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.

A developer who designed a tool to let people essentially delete their Facebook news feeds says he was served with a cease-and-desist letter and permanently kicked off the tech giant's platform.

Less than two years after Facebook hired Frances Haugen, the data scientist and product manager decided she had seen enough. Testifying before a Senate panel on 5 October 2021, Haugen unravelled a string of concerning insights—rivalled only by the company’s resistance to change.

Facebook has had a nightmare week. It started with revelations that the social media giant had been putting “profits before people”—something Facebook vehemently denies. Then, suddenly, came Monday’s outage of all Facebook services—Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram—as a result of a misconfiguration. Facebook’s reputational nightmare worsened as the week ended, with another outage affecting some users on Friday.