Millions of Facebook users filed claims in a recent privacy settlement after the platform was accused of mishandling user data. The approved payouts have been rolling out, which means people are ...

Facebook will soon begin issuing payments to millions of users as part of a $725 million settlement over claims that the social media platform misused user data. The settlement stems from several ...

UPDATE: Documents filed in a California court are giving us a better idea of how big individual payouts will be in the $725 million class action lawsuit over Facebook users’ privacy. Read more about ...

The realization that Facebook is broken appears to have finally creeped all the way to the top. “We’ve heard you,” a Thursday blog post from the company began. “Facebook Feed doesn’t always serve up ...

LUZERN, Switzerland, Feb. 13, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Profila is revolutionizing the advertising industry by eliminating data-harvesting middlemen and redirecting ad revenues straight to users. With ...

Facebook wants to woo more younger users to join its social network, instead of spending all their time on TikTok, Instagram, and other social apps. To do so, parent company Meta on Friday announced a ...

Facebook is the most popular social network globally, according to Statista, with close to 3.1 billion users worldwide as of July. But the platform, owned by Meta, has been banned in a number of ...

If you could get a penny for every new scam online, you’d be on your way to becoming rich. If you got a penny for every person who has had their account hacked on Facebook, you’d be doubly rich. Not ...

Christopher Blair, a renowned “liberal troll” who posts falsehoods to Facebook, is having a banner year despite crackdowns by Facebook and growing competition from A.I. By Stuart A. Thompson Stuart ...

Earlier this year, three of the popular Meta apps, Instagram, Facebook, and Threads, faced a huge outage that resulted in users getting logged out of their accounts ...

Anurag's interest in technology was sparked around 15 years ago when he first tried a Nokia smartphone, one of those Windows-powered devices. Having only used feature phones up until then, he was ...

In an excerpt from Broken Code: Inside Facebook and the Fight to Expose its Harmful Secrets, Jeff Horwitz reveals how the company came to rely on artificial intelligence. The following is excerpted ...