By Stefanie Dodt, special to ProPublica, Jeff Larson and Julia Angwin, ProPublica On Sept. 15, nine days before the elections in Germany, the Green party...
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Facebook will soon be losing the woman behind its top secret Building 8 research group. Regina Dugan, who was hired 18 months ago by the social network to head...
Facebook has a new plan in place to attract younger users: Buy an app that they like. The social media site has purchased TBH, an app for teens that puts the...
The House Intelligence Committee has announced it will make public the Facebook ads purchased by Russian-backed groups to interfere in the 2016 U.S...
Britain is giving some serious thought to the regulation of Google and Facebook as news providers rather than as platforms. A spokesman for Prime...
Facebook will not be the only technology company to appear before a House Intelligence Committee to address Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential...
Facebook is bringing its considerable resources to Virginia. The social network will invest $1 billion in all in the Richmond region to build a data center as...
Facebook ads purchased by a Russian group to spread misinformation during the U.S. presidential race were seen by 10 million Americans both before and after...
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg got into the spirit of Yom Kippur with an apology to anyone hurt by his company in the past year. Zuckerberg, in a post to his...
By Julia Angwin, ProPublica Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg announced several steps recently to make political ads on the world’s largest social...
Facebook representatives will appear before the Senate to answer questions about Russia’s use of ads social networks to meddle in the U.S. presidential...
Facebook is adding more oversight to its ads targeting policies and tools in response to reports the social media site’s automated system enabled people...
By Julia Angwin, Madeleine Varner and Ariana Tobin, ProPublica Want to market Nazi memorabilia, or recruit marchers for a far-right rally? Facebook’s self...
Facebook has been slapped with yet another fine for allegedly collecting the data of its users. The social networking firm is under fire in Spain for...
Facebook is going after YouTube in a big way. The social media giant is reportedly willing to sink as much as $1 billion into original programming for its new...