Bad news for network television: 2017 seems to have been the first year where digital advertising significantly eroded the growth of traditional TV advertising. That is to say, Google and Facebook–commanding most of the marketplace–grew their ad businesses to new heights last year, as TV ad dollars … Read More

Today, Facebook issued an apology after users discovered that the platform's search box was suggesting searches for child abuse videos and underaged girls performing sex acts. On Thursday night, Twitter user @BennettJonah noticed that typing in “video of…” in the search bar would autocomplete to … Read More

An unnamed employee said he was called into a meeting last year under the guise of a promotion and found himself in front of Facebook's investigative team armed with proof he'd been leaking to the press. The investigative team had records of screenshots the employee had taken and links he …

What on earth have people been watching on the social network? (Credit: Metro.co.uk). Facebook has been accused of showing people shocking sexist autocomplete results whenever someone types in the phrase 'videos of…'. Anyone who bashes out these words was shown the phrase 'videos of girl … Read More

Facebook has released a scaled-down version of its smartphone app that will be able to run on 2G networks. Facebook Lite has been available in developing countries since June 2015 and was launched as a test product for eight countries including Vietnam, Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe. According to … Read More

Facebook has apologized to users after its search bar suggested results including “video of girl sucking dick under water” and “video of little girl sucking.” The U.S social networking giant says it is now investigating the matter. On Thursday, multiple images posted to Twitter appeared to show the … Read More

A senior Facebook executive has admitted that the site can have "negative consequences" after the United Nations accused the social network of fuelling hatred against the Rohingya minority in Burma. "Connecting the world isn't always going to be a good thing, sometimes it's going to have negative … Read More

WhatsApp can't share user data with parent Facebook without breaking the upcoming General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), so it won't. It's signed a public commitment not to share personal data with Facebook until data protection concerns are addressed. No harm, no foul, no fine, the … Read More

In a little more than two months, Facebook, Inc. (Nasdaq: FB) and other major internet companies that rely heavily on user data collection and analysis will face one of their biggest regulatory challenges in history. On May 25, the General Data Protection Regulation goes into effect, and analysts are still … …

… on slower wireless networks. Facebook's lightweight messaging app, Messenger Lite, launched in the U.S. several months ago. … Today, the social network revealed that the Facebook Lite app is now available to download in the U.S., along with other developed markets. Facebook Lite first launched … Read More