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More than 40 states filed legal actions against Meta on Tuesday, alleging that the company intentionally designed features that hooked a generation of young people.

Kansas City officials hired a private investigator to surveil the city's then-Civil Rights director — something she said was retaliation for raising alarms about a massive development project in the Northland. A report from the Civil Rights office says Kansas City officials let Meta, the parent company for Facebook, ignore the city's diversity hiring rules when constructing a Northland data center.

In Max Fisher's new book "The Chaos Machine," he examines how social media giants like Facebook and Twitter contributed to political divisions in modern America.

The spread of misinformation and disinformation on Facebook has some saying the social network has a negative impact on society.

Meta can receive up to nearly $1.8 billion in sales and use tax exemptions over the next 15 years for its new data center in Kansas City's Northland. But leaders say they expect the investment to draw even more tech companies to the region.

Kansas City officials announced Thursday that a 1 million-square-foot Meta facility will be constructed at the Golden Plains Technology Park. The company is expected to invest more than $800 million to build out the complex, and will hire up to 100 operational jobs.

After three board trustees posted disapproving comments on Facebook about a library display during Banned Books Week, some current and former employees want to see them dropped from leadership.

From cocktail bars to comic book stories, small businesses turned to social media to keep in touch with customers — giving researchers a glimpse at what was going on in their communities.

A study of Facebook found that misinformation about COVID-19 had been viewed far more often than messages from official health organizations.

A Facebook group is connecting frontline health care workers and first responders across the country — and here in Kansas City — with RVs to borrow at no cost.

On Wednesday, KCUR 89.3 tried something different with the Up To Date special report on the coronovirus.Steve Kraske hosted experts on the impact of…

Segment 1: A former Kansas City journalist living in China reflects on life under partial lockdown.As the Coronavirus becomes a bigger threat in the U.S.,…