A fire at a Palm Bay home was “intensified” by several large lithium-ion batteries stored in the garage, according to fire rescue officials.

Meta Platforms Inc. has posted stronger-than-expected third-quarter results fueled by its advertising revenue growth and its push to incorporate artificial intelligence.

Residents in an East Orlando neighborhood were allegedly victims of mail theft from their community mailbox, including vote-by-mail ballots.

Volusia Sheriff Mike Chitwood says Pierson was hopping.

Just weeks before the U.S. presidential election, TikTok still approved advertisements that contained election disinformation even though it has a ban on political ads.

Just hours after Hurricane Milton swept across the state, city officials issued the social media post to remind residents that they must apply for a permit before beginning storm repairs.

Just hours after Hurricane Milton left the state, the social media post reminded residents that they must apply for a permit before beginning storm repairs.

Some images are going viral online showing what appears to be a heavily flooded Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World in Orlando.

A congressional candidate who says he was tricked by Democrats into running as a spoiler in a competitive House race in Minnesota is suspending his campaign and endorsing his Republican rival.

Health First is evacuating its Cape Canaveral Hospital in Cocoa Beach.

Social media users across the European Union will soon have a new forum to challenge decisions by platforms to remove posts and videos for breaking their rules or leave up others that may violate them.

A nearly half-century-old business announced its end on Wednesday, Oct. 2 when owner Dominic Commesso released a statement on Facebook saying Dominick’s, a southern Italian restaurant in Winter Springs, is permanently closing.

The European Union’s top court has said that social media company Meta can’t use public information about a user’s sexual orientation obtained outside its platforms for personalized advertising under the bloc’s strict data privacy rules.

HOPE for Brevard announced that it’s expecting 70-100 cats from North Carolina next week, while also pleading for donation help as items will be sent to North Carolina.

Meta, Facebook’s parent company, has lost an appeal in a Kenyan labor court.

The chicken sandwich franchise laid out plans last week to bring 100 restaurants into the Sunshine State.

This will mark the first time since the faith-based chain first kicked off nearly 15 years ago that its locations will be open on a Sunday.

Several little-known pro-Trump candidates are running for Congress in key races as independents, and an Associated Press review finds they were recruited and backed by the same shadowy group.

News 6 viewers said the number of homeless people on the streets of Melbourne has risen over the last few years, and they are concerned about what is being done about it.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says senior Biden administration officials pressured Facebook to “censor” some COVID-19 content during the pandemic.

A video posted on the sheriff’s office’s Facebook page shows the suspected thief taking off with the package from the home in the 600 block of Silver Pass on Aug. 7.

The Sumter County Sheriff’s Office announces that the agency has been struck by a ransomware attack.

Officials say Meta has agreed to a $1.4 billion settlement with Texas in a privacy lawsuit over allegations that the tech giant used biometric data of users without their permission.

Several major universities in Bangladesh have agreed to shut their doors after at least six people died in violent campus protests.

Facebook has lifted restrictions imposed on Donald Trump after the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.

A deep dive into political ads on Facebook by researchers at Syracuse University has revealed a sprawling web of advertisements that contain misleading information or scams.

Texas-based chain HTeaO is set to open its first Lake County location, per the brand’s Facebook.

A young coyote pup was found nearly dead at the Titusville police station.

Concerns about large crowds have prompted an Orlando amusement park to institute a chaperone policy.

Disney’s Animal Kingdom Lodge has a new guest!

Authorities say three Alabama men are dead from likely drowning after becoming distressed while swimming at a Florida Panhandle beach.

The Supreme Court has agreed to consider shutting down a multibillion-dollar class action investors’ lawsuit against Facebook parent Meta stemming from the privacy scandal involving the Cambridge Analytica political consulting firm.

Volusia County deputies are investigating vandalism at a high school in Deltona.

Spain’s government has proposed a law to protect children from online threats that includes virtual restraining orders for felons and a higher age for opening social media accounts.

A fatal crash forced the temporary closure of an intersection in Ocala early Sunday, according to police.

The American side isn’t far behind, with 104 cables installed.

A spokesperson for the families of a young missionary couple from the U.S. says their bodies are going to be transported to Missouri this week.

An alligator seen hanging by a plane at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa last month made another appearance at the military base this week, but this time he got a trip to a new home.

The European Union opened fresh investigations into Facebook and Instagram over suspicions that they’re failing to protect children online, in violation of the bloc’s strict digital regulations for social media platforms.

The city of Flagler Beach is working quickly to rebuild, renovate and expand on its iconic fishing pier. Could it include a new, 4,200-square-foot promenade?

Sinkhole impacting a portion of Alpine Street

The city of Mascotte warned residents of a person impersonating a code enforcement officer.

Several Democrats serving as their state’s top election officials have sent a letter to the parent company of Facebook, asking it to stop allowing ads that claim the 2020 presidential election was stolen.

The European Union says it’s investigating Facebook and Instagram for suspected violations of the bloc’s digital rulebook, including not doing enough to protect users from foreign disinformation ahead of EU-wide elections.

Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta says its first-quarter profit more than doubled, boosted by higher advertising revenue and a 6% increase on the average price of ads on its platforms.

Police investigate a shooting in Daytona Beach.

Generative AI is advancing so quickly that the latest chatbots available today could be out of date tomorrow.

Two tribal nations are accusing social media companies of contributing to high rates of suicides that disproportionately affect Native American youth.

The Twitter handles and Facebook pages for the News 6 reporters.

Meta will be sunsetting Facebook News in early April for users in the U.S. and Australia as the platform further deemphasizes news and politics.

Reddit will enter a new era as a publicly traded company with a market value of $6.4 billion.

The Supreme Court is taking up a dispute between Republican-led states and the Biden administration over how far the federal government can go to combat controversial social media posts on topics like COVID-19 and election security.

House Republicans are moving ahead with a bill that would require Chinese company ByteDance to sell TikTok or face a ban in the United States even as former President Donald Trump is voicing opposition to the effort.

Nearly three-quarters of U.S. teens say they feel happy or peaceful when they don’t have their phones with them, according to a new report from the Pew Research Center.

Two graduates have teamed up to develop a system to flag deepfake technology appearing on social media platforms from Facebook to YouTube.

Here’s where you can pick your own strawberries around Central Florida.

A group of 40 state attorneys general have sent a letter to Instagram and Facebook parent company Meta expressing concern over what they say is dramatic uptick of consumer complaints about account takeovers and lockouts.

A technical issue had caused widespread login issues for more than an hour across Meta’s Facebook, Instagram, Threads and Messenger platforms on Tuesday.

Apopka residents said that recently, they have seen more people experiencing homelessness in their neighborhoods.

A Central Florida school district is suing several social media companies, accusing them of creating a mental health crisis in children that the district now has to spend money to handle.

What's that noise?

An oversight board is criticizing Facebook owner Meta's policies on manipulated media as “incoherent” and insufficient to address online disinformation in a major election year.

Mark Zuckerberg has accumulated a long history of public apologies, often issued in the wake of crisis or when Facebook users rose up against unannounced — and frequently unappreciated — changes in its service.

Do you know how many users there are a month around the world? How many people over 65 use the platform? Which country has the most users?

While a student at Harvard in 2003, Mark Zuckerberg developed what was then known as Facemash, an online platform intended to judge the attractiveness of students at the university.

Which groups on Facebook do you benefit from the most and why? Are there any interesting stories about how a particular group has enriched your life for the better?

A man suspected of shooting and killing eight people in suburban Chicago fatally shot himself after a confrontation at a gas station with law enforcement officials in Texas.

News 6 viewer Loucinda Curtis is warning consumers to be on the lookout for Facebook Marketplace imposters after she was contacted by someone telling her to upgrade a Zelle account to receive her payment.

After two deadly crashes involving vehicles and Brightline trains, Melbourne’s mayor says he is working toward safety improvements.

Newly unredacted documents from New Mexico’s lawsuit against Meta underscore the company’s historical reluctance to keep children safe on its platforms.

Meta says it will start hiding inappropriate content from teenagers’ accounts on Instagram and Facebook.

A federal judge has temporarily halted enforcement of an Ohio law that would require children under 16 to get parental consent to use social media apps.

A trade group representing TikTok, Snapchat, Meta and other major tech companies has sued Ohio over a pending law that requires children to get parental consent to use social media apps.

After a decade in business, an Orange County bar catering to the tabletop gaming community is closing for good.

A study from Harvard says social media companies collectively made over $11 billion in U.S. advertising revenue from minors last year.

A quasi-independent review board has ruled that Facebook parent company Meta should overturn two decisions it made this fall to remove posts “informing the world about human suffering on both sides” of the Israel-Hamas war.

Teen usage of social media hasn’t dropped much, despite rising concerns about its effects on the mental health of adolescents.

Meta is rolling out end-to-end encryption for calls and messages across its Facebook and Messenger platforms, the company announced Thursday.

Chinese naval vessels have become the first ships to dock at a new pier at a Cambodian naval base that the United States and some international security experts say is destined to serve as a strategic outpost for Beijing’s navy.

New Mexico's attorney general is suing the parent company of Facebook and Instagram claiming it failed to protect underage users from exposure to child sexual abuse material and let adults solicit pornographic imagery from them.

A Spanish association representing more than 80 newspapers has filed a lawsuit against Facebook parent Meta accusing it of unfair competition in online advertising by allegedly ignoring European Union rules on data protection.

The parent company of Instagram and Facebook has sued the Federal Trade Commission in an attempt to stop the agency from reopening a 2020 privacy settlement with the company that would prohibit it from profiting from data it collects on users under 18.

Meta says it has found and disabled thousands of fake Facebook accounts linked to China that were used to spread politically partisan content in the United States before next year’s election.

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.

Ride along with Trooper Steve.

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.