While the details of this week’s Facebook scandal — that the company had allowed partners to view supposedly private user data — were new, the arc of this story already follows a predictable script ...

Member privacy settings can be adjusted to limit or prevent nearly any type of Facebook activity. Messaging, though, is one of the few features that are virtually untouchable by privacy restrictions.

Queenie Wong was a senior writer for CNET News, focusing on social media companies including Facebook's parent company Meta, Twitter and TikTok. Before joining CNET, she worked for The Mercury News in ...

When Facebook was founded, in 2004, the company had few codified rules about what was allowed on the platform and what was not. Charlotte Willner joined three years later, as one of the company’s ...

Facebook is still the leading social media platform, with more than 3.06 billion users globally. However, the engagement rate is slowly falling, and Gen Z is moving away from Facebook to other apps.

One of the creepiest things brought to light during Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony on Capitol Hill this week was how Facebook can amass data to construct what are being referred to as “shadow profiles” ...