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• Facebook is reportedly testing payments in India

  Although Facebook makes most of of its money by selling ads, it's now looking to monetize other parts of its business in ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• Facebook says it wants to give you control over your data, but it won't

  Facebook has been embroiled in a major data privacy scandal over the past several weeks - one that got its CEO testifying ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• We can’t ditch Facebook because of our friends — but there’s a fix

  It’s more fashionable than ever to hate on Facebook. But it sure has been a long time coming — the proverbial excrement hit the fan only after the social media helped the Democrats lose the election, showed increasingly just how much they wanted to control information we see, ...

  • Larry Sanger

• Opinion: There shouldn't be a 'next Facebook'

  Social media networks need to fade into obscurity, it's for the best.

  • Tristan Greene

• Instagram will soon let you download your data, just like Facebook

  Following Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's congressional hearing over how the company handles users' data and how the Cambridge ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• This never-ending caterpillar will make your Facebook friends hate you

  Have you seen this ridiculously long post blocking your entire Facebook feed? I thought it looked like a long spine, but ...

  • Guðrun í Jákupsstovu

• We forced 9 privacy experts to say "I told you so" about Facebook - hopefully we'll listen next time

  We should have known that Facebook was abusing our data. Why? Because lots of privacy activists told us so. Since most of ...

  • Alejandro Tauber

• Zuckerberg's Senate hearing notes included a dig at Apple

  At Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's first-ever congressional hearing, in which he answered US senators' questions about how ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• Facebook: Cambridge Analytica may have accessed some users' private messages

  While CEO Mark Zuckerberg donned a suit and parroted rehearsed lines in front of (mostly) old white men in Congress today, his company worked behind the scenes to notify users whose accounts may have been compromised in the recent Cambridge Analytica scandal. Me, for example. As ...

  • Bryan Clark

• The (precious few) highlights from Zuckerberg's sit-down with 44 Senators

  Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified at a Congressional hearing today before 44 senators from the Senate's Judiciary and Commerce committees. I hope his non-specific "team" is getting paid time-and-a-half, because from the sounds of Zuckerberg's responses to Senator's questions, ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Facebook could theoretically owe the FTC $7.1 trillion for recent data scandals

  It's a big week for Facebook. CEO Mark Zuckerberg is set to appear before Congress tomorrow, ready to fess up to his social network's multitudinous problems. But the company might soon have a bigger adversary: The Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which could put Facebook on the hook ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Facebook will alert you if Cambridge Analytica grabbed your data

  Facebook says it will notify 87 million users of its service that they affected by the Cambridge Analytica scandal, which ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal