False rumors set Buddhist against Muslim in Sri Lanka, the most recent in a global spate of violence fanned by social media.

In late March 2018, according to Bloomberg, Facebook went on a hiring spree. The social media platform was looking to hire at least 11 Washington lobbyists. According to European transparency filings published this week, Facebook is doing the same in Europe. In fact, amid the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Zuckeberg spent a record amount of money on lobbying European governments.

A decades-old case of alleged rape and suicide at a prestigious university is giving China a #MeToo moment—and showing the constraints confronted by social movements in the authoritarian-ruled country.

The #DeleteFacebook movement has been riding high ever since the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica scandal got rolling, with high-profile figures like Elon Musk publicly declaring their intention to purge their good names from Facebook’s ledgers (only not really doing it, in Musk’s case). But, by Facebook’s own admission, it still has ways of tracking ex-users and non-users alike.

Everyone from Uber to PayPal is facing a backlash against their impenetrable legalese.

A "long-planned" change happens to coincide with a new wave of state censorship in Russia.

Peter Thiel's data-mining company is using War on Terror tools to track American citizens.

Company moves responsibility for users from Ireland to the US where privacy laws are less strict

In the latest of an endless series of unfortunate events to befall the once beloved photo-sharing service Flickr, the company has been resurrected from the grave of Yahoo and bought for an undisclosed amount by premium photo-hosting platform SmugMug.

No one is original anymore, not even you.

Whenever a company may be guilty of something, from petty neglect to grand deception, there’s usually a class action lawsuit filed. But until a judge rules that lawsuit legitimate, the threat remains fairly empty. Unfortunately for Facebook, one major suit from 2015 has just been given that critical go-ahead.

"Unless I go full tin-foil hat, you’ve basically left me with one option. To opt out of Facebook’s tracking, I’m going to have to join Facebook"

Concern about Facebook Inc’s respect for data privacy is widening to include the information it collects about non-users, after Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said the world’s largest social network tracks people whether they have accounts or not. Privacy concerns have swamped Facebook since it acknowledged last month that information about millions of users wrongly ended up in the hands of political consultancy Cambridge Analytica, a firm that has counted U.S. President Donald Trump’s 2016 electoral campaign among its clients.

Over the last few months, Select All has interviewed more than a dozen prominent technology figures about what has gone wrong with the contemporary internet for a project called “The Internet Apologizes.” We’re now publishing lengthier transcripts of each individual interview. This interview features Dan McComas, the former senior vice-president for product of Reddit and the founder and CEO of Imzy, a community-focused platform.

In the wake of Facebook’s privacy debacle, Myspace Tom has emerged as an unlikely hero. But the platform he built and the data you put on Myspace continues to help advertisers target its old users.

It seems that internet privacy protections are still “under construction.”

Zuckerberg said there 'hasn't been any meaningful impact,' but new survey shows 17 percent of Americans deleted the app, 31 percent changed settings, nine percent deleted their accounts. “Facebook will be fine,” Recode journalists wrote, paraphrasing what Mark Zuckerberg had said during a conference call with reporters on April 4. “I don’t think there’s been any meaningful impact that we’ve observed,” Facebook co-founder and CEO said.

Facebook increased its spending on security for Mark Zuckerberg by 50% last year, the company has disclosed, paying more than $7.3m (£5.1m) to protect its top executive. The security funds were required “due to specific threats to his safety arising directly as a result of his position as our founder, chairman, and CEO,” the under-fire social media company said in a new filing to US regulators.

Using a tool that Facebook offers its users, our columnist found out more than he wanted to know about the social network, the ad industry and himself.

Social media sites are littered with seemingly innocuous little quizzes, games and surveys urging people to reminisce about specific topics, such as “What was your first job,” or “What was your first car?” The problem with participating in these informal surveys is that in doing so you may be inadvertently giving away the answers to “secret questions” that can be used to unlock access to a host of your online identities and accounts.

The fact that Facebook probably has a profile of you whether you’re a Facebook user or not might come as a surprise to some users, though today even the company’s chief executive denied knowledge of the practice — or at least the term used to describe it.

Facebook has started to help users figure out whether or not they’ve been affected by the Cambridge Analytica scandal, and detailed in the company’s notification is the fact that Facebook users may have also had their private messages leaked to Cambridge Analytica.

Facebook is going to ask all of its users whether they want to be tracked as they use Facebook. The company won’t, it said. Instead, it will ask all of its users to explicitly opt in to having themselves tracked so that they can keep using Facebook, and tell them to limit that collection using its settings if they don't. But the site has warned that it will never be possible to turn off all ad tracking, as it isn't on many websites. People will always have the option to leave entirely, a senior member of staff said.

Social media, hacking, manipulation and blackmail...

Instagram is the worst social media site in terms of its impact on the mental health of young people, a report has suggested.

Mark Zuckerberg has spent this week sitting in a giant hall having people who know nothing about the nuances of technology, and the way the internet monetises itself, telling him what he is doing is wrong. It’s important because it shows how little our elected officials are aware of where society is heading.

On Tuesday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg appeared before two Senate committees to testify about the company’s much-ballyhooed problems with maintaining user privacy. Zuckerberg acquitted himself well – or at least as well as he had to, given the fact that most of those questioning him were septuagenarians whose last computers were abacuses. But Zuckerberg did screw up in two separate areas.

Facebook is quietly changing its terms of service to shift 1.5 billion users away from Europe to the US while continuing to claim it wants to offer greater privacy protections. The change covers 70 per cent of its users – based in Africa, Asia, Australasia and Latin/South America – and effectively removes legal protections over personal data that the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will provide from May 25.

Mark Zuckerberg will talk about the Cambridge Analytica scandal and Russian interference on the platform.

You can’t remove Facebook messages from the inboxes of people you sent them to, but Facebook did that for Mark Zuckerberg and other executives.

Facebook CEO and cofounder Mark Zuckerberg now runs a site that 400 million people visit each month. But back in May 2004, he was a 19-year-old finishing up his sophomore year at Harvard. He was also the acclaimed founder and creator of an increasingly popular Web site called TheFacebook.com, which had launched in February 2004.

The tech giant tells us why he and some good friends are leaving Facebook.

The Facebook CEO's constant apologies aren't a promise to do better. They're a symptom of a profound crisis of accountability.

The media company claims it was an error and will return the money, but style bloggers are considering legal action

Comcast, AT&T and Verizon pose a greater surveillance risk than Facebook – but their surveillance is much harder to avoid.