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 ...

Snapchat's user growth worldwide has been climbing, fueled by India and Pakistan, but investor confidence in the company has ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Snapchat invented the Stories format of sharing pictures and videos that disappear. Now the company is indicating ...

The lawsuits accuse the social media platforms with causing mental health problems in minors. As many companies are shielded from lawsuits thanks to Section 230, the new lawsuits may get around the ...

Snapchat has become the second platform to implement age verification measures in Australia, ahead of the social media minimum age act (SMMA) coming into effect on December 10.Starting this week, ...

Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee at the Dirksen Senate Office Building on January 31, 2024 in Washington, DC. In 2016, Facebook launched a secret project ...