Facebook has received a £500,000 fine ($664,000) in the UK resulting from the Cambridge Analytica data-harvesting scandal. The fine was...

targeting millions of its users by data firm Cambridge Analytica, according to a report in The Washington Post. Five anonymous sources...

Facebook is continuing its transparency efforts around Pages and ads, now including an “Info & Ads” section on Pages that list all ads...

Facebook’s data security issues have turned into a nonstop game of whack-a-mole. After having to alert 14 million users that their...

Facebook is continuing its efforts to fight fake news and stop the spread of false information on the platform. Today, the company...

Facebook’s head of communication and policy, Elliot Schrage, is resigning after leading the company’s communications and policy teams for...

Facebook is making changes to the way advertisers manage their Custom Audience lists to give users more transparency about why they see...

We’re six months out from the 2018 US midterm elections, races that will shape the political balance of both the House and Senate. Of the...

LJZ / Shutterstock.com Raise your hand if Facebook shared user data with you — because the list keeps growing. Days after learning the...

Facebook is under fire once again for mishandling user data, this time charged with sharing information with at least 60 device makers,...

Facebook is now enforcing its new policies for political and issue-related ads. Announced last month, the new rules require all...

Following Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s appearance before the EU Parliament on Tuesday to address the company’s mishandling of user...

Facebook has released its first-ever transparency report, outlining the amount of content it has identified as breaking Community...

LJZ / Shutterstock.com Since suspending Cambridge Analytica for using an app to exploit user information nearly two months ago, Facebook...

We’re less than two months out from Facebook’s infamous announcement that it was suspending Cambridge Analytica for exploiting user data....

Facebook continues to shore up its user safety measures on a number of fronts. Yesterday, the site announced several changes to its API...

In the end, the law in question (the Fighting Online Sex Trafficking Act, or FOSTA) was defined narrowly enough to fix the targeted...

The move, reported by Reuters today, comes as the EU prepares to begin enforcing the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) next...

Earlier this month, US Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) introduced a privacy “bill of rights” to...

As Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg faced Senate and House committees in Washington, DC, this week, the platform introduced new terms around...