Here’s how to prevent Facebook from tracking you across apps and websites
Facebook argues that tracking user behavior across apps and websites allows it to serve up personalized ads that are helpful to consumers. While an upcoming …
Facebook’s new ads try to convince iPhone owners to allow tracking
Facebook started a major ad campaign that reveals the benefits of personalized ads for small businesses. Facebook uses the same argument from its mid-December attack …
What will happen to your WhatsApp account if you don’t agree to the new privacy changes
Facebook explained what will happen to WhatsApp users who do not agree to the new privacy policy changes to allow WhatsApp to share more data …
Facebook tries to explain the WhatsApp privacy changes one more time
Facebook will place a banner atop WhatsApp to explain the new privacy policy changes coming in mid-May. WhatsApp will share some data with Facebook over, …
Facebook will clone the social network app that Elon Musk just used
Facebook will clone another social network that might threaten its dominance, the new Clubhouse app that everybody is talking about. Valued at $1 billion and …
Facebook finally bans vaccine misinformation on its platforms
Facebook announced on Monday that it would ban vaccine misinformation from its platforms, after years of allowing false vaccine-related claims to spread on social media. …
Why does Apple have multiple official Facebook pages if the social network is so awful?
The ongoing Apple vs Facebook spat, generally over privacy concerns, has kicked into high gear in recent days, spurred on thanks to increasingly pointed comments …
Facebook is about to beg you to let it keep tracking you on your iPhone
Facebook confirmed that it would comply with Apple’s new privacy rules on iPhone and iPad and shows its users prompts asking for permission to track …
Facebook is now spamming WhatsApp users with privacy stories
Facebook is using the Status feature of WhatsApp for spamming users with privacy stories following the recent backlash for the planned privacy policy change. The …
Facebook is about to take its war with Apple to a whole new level
The Facebook vs. Apple cold war might get hot pretty soon if reports that Facebook is about to sue Apple over the iPhone maker’s new …
Hackers might be selling your Facebook data right now on this rival messaging app
A hacker with access to a database of over 500 million Facebook profiles uses a Telegram bot to reveal a Facebook users’ phone number or …
If you use any of these Chrome extensions, delete them right now
Facebook is filing a lawsuit against the makers of four Chrome extensions that installed code on users’ computers designed to scrape private information. The company …
Facebook won’t explain why it’s ruining WhatsApp privacy
Facebook will not make changes to WhatsApp privacy for another three months, the company confirmed. Facebook plans to gather user data from WhatsApp to enable …
Facebook is afraid of apps that can replace WhatsApp
Facebook responded to the backlash over the new WhatsApp privacy policy changes, explaining in a FAQ that the app will not lose end-to-end encryption and …
Facebook practically forces WhatsApp users to share data with Facebook
WhatsApp’s new privacy policy will force users to agree to share data with Facebook. There’s no opt-out available this time. Facebook tried to link WhatsApp …
We might know why Google stopped updating its iPhone apps
Apple’s newly released app privacy labels for iPhone and iPad apps caused quite a stir. Facebook publicly attacked the iPhone maker and said that the …
Visualized: The terrifying amount of data Facebook Messenger collects compared to Signal, iMessage, and WhatsApp
Facebook mounted a fierce attack on Apple’s new app privacy labels, accusing the company that it’s putting small businesses and the free internet in danger. …
Facebook employees call out company’s hypocrisy in fight against Apple’s new privacy rules
Facebook started a massive PR campaign against Apple over the new privacy features in iOS 14 that force developers to disclose how they’re tracking users …
EFF blasts Facebook’s ‘laughable’ campaign against Apple
The Electronic Frontier Foundation explains that Facebook’s “laughable campaign against Apple” is against users and small businesses. The social network targeted Apple via print ads …
Steve Jobs would have loved Tim Cook’s response to the Facebook vs. Apple drama
Apple CEO Tim Cook on Thursday night weighed in on the Facebook vs Apple drama this week that’s resulted in the social networking giant taking …
Facebook’s latest trick for Messenger and Instagram just started rolling out
Facebook just launched a new feature for Messenger and Instagram that allows people to chat with their friends via self-destructing messages. Vanish Mode is rolling …
One of the worst things about WhatsApp has finally been fixed
WhatsApp is about to fix one of the worst things about the app, the multimedia storage management tool. Large files are routinely exchanged over social …
WhatsApp’s upcoming ephemeral messages won’t always disappear
WhatsApp will soon support disappearing messages, but the feature isn’t as privacy-friendly as it might sound. Users can’t customize the life of ephemeral messages, and …
Facebook enables cross-app messaging on Instagram and Messenger
Facebook announced that it’s ready to merge Messenger chat with Instagram, allowing people to communicate seamlessly across platforms. The move is part of Facebook’s bigger …
Facebook Messenger’s newest feature is perfect for the pandemic
Facebook introduced a new Messenger feature called Watch Together on Monday. Watch Together lets you watch any video on Facebook with your friends over a …
Facebook starts ambitious plan to unify all of its instant messenger apps
Facebook has started merging Messenger with Instagram chat, which appears to be the first step towards the unified, end-to-end, instant chat service that Facebook has …
Facebook is also an animal trafficking marketplace
The World Wildlife Fund has been alerting Facebook to illegal animal trafficking on its platform. Hundreds of individuals and groups with thousands of members have …
WhatsApp just rolled out a feature every chat app needs
WhatsApp fake news campaigns have been surging during the novel coronavirus pandemic, with disinformation about the COVID-19 origins and cures going viral. Facebook just rolled …
Tons of iOS apps are crashing right now due to an issue with Facebook
An issue with the Facebook SDK on Friday morning is causing dozens of iOS apps to crash. Facebook says that it is “aware and investigating …
Anti-science content is thriving on Facebook right now
The coronavirus pandemic is continuing to worsen around the US, with several states posting record daily increases in new cases this week, while many also …
