Facebook and Instagram to charge UK users £3.99 a month for ad-free version

Subscription service is Meta's response to regulatory warnings over crunching users' data to serve targeted ads

Facebook and Instagram users in the UK are to be offered advert-free versions of the social networks for up to 3.99 a month.

Mark Zuckerberg's Meta has responded to regulatory warnings about personalised adverts, in which users' data is crunched to produce targeted ads, by launching an ad-free subscription service.