Large institutional investors are ramping up their calls for governance reforms at Facebook Inc. following revelations that Cambridge Analytica, a data-mining company that was a digital consultant to Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, harvested the personal data of about 87 million users. Read More

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg appeared before the House Commerce Committee on April 11 to explain his company's part in the Cambridge Analytica data-breach scandal. The story broke on March 17 that Cambridge Analytica, a “strategic communications” consultancy, had harvested information … Read More

Outrage that Facebook made the private data of over 87 million of its U.S. users available to the Trump campaign has stoked fears of big US-based technology companies are tracking our every move and misusing our personal data to manipulate us without adequate transparency, oversight, … Read More

There was a message from investors during the two days of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg's testimony to Congress last week: in both of the sessions Facebook stock increased in value despite the fears of possible regulation by the government of this extraordinary digital giant. At the same time the … Read …

Confused about Facebook's new privacy rules? Don't sweat it — there are ways around them. That's the take from several leading digital political advertisers — including one Democrat and the other two Republican — who privately say they've already been finding and exploiting loopholes in … Read More

The most likely outcome of Facebook's current scandal continues to be that nothing will happen, for all of the inherent lethargy in our political system noted above. And, if something does, European-style data regulation seems the more likely outcome, as I noted last month. No wonder Facebook's stock … Read More

Advertiser spending on Facebook was up by an average of 43pc year-on-year over the weeks following the data row, according to advertising analysts. Since the revelations, several major advertising groups have threatened to boycott Facebook if it doesn't offer better user privacy controls. The details of … Read More

John Ounpuu is co-owner of Modern Craft, a Vancouver-based marketing consultancy focused on helping brands keep pace with modern customers. It's tempting to feel a little schadenfreude for Mark Zuckerberg. After all, who doesn't find a bit of secret joy in watching the powerful squirm. And Facebook … Read More

Almost all of Facebook's 2.2 billion users (11 million in Australia) are, given the recent privacy scandal, aware that they are the product – and that they pay with their time and data for using the world's biggest social network. But it's likely almost none of them have read Facebook's …

Many of the questions from conservative members of Congress centered on Facebook's move to suppress the page of the pro-President Donald Trump digital media personalities known as “Diamond & Silk,” two North Carolina sisters whose real names are Lynette Hardaway and Rochelle Richardson. Read More