Facebook announced this week that it has once again tweaked its News Feed algorithm based on a user survey, and will now devalue “overly promotional page posts.” According to Facebook, they want to get rid of spammy page posts that push people to buy a product or download an app, encourage them to enter contests…

A 29-year-old U.S. woman and mother, Heather Elizabeth Coffman, has been arrested and charged with making a false statement regarding an offense involving international or domestic terrorism. Coffman, who lives in Virginia, is accused of promoting the terrorist group ISIS on her Facebook page. FBI agents began looking into Coffman around April this year after…

According to a report in The Financial Times, Facebook is currently working on a service called “Facebook at Work” that will stand apart from the common consumer site and serve instead as a hub for employees. According to the FT, the site would allow employees to collaborate with each other on projects, connect with people…

This week, Facebook announced another tool designed to further simplify its privacy policy and make it understandable to the layperson. The feature, called “Privacy Basics,” is a set of interactive guides that walk users through basic security questions, like how to delete content from the site and how to limit visibility in search. In addition…

After Facebook released its government requests report late last week, digital civil liberties group Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) took issue with Facebook’s willingness to bend to the demands of governments around the world. Though the site is not required to operate under the laws of the various countries it’s in, it often does, removing content…

This past spring, Facebook implemented a new app review policy to ensure only functional and honest apps made it on to the site. In particular, the process was created to target apps that asked for too much personal information from users. Now, according to Buzzfeed, the preliminary results of the review process are in, and…

When Facebook announced that its users had to download its standalone Messenger app to continue using the feature earlier this year, many were upset – and worried about their privacy. However, despite the initial concerns, the app has grown into a massive success; according to Facebook, it currently sports around 500 million active users.  “This…

According to a poll conducted for CNBC.com, Facebook is by far the tech company that consumers most fear when it comes to protecting their privacy. 45 percent of those surveyed said Facebook concerned them the most with how the site collects personal information, while Google was a distant second at 21 percent. Apple was third…

According to a Facebook report published this week, the site has seen a 24 percent increase in government requests for user information between the second half of 2013 and the first half of 2014. There were almost 35,000 total requests, and disturbingly, the United States government accounted for nearly half that with 15,433 requests alone.…

Fed up with the baby pictures her friends constantly posted to Facebook, Dutch designer Laura Comet has created a toy that would allow babies to post pictures of themselves to social media. The toy, which was Comet’s graduation project at a design academy, serves as plush mobiles that hang above a baby’s crib. When the…