No more doom scrolling or Instagram Stories? A Meta trial loss could end the social media we know

Meta says it could face $1.2 trillion in damages in its latest social media trial in California. The social media giant could be forced to remove addictive features such as infinite scrolling.

CNBC • 15 hours ago

Meta Platform's Legal Issues Could Become Much More Than A Q2 Earnings Headache

An issue that reared its ugly head in Meta Platforms' NASDAQ: META Q2 earnings report does not appear to be going away and could intensify significantly. Meta's Q2 report highlighted several investor concerns, with legal expenses among the most prominent.

MarketBeat • 12 hours ago

Meta Safety Trial Could Reveal What Zuckerberg, Others Knew

Meta is facing a landmark legal battle with 29 states accusing the company of deliberately designing its platforms to keep children hooked while misleading the public about their safety. George Washington University law professor Mary Anne Franks explains the state and federal claims, why the case has drawn comparisons to tobacco litigation, and why the biggest consequence may not be the potential financial penalty, but what internal documents reveal about what Meta knew and when.

Bloomberg Technology • 7 hours ago

Meta Platforms Stock Drops 17% YTD: Should You Buy, Sell or Hold it?

META's 17% YTD drop reflects rising AI costs, weaker cash flow and higher debt, even as AI lifts engagement and ad efficiency across its platforms.

Zacks Investment Research • 9 hours ago

A Single Meta Data Center Will Require “8 Million Miles of Fiber.” These Stocks Are Cashing In On the 802 Data Centers Currently Under Construction

The most vivid number in the AI infrastructure buildout is a length of glass. Dr.

24/7 Wall Street • 13 hours ago

Meta Thinks Outside The Box With Memory

Meta Platforms innovates with memory reuse, deploying CXL to recycle DDR4 in DDR5 servers. Rising DRAM prices and memory's significant share of server TCO drive META's creative hardware strategies, boosting efficiency and cost savings at scale. Management should do a better job explaining how server depreciation schedules for different types of machines condense down to a single line in 10-K filings.

Seeking Alpha • 20 hours ago

How To Trade SPY, QQQ And 6 Mega Caps: Key Support/Resistance Levels For AAPL, MSFT, NVDA, GOOGL, META, And TSLA

Today's economic calendar closes out MOPEX week with very limited U.S. data releases. The primary scheduled catalyst arrives with Preliminary August S&P Global Manufacturing, Services, and Composite PMI. These reports will provide an early look at economic activity during August, with traders likely paying particular attention to whether strength or weakness is broad based across both manufacturing and services. The monthly SEMI Billings Report follows well after the cash close at 6:00PM ET.

Benzinga • 12 hours ago

Meta's Zuckerberg buys 19th-century castle in southeast of Ireland

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has bought a 19th-century Gothic-style ​castle overlooking a river in ‌the southeast of Ireland, 200 kilometres (125 miles) from his company's European headquarters, a ​spokesman said on Thursday.

Reuters • Aug 20, 2026

Attorney says he can ‘WITHOUT A DOUBT' prove that Mark Zuckerberg did this

Attorney Mark Lanier joins Stuart Varney to analyze the Meta Platforms trial. A whistleblower testifies that the tech giant prioritized growth over child safety, designing addictive apps for teenagers.

Fox Business • Aug 20, 2026

Top Meta Reporter: Zuckerberg Dropped a Major Hint About Meta's Next AI Breakthrough and Nobody's Paying Attention

Journalist Alex Heath, co-founder of the Sources newsletter and a longtime Meta chronicler, argued on CNBC this morning that investors are underestimating how close Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META | META Price Prediction) is to shipping frontier-class AI models.

24/7 Wall Street • Aug 20, 2026