Facebook shows off major redesign coming to iOS and desktop including dark mode for web, Instagram getting new ‘Create Mode,’ more

Facebook has said it will set aside $3bn (£2.3bn) to cover the potential costs of an investigation by US authorities into its privacy practices.

All Facebook-owned social media platforms went down across parts of the US, Europe and Asia on Sunday, raising concerns about the social network’s stranglehold on billions of users.

Netflix CEO Reed Hastings has departed from Facebook’s board of directors, the social media company said Friday.

Snapchat has to toe a fine line to protect user privacy

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday warned France to drop plans for a tax on digital giants such as Facebook and Apple, saying it would hurt American business.

The tech giant extended its ban on hate speech to speech that promoted or supported white nationalism and white separatism.

Researchers found two third-party Facebook app developers had been storing user data on a publicly accessible Amazon Web Services server.

In the wake of the New Zealand shootings, Facebook has announced it will no longer allow “praise, support and representation of white nationalism and separatism” on its site.

Facebook left millions of user passwords readable by its employees for years, the company admitted after a security researcher exposed the lapse.

Social-media portals pledge to take down footage of shooting Platforms under pressure to curb spread of hate, violence

Facebook first acknowledged the problems in a tweet Wednesday at 1:49 p.m. ET

Facebook has confirmed it is aware of outages on its platforms including Facebook, Messenger and Instagram.

Democratic White House candidate says she would appoint regulators to break up tech giants
She says Facebook's Instagram purchase, Amazon buying Wholefoods and Google buying Waze are all examples of competition being stifled
Writes in blog post: 'They've bulldozed competition, used our private information for profit, and tilted the playing field against everyone else.'
Is appearing at town hall in Long Island City, Queens, New York, where Amazon canceled plans for HQ2

With the swelling confidence of a colonial power happening upon a long-settled distant land, today Mark Zuckerberg discovered the concept of privacy.

Connecting with friends, spying on ex boyfriends and even sizing up a potential new employee - comes at a cost. Facebook has now pulled the venture. 

Facebook turns 15 today and to reflect on how the world has changed since Mark Zuckerberg first dreamt up what would become a scandal-plagued global behemoth, RT looks back at some of its biggest controversies.

Documents released by a British parliamentary committee have revealed that the social media giant gave companies, including Netflix and Airbnb, access to users’ data.

One article currently being promoted on Facebook through NTK Network’s page promotes the page as having “the latest stories without the liberal bias,” according to Facebook’s publicly available ad index.

BEHIND the Facebook feed you see, are people tasked with the unthinkable. This is the job nobody wants to acknowledge exists.