Republican voters in eastern Orange and Osceola counties will go to the polls in November to pick nominees for a special election for a Florida House seat.

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The lawyer representing 184 former Facebook content moderators based in Kenya who have sued the site's parent company, Meta, over working conditions and pay has told the judge that Meta was not sincere in trying to reach an out-of-court settlement as agreed in the last court session.

Meta plans to give Facebook and Instagram users in Europe the option of paying for ad-free versions of the social media platforms as a way to comply with the continent’s strict data privacy rules.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg kicked off the tech giant’s Connect developer conference on Wednesday with a focus on virtual and augmented reality and artificial intelligence.

British lawmakers have approved an ambitious but controversial new internet safety law with wide-ranging powers to crack down on digital and social media companies like TikTok, Google and Facebook and Instagram parent Meta.

A Florida reptile park has taken in an alligator that lost its nose and upper jaw to a fight or boat propeller.

The Supreme Court has temporarily blocked enforcement of a lower court order curbing Biden administration efforts to combat controversial social media posts.

Meta has lost a legal battle to freeze an order from Norway’s data protection authority that imposes hefty fines on the Facebook and Instagram owner over advertising practices deemed to violate user privacy.

The European Union is targeting six Big Tech companies including Amazon, Apple and Microsoft under new digital rules aimed at reining in the market power of online companies.

Elon Musk says his social network X, formerly known as Twitter, will give users the ability to make voice and video calls on the platform.

Starting Friday, Europeans will see their online life change.

A Thai Cabinet minister is threatening to try to shut down Facebook in the country, saying the social media platform does not do enough to screen the advertisements it runs, leaving people vulnerable to costly scams.

Google, Facebook, TikTok and other Big Tech companies operating in Europe must comply with one of the most far-reaching efforts to clean up what people see online.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is accusing Facebook of putting profits over people’s safety during Canada’s wildfire emergencies.

Marion and Alachua county deputies responded to the scene of a crash in Citra that prompted the closure of northbound US-301.

Windermere’s Allen’s Creamery is set to close for good, according to a post on the business’s Facebook page.

Threads, the simple, bare-bones text-based social network created by Facebook owner Meta, burst onto the scene during a particularly bad week for the rival then still known as Twitter.

Children in Georgia would need their parents' permission to create social media accounts if some top Republicans in the state get their way next year.

Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta is keeping its promise to block news content in Canada on its platforms in response to a new law that requires tech giants to pay publishers for linking to or otherwise repurposing their content online.

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The city of Daytona Beach is urging people to avoid its Facebook page after it was hacked.

A team of some of the world's leading social media researchers has published four studies looking at the relationship between the algorithms used by Facebook and Instagram and America's widening political divide.

A House committee has called off a vote on a recommendation that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg be held in contempt of Congress for failing to fully supply documents related to an investigation into supposed censorship of conservatives by tech companies.

Facebook parent company Meta Platforms posted stronger-than-expected results for the second quarter on Wednesday, buoyed by a rebound in online advertising after a post-pandemic slump.

U.S. Facebook users have one more month to apply for their share of a $725 million privacy settlement that parent company Meta agreed to pay late last year.

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen's Facebook account has been reactivated, three weeks after he announced he was forsaking the social media giant in favor of posting on the Telegram messaging app.

Orlando police said they are investigating a series of robberies linked to sales on Facebook Marketplace – and they believe there may be more victims.

Facebook parent company Meta Platforms has built an artificial intelligence system that rivals the likes of ChatGPT and Google’s Bard but it’s taking a different approach: releasing it for free.

The mother of an Orlando investment executive said she provided a code to someone she thought was messaging her on Facebook — and within hours she realized she “had been hacked.”

Some congressional Democrats say three large tax preparation firms sent “extraordinarily sensitive” information on tens of millions of taxpayers to Facebook parent company Meta over at least two years.

Canada's government says it will stop advertising on Facebook and Instagram in response to Meta’s decision to block access to news content on their social platforms as part of a temporary test.

Facebook has lost a legal challenge at the European Union’s top court over a groundbreaking German antitrust decision that limited the way the company uses data for advertising.

Cambodia’s long-serving, tough-talking leader, Hun Sen, says he is considering banning Facebook in his country, largely because he is fed up with the abuse he receives on it from his political foes abroad.

County officials took to Facebook on Tuesday to ask for the public’s help in tracking down and recognizing a Good Samaritan who helped rescue four people, including two children, stranded on the jetties at Ponce Inlet on June 15.

A quasi-independent review board is recommending that Facebook temporarily suspend the social media accounts of Cambodia's prime minister.

Nearly 200 former content moderators for Facebook are suing the company and a local contractor in a court case in Kenya that could have implications for the work worldwide.

Social media platforms like Facebook, WhatsApp and TikTok serve as a vehicle for deception, misinformation and scams aimed at migrants seeking a better life for them and their families in the United States.

The Supreme Court has ruled to make it more difficult to convict a person of making a violent threat.

At 11 a.m. Sunday, Paul Siverson spotted a driver on the 405, the highway connecting Titusville to Kennedy Space Center, going the wrong way.

A Flagler Beach business suffered significant fire damage early Saturday, according to officials.

Malaysia’s government says it will take legal action against Facebook's parent company, Meta Platforms, for failing to remove undesirable and harmful content from its social media platform.

Police say two people were found dead following a shooting outside a McDonald’s restaurant in the Florida Panhandle.

Daytona Beach police are looking for a man who is accused of throwing a deadly missile, the department said in a Facebook post on Tuesday.

The corporate parent of Facebook and Instagram plans to open a digital gateway for kids as young as 10 years old to enter virtual reality through the Meta Quest headset, despite rising concerns about children spending too much time on social media.

Firefighters responded Friday morning to a large hole in a Titusville roadway that partially swallowed a pickup truck.

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A dump truck causes a headache for some drivers in Central Florida.

A teen's body is found in Marion County.

A 4-year-old girl was found dead in a Florida canal behind the VRBO home her family was staying in, officials say.

Meta is preparing to block news for some Canadians on Facebook and Instagram in a temporary test that is expected to last through the end of June.

United States Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy issued an advisory on social media and youth mental health, noting that social media can pose risk of harm to the mental health and well-being of children.

The European Union has slapped Meta with a record $1.3 billion privacy fine and ordered it to stop transferring user data across the Atlantic.

Google, Twitter, Facebook and other tech companies fueled by social media have dodged a legal threat that could have blown a huge hole in their business models.

A Delaware judge has refused to dismiss a shareholder lawsuit alleging that Facebook officers and directors violated both the law and their fiduciary duties in failing for years to protect the privacy of user data.

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A bipartisan group of senators recently introduced legislation aiming to prohibit all children under the age of 13 from using social media.

U.S. regulators say Facebook misled parents and failed to protect the privacy of children using its Messenger Kids app.

A man whose face was the center of a catfishing scheme and his girlfriend took the helm of a new social media lifeline for victims of romance imposters around the world.

Ocala police are investigating a shooting reported Thursday night at an apartment complex.

An inmate who escaped from a work camp in Cocoa on Friday was booked in Volusia County within a week, deputies said.

Facebook parent company Meta’s first-quarter results surpassed Wall Street’s modest expectations on both profit and revenue while the monthly user base of its flagship platform inched close to 3 billion.

TikTok, Twitter, Facebook, Google, and Amazon are facing rising pressure from European authorities as London and Brussels advanced new rules Tuesday to curb the power of digital companies.

Anyone in the U.S. who has had a Facebook account at any time since May 24, 2007, can now apply for their share of a $725 million privacy settlement that parent company Meta has agreed to pay.

Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer is officially running for a sixth term in office.

The Marion County Sheriff’s Office on Thursday called on the public for tips in the March theft of a Jamaican cuisine food trailer in Ocala, and investigators’ search for the “jerk” who did it.

Daytona Beach officers are searching for a 15-year-old girl considered missing and endangered.

Social media companies are once again in the spotlight after a bank employee in Louisville, Kentucky, killed five people in a mass shooting and livestreamed the attack on Instagram.

Spring cleaning is coming early this year at Chick-fil-A.

It’s a sad week in Oviedo following the death of the community’s beloved rooster, Fred.

Daytona Beach firefighters respond to a big blaze.

Former President Donald Trump has returned to Facebook after a more than two-year ban.

The Florida Senate has started fast-tracking a proposal that would bar the sale of agricultural land and property within 20 miles of military bases to interests tied to the Chinese government or other nations on a list of “countries of concern.”

People who live relatively close to Walt Disney World may hear the familiar sounds of fireworks late Thursday night.

The online counseling service BetterHelp has agreed to return $7.8 million to customers to settle with the Federal Trade Commission for sharing with companies including Facebook and Snapchat health data it had promised to keep private.

A Chick-Fil-A restaurant is banning unsupervised children under 16 after dealing with “unacceptable behavior,” according to a Facebook post.

“Once you send that photo, you can’t take it back,” goes the warning to teenagers, often ignoring the reality that many teens send explicit images of themselves under duress, or without understanding the consequences.

A teenage boy drowned in the ocean off of a Brevard County beach on Sunday, according to the Indialantic Police Department.

The latest folding-screen smartphones, immersive metaverse experiences, AI-powered chatbot avatars and other eye-catching technology are set to wow visitors at the annual MWC wireless trade fair.

The Supreme Court seems skeptical of a lawsuit trying to hold social media companies responsible for a terrorist attack at a Turkish nightclub that killed 39 people.

Twenty-six words tucked into a 1996 law overhauling telecommunications have allowed companies like Facebook, Twitter and Google to grow into the giants they are today.

Meta is testing a new subscription service that would let Facebook and Instagram users pay for a verified account.

A lawsuit against YouTube from the family of an American college student who was killed by Islamic State gunmen in Paris in 2015 is at the center of a closely watched Supreme Court case being argued Tuesday.

New video released Friday shows the extensive damage an Osceola County plant nursery received when a massive fire broke out there Thursday morning.

Facebook allowed a Moldovan oligarch with ties to the Kremlin to run ads on its platform urging protests against that country's government — even though he and his political party are subject to U.S. sanctions.

A man whose face was the center of a catfishing scheme and his girlfriend took the helm of a new social media lifeline for victims of romance imposters around the world.

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