Facebook's terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week continues. Though the social network's “contact import” feature has been around for a very, very long time, you've probably forgotten about it. And if you want keep Facebook from filling in the gaps by collecting data about your friends from you—or … Read …

This week is already shaping up to be another rough one for Facebook. This morning, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), a bipartisan federal agency designed to protect consumers and promote competition, is investigating the embattled company. Rumblings of such an investigation began March 20, … Read More

Then, on Saturday, in response to a story from enthusiast site Tesla Motor Club reporting the news, Musk said deleting the pages was not an effort to make a public comment about Facebook, nor was it any response to a dare. Instead, he says he deleted the pages for Tesla …

The US Federal Trade Commission is to investigate Facebook over how data on millions of users was grabbed by Cambridge Analytica. The social network has been criticised for letting the data analysis firm scoop up data on 50 million users. The information is believed to have been used to help … …

Facebook's privacy practices have come under fire after revelations in the Observer that Cambridge Analytica got data on Facebook users, including information on friends of people who had downloaded a psychological quiz app, even though those friends had not given explicit consent to sharing. Read More

If it isn't already obvious that Facebook is a money-making dynamo, consider how it stacks up with digital ad rival Alphabet Inc., the parent of Google. Facebook's gross margin was 87 percent last year, and its net income margin was 39 percent. That compares with 59 percent and 11 percent, …

Facebook has announced that it's rolling out more local news on users' feeds through a tweak to its algorithms. The change was initially only in the US beginning in January, but today, Facebook is expanding its efforts to all countries and languages. It's an effort to try to promote less …

The FTC had declined to confirm last week that it was investigating Facebook and whether it violated a consent decree the tech company signed with the agency in 2011. Facebook is facing questions of its data handling following reports that research firm Cambridge Analytica improperly gained access … Read More

American users trust other tech companies far more with their data than Facebook, according to a poll conducted by Reuters. The poll surveyed 2,237 adults from the US about their social media use and trust in tech companies over obeying government data privacy policies. Reuters' survey found that … Read More

Separately, new signs of the growing split among tech companies emerged this weekend, as Apple's Tim Cook called for “well crafted” regulations in light of revelations involving use of Facebook data in the election. And Elon Musk went further, deleting Tesla and SpaceX Facebook accounts. Last month … Read More