Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen told UK lawmakers on Monday she's "shocked" that the company is pouring so much money into the so-called "metaverse." Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told The Verge in July that he wanted Facebook to become a "metaverse company." The word metaverse is borrowed from science-fiction, and refers to a future version of the internet which people access using virtual-reality and augmented-reality headsets, rather than via laptops and phones.

Facebook probably wishes it had a delete button for its timeline now that it’s threatening an upcoming TV show with a lawsuit for potentially tarnishing the brand’s reputation.

Earlier this year, a researcher at Facebook shared some alarming statistics with colleagues. Teenage users of the Facebook app in the US had declined by 13 percent since 2019 and were projected to drop 45 percent over the next two years, driving an overall decline in daily users in the company’s most lucrative ad market. Young adults between the ages of 20 and 30 were expected to decline by 4 percent during the same timeframe.

A trove of internal documents show Facebook didn’t invest in key safety protocols in the company’s largest market.

Internal documents indicate new users with multiple accounts are undercounted, raising questions about how Facebook measures its audience and potentially affecting advertisers’ spending on the platform.

Just days after insurrectionists stormed the Capitol on January 6th, Facebook's Chief Operational Officer Sheryl Sandberg downplayed her company's role in what had happened. "We know this was organized online. We know that," she said in an interview with Reuters. "We... took down QAnon, Proud Boys, Stop the Steal, anything that was talking about possible violence last week.

Facebook has filed a lawsuit on Friday against a Ukrainian national for allegedly scraping its website and selling the personal data of more than 178 million users on an underground cybercrime forum.

A post on Twitter’s blog reveals that Twitter’s algorithm promotes right-leaning content more often than left — but the reasons for that remain unclear. The findings drew from an internal study on Twitter’s algorithmic amplification of political content.

Can rebranding the company herald a fresh start? Experts, as you might guess, are skeptical.

The suit was filed in 2018.

Teenage girls are seeking medical care for the sudden onset of tics, such as jerking motions and verbal outbursts, that specialists in pediatric movement disorders say are linked to watching TikTok videos that purport to show people with Tourette syndrome.

The company, under wide-ranging scrutiny for harms linked to its platforms, increased protections against harassment and bullying

How to gain fans on social media sites, 7 free ways.

The company publicly claims its AI is amazing at removing harmful content, but internal documents suggest they know the algorithm is ineffective.

In Ethiopia, old ethnic tensions are being incited in new ways. And that means the bloody civil war may be entering an even more destructive phase.

A new research paper written by a team of academics and computer scientists from Spain and Austria has demonstrated that it’s possible to use Facebook’s targeting tools to deliver an ad exclusively to a single...

Facebook has lost the trust of parents, is prioritising commercial gain over children’s needs and must take steps to restore faith in its platforms, a global alliance of child protection campaigners and experts has warned Mark Zuckerberg.

A giant web of interconnected users, each with an agenda, shouting at one another to pay attention. It’s not disinformation. Our politics is awash in ampliganda, the propaganda of the modern age.

Experts say the public deserves to see the list, a clear embodiment of U.S. foreign policy priorities that could disproportionately censor marginalized groups.

In July 2020, Louis Barclay published “Unfollow Everything,” a clever Chrome extension that let you unfollow all your friends on Facebook.