Before Facebook finally took action against former President Donald Trump’s account for inciting violence on January 6, it long allowed him to use the platform to push misinformation to a broad ...

Facebook could have prevented billions of views on pages that shared misinformation related to the 2020 U.S. election, according to a new report released Tuesday, which slams the platform for ...

News coverage in 2020 was dominated by a chaotic election cycle and a public health crisis, but the most widely shared news-related post on Facebook this year was a local news story about two missing ...

“Negative sentiment regarding our company is often transferred to Mr. Zuckerberg” “Negative sentiment regarding our company is often transferred to Mr. Zuckerberg” A new filing with the Securities and ...

Over the last several years, there have been growing concerns about the influence of social media on fostering political polarization in the US, with critical implications for democracy. But it’s ...

Apple is planning to make changes to iOS 14 early next year that will require developers to ask for permission to gather data and track users across mobile apps and websites on an iPhone or iPad.

Facebook has been spying on the private messages and data of American users and reporting them to the FBI if they express anti-government or anti-authority sentiments — or question the 2020 election — ...

It was October 2020, election conspiracy theories threatened to pull America apart at its seams, and Jessica González was trying to get one of the most powerful companies in the world to listen to her ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - A spectacular photo of a Lake Erie sunset was the most popular post on cleveland.com’s Facebook page in 2020. The stunning picture, captured from the Lake Erie Bluffs by local ...

Update: After this story published, Facebook took down two of the five troll-farm pages we identified. In the run-up to the 2020 election, the most highly contested in US history, Facebook’s most ...

Troll farms were building massive audiences and peddling propaganda ahead of the 2020 presidential election, a report says. Facebook's design and algorithms helped spread the troll farm content, MIT ...

In her new book, “Rigged: How the Media, Big Tech, and the Democrats Seized Our Elections,” Mollie Hemingway reveals how social-media companies like Twitter and Facebook responded to the 2016 election ...