A former senior economist with the Reserve Bank of Australia doubts Facebook's cryptocurrency will take control of monetary policy away from central banks.

Move could affect competition and data privacy, warns Bank for International Settlements

It feels uncomfortable 'liking' a tragedy shared on social media.

A report from The Verge reveals new details about the appalling working conditions at Facebook's content moderation site in Tampa.

Allowing any person or company this sort of control is absolute insanity. By Michael Krieger.

Poor governance and privacy concerns have knocked Facebook out of an influential ethics index that tracks socially responsible companies. Standard & Poor's Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Index said that it had booted Facebook after the company scored poorly for social responsibility and governance, achieving 22 and 6, respectively, out of 100.

It is a hugely ambitious - some might say megalomaniacal - project to create a new global currency. Facebook's David Marcus tells me it is about giving billions of people more freedom with money and "righting the many wrongs of the present system".

Facebook says its “stablecoin,” will empower billions and underpin a stunningly ambitious global economy. And it promises to keep its hands off your transactional data.

Software engineers straight out of college often make six-figure salaries, not counting equity compensation.

Facebook usage has plummeted over the last year, according to data seen by the Guardian, though the company says usage by other measures continues to grow. Since April 2018, the first full month after news of the Cambridge Analytica scandal broke in the Observer, actions on Facebook such as likes, shares and posts have dropped by almost 20%, according to the business analytics firm Mixpanel.

A man who shared a video of the deadly New Zealand mosque shooting received a 21-month prison sentence on Tuesday. Philip Arps pleaded guilty to two counts of distributing the video of the March 15 attacks, which were livestreamed by the shooter as he killed 51 people.

Firm has uncovered emails that appear to show chief executive’s connection to potentially problematic practices, WSJ reports

Officers in law enforcement agencies across the country have joined private hate groups on Facebook, participating in the spread of extremism.

An investigation from Reveal News identified nearly 400 current and former police officers

For years, tech companies have relied on a rhetorical sleight of hand. It’s not working anymore.

"I know it's bad to say but with out [sic] killing them out there's no way to fix it," the mayor wrote in a now-deleted Facebook post

By 2100 there could be 4.9bn dead users on Facebook. So who controls our digital legacy after we have gone? As Black Mirror returns, we delve into the issue

Facebook unveiled a cryptocurrency called Libra yesterday as well as the Libra Association, a not-for-profit that will oversee all things Libra. While Libra’s white paper draws a lot of inspiration from other cryptocurrencies, the current governance model and blockchain implementation remind me of …

'Arrogance is not a substitute for good corporate governance,' said Michael Connor, who helped coordinate the symbolic action by activist investors.

Facebook is still taking a battering from some of its harshest critics, as two high-profile voices spoke out against the company once again last week. Tim Cook gave a commencement speech at Stanford on Sunday in which he savaged Silicon Valley giants for behaving irresponsibly.

A consumer advocacy group has found that not all Facebook users have been given the ability to opt out of the company's facial recognition.

It was the second time in six months Zuckerberg and Facebook’s Chief Operating Office Sheryl Sandberg have failed to show up when invited to address a committee of international lawmakers investigating disinformation, privacy and how to protect democracy. Zuckerberg and Sandberg will be served with an formal summons should they “decide to come to Canada to go fishing,” said Canada’s Charlie Angus, a parliamentarian for the left-leaning New Democratic Party. “It’s not good enough for them to blow us off.”

Facebook's former security chief says Mark Zuckerberg has amassed too much power and should resign as chief executive officer of the social networking giant. "There's a legit argument that he has too much power," Alex Stamos said at the Collision Conference in Toronto on Tuesday. "He needs to give up some of that power. If I was him, I would go hire a new CEO for the company."

Many Facebook investors are furious at Mark Zuckerberg, but can't do anything about it. Investors in other companies will soon feel their pain.

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Facebook announced Thursday afternoon that it was banning people including Louis Farrakhan, the Nation of Islam leader notorious for anti-Semitic language and right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones from its platforms.

Natalie Crowe was a bored teenager during the summer of 2012 when she stumbled across her mother's old address book in a storage bin and decided to search for a specific name. The first person to pop into her head was Austin Tatman, who was her best friend when they were 5 years old. The two had lost touch after she moved from Florida to Connecticut with her mother and siblings.

Facebook might have another Cambridge Analytica on its hands. In a late Friday news dump, Facebook revealed that today it filed a lawsuit alleging South Korean analytics firm Rankwave abused its developer platform’s data...

Mass panic is the reason all of your Facebook groups just went secret.

Agencies sound the alarm over environment crisis after the destruction of crops and animals   More than 2 million individuals might deal with hunger by the end of the summer season unless ther…

Last week, Evaldas Rimasauskas of Lithuania plead guilty to US wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, and money laundering charges, admitting that he had stolen $99m from Facebook and $23m from Google between 2013 and 2015.

Old Facebook posts by Mark Zuckerberg have disappeared — obscuring details about core moments in Facebook's history. On multiple occassions, years-old public posts made by the 34-year-old billionaire chief executive that were previously public and reported on by news outlets at the time have since vanished, Business Insider has found. That includes all of the posts he made during 2007 and 2008.

When Chris Rackliffe, a motivational speaker in New York, met a potential friend at a bar last weekend, it never occurred to him to exchange phone numbers. Instead, the two swapped Instagram handles, and have been liking each other’s posts. Rackliffe said they’ll probably meet up in person again soon.

Mark Zuckerberg’s recent opinion piece in the Washington Post is a monument to insincerity and misdirection. The essay offers proposals to address four important issues – harmful content, election protection, privacy and data protection, and data portability – but each proposal is transparently self-serving. The popularity of internet platforms cannot obscure or justify the harm they enable.

Labor supports legislation in response to Christchurch shooting that threatens jail for executives, despite media companies’ concerns