Report: Facebook Watch still searching for an audience to, you know, watch things
Ahead of Facebook debuting a lineup of programming next week from outlets like CNN and Fox that will live inside a Facebook Watch news section …
Facebook is using Messenger and WhatsApp to spot sketchy accounts and fake news
As organic reach has dwindled in Facebook’s main app, posts from brands have decreased and — at least theoretically — more room has been made …
Facebook’s News Feed is about to look a lot different thanks to augmented reality ads
At an event for reporters and marketers today in New York City, Facebook announced a new option it’s testing for advertisers, a way to use augmented …
Insiders say they designed social media to be ‘behavioral cocaine’
One of the recurring quotes often delivered with humorous resignation by a member of the Bluth family on Arrested Development was the perennially meme-able line, …
Facebook calls it quits on three apps it’s shutting down over low usage
Lately, it’s seemed like a lot of the news out of the world’s largest social network is over privacy flaps and glitches that tinker with …
Shocker: New report says Facebook owns four of the five most-downloaded iOS apps ever
With the tenth anniversary of the launch of the iOS App Store just around the corner, here comes a report released today from App Annie …
Facebook apologizes for yet another privacy screw-up
Facebook has acknowledged a new bug that improperly tinkered with user settings — this time, a bug that affected more than 800,000 users and unblocked …
Quiz app exposed the data from 120M users while Facebook was telling the world it can be trusted
The Cambridge Analytica scandal exposed what wasn’t really a secret, that Facebook is harvesting a lot of user data and that the data is shared …
Now you can block TV spoilers and annoying political rants on Facebook
There are plenty of reasons members of the general public have begun to sour on Facebook. It’s not cool. Instagram is simpler. Privacy issues. That …
Tim Cook takes another dig at Facebook’s privacy scandals
For years now, Apple CEO Tim Cook reminded the world how vital user privacy and data security are to the company. Just as it made …
Facebook isn’t going anywhere thanks to its lucky bet on Instagram
New data compiled by Bloomberg Intelligence that pegs the valuation of the photo-sharing app Instagram at more than $100 billion represents more than an eye-popping …
Facebook will now tell you exactly how much of your life is wasting away
Deep down, you probably know you’re spending too much time on social media, with particular emphasis on Facebook. Thankfully, Apple and Google will tell you …
Facebook ordered to explain why it deleted the profile of a dead user without permission
Facebook has found itself in a new interesting user data-related predicament. This time around, Facebook removed the profile and Facebook page of a well-known musician …
Facebook stock hits new all-time high as company seeks to move past prior scandals
To say that the past few months have been incredibly challenging for Facebook would be a gross understatement. Not only has the company had to …
Of course Facebook was going to ruin Messenger with autoplay video ads
Facebook says it will start placing video ads inside the social media giant’s standalone Messaging service next week, an outgrowth of the company saying it’s …
World Cup 2018 fever kicks off with new features from Apple and Facebook
We’re in the final stretch, football fans — by the way, that’s how you spell ‘soccer’ everywhere else in the world. Come tomorrow evening in …
Facebook confirms to Congress it’s tracking everything it possibly can
If this were a Friends episode it would be titled The one where Facebook tracking gets even creepier because we simply didn’t see coming what’s about …
Fb.gg is where you can Twitch ‘Fortnite’ games on Facebook
Facebook’s video ambitions continue to grow, and it’s clear the company wants a piece of all that video streaming that happens online. Facebook just revealed …
Oops! Facebook changed 14 million users’ default privacy setting to public
Facebook has been having a rough time with privacy and trust recently. Between the problem of fake news during the 2016 election, revelations about data-scraping …
Facebook plans to fix fake news with cable TV and buckets of cash
A few days ago, Facebook confirmed that it’s terminating its trending news portal, which wasn’t that popular with users to begin with. But Facebook will …
Of course Facebook shared data with Chinese smartphone makers, but it probably means nothing
Yes, Facebook deserves all your hates and dislikes for mismanaging your data not only in the widely covered Cambridge Analytica case but ever since it …
Facebook is going to further destroy your timeline with its own version of cable news
Not content with destroying the web traffic of publishers and public confidence in, uh, everything, it seems like Facebook is now coming for cable news …
News that Facebook is killing trending news quickly becomes trending news
Facebook on Friday announced that it’s killing the Trending news section soon, and replacing it with other ways of delivering news to you while you’re …
Teens get social on YouTube, Instagram, and Snapchat… not Facebook
Facebook may have a large number of active users which make it the largest social network in the world, but that doesn’t mean everybody gets …
Let’s hope Instagram’s creepy tracking tool is only to combat bots
In case you were wondering whether Instagram has any creepy user tracking tools of its own, you should know that yes. Yes it does. The …
Facebook is making two-factor authentication even easier to set up
Facebook has become so ingrained in our lives that even a massive controversy like Cambridge Analytica collecting our data won’t stop hundreds of millions of …
Facebook wants to take on Yelp with a new Marketplace feature
Facebook wants you to meet the perfect plumber, but it absolutely isn’t what you think. Yes, Facebook did say only recently that it plans to …
Mark Zuckerberg went all the way to Europe to not answer any real questions about Facebook
After showing up for two rounds of questioning in front of Congress back in April, and after refusing to appear in front of the UK …
Instagram mute feature lets you silence annoying people you can’t bring yourself to unfriend
Instagram on Tuesday announced Instagram Mute, or “a new way to personalize your feed.” Of course, the addition of a mute feature to a social …
Forget 5G, Qualcomm and Facebook want to deliver gigabit Wi-Fi in urban areas
The next big thing happening in wireless communications is 5G, but that doesn’t mean Wi-Fi isn’t also getting better. Qualcomm, which is at the forefront …
