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The Illinois Attorney General's office has charged a Plainfield woman with eight felony counts after she allegedly purchased cars off Facebook Marketplace with fraudulent IDs and checks.

Users of Meta's Facebook, Instagram, Threads and Messenger platforms are experiencing login issues in what appears to be a widespread outage.

On Wednesday, the CEOs of Meta, TikTok, X and other social media companies went before the Senate Judiciary Committee to testify as lawmakers and parents grow increasingly concerned about the effects of social media on young people’s lives.

Gov. JB Pritzker joined other local dignitaries in DeKalb Wednesday to celebrate Meta's DeKalb Data Center coming fully online. The campus, which broke ground in 2020 along Gurler Road, will house 2.3 million square feet over five buildings and promises to bring with it a $1 billion investment and more than 200 jobs, the social media parent company announced.

With vocal support from the governor and $25 million from the state, biomedical researchers are beginning to work on studying the fundamentals of human disease at a new facility in Chicago.

Health care industry argues it is exempt from biometric privacy liability while the attorney for two nurses suing their employers said that argument would effect "as much as 10% of the Illinois workforce."

A convicted Joliet sex offender was arrested after he was accused of contacting a 15-year-old girl on Facebook Messenger, police said.

Illinois lawmakers aim to make their state what they say will be the first in the country to create protections for child social media influencers

Amazon has filed a lawsuit against administrators of more than 10,000 Facebook groups it accuses of coordinating fake reviews in exchange for money or free products

State Rep. Tony McCombie, R-Savanna, will hold traveling office hours from 1 to 3 p.m. July 21 at Journey Well Therapy and Coaching, 408 11th Ave.

Breaking news: Facebook’s parent company, Meta, announced Wednesday it will expand its DeKalb Data Center on the city’s south side by three buildings, bringing with it a community investment that now totals more than $1 billion.

Meta executives and City of DeKalb officials were on hand at the Meta DeKalb Data Center Wednesday for a press conference announcing the expansion of the facility.

As we enter 2022, here are some of the headlines Daily Chronicle reporters will be watching in the new year:

A man was rescued after about 18 minutes trapped inside a shipping container at the construction site of the Facebook DeKalb Data Center this week, said DeKalb Fire Chief Jeff McMaster.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said his company is rebranding itself as Meta, an effort to encompass its virtual-reality vision for the future