A recent trove of documents leaked from Facebook demonstrated how the social network struggles to moderate dangerous content in places far from Silicon Valley. Internal discussions revealed worries ...

Facebook once built an internal facial-recognition app that allowed employees to identify people by pointing their phone cameras at them. The app, which was developed by Facebook employees between ...

Memes are now an integral part of how people communicate on the internet. While a lot of these memes have an ability to cheer you up, a lot of them are hateful and discriminatory. At the same time, AI ...

Facebook, that bubbling cesspool of outdated memes and nagging birthday reminders, announced Tuesday that it can now find your beautiful face in photos you aren't even tagged in. "Powered by the same ...

Facebook filed a patent for technology that could target entire families with ads. The tech uses photos and various other data collected by the social network. In a patent filed last May and made ...

Facebook rejected millions of ad submissions in the months leading up to Election Day for failing to complete its required authorization process. In a call with reporters on Thursday, Facebook ...

is The Verge’s executive editor. He has covered tech, policy, and online creators for over a decade. Facebook’s moderators can’t possibly look through every single image that gets posted on the ...

Facebook has heralded artificial intelligence as a solution to its toxic content problems. Mike Schroepfer, its chief technology officer, says it won’t solve everything. Mike Schroepfer, Facebook’s ...

is a Senior Producer on Decoder. Previously, he reported on the technology and gaming industries for more than a decade. Though the feature looks to be geared toward fighting scams and unsolicited ...

Were you one of the 30 million Facebook users who just got a heads up that your data was compromised? If you haven't heard from Facebook yet, it doesn't necessarily mean you're in the clear. You still ...

Facebook Inc. has been “helping” law enforcement identify people who posted photos of themselves at the Jan. 6 riots at the U.S. Capitol, “even after the attack was over,” said Monika Bickert, the ...