How a sketchy online degree program led me on an IRL quest for legendary creatures during the pandemic.

After a user called lawmakers like AOC "black c---s," employees sought to crush hate speech. Executives rejected their plan, per The Washington Post.

Independent experts from NYU, UMass Amherst, Columbia, Marquette, and the ACLU are partnering with Gizmodo to responsibly publish this historic leak.

This comes after the Guardian revealed that the US police department had been working with a tech firm, analysing user data to help solve crimes. Facebook expressly prohibits the creation and use of fake accounts. The intent, it said, was to "create a safe environment where people can trust and hold one another accountable".

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg's metaverse is no utopian vision — it's another opportunity for Big Tech to colonize our lives in the name of profit.

The attorney general's lawsuit alleges that Meta cost investors and Ohio's largest pension fund $100 billion since its bad practices first surfaced.

She gets $1.7 million. Sam Lessin’s venture firm gets 5% of her creator earnings for 30 years. “it's def not indentured servitude,” he says. For decades now, Sam Lessin has been ruminating on an idea: What if instead of investing in companies, you could invest in people? What if Lessin could apply the venture capital model to human beings, allowing talented young thinkers to exchange traditional debt for freedom?

Roughly three-quarters of adults believe Facebook is making American society worse, a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS finds, with about half saying they know somebody who was persuaded to believe in a conspiracy theory because of the site's content.

So for years we pointed out how the trend of news websites killing off their comment section (usually because they were too cheap or lazy to creatively manage them) was counterproductive. One, it killed off a lot of local, community value and two, it outsourced comments to facebook.

Facebook's pivot to the metaverse is also a move to check Apple in the tech industry's long-term game of "what's next." The big picture: Tech's leaders view their story as a series of shifts from one dominant platform to another. Each transition is a moment of peril to incumbents and opportunity for newcomers.

Facebook's internal research found compulsive use hurt sleep, work relationships, or parenting for about 12.5% of users.

Facebook’s own internal research found 1 in 8 of its users reported compulsive social media use that interfered with their sleep, work, and relationships— what the social media platform calls “problematic use” but is more commonly known as “internet addiction,” the Wall Street Journal reported.

Meta Company, not to be mistaken with the newly announced Meta rebranding of Facebook, has published a letter about the latter company’s name change, accusing the social media giant of making…

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Meta's all encompassing metaverse will require people to... actually buy VR headsets and future AR gear.

The founders of a photo-app startup filed an antitrust lawsuit against Facebook's parent company, Meta, The New York Times first reported on Thursday. In 2014, Champ Bennett, Omar Elsayed, and Russell Armand founded Phhhoto, which allowed users to take and post a short bust of photos that looped, similar to a GIF.

Facebook this week announced that it will no longer deploy facial recognition technologies on its platform, but the social network's parent company, Meta, said that the commitment does not apply to its metaverse products

Facebook is facing mounting pressure from advocacy groups to weed out climate misinformation on its platform and be more transparent about the extent of the false or misleading claims.

Facebook’s user base has been shrinking, with nearly half of its current users expected to drop off over the next two years. The company’s solution? Targeting six year olds.

Behind a geeky code name lies a sinister plot.