There's no way to sugarcoat this message: Facebook's founder Mark Zuckerberg believes North America users of his platform deserve a lower data protection standard than people everywhere else in the world. In a phone interview with Reuters yesterday Mark Zuckerberg declined to commit to … Read More

Morgan Stanley cut its price target on Facebook shares to $200 from $230 on Wednesday, citing concerns about the social media company's ad sales because of its data scandal. "Following FB's recent data/privacy issues and its announcement that it will end partnerships with third party data providers, … Read More

The House Energy and Commerce Committee announced today that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will testify before the committee on April 11th at 10AM ET. He'll answer questions about his company's use and protection of user data. CNN and Bloomberg previously reported that he'd testify, but the … Read More

In the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal which saw some 50 million Facebook users' personal information collected by a data analytics firm without their knowledge, the social network's CEO stopped short of promising to extending the privacy protection that it will afford to users in the European … Read More

But a recent study has found that Facebook may not be so pernicious after all. A team at the University of Queensland gleaned the alarming conclusion that extended periods of time away from Facebook may actually cause a decline in life satisfaction, with the inverse being true for regular users. …

Facebook is rolling out stronger privacy protections to users ahead of the introduction of Europe's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), but Mark Zuckerberg will not promise all future changes will apply to the company's American users. Although the initial tranche of changes, announced last … Read More

SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook said Tuesday that it removed more than 200 Facebook pages and Instagram accounts controlled by the Russian organization that had meddled in the U.S. 2016 presidential election, most of which were in Russian, a sign that manipulation on Facebook continued months … Read More

In a post, Facebook's CEO said, "Most of our actions against the IRA to date have been to prevent them from interfering in foreign elections. This update is about taking down their pages targeting people living in Russia. This Russian agency has repeatedly acted deceptively and tried to manipulate … Read …

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Facebook Inc (FB.O) Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said on Tuesday that he agreed “in spirit” with a strict new European Union law on data privacy but stopped short of committing to it as the standard for the social network across the world. Read More

"People said they felt more unsatisfied with their life, and were looking forward to resuming their Facebook activity." Vanman says it's the social disconnect of being off Facebook that could be leading to the lower levels of reported well-being. Quitting Facebook temporarily can be good to escape the … Read More