Facebook Inc. Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg outlined the ways she's responding to a data-privacy crisis, saying for the first time that some advertisers have curtailed spending and acknowledging her team has a long way to go to reassure wary customers. “We've seen a few advertisers pause … Read More

Facebook Inc. (FB) now says the number of people whose information was “improperly shared” with British data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica is 87 million. Earlier, the company had claimed that 50 million users were affected by the data breach. For its part, Cambridge Analytica disputed … Read More

You can't remove Facebook messages from the inboxes of people you sent them to, but Facebook did that for Mark Zuckerberg and other executives. Three sources confirm to TechCrunch that old Facebook messages they received from Zuckerberg have disappeared from their Facebook inboxes, while … Read More

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg echoed CEO Mark Zuckerberg's rhetoric on Thursday, by taking personal responsibility for letting third parties access Facebook user data without permission. "I feel deeply personally responsible, because a lot of mistakes were made," Sandberg said in an interview with … Read More

When asked about how many advertisers had paused their ad spending, Sandberg would only get as specific as saying that “a few” had done so, leaving plenty of room for interpretation. She told Bloomberg that Facebook was engaged in “reassuring conversations” with advertisers with concerns about … Read More

Civil society groups in Myanmar have warned Mark Zuckerberg that Facebook was “being used to incite real harm” in the country and that its response had been “inadequate”. Six non-governmental organisations also disputed Mr Zuckerberg's account of how the company handled a string of false … Read More

In what might be the shortest time yet for an Onion headline to nearly mirror reality, Facebook has backed off plans to share sensitive info about your inner life with doctors and hospitals. And all it took was the company being embroiled in a cataclysmic data-sharing scandal. As first reported …

However, the groups, which have worked with Facebook to flag dangerous content, have revealed it took more than four days for the company to respond when the messages started circulating online during the Rohingya crisis. In an open letter addressed to Facebook's chief executive, they accused … Read More

The disclosure comes as Facebook's CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, and his company are under intense scrutiny after the Observer revealed that the personal data of millions of Americans – possibly as many as 87 million, at last count – had been harvested and improperly shared with the political data-mining … Read More

Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook's second-in-command, said she personally made “mistakes” and that the company had been too slow to respond after the discovery of a massive data leak to Cambridge Analytica, a data analytics firm that worked for the Trump campaign. In an interview with The Financial … Read More