After a hearing last year, Facebook informed the Senate Judiciary Committee that about 1.8 million people had followed Facebook pages associated with a Russian entity that was especially active around the presidential election of 2016. But an academic who specializes in social media data says … Read More

After finally agreeing to testify before Congress last week, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg heads to Capitol Hill Tuesday and Wednesday to answer for his company's recent troubles. Expect him to address Facebook's privacy policies, the Cambridge Analytica fiasco that ensnared the data of 87 million … Read More

A group of 50 human rights activists and independent media groups in Vietnam have written to Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's chief executive, accusing the social media platform of working with communist authorities to take down content and suspend accounts. The open letter, released early on Tuesday … Read More

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 for more … Read …

One of Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook co-founders has expressed his surprise that the under-fire chief executive had not already been challenged on the company's data and privacy policies, as Mr Zuckerberg prepares to testify before Congress over the Cambridge Analytica data leak. Chris Hughes, one … Read More

Ten New Zealanders who downloaded an app on Facebook could have exposed up to 63,714 of their compatriots to the data mining tactics of Cambridge Analytica. Facebook has told the country's privacy commissioner that it is in the process of alerting New Zealanders who were affected by the breach, … Read …

It came weeks after the regulatory body was granted a warrant to search Cambridge Analytica's (CA) headquarters in London, the political consulting firm at the heart of the data leak scandal. But how were they able to access and harness Facebook users' data for their political partners and clients, and … …

His conciliatory tone in written testimony precedes two days of Congressional hearings, where Zuckerberg is set to answer questions about Facebook user data being improperly appropriated by a political consultancy and the role the network played in the U.S. 2016 election. "It's clear now that we didn't … Read More

Bill Nelson, D-Fla., met with the Facebook CEO for more than an hour on Monday ahead of Zuckerberg's Capitol Hill testimony Tuesday and Wednesday. Nelson, ranking member of the Senate Commerce Committee, called for more oversight of social media platforms to protect user data. "Because if we … Read More

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is testifying before Congress this week about how the platform was abused during the 2016 presidential election. But he's not in Washington, D.C., alone. Who are the Facebook executives and employees Zuckerberg brought as backup as he faces two days of intense … Read More