Today, Facebook announced it had initiated a new independent research project seeking to determine social media’s impact on elections....

Facebook is expanding a News Feed test it launched last year that aims to help users determine the integrity of news items posted on the...

In January, Facebook committed to surfacing more localized news within the News Feed. This announcement came on the heels of a major News...

“If the expansion is successful, we may add more publishers,” writes Facebook product manager Joey Rhyu on the site’s news blog....

After an unsuccessful run that lasted less than four months, Facebook has decided to end its Explore Feed. Launched last October,...

publishes research to answer a serious question, one that we’ve all likely been trying to avoid for some time now: “Is social media bad...

Thousands of years of evolution have not dulled this impulse, and much good has come of it. The huge leaps in technology, as well as the...

Since joining Facebook as its head of news partnerships early last year, former CNN anchor Campbell Brown’s two priorities are: (1) to...

Facebook is testing a Reddit-style downvoting option on comments on public Page posts, seemingly as a way to learn what qualifies as...

Weeks after Facebook announced that it would de-prioritize news from publishers in people’s News Feeds, the company continues to announce...

Facebook announced perhaps its biggest change ever to its News Feed, I was glued to my social media feeds like a Wall Street broker...

Amid ongoing scrutiny and ahead of the May 2018 General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) deadline in Europe, Facebook is undertaking a...

News Corp Executive Chairman Rupert Murdoch has long been critical of Google and online content aggregators in general. He sees them as...

A week after Facebook said that it will reduce the amount of news in people’s News Feeds, the company has announced that it plans to...

Facebook has had a tough year. Despite the fact that revenues are soaring, engagement has declined, and there’s less personal content...

A video ad is a video ad is a video ad. Except it’s not, according to Facebook. The social network would argue that video ads — and the...

Facebook’s effort to combat fake news isn’t working. So the company is trying a different tact. Almost exactly a year ago Facebook...

Facebook continues to crack down on the people and particularly Pages that try to game its News Feed algorithm. Facebook will penalize...

Facebook is giving people a way to put Pages on timeout. On Friday, Facebook rolled out a snooze button for people to temporarily stop...

Facebook will begin testing a six-second pre-roll ads hub next year, the company announced on Thursday, confirming earlier reports....