Facebook (FB - Get Report) offers investors the best investment opportunity in tech right now. Why? Because its business model is similar to that of a toll bridge, ...
Facebook and the FTC are negotiating details of a settlement related to the Cambridge Analytica scandal, a report says....FB.
The company actively monitors its platform for threatening comments, the report said. That can include a nonspecific threat to a Facebook location or a direct one ...
Roger McNamee, a longtime tech investor and one of the early backers of Facebook Inc., was a very early voice warning about privacy and data collection ...
Instagram has changed the culture, and a number of industries are profiting from its influence.
NBA Digital announced a deal with Facebook under which all NBA, WNBA, NBA G League and NBA 2K League game recaps will be available on Facebook ...
EXCLUSIVE: Facebook has hired Comedy Central UK executive Brad Wood as it continues to make an aggressive move into the entertainment world. Related.
After releasing its Portal video-calling tool to largely positive reviews (especially from its employees) last November, Facebook is finally cracking open the d...
At long last, Facebook might be facing a little music for consistently violating the privacy of its users. The Federal Trade Commission is...
Some of Facebook's *content* moderators are in revolt over 'Big Brother'-style rules. In an open letter to Facebook employees, moderators from Austin, Texas ...
CHARLESTON, SC (WCSC) - The Charleston Animal Society says it is raising security until a threatening Facebook post is investigated. The post was made Feb ...
Facebook has once again provoked controversy after the discovery it is possible to search for photos of female friends on its social network, but not male ones.
After a Facebook user made a threat to the company's Europe office back in 2018, the social media tech giant confirmed to mining its network for threatening ...
Facebook says it has removed more than 200 "inauthentic" accounts targeting people in Moldova, some of which were linked to government employees.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg once considered purchasing the popular game engine Unity, according to “The History of The Future,” a new book by “Console ...
Facebook removed more than 100 ads paid for and posted by The Trump Organization after the social networking giant mistakenly classified them as political in ...
The US Department of Justice has refused to comment on the revelation that counter-intelligence staff were exposed to Iranian spies by using a Facebook group ...
The police in Northern Ireland were locked out of all their main Facebook accounts for 24 hours after a photo breached the company's community standards.
The millions spent on investigating the Facebook data harvesting scandal was worth it because it allowed the Information Commissioner's Office to secure ...
The typical Facebook employee makes double what the typical household in Silicon Valley makes — even as the region's household earnings rose to an ...
A US federal judge has refused to unseal court paperwork that would show how the FBI tried to force Facebook to snoop on calls made through its ...
Snap and Facebook are each making pitches to creators and producers as they seek to secure more video *content* for their platforms, per Digiday.
Hi, Carolyn: Please help! My husband fights with everyone online and he can't or won't stop himself. These are charged times, we all know. My husband spends ...
Here are the companies Yahoo Finance is watching today. Optimism from Nvidia. The chipmaker delivered an earnings beat and better guidance than many ...
Newsbook.com.mt has reached out to Facebook for comment on the situation and has been told that they are currently investigating and will provide more ...
Facebook's automated system can be tricked to allow ads to show millions of people fake news, Al Jazeera found.
Its search bar lets you track down pictures of your female friends, but not your male ones. The bizarre find was made by notorious Belgian “ethical” hacker Inti De ...
U.S. stock futures turn higher amid progress in trade negotiations between the U.S. and China; Nvidia jumps after the chipmaker forecasts a rebound in gaming ...
SINGAPORE - At least $1 million was lost to Facebook impersonation scams from January last year to this month, the police said on Friday (Feb 15).
Online platforms including Google, Facebook and Apple should be regulated in how they distribute news *content*, according to a new U.K. government report.
Image had been found to contravene Facebook's community standards.
A New Jersey judge tossed a juror off a high-profile murder case after she posted "sitting on the jury LMAO" on Facebook, throwing the trial into uncertainty after ...
Facebook has created a new funding program where it would work with publishers and influencers on new shows for Facebook Watch. Over the past few months ...
Nearly 150 spots are targeting women over the age of 25—the group most likely to include mothers of children who might need to be vaccinated.
Wrapping up your end of the work week Consumer Matters, Facebook will be shelling out big money to Uncle Sam and the Trump Organization is scrapping ...
With the social media company unresponsive, a police veteran in Germany is using shoe-leather detective work to combat online misinformation and hate.
A suspect wanted by Janesville Police taunted them on a Facebook post Wednesday, saying "Hahaha catch me if yuh can."
THERE HAS never been such an agglomeration of humanity as Facebook. Some 2.3bn people, 30% of the world's population, engage with the network each ...
Experts are calling on company to counter closed groups where members can post misinformation without challenge.
A student and marijuana advocate from Salisbury University in Maryland has been charged for wiretapping Rep. Andy Harris' office after he allegedly streamed ...
Facebook has added five new partners to its fact-checker network in India, the company said on Monday.
Another pal of the teen suspect said he sent a group Snapchat selfie saying 'found the guy who's done it'
UPDATE: Justin Kennedy turned himself in on Thursday at a magistrates office. Kennedy was arraigned and after failing to post $150000 bail, he was remanded ...
IDAHO FALLS – The Idaho Falls Police Department Special Investigations Unit executed a search warrant Thursday at 3144 Tipperary Lane in Idaho Falls after ...
Facebook has been screening and flagging *content* on its platform that's found to be "suicidal" in an effort to help predict and prevent suicides. Yet some public ...
London (CNN Business) Facebook built a massive advertising business on what it knows about its users. But could the company's enormous database soon ...
Police are worried teens may take part in a social media challenge that encourages them to pretend they are missing.
A woman who says she was sexually assaulted at a popular Atlanta nightclub and is suing the company that owns Opera Atlanta told reporters Tuesday she is a ...
Germany is moving to break up Facebook's dominant position in gathering data about social media users.
IT has to be one of the more surprising examples of “hate speech”.
This essay is the cover story for our March/April issue. (Subscribe here!) Portions of it appeared earlier here and here. A country riven by ethnic tension.
By its own admission, Facebook has a Myanmar problem. Social media users in the country used the platform to incite violence against the Rohingya, a mostly ...
The social media giant's latest acquisition isn't just about artificial intelligence.
While promoting “BlacKkKlansman” on “Today,” Spike Lee described talking to Prince William at the BAFTAs about his brother Prince Harry's secret Facebook ...
Sean Parker, founding president of Facebook, worries more about Amazon violating your privacy than Facebook. Parker said on Wednesday there is "no limit" to ...
Facebook emerged from 2018 bruised from a series of revelations that undermined trust in the popular social media platform and raised questions about its ...
New York (CNN Business) It was August 17, 2018, and Facebook Chief Security Officer Alex Stamos and I were driving together to his last day of work.
Facebook is restructuring its "youth team," shutting down its new teen meme app LOL, and doubling down on Messenger Kids.
Facebook has come out with a feature that lets you delete messages from a conversation after you've sent them, as previously spotted in leaks. So in case you ...
Europe is looking to force Google, Facebook and others to share revenue with artists, journalists and other creators and build copyright "upload filters", in the ...
Chris Hughes, co-founder of Facebook and an advocate for wealth equality, told CNBC on Monday that he and other ultrawealthy Americans should be paying ...
Facebook recently reported very strong numbers. FB is looking to further integrate all its apps, which has huge potential and it seems like it's moving towards.
The social network where one-third of humanity checks in at least once a month is also a marketplace, a satellite developer, and a maker of VR headsets.
Facebook is working to allow cross-messaging between Facebook Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp, according to a report in The New York Times.
The social media network Facebook has removed adverts for Donald Trump's Scottish golf courses and hotels. It ruled the ads had breached new transparency ...
As Facebook tries to address its role in spreading hate speech, human rights experts criticize *fresh* ban of ethnic armed groups.
To handle its massive amount of data, Facebook built new hardware and software tools, and shared them through open source.
Australian Competition and Consumer Commission says digital behemoths' market power is weakening the news media.
Jill Abramson continues to face accusations of plagiarism over passages that closely resemble those found in articles published years prior. The book ...
New Delhi: Tech companies such as Facebook, Google, Amazon, and Twitter are expected to pay a 'digital tax' in India soon as the Central Board of Direct ...
15 influencers weigh in on the company's 15th birthday.
The penalty is expected to be much larger than the $22.5 million fine the agency imposed on Google in 2012.
Facebook's market research program may have been shady, but social networks aren't the only big platforms that deserve our scrutiny.
Facebook Messenger's redesign is finally here. Its listing on both the App Store and the Google Play Store has been updated to show the new interface, and ...
After two days of disruptions, the iPhone maker restored the social network's access to internal apps that its employees rely on in their jobs.
The internet hates secrets. More than that, it despises them. And so, in February of last year, my partner and I resolved to try and keep the existence of our ...
FACEBOOK has taken the extraordinary step of deleting a controversial student-managed university Facebook page after students expressed fears the group ...
PETALING JAYA - Former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak changed his Facebook profile picture Thursday (Feb 14) to one of him at his graduation ...
On its 15th anniversary, a look at how the site has changed social life by keeping weak connections on life support forever.
Planning on quitting the social platform? A major new study offers a glimpse of what unplugging might do for your life. (Spoiler: It's not so bad.)
What happens when social media manipulation targets religious faith?
This is a profile of Alex Stamos, — former security chief at Yahoo and Facebook who was at ground zero of major cyberattacks and Russian election ...
Married At First Sight's newlyweds Bronson Norrish and Ines Basic butted heads from the very first moment they met.
Have you ever sent a message you wish you could take back? Well, now you can -- at least on Facebook. Earlier this week, Facebook released an “unsend” ...
In the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen, Facebook, working with a local partner, has found a way to overcome China's internet blocks to make ad dollars.
A fake profile of missing mum-of-five Sarah Wellgreen has been created on Facebook, causing "great distress" to her family.
Facebook posted strong financial numbers for its fourth quarter Wednesday, beating on earnings and revenue and sending shares up more than 12 percent in ...
Facebook's crack down on non-consensual ad targeting last year will finally produce results. In March, TechCrunch discovered Facebook planned to require ...
New York (CNN Business) Facebook removed hundreds of pages on Thursday it said posed as independent news sites in eastern Europe and elsewhere but ...
The social network has disclosed an estimate for years, but a closer look raises lots of questions.
Trying to stem the tsunami of fake news was like battling the Hydra — every time we cut off a virtual head, two more would grow in its place.
Social network rushes to fix 'bug' which lets sweaty-palmed males see revealing images of ladies they know.
For years, critics have taken aim at Facebook's privacy missteps, from the Cambridge Analytica scandal to this week's revelation that Facebook has paid ...
New study from Stanford and NYU finds logging off causes 'small but significant improvements in wellbeing'
Facebook's top communications executive, Caryn Marooney, is leaving the social media giant after eight years. Her departure comes after a year in which ...
In “Zucked,” the venture capitalist Roger McNamee — a former mentor to Mark Zuckerberg — reveals the inner workings behind the platform's troubling rise to ...
Week 2: Facebook. After Facebook's hell-year of scandal, and its unabating erosion of our privacy—a topic I've been covering for over 10 years—I never thought ...
Companies have acknowledged the problem and are taking modest steps to discourage misinformation.
Facebook is reportedly working to combine Messenger, WhatsApp, and Instagram messaging into a single, unified platform, but don't expect that system to hit ...
Our tool had let the public see exactly how users were being targeted by advertisers. The social media giant urged us to shut it down last year.