When you open Facebook on Monday, a special message about the 2017 total solar eclipse will promote NASA's live-streaming video feeds.

An activist in Thailand has been sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison after confessing to posting a BBC article on his Facebook account that has been deemed insulting to the nation's monarchy, a rights group said Tuesday. Jatupat Booyapatraksa, 26, was found guilty Tuesday of violating the country's strict lèse-majesté law, which criminalizes all perceived insults to royal family, a representative of Thai legal monitoring group iLaw tells TIME.

In his book 1984, George Orwell detailed a dystopian world wherein a person or persona called “Big Brother” saw everything that people did and where the central government pushed its agenda through propaganda, spying, monitoring, and thought controls. That book was published in 1949.

Fake news, it's a big deal on Facebook, and we might just be getting more of it in the form of videos. Facebook recently bought a startup with an expertise in video manipulation, Deutsche Startups reported. The German-based startup Fayteq has software that is able to remove or add objects in videos, even live ones, and add effects to them.

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America has held a largely romantic view of the tech industry that is at odds with reality.

Facebook is debuting a YouTube competitor called “Watch” that lets you subscribe to shows inside Facebook’s apps and desktop site and watch them in a dedicated tab. Watch will roll out in the US with a few dozen shows tomorrow, but it will eventually go global and feature thousands of series.

We talked to engineers in Silicon Valley's "rest and vest" world, who explained how they got these gigs and how they spend their days.

In recent weeks, a story about experimental Facebook machine learning research has been circulating with increasingly panicky, Skynet-esque headlines....

Free Basics, built for developing markets, focuses on ‘western corporate content’ and violates net neutrality principles, researchers say

In his book 1984, George Orwell detailed a dystopian world wherein a person or persona called “Big Brother” saw everything that people did and where the central government pushed its agenda through propaganda, spying, monitoring, and thought controls. That book was published in 1949. It is now 2017, and while we do not exactly have …

Mark Zuckerberg’s travels throughout the United States to fulfill his 2017 “personal challenge” to “learn about people’s hopes and challenges” have seen him drive a tractor, meet recovering heroin addicts, don a hard hat and speak out against the staggering wealth inequality that his $68.5bn fortune so clearly represents. But to Nicole, a worker in one of Facebook’s cafeterias, they have also raised an important question: “Is he going to come here?”

Facebook is working on a video chat device for the home and a standalone smart speaker.

Allowing governments access to Facebook’s encrypted message service, used by the Westminster Bridge terrorists, would make extremists harder to track, its boss claims.

Facebook and Google have decided to participate in the 'Internet-wide Day of Action to Save Net Neutrality' protest scheduled for July 12 in the US. Being organized by Advocacy groups Fight for the Future, Free Press, and Demand Progress, the 'Day of Action' has already received support from Amazon, Netflix and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), among others.

We haven't had a major new technology company in more than 10 years.

Facebook could begin testing a paywall for subscription news stories as early as October, according to a top company executive. Campbell Brown, who heads up the social network’s new partnerships business, made the reveal at the Digital Publishing Innovation Summit on Tuesday, The Street reported. We have independently confirmed that, too.

The chatbots came up with their own original and effective responses - including deceptive tactics

The Facebook CEO remarked in a recent post that Alaska's approach to basic income "may be a lesson for the rest of the country as well."

Share Lab uses flow charts and data analysis to map one of the greatest forces shaping our world - Facebook.

Mark Zuckerberg explains why Facebook is moving on from just friendships to community building.

Everything anyone has ever said about staying safe while interacting with the police is wrong. That citizens are told to comport themselves in complete obeisance just to avoid being beaten or shot by officers is itself bizarre -- an insane inversion...

German lawmakers have approved a controversial law that would impose high fines on social media companies like Facebook, Twitter or YouTube for failing to swiftly delete posts deemed to exhibit hate speech.

Event on using technology to fight terrorism told small networks facing an influx and lack resources to block accounts

An assistant police chief in Estherwood, La. has resigned after posting a racist meme on Facebook. Assistant police chief Wayne Welsh on Sunday posted a picture of a cartoon mother drowning her daughter in the bathtub, accompanied with the phrase "When your daughters (sic) first crush is a little Negro boy." The post has since been deleted, but not before users on social media shared screenshots of Welsh's post, according to the Sacramento Bee.

The social network will prevent intimate images being reposted after they have been identified.

Online social interactions are no substitute for the real thing.

The suspect has claimed to have committed multiple other homicides, but police say 'there are no other victims that we know of.'

In case you missed it, Facebook’s annual developer conference started today. At the event, CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed key details about where the company is going next, specifically focusing on what Facebook is working on in relation to bots, virtual reality, augmented reality, and new communication methods (such as advances they are working on in Messenger). Oh, and he also said that key details are going to be revealed tomorrow about Facebook’s “direct brain interface.”

Raw Google search data proves that we are not who we say we are on social media.

A Tennessee man, Jared McLemore, 33, died after setting himself on fire on Facebook Live. Police said they arrived at Murphy's Bar in Midt...

When Facebook’s new fact-checking system labeled a Newport Buzz article as possible “fake news”, warning users against sharing it, something unexpected happened. Traffic to the story skyrocketed, according to Christian Winthrop, editor of the local Rhode Island website. “A bunch of conservative groups grabbed this and said, ‘Hey, they are trying to silence this blog – share, share share,’” said Winthrop, who published the story that falsely claimed hundreds of thousands of Irish people were brought to the US as slaves. “With Facebook trying to throttle it and say, ‘Don’t share it,’ it actually had the opposite effect.”

This month, one of the most important intelligence documents about Russian interference in the US election emerged.

Every year, Facebook gathers hundreds of developers, corporate allies, and members of the press to hear CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s vision of our shared near future. The gathering is known as “F8,” and this year’s iteration included some radical plans, one of which could’ve been pulled from a William Gibson novel… By Sam Biddle.

How Facebook censors what its users see has been revealed by internal documents, the Guardian newspaper says. It said the manuals revealed the criteria used to judge if posts were too violent, sexual, racist, hateful or supported terrorism. The Guardian said Facebook's moderators were "overwhelmed" and had only seconds to decide if posts should stay.