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 ...

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 ...