“You're asking a really important question.” “It's such a good question.” “Those are fair questions, and I think those are real questions.” When Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg talks to journalists these days, she frequently praises their questions — and then proceeds not to answer them, instead talking … Read More

Facebook's chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, will face two days of congressional hearings over the company's mishandling of user data. Facebook said the sensitive data of an estimated 87 million of its users had been improperly harvested by the political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica, which was … Read More

Facebook has suspended another data analysis firm for violating its policies in the wake of a scandal that alleges millions of users' personal information was misused. Data analytics firm CubeYou, which collected information about users through personality quizzes, was suspended Sunday for … Read More

Facebook has booted AggregateIQ, the Canadian election consulting firm that built data tools for sketchy election firm Cambridge Analytica, this week on the grounds that it may have received some of the extensive data on 87 million Facebook users the latter company received through a partnership … Read More

“My biggest worry with all this is that the privacy issue and what I call the propagandist issue are both too big for Facebook to fix, and that's the frightening part,” Senator John Kennedy said on CBS's Face the Nation. Asked if lawmakers need to seek regulations on Facebook, Kennedy …

Previewing Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's testimony before Congress this week, Wired editor-in-chief and CBS News Contributor Nicholas Thompson says that the billionaire has received an "education" in the wake of the 2016 election and ongoing privacy concerns for users on his social media … Read More

Facebook, however, disputed the implication that it can't exercise proper oversight over these types of apps, telling CNBC that it can't control information that companies mislabel. Upon being notified of CubeYou's alleged violations, Facebook said it would suspend all CubeYou's apps until a further audit … Read More

Hacked UK-based Facebook and Twitter accounts are being sold online for as little as one pound, a Sunday Telegraph investigation has found as experts warn the social media profiles are being used to peddle hate. The hijacked accounts have either not been active for a while, so the user may …

Joel Kjellgren, data centre manager, walks in one of the server rooms at the new Facebook Data Centre in Lulea, Sweden. At some point during the past few years, a person or group probably landed on your Facebook page and gathered the data that was public. (Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP/Getty Images). Read …

TOBACCO PRODUCTS ARE being marketed and sold through unpaid content on Facebook, despite the social media company having policy that restricts or prohibits the promotion of such items. Facebook policy says it doesn't allow for paid tobacco advertisements but researchers from the Stanford … Read More