Facebook plans to let users delete messages they have sent from the inboxes of other users. This feature carries the big risk of enabling abuse:Experts told Business Insider it could be used to hide evidence of harassment and to gaslight victims. The feature was announced shortly after it was revealed … …

SAN FRANCISCO • Facebook is planning to let users of its Messenger application retract messages, after chief executive Mark Zuckerberg reportedly used an early version of the feature without telling anyone. News site TechCrunch reported late last Thursday that multiple people had seen Messenger … Read More

The scandal surrounding Cambridge Analytica is causing continuous problems for Facebook. in the lead-up to Mark Zuckerberg's testimony before Congress, Tech Crunch reports that Sen. Ron Wyden(D-OR) warned that Facebook could be be broken up if Zuckerberg doesn't take steps to protect users' … Read More

Former Cambridge Analytica Director of Research Christopher Wylie — who blew the whistle on the company's possession of millions of Facebook users' data — told the British Parliament that AggregateIQ helped Cambridge Analytica target British voters on behalf of the Brexit Vote Leave campaign. Read More

In January, I told the British authorities that the app that was used to harvest data for Cambridge Analytica was likely to have pulled the profiles of British Facebook users. Last week Facebook confirmed it: it told the world that as many as 87 million profiles were collected. This included …

In the beginning, Facebook didn't really have a business model. But because providing free services costs money, it urgently needed one. This necessity became the mother of invention: although in the beginning Zuckerberg (like the two Google co-founders, incidentally) despised advertising, in the end … Read More

Facebook Messenger is a juggernaut, with more than 1.2 billion users. Chances are your family and friends have it installed on their phones. That makes it incredibly useful — after all, the value of any messaging app is directly tied to how many of your contacts also use it. And …

Pressure has been mounting on Facebook and its leadership to make big privacy changes in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal—in which it lost control over extensive data on what it now says are 87 million users—and after weeks of hedging and minor tweaks around the margins, the … Read …

In an interview with NBC's Today show, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg said that users who wished to entirely stop the social media platform from making money from their personal data would have to pay for the privilege, if the option were to be made available. “Could you come up with …

"In light of recent reports that AggregateIQ may be affiliated with SCL and may, as a result, have improperly received FB user data, we have added them to the list of entities we have suspended from our platform while we investigate," a Facebook spokesperson said in a statement provided to …