Facebook Inc., aiming to seize the high ground before Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg faces Congress next week, announced changes to its advertising policies that the social media giant says will make it harder for rogue operatives to set up fake accounts and push divisive points of view. Read More

Facebook will verify the identity of people running popular pages, as part of its continued efforts to stem fake news and propaganda. Chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said all “large” pages would be audited – any which did not clear the process would be prevented from posting. The move is designed …

It's becoming common to say that Mark Zuckerberg is coming under fire, but the Facebook CEO is again being questioned, this time over a recent claim that Facebook's internal monitoring system is able to thwart attempts to use its services to incite hatred. Speaking to Vox, Zuckerberg used the example … …

Facebook messages that Mark Zuckerberg and other Facebook executives sent to other users on the social network were recently found to be deleted from those user's inboxes, TechCrunch reported Friday. Three unnamed sources speaking to TechCrunch said that messages they had previously … Read More

Facebook screwed over most of its users, and people are now waking up to the notion that the social network may not have had their best interests in mind after all. But Facebook's chief technical officer, Mike Schroepfer, assured the Financial Times that the company will now do more to …

Another data-point to flesh out the Facebook data misuse scandal: The company has informed the European Commission that a total of 2.7 million EU citizens had their information improperly shared with the controversial political consultancy, Cambridge Analytica (via Reuters). Facebook had already … Read More

TechCrunch reported last night that Facebook retracted Facebook messages sent by Mark Zuckerberg and other executives from their recipients' inboxes. That's an ability normal Facebook users don't have. But now Facebook tells me it plans to make an “unsend” feature available to all users in several … Read More

After TechCrunch reported that Facebook has been quietly deleting messages CEO Mark Zuckerberg has sent via Messenger, the company is now saying that the ability to retract messages will soon be available to all Messenger users. According to TechCrunch, an “unsend” feature is coming in the next … Read More

Facebook doesn't allow users to delete or retract messages they've sent to someone by Facebook Messenger–that is unless you are the company's CEO or a top exec. The company has deleted some messages sent by Zuckerberg to other Facebook users via Messenger or Facebook's chat tools going … Read More

Right now, when Facebook apps request access to your information, it's generally posed an ultimatum: “Give us all the data we're asking for, or don't use us at all.” And historically, that data could be dipped into, and copied, whenever an app wanted (though Facebook is discontinuing at least some …