Facebook users can verify their ID using a two-factor authentication with a texted code, but to verify the identity of political advertisers in the U.S., Facebook will soon be resorting to a more old-school method: snail mail. Over the weekend, Facebook said that advertisers taking out an ad that mentions …

Two Johnson County women serving life sentences in connection to the so-called Facebook murders are working in a call center inside the Tennessee Prison for Women, according to the Tennessee Department of Correction. Barbara and Jenelle Potter are making $1.25 per hour making phone calls, … Read More

The indictment singled out Facebook as a particularly powerful way to manipulate U.S. citizens with fake pages, posts and highly targeted ad campaigns. Facebook says it's hiring more people to address security and that it will do things like send postcards to verify that potential ad buyers live in the … …

The document was 37 pages, and it mentioned Facebook 35 times. It detailed how Russian operatives used the platform to push memes, plan rallies, create fake accounts, suppress the vote, foment racism, and more. As Fred Vogelstein and I wrote for the March cover of WIRED, Facebook has had a … …

Facebook has released a new type of timeline post that allows users to create and publish personal lists. Lists can be about anything— to-do lists, top 10 lists, bucket lists, lists of dream travel destinations, and so on. This feature was first spotted last month, but TechCrunch is now reporting …

In the face of increasing public pressure to address election fraud, Facebook has come up with a novel way to check who's buying advertising on its site – snail mail. As the Zuckerborg's shine rapidly fades, and governments and users wake up to the effects it has had on society, …

There's over a 30% chance that you have a Facebook account. It's that simple. According to the famous blue group, more than 2 billion people worldwide have a profile on the most popular social network ever, i.e., almost a third of the world population has an account there. Not bad, …

This is one of Facebook's key points: pornography is completely prohibited. The social network states that images of a sexual nature are restricted on its platform, whether explicit or not. So, there's no chance of erotic photography. Likewise, and this is noteworthy, Facebook doesn't allow pornographic … Read More

A Belgian court has ordered Facebook to stop tracking people without their consent and to delete all the data on non-Facebook users that it said was collected illegally, the BBC reported on Friday. The social network could face fines of up to $311,000 a day — up to $125 million …

Mark Zuckerberg has not been oblivious to these criticisms. While some consider him guilty of an initial period of denial, he is now intensely focused on navigating the regulatory, competitive and business model implications of addressing Facebook's current deficiencies. Wired recently chronicled his … Read More