In 2016, Facebook launched a secret project designed to intercept and decrypt the network traffic between people using Snapchat’s app and its servers. The goal was to understand users’ behavior and ...

Update 6-17-2014: While we’ve already caught a glimpse of Facebook’s Snapchat competitor, called Slingshot, when the social networking giant accidentally released (and then pulled) it on the iTunes ...

Facebook spied on some Snapchat users’ traffic data from 2016 through 2019 using a tool installed on their phones, according to newly released court documents from an antitrust lawsuit against the Bay ...

Unsealed court filings reveal Meta's secret plan, "Project Ghostbusters," to acquire valuable intel about Snapchat through its users' devices. Reading time: Reading time 2 minutes Meta has lots of ...

Facebook secretly looked at user data to help better understand how users behave on competitor sites, according to documents released by a federal court in California. The documents, unsealed on ...

Australia will roll out one of the world’s strictest online safety rules on December 10, deactivating Instagram and Facebook accounts of users under 16 unless they have parental permission.

Mark Zuckerberg himself is allegedly supervising the creation of Slingshot, Facebook's direct competitor to Snapchat. After a failed attempt to purchase Snapchat last year for $3 billion, it only ...

Snap Inc. operates the Snapchat app, a leading social media platform with strong user engagement and innovative features. The investment thesis surrounding Snap is relying on its consistent user ...

The Snap Inc. company was able to do just a bit better than analyst expectations on its key metrics.