Facebook could have prevented billions of views on pages that shared misinformation related to the 2020 U.S. election, according to a new report released Tuesday, which slams the platform for ...

Before Facebook finally took action against former President Donald Trump’s account for inciting violence on January 6, it long allowed him to use the platform to push misinformation to a broad ...

Facebook has been spying on the private messages and data of American users and reporting them to the FBI if they express anti-government or anti-authority sentiments — or question the 2020 election — ...

News coverage in 2020 was dominated by a chaotic election cycle and a public health crisis, but the most widely shared news-related post on Facebook this year was a local news story about two missing ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. But in the meantime, I think it’s not too early to ask a related question: how did platforms handle the 2016 ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Facebook announced better-than-expected revenue Thursday for its third-quarter earnings, but saw a decline in its active users in the US over the ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is a senior tech and policy editor focused on online platforms and free expression. Adi has covered virtual and ...

EPS was $3.88 vs. the $3.16 analysts predicted. Revenue also surpassed consensus estimates. Monthly active users for Q4 were higher than predicted. Facebook predicts significant ad targeting headwinds ...

For years, social-media platforms had held firm: Just because a post was false didn’t mean it was their place to do anything about it. But 2020 changed their minds. As if to make clear how far things ...

SINGAPORE — For months, Bui Van Thuan, a chemistry teacher turned crusading blogger in Vietnam, published one scathing Facebook post after another on a land dispute between villagers and the communist ...