Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg flirted with the idea of getting into the online dating business in 2014 — but instead gave Tinder and similar apps access to user data, leaked documents show.

When you buy a phone or book a vacation, you probably read several customer reviews to make sure you get the best bang for your buck. Because in most areas of life, we know it’s important to base our spending decisions on evidence, not guesswork.

Tinder and other popular apps were given 'whitelist' privileges

The company proposes warning labels—is that enough?

Social media companies have pledged to crack down on anti-vaccination messages that have been blamed for this year’s historic measles outbreaks. But a test by The Daily Beast reveals just how easy it is to place an ad filled with blatant medical misinformation on some of the world’s biggest online platforms.

Hiding like counts is just the latest step in Instagram’s quest to become the safest place on the internet.

With just a week to go before the election, Safiya Khalid was in tears. She had spent the past six months knocking on hundreds of doors in Lewiston, Maine, the city where she arrived as a refugee more than a decade earlier, and where she hoped to be the first Somali immigrant to win a seat on the city council. Suddenly, online trolls from as far away as Alabama and Mississippi were hurling vile abuse at her, telling her that Muslims had no place in American government and she should go back to where she came from.

Plus: "Like the experts predicted back in 2016, we did end up heading down the dystopian path."

They have led to a proliferation of fake news and clickbait, fuelled surveillance capitalism and normalised pervasive tracking and data-mining. Then there’s their effect on democracy...

The company’s anticompetitive behavior is rooted in a deep sense of fear that it’s vulnerable to rivals.

When 911 operators in Mesa, Ariz., answered a call last week, they likely didn’t expect the emergency to be a McDonald’s Happy Meal. Charlie Scabelund, 5, wanted a treat. His father Randy Scabelund, who spoke to the dispatcher in a followup call, said his son likely got hold of his cellphone to make the “emergency” call.

Christopher Wylie says his former firm easily manipulated democracy with Facebook data. Could it happen again?

It is as common an occurrence on Polish Twitter as you are likely to get: a pair of conservative activists pouring scorn on the country’s divided liberal opposition. “I burst out laughing!” writes Girl from Żoliborz, a self-described “traditionalist” commenting on a newspaper story about a former campaign adviser to Barack Obama and Emmanuel Macron coming to Warsaw to address a group of liberal activists.

Publishers are still figuring out what works and what doesn't on this latest hot new app.

The social media company’s action is a stark contrast to Facebook, which is taking a hands-off approach to political advertising.

As the tech industry transforms into a hotbed of employee dissent, Facebook employees have remained on the sidelines. Are they finally having their moment?

Facebook has fought vigorously against the release of the documents, arguing that they presented an unbalanced picture of the company.

The social media site has received backlash over its choice to include a publication that has been called ‘the platform for the alt-right’

It highlighted Facebook's reluctance to fact-check politicians.

Trying to build trust with one hand, and chipping away at it with the other. If you missed the first-ever Interface Live last week, I hope you’ll consider come seeing me this week! I’ll be talking with Clara Tsao, a researcher and entrepreneur who focuses on disinformation and platforms, at a free event in San Francisco. It’s on Tuesday at 6:30 p.m., and I would love to see you there. The event is free, and you can RSVP here.