Unique Illinois privacy law leads to $550M Facebook settlement of a class-action lawsuit
Privacy advocates hail Illinois' strict biometric privacy law as the nation's strongest form of protection in the commercial use of such data, and it has survived ongoing efforts by the tech industry and other businesses to weaken it.
Facebook’s official Twitter and Instagram accounts compromised by hacker group OurMine
A tweet, which was posted on the @Facebook Twitter account, said “Hi, we are O u r M i n e.”
Facebook's Twitter and Instagram accounts compromised
The group OurMine was responsible for the hack.
Trump tweets altered video of Nancy Pelosi ripping up State of the Union speech
Twitter and Facebook are refusing to delete the altered video.
Facebook stock drops in after-hours trading following earnings beat
Profit and revenue both handily surpassed Wall Street's expectations.
Twitter, Facebook ban fake users; some had AI-created photos
Tech companies have stepped up efforts to tackle misinformation on their services ahead of next year's U.S. presidential elections.
Hospital dresses up ‘newest neighbors’ in tiny red Mister Rogers cardigans for World Kindness Day
UPMC Magee-Women’s Hospital in Pittsburgh welcomed its newest and most adorable neighbors on World Kindness Day, dressing them in tiny Mister Rogers-style cardigans.
California attorney general discloses probe on Facebook privacy practices
California attorney general says he has been investigating Facebook's privacy practices since 2018.
Facebook and Instagram ban ‘sexual’ use of eggplant and peach emojis
Facebook, which has been caught in a bipartisan battle over political ads, is waging a different type of war against -- eggplants and peaches?
Following Twitter's ban, the pressure is now on Facebook to ban political ads, too
Facebook's policy is to accept paid political ads from candidates without fact-checking them or censoring them, even if they contain lies.
Facebook testing new news feature it says will 'gather insight from journalists and publishers'
Facebook announced Friday it will begin testing Facebook News, which the tech giant said will offer users more control over the stories they see as well as the ability to discover a broader array of content.
Mark Zuckerberg defends Facebook's currency plans before Congress
House Financial Services Committee's immediate focus was Facebook's plans for the currency, to be called Libra. Zuckerberg took pains to reassure lawmakers that his company won't move forward with Libra without explicit approval from all U.S. financial regulators.
Zuckerberg testifies before Congress Wednesday
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg endured hours of prickly questioning from lawmakers Wednesday as he defended the company's new globally ambitious project to create a digital currency while also dealing with widening scrutiny from U.S. regulators.
Facebook pledges $1 billion toward affordable housing in California
Facebook built a multi-billion dollar business on the back of social networking. Now the Menlo Park tech giant is lending its financial broad shoulders to helping solve the California housing crisis. “It’s a continuum. It’s not new. It’s scaling what we’ve done in the past, where we saw benefits from our interventions,” said Menka Sethi, Facebook’s Location Strategy Director. She says the company began its foray into housing in 2016 to explore possible pitfalls. Now, Facebook is pledging $1 billion to construct 20,000 units of housing state-wide over the next decade. The tech giant says $250 million is designated for mixed-income housing on excess state land and $150 million for affordable housing. Another $225 million, this time in Menlo Park land, earmarked for affordable housing. And $25 million to build teacher and essential worker housing in San Mateo and Santa Clara Counties “If this is gonna be an effective deployment of capitol, it’s important this be true philanthropy and real money on the ground assistance and not another investment scheme,” said Prof. Kelly Snider, a regional and urban planning expert at San Jose State University. Housing and urban planning experts say over this decade, the Bay Area has created only one new unit of housing for every 10 new jobs. The result has pushed the price of housing skyward and forced many middle-class families to leave. Advocates say Facebook and other tech giants such as Google can make a dent in the problem with large donations, coupled with partnerships with community members to address the housing shortage. “This is critical. It means a range of income level people can stay in our communities.,” said Duane Bay, Executive Director of EPACANDO, an affordable housing organization. Added Sethi, “The urgency to step up now and solve the big problems, it felt real and we felt we could help, and so here we are.” There is $350 million being held in reserve for future commitments. The question now: How fast can the multiple municipalities act?
47 attorneys general back antitrust probe into Facebook
Facebook's latest foes: nearly every U.S. state.
Facebook announces plans to combat election 2020 misinformation
Facebook's CEO announced new security measures aimed at combating misinformation on the social media platform ahead of the 2020 election.
Facebook gifts $25M to Santa Clara County for teacher housing
Facebook is gifting $25 million to Santa Clara County for the county to use on new teacher and school staff homes.
Electronic Frontier Foundation: Zuckerberg doesn't know who obtained user data
In a nearly five-hour marathon session of testimony before a Senate committee, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg faced tough questions from lawmakers. But the San Francisco based Electronic Frontier Foundation says even Zuckerberg doesn't know who might have obtained users' data. Jana Katsuyama reports.
Zuckerberg prepares another apology -- this time to Congress
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will apologize for his company's role in a data privacy scandal and foreign interference in the 2016 elections when he appears before Congress this week, saying the social network "didn't take a broad enough view of our responsibility," according to prepared remarks released Monday. Jesse Gary reports.
In CNN interview, Facebook's Zuckerberg apologizes for 'major breach of trust'
Breaking five days of silence, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg apologized for a "major breach of trust," admitted mistakes and outlined steps to protect user data in light of a privacy scandal involving a Trump-connected data-mining firm. Jana Katsuyama reports.