These days, just about everyone knows Facebook wants to collect our personal data. But the social media giant isn’t the only entity using the Internet to learn more about you. Law enforcement officials, prospective employers, insurance companies and more have all taken advantage of people’s publicly-posted information. And now, according to a recent report from…

As the largest social media platform in the world, Facebook has a nearly impossible task when it comes to keeping up with the graphic and offensive content shared on its platform. Another tragic instance of this trouble occurred late last week, when a suspected terrorist live-streamed a mass murder at a New Zealand mosque on…

Another silly hoax is making the rounds on Facebook. We have received several questions from our readers about the message shown below: “This message is to inform all our users that our servers have been very busy lately, so we ask you to help solve this problem. We ask active users to forward this message…

Facebook is often criticized for its content moderation decisions, and political advertising is no exception. That’s how the platform stepped face-first into a major controversy this week when it took down an ad from Senator Elizabeth Warren — a 2020 presidential candidate — calling for big tech companies like Facebook to be broken up. The…

It looks like Facebook is already making good on its recent promise to focus on user privacy. This week, the social media giant announced that its suing two Ukrainian men for allegedly creating quiz apps that scraped users’ private data and used it to target advertising. According to the complaint, the quizzes tricked users into…

From time to time, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg posts to his personal page to lay out his vision for the platform. He published another such screed this week, proposing a big-picture plan to roll together Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram into one simple, “privacy first” platform. In his post, Zuckerberg admitted up front that…

Facebook loves to tout all the ways it has improved its content moderation process over the past several years. The company has built out its artificial intelligence, hired thousands more moderators to review flagged posts, and more. However, according to a recent report from Amnesty International UK, the company still isn’t doing enough to help…

Facebook has received a ton of heat in recent months for its relationship with third-party apps, and for the kind of information it exchanges with these companies. In response, Facebook has actively discouraged apps from sharing certain kinds of sensitive information. However, a report from the UK-based watchdog group Privacy International this week revealed that…

As the largest social media platform in the world, Facebook is locked in a seemingly never-ending battle against fake accounts. However, the sheer number of bad actors operating on the platform guarantees that Facebook can never fully keep up with the problem. That might be why the company took such an unusually drastic step late…

Facebook is often rightly criticized for the lack of security it provides for users. However, the company has long encouraged people to sign up for two-factor authentication as a means of better protecting themselves. And while this is normally an effective security measure, Facebook has already been caught misusing the phone numbers that users entrusted…