A man in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, has been taken into federal custody for making threats on Facebook to shoot a “high net-worth individual” before leaving for Pakistan. Mohammad Waqas Khan, who worked as an Uber driver in the Chicago suburb, was arrested in May for violating conceal and carry laws, and was still incarcerated this…

Police in Toms River township, New Jersey, scored a Facebook crime-solving “hat trick” this week, using the site to identify four individuals in connection with three separate crimes. By posting surveillance photos on the police department’s Facebook page, officials said they received more than a dozen tips about a bank robbery, a man that allegedly…

Late last year, Facebook partnered with IT security vendor ESET to provide a free and basic anti-malware program to users. If you log on to Facebook with a device that’s infected with malware, a message will appear offering you the chance to scan your device and remove the bug—all without leaving Facebook. It’s a pretty…

Lifestyle blogger Rosie Thomas is used to having her name and image stolen by strangers on Facebook. That’s why she wasn’t surprised this week when she discovered a page that spammed plastic surgery promotions was using her name and pictures from her profile. Thomas says that her identity has been used before without her consent…

As an Internet experiment, a man named Joe Veix decided to give away all of the login information to an open Facebook profile. In a time when Facebook cracks down on profiles that don’t identify by “real names,” how would the site react to a completely fake profile under the control of hordes of online…

In 2008, UK Facebook user Jemma Rogers registered for the site using the pseudonym Jemmaroid Von Laalaa. She did it to avoid unwanted friend requests, though she couldn’t have foreseen where her decision ultimately ended up: her decision to change her actual name to match her fake one. It all started when Facebook locked her…

Everybody has photos on Facebook that they want to hide. However, even if you hide tagged photos from your Timeline or leave tagged photos pending approval in your Timeline Review, they might be more visible than you think. Facebook’s Graph Search feature lets any user access every photo you’re tagged in by simply searching “Photos…

Facebook introduced changes to its News Feed this week that allow users to better control the content they see. Instead of being dictated merely by an algorithm that observes what they do on the site, users can prioritize updates with a feature called “See First.” The tool, which takes the form of a colorful and…

We’ve all seen the fishy links shared on social media: “Download this link and see who’s unfriended you on Facebook!” While there are some browser extensions and other apps that provide this functionality, it’s one of the most common hoaxes on the site. Several weeks ago, an Android and iOS app called “Who Deleted Me”…

Last week, Facebook rolled out its new payment feature in Facebook Messenger that allows users to instantly send payments to one another using the tool.  Of course, in order to work, Messenger requires users to upload their debit card information. And while Facebook won’t link up with credit cards in order to avoid fraud issues,…