Two big recent exposés about the platform have shown exactly why we should all be on guard by Facebook's "survival at all cost" strategy, writes Noam Cohen.

Household names may have unwittingly helped spread fake news, investigation reveals

FTC says Facebook privacy settlement doesn't require blocking researchers.

The French Competition Agency has hit the company with $855 million in fines this year. The money is meaningless—but the changes could be profound.

Advertisements promoting diets or slimming products and that idealise certain body types will be removed from the platform

Prohibition of adverts for products high in fat, salt and sugar could cost broadcasters more than £200m annually in revenue

It announced ads for the mobile app last month.

Won't someone else save us from our policies and our decision to forego editorial control?

Digital privacy moves from Apple and Google are forcing the advertising industry to reconsider the way it works, Publicis Groupe’s Maurice Levy told CNBC. The chairman of the world’s third-biggest advertising company said changes to Apple’s iOS smartphone software and Google’s Chrome web browser meant advertisers were having to “revisit the whole way we are working.”

Federal regulators detailed tactics the company, which settled accusations against it, used to try to make its most active users go to the movies less.

In a first for anything HBO-branded, the cable provider will begin offering its content for a lower price, subsidized by advertising, starting the first week of June. Game of Thrones, brought to you by Tide? Advertising is coming.

The company's recently-patented idea for in-car advertising sounds like a disaster waiting to happen.

Encrypted instant messaging app Signal has tried to run a series of Instagram ads to show the amount of data the social media platform and its parent company Facebook collect about users and how it uses the data to push targeted ads. But that attempt was quickly shut down by Facebook, Signal said in a blog post.

Encrypted messaging app Signal has had a series of Instagram ads blocked from the social media platform, after it attempted to show users how much data the Facebook-owned company collects about them and how it's used to push targeted ads. In a blog post, Signal described how it generated the ads to show users why they were seeing them, simply by declaring upfront the information that the advertising platform relies on to perform its targeting.

With a poorly thought-out advertising campaign, the CIA sparked a deluge of mockery.

Getting consumer goods in shot is big business for movies and TV series, and items can now be added digitally.

Charter mailed false ads to convince users Windstream was going out of business.

As many as 68 percent of iPhone users are expected to deny advertisers permission to track them thanks to Apple's App Tracking Transparency feature, in what is beginning to look like a significant blow to the advertising industry (via AdWeek).

TV manufacturers are cramming ads everywhere they can.

Many of us are still talking about the strange Super Bowl commcercial featuring Oatly oat milk and its CEO singing "wow, now cow."