Tobacco companies and vendors are making use of Facebook to market and sell their products, including to children under 18, a study has found. The research by Stanford University's Medical School found tobacco and e-cigarette companies making extensive use of unpaid or “organic” marketing to … Read More

MENLO PARK, Calif. (AP) – Facebook says it has suspended a Canadian political consulting firm amid media reports it had ties to Cambridge Analytica, a British data mining company accused of obtaining data from up to 87 million Facebook users to sway elections. Menlo Park, California-based … Read More

Denham's office is combing through evidence it gathered at the offices of Cambridge Analytica during searches last month following reports that the political consulting firm had obtained swathes of data from a researcher who transferred the data without Facebook's permission. Denham has said that … Read More

The former Cambridge Analytica staffer who blew the whistle on the company's misuse of users' Facebook data said it's possible that many more than the reported 87 million profiles were accessed. “I think that it could be higher. Absolutely,” said Cambridge Analytica co-founder Christopher Wylie when … Read More

Battered by media reports that it "secretly" deleted CEO Mark Zuckerberg's posts from his recipients' inboxes, Facebook is now planning to make its "Unsend" feature available to its over two billion users in coming months. According to a report in technology website Tech Crunch on Saturday, unless the … Read More

Some of the information improperly harvested from Facebook Inc. users might be stored in Russia, said the former employee of Cambridge Analytica who blew … Wylie said it was difficult to verify how many people had access to the Facebook information or derivatives of that data “because it was a …

Facebook will soon let you unsend that embarrassing message you wish you'd never written. The social network said Friday it would give users the ability to delete their messages after CEO Mark Zuckerberg and a few other high-ranking executives were found to have the feature and secretly deleted … Read More

On Thursday, TechCrunch reported that Facebook executives have long been able to delete their sent messages, a feature that's never been available to the public. The company, by now well-practiced in crisis management, quickly followed up with an apology and an announcement that everyone who … Read More

Facebook is great for connecting with friends and family, sharing memories and having a good laugh. But there are plenty of things it doesn't get right. You've been hearing about the Cambridge Analytica scandal all over the news recently, and it probably feels a bit like déjà vu, as we've …

With the wounds from the Cambridge Analytica data scandal still raw, Facebook has banned another third-party company from its platform over the improper use of data – this time it's Canadian political consulting firm AggregateIQ. As with Cambridge Analytica, the charge is that AggregateIQ used data … Read More