A bipartisan bill in the Assembly would make social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram liable for getting young users addicted.

Why is there a dispute between the two tech giants and does it affect you?

While trying to map the extent and impact of place-based Facebook groups where QAnon and allied disinformation spread, I went looking for Facebook groups with names including 10, 11, or 12. This was part of my work with the Pitt Disinformation Lab, and I was thinking of the 10th, 11th, or 12th wards of the city of Pittsburgh. What appeared instead was a group named “Buscando novi@ de 9,10,11,12,13 años.” Looking for a nine-year-old girlfriend? What?

Researchers are building new ways to track and analyze your every glance—and big tech platforms like Facebook are already looking to make their own.

HBO was hit with a class action lawsuit on Tuesday alleging that it shares subscribers’ viewing history with Facebook, in violation of a federal privacy law. A class action law firm, Bursor &…

The company's most recent transparency report did not identify its most-viewed page, only saying it was removed after getting millions of views.

Meta said in a press release Sunday it detected and removed two disinformation campaigns run by groups in Russia and Ukraine. Russian troops began an invasion of Ukraine on Thursday. One of the campaigns was being perpetrated by Ghostwriter, a Russia-linked hacking and disinformation group. Meta said Ghostwriter gained access to real people's Facebook accounts where it then posted disinformation.

Meta Platforms Inc is barring Russian state media from running ads or monetizing on its platform anywhere in the world, the parent company of social media giant Facebook said on Friday.

Google is set to make changes to its Android operating system that aims to cut back on the amount of tracking it allows. It’s that kind of tracking that allows big tech companies to gather information about consumers, and in turn target you ruthlessly with advertisements for things it believes you want to buy.

Facebook and Instagram‘s parent company Meta has labelled Apple’s App Tracking Transparency feature ‘harmful.’ One analyst said that the privacy measure could be the biggest challenge the company ever faces. A report today says that the loss of ability to target Facebook and Instagram users by their interests is seeing businesses abandon the platform in favor of Google ads.

Facebook is launching its short video feature Reels to more than 150 countries, its owner Meta Platforms said on Tuesday, in a move to expand its fastest growing content format.

In complaints to the U.S. government, Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen accused the tech giant of misleading investors about combating climate and Covid-19 misinformation, The Washington Post revealed Friday.

Since filing whistleblower complaints against Facebook last year, Frances Haugen hasn’t been sitting still. A report today says the Facebook (now Meta) whistleblower has filed two new complaints with the Securities and Exchange Commission that allege the company internally acknowledged it was struggling with misinformation even while telling investors it had a handle on the problem.

After its stock rout this year, Meta is no longer one of the world's 10 most-valuable companies. Meta's share price is down about 40% year-to-date after the company reported two weeks ago that Facebook's daily active user base shrank for the first time ever. The social media platform lost about one million users from the third quarter to the fourth quarter of 2021.

The social-media Goliath has fallen out of the top-ten largest companies in the world by market capitalization.

People are flocking to try Facebook’s early bet on the metaverse.

Zuckerberg is betting the future of his business on something that doesn't really exist.

The suit claims the company violated state laws by gathering and using facial recognition data on millions of users without their consent.

On Tuesday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg made an update to the company’s longstanding corporate values that Zuckerberg first penned in 2007 when the company he founded still called itself Facebook.

One of Meta's many new corporate values is "Meta, Metamates, me."