In 2004, when Mark Zuckerberg was a Harvard undergrad working on a skunkworks project called The Facebook, a friend asked him how he'd managed to obtain more than 4,000 emails, photos and other bits of personal info from fellow students. “People just submitted it. I don't know why. They 'trust …

Facebook Watch might have ambitions to take on TV, but many of the successful shows in the video-viewing section still owe a ton of debt to the short, news feed videos that Facebook initially popularized. Take, for instance, “Destination Debunkers,” a travel show from Insider that is one of 10 … …

Facebook users angered by recent privacy scandals involving the social media giant and various consulting firms like Cambridge Analytica may be wondering what legal recourse they have to reclaim their data or protect themselves from data manipulation. Unfortunately, while Facebook's actions may … Read More

Zuckerberg's resignation would hit the reset button on Facebook and allow for a pivot even more momentous than the post-IPO move from desktop to mobile. Facebook has gone way too far in terms of treating its users as eyeballs to be manipulated and monetized, and it needs to address the …

Facebook users in large numbers are downloading the data the platform has on them after the Cambridge Analytica revelations, and the added scrutiny has revealed the company also tracks text and calls on Android phones. And now, reports indicate that unposted “draft” videos were saved on the … Read More

Facebook has been caught archiving videos users thought they had deleted. The New York Magazine flagged the problem to the company last week, after a user downloaded their Facebook archive and was surprised to discover multiple takes of a video they had thought had been discarded at the time … Read …

The avatars also will move more naturally with improved body movements and appear more present through better lighting and shadows. The changes come nearly one year after Facebook Spaces was first announced at the F8 developer conference in 2017, initially supporting the Oculus Rift headset. Read More

Facebook has confirmed a TechCrunch report that it is developing a tool for advertisers to verify they have gained consent to use email addresses uploaded via Custom Audiences. Facebook's Custom Audiences make it possible for advertisers to target users on its platform by uploading lists of emails, … Read More

SINGAPORE: Acknowledging Facebook's role in fuelling anti-Rohingya propaganda in Myanmar, the social media giant's chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said that people had been trying to use Facebook's tools to "incite real harm" in the region. Speaking to news site Vox in an interview released on … Read More

The beleaguered technology giant apologised for its newest privacy breach today after users discovered Facebook had saved and stored videos that hadn't been published on its website. The issue affected several users who downloaded an archive of all information they had shared to the social … Read More