Our coverage of all things Facebook. Founded by Mark Zuckerberg and several fellow students in February 2004, the social network has grown to more than a billion users and currently owns Instagram and WhatsApp.
All stories in Facebook
-
Facebook now asks for consent to scan your photos (but only on new accounts)
Facebook today announced it'd be rolling out its facial recognition settings to everyone -- and that and that it'd be turned off by default for new users. Anyone who doesn't already have this setting will be able to notified and asked if they want to turn it on. The new Face Recognition ...
-
Facebook to test removing the 'like' counter from posts
Facebook is finally testing a much-needed change to its social network - hiding Like counts on posts. App researcher Jane Manchun Wong posted this development with screenshots on Twitter. Wong's post suggests the social network is testing this feature in its Android app. However, ...
-
Opinion: Facebook's brain computer interface will be the instrument of society's collapse
Anyone else think giving Facebook literal access to our brains is a catastrophically stupid idea? If you missed it: Facebook's building a brain computer interface (BCI). In the company's words, the gadget will be: A non-invasive, wearable device that lets people type by simply ...
-
Facebook's 'technical error' in Messenger Kids allowed children to chat with adults, unsupervised
Facebook has admitted to a design flaw in Messenger Kids that allowed kids to participate in group chats with adults, without ...
-
Google plays politics with China as it quietly bans state-sponsored YouTube accounts
Google yesterday announced it'd banned 210 YouTube accounts “related to the ongoing protests in Hong Kong” and the discovery was “consistent with recent observations and actions related to China announced by Facebook and Twitter.” If you're not an avid reader of social ...
-
Facebook lets you (sorta) control what info it gets from other sites
Facebook rolls out a new feature that will allegedly let you control what data it collects on you from other sites -- except ...
-
Facebook's group privacy settings actually make sense now
Until today, Facebook has given you three options for creating a user group: Open, closed, or 'secret.' While the first is pretty obvious, the other two were occasional sources of confusion - an admin might set a group to 'closed' without realizing it was still searchable, for instance. Instead ...
-
FBI proposal outlines plans for large-scale collection of social media data
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is planning to step up its efforts to monitor social media platforms more aggressively ...
-
Facebook is courting publishers with multi-million dollar deals to launch its news tab this fall
Facebook is keen to become a major news distributor again, after being lambasted for years over its role in aiding the spread ...
-
Facebook might be fined billions after losing facial recognition lawsuit
Facebook has a lost a federal appeal in a lawsuit that claimed it illegally collected and stored biometric data of millions ...
-
WhatsApp's chat manipulation exploit remains unresolved even after a year (Updated)
Vulnerabilities uncovered in WhatsApp by cybersecurity firm Checkpoint can allow bad actors to exploit the platform to manipulate ...
-
Facebook removes campaign with ties to Saudi Arabian government
Facebook has removed hundreds of fake accounts and pages connected to the Saudi Arabian government as part of its ongoing ...
