Well before the election of Donald Trump forced Facebook to acknowledge its potential as a means of influencing US politics, its executives were already receiving early warnings from south-east Asia. As reported in today's FT Big Read from John Reed and Hannah Kuchler, the populist Rodrigo Duterte … Read More

Facebook is now expanding a test it started last year to all US users, and the result will be more background information and a useful overview of the publishers and articles you see appear in your News Feed — after the meaningful stuff from friends and family, of course. “We're …

Lots of people use their Facebook account to log into websites, as a convenient alternative to usernames and passwords. But as the Cambridge Analytica scandal showed us, these apps can be privacy-harming nightmares with repercussions far beyond the digital borders of the world's biggest social … Read More

Nine months ago, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg had a conversation with a journalist about privacy on his behemoth social media platform. Now, in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica data scandal, his words seem both ironic and prescient. "Of course, privacy is extremely important, and … Read More

If you've been dying to send your contacts sweet HD videos, then you'll be happy to learn Facebook is finally improving the quality of pictures and videos you fire off onMessenger. Now you can feel free to bombard your friends with all the 360 photos they can handle. For those …

Ever since news broke of Cambridge Analytica's harvesting and misuse of Facebook user data, numerous politicians, technologists, and everyday people have offered opinions on how best to respond. Many have suggested users leave the platform; others have called for government regulation. Read More

Despite some recent controversy, Facebook is a $450 billion social media behemoth with over 1.4 billion daily users. But what if Facebook never caught on? What would CEO and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg have done with his life if another social network, say MySpace, ruled the online world? "I would … Read …

Facebook continues to deal with the fallout of the Cambridge Analytica files, announcing policy changes and bug fixes aimed at undoing some of the company's more controversial data collection features. On Monday, Facebook apologised for storing draft videos which users had filmed and then deleted, … Read More

As part of a damage-control press tour following the Cambridge Analytica revelations, Zuckerberg spoke to Vox's Ezra Klein on a podcast that aired April 2. In the interview, Klein and the Facebook founder discuss a claim Zuckerberg made in a separate interview several years earlier: that in many ways, … Read …

As Klein points out, Facebook's failures have consequences on par with government failures. The integrity of elections is threatened; violence is incited; and key communication channels are jammed by bad actors. In America and many other countries, much of this activity goes unregulated by the … Read More