23-year-old Aaron Thompson noticed something strange this week when he tried to log in to his Facebook account: the email address and phone number associated with his account had been changed. Then he checked his email to discover an email chain between Facebook customer service and a hacker claiming to be him — a hacker…

Facebook has been accused of not doing enough to help fight terrorism — and in one case, the site was even sued for it. However, the world’s largest social network may be stepping up its efforts to censor extremism in a big way. According to an exclusive report in Reuters, Facebook and Google may be…

If you’re a Facebook user, this has probably happened to you: a person you may have met only once pops up in your “Suggested Friends.” Or an ex you’d rather not see. Or a former teacher. These connections can be downright creepy in their knowledge of you, but how does Facebook find that information? Conflicting…

Facebook announced this week that it will add political bias training to its employee orientation following the firestorm last month over allegations that Facebook employees deliberately suppressed conservative news stories in the site’s Trending Topics feed. Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s chief operating officer, announced the change in an interview with prominent conservative leader Arthur Brooks, president…

You may not know it, but Facebook recently made a tweak to your profile that moved some important — and potentially personal — information to the front-and-center of your page. Your full employment and education history is now prominently featured in your Facebook profile’s “Intro” section, while it was previously tucked away in your profile’s…

It’s no secret that Facebook thinks video is the future of all communication. However, the social media giant might want to think about how it can control the kind of videos it broadcasts if that prediction comes true. This month, a Facebook Live video allegedly showed the fatal shooting of a Chicago man. A French…

The family of 23-year-old student Nohemi Gonzalez, the only American killed during the ISIS terrorist attack in Paris last fall, filed a lawsuit last week against Facebook, Twitter and Google for supplying “material support” to terrorists. The victim’s father, Reynaldo Gonzalez, wrote in a complaint to the court that these sites “have knowingly permitted the…

Security researchers showed this week that a hacker could break into a Facebook account using only a phone number. The hack exploits SS7, a wildly outdated part of the telecom infrastructure created in 1975 that sets up phone calls, performs phone number translation, prepaid billing, SMS and more. How does the hack work? It’s pretty…

Facebook is often at the cutting-edge of technology. From its Facebook Live streaming videos to Oculus Rift virtual reality, the social media giant is dedicated to innovating (and dominating) all corners of the tech market. That even includes thinking about the far future of social technology — and the potentially creepy consequences that technology could…

Last week, security researcher Inti De Ceukelaire revealed a shocking hole in Facebook’s Messenger system that allows anyone to read links you privately send your friends. What’s worse, the flaw isn’t a bug, but an intentional feature that Facebook has no plans to fix. De Ceukelaire was able to find these privately-shared links using the…