WASHINGTON -- Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says senior Biden administration officials pressured Facebook to “censor” some COVID-19 content during the pandemic and vowed that the social media giant would push back if it faced su...
Facebook's owner, Meta, has been fined €1.2bn (£1bn) for mishandling people's data when transferring it between Europe and the United States. Issued by Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC), it is the largest fine imposed...
Facebook users around the world have been waking up to find themselves locked out of their accounts for no apparent reason. The message many received reads: "Your Facebook account was disabled because it did not follow our C...
The first game developer signed up to test Facebook's plan to put adverts into Oculus VR games has reversed course after a backlash from players. It comes days after Facebook announced it would place adverts inside players' heads...
Facebook Inc has suspended former US President Donald Trump's Facebook and Instagram accounts for two years. He was barred indefinitely from both sites in January in the wake of posts he made on the US Capitol riots, but last mon...
Facebook became the latest social media platform to crack down on the fringe far-right conspiracy group known as QAnon on Wednesday afternoon. \"We’ve removed over 790 groups, 100 Pages and 1,500 ads tied to QAnon from Facebook, b...
Facebook and Twitter have penalised US President Donald Trump and his campaign for posts in which he claimed children are "almost immune" to coronavirus. Facebook deleted the post - a clip from an interview he gave to Fox News - sa...
An advertising boycott of Facebook continues to grow, and Mark Zuckerberg shows no sign of backing down....
Boycotts can be extremely effective - as Facebook is finding out. In the late 18th century, the abolitionist movement encouraged British people to stay away from goods produced by slaves. It worked. Around 300,000 stopped buying sugar - incr...
Facebook has said that a software issue was responsible for posts on topics including coronavirus being wrongly marked as spam. The social media giant's head of safety said: \"This is a bug in an anti-spam system.\" The statement wa...
A Facebook page that seemed to be sharing local news in North Carolina is a textbook example of a disinformation campaign, BBC News has been told. The site accumulated more than 50,000 followers in less than a month but also raised suspicion...
After five major payments providers pulled out last week, Facebook’s Libra currency project looked to be on the rocks. But the remaining members have insisted it’s full steam ahead. The 21 founding companies in the Libra Associa...
Facebook has announced a breakthrough in its plan to create a device that allows people to type just by thinking. It has funded a study that developed machine-learning algorithms capable of turning brain activity into speech It worked on ep...
Social media groups which encouraged support for UK political parties in the build up to the European elections were targets for fake news and polarising content with links to the far right, a Newsnight investigation has found. Closed Facebo...
Facebook has imposed a ban on a dozen far-right individuals and organisations that it says "spread hate". The ban includes the British National Party and Nick Griffin, the English Defence League and the National Front. The list al...
US presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren says she'd consider dismantling the tech giants should she ever get the top job. But is this really necessary or even possible? A growing chorus of people think the big beasts of the tech wo...
Facebook has said that a "server configuration change" was to blame for the worst outage in its history. It said it had "triggered a cascading series of issues" for its platforms, including WhatsApp and Instagram. The di...
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Facebook needs far stricter regulation, with tough and urgent action necessary to end the spread of disinformation on its platform, MPs have said. A Commons committee has concluded that the firm's founder Mark Zuckerberg failed to show "...
The co-founders of photo-sharing giant Instagram, Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, are both leaving the firm. Mr Systrom, chief executive, said they were departing to "explore our curiosity and creativity again". Instagram was purchased by...