Grab your pitchfork, fellow human. We have a new villain to run out of town, and its name is Facebook. It's selling our data, monitoring our phone calls, and, perhaps worst of all, doesn't even seem to feel that bad about it. But before you set your torch ablaze delete …

Tobacco products are promoted across Facebook despite policies the social media platform employs to prevent that, Stanford University researchers found. The Stanford team found "widespread" tobacco promotion and sales across Facebook. Some e-cigarette pages show product photos and lists of … Read More

It's probably safe to assume Zuckerberg would have known about any such discussions among his fellow directors, so take his answer to mean: no, Facebook's board has heard the calls for the appointment of an independent chair, from New York City's pension fund for example, and decided to ignore … Read …

Facebook leadership is still grappling with the ongoing Cambridge Analytica data privacy scandal, but that doesn't mean the quest to destroy Snapchat has taken a break. According to TechCrunch, the company is currently testing three new features for its ephemeral messaging Stories product that aim … Read More

Facebook began speaking with hospitals last year about the possibility of matching anonymized user profiles with health data in an effort to improve medical care, according to a CNBC report exposing the program. Facebook confirmed its work to CNBC but said it had hit “pause” on the program last … Read …

As investors, we worry about the amount of revenue Facebook could lose and the increased money it must spend to police and monitor its site. Facebook's stock is now down about 20 percent from its Feb. 1 peak, meaning that the company has lost over $120 billion of market value, …

Mark Zuckerberg doesn't want to run Facebook on his own anymore. In the aftermath of the Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal, he told Recode he was “fundamentally uncomfortable” making some policy decisions. Later, he outlined an idea for an independent Facebook “supreme court” that could … Read More

Facebook was in talks with top hospitals and other medical groups as recently as last month about a proposal to share data about the social networks of their most vulnerable patients. The idea was to build profiles of people that included their medical conditions, information that health systems have, … Read …

After years of promising publishers a deluge of eyeballs, Facebook is deprioritizing news and business posts in users' News Feeds and helping to edge fake news and toxic content out of its system. In addition to its newest challenges with Cambridge Analytica — which is a separate situation, but not … …

The revelations that personal data from tens of millions of users of the world's largest social network had been harvested and used allegedly in breach of Facebook's terms, as first reported by the New York Times and the Observer last month, previously triggered a 16 per cent slump in Facebook …