Facebook Updates

Facebook announced on Friday that it would remove Trending: the section of its site, typically appearing to the right of the News Feed, that displays a list of the most popular news topics at a [ More… ]

Facebook today unveiled the publicly searchable archive of political ads it said it would develop in April. The launch comes alongside new labeling requirements for all election- and issue-based ads, which includes a disclosure of [ More… ]

Facebook announced today that it will be sending all users a News Feed alert asking them to review their data and privacy options.  The alert, says Facebook, is “similar” to the one received by users in [ More… ]

When Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified before Congress last month, one of the biggest criticisms to follow it was the lack of preparedness among the lawmakers asking questions. So when European Parliament president Antonio Tajani [ More… ]

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is due to testify before members of European Parliament (MEPs) tomorrow, in an appearance that was confirmed by President Antonio Tajani on Twitter last week. Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook CEO and founder, [ More… ]

Update on Wednesday, May 16 at 2:07 PM EST: Bloomberg reports that  Zuckerberg’s initial appearance before EU lawmakers will take place behind closed doors. European Parliament will schedule a separate hearing with representatives from Facebook that [ More… ]

Today, Facebook released its first ever Community Standards Enforcement Report to the public. This report includes a preliminary inventory of rule-violating content and the removal action Facebook took on it. The report, which was included [ More… ]

At 1:00 AM EST, Facebook released a statement that it has launched its Youth Portal: a guide to help teens navigate the network. According to the statement, penned by Facebook Global Head of Safety Antigone Davis [ More… ]

Facebook released a statement today indicating that 200 apps have been suspended from its platform for possible data misuse. The update, penned by Facebook VP of Product Partnerships Ime Archibong, comes as a follow-up to a [ More… ]

The U.S. House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) Minority yesterday released roughly 3,400 ads that ran on Facebook and Instagram leading up to the 2016 U.S. presidential elections. The ads, which were purchased by the [ More… ]

For the past several months, Facebook has been on a seemingly endless campaign to associate its name with greater transparency: of its terms, its privacy policies, and how it approaches and ranks the content shared [ More… ]

  When Bloomberg reported that Facebook was conducting market research to gauge interest in an ad-free, paid subscription model, we decided to do a bit of our own research. Facebook — to most consumers, at least — [ More… ]

If there’s one thing that Facebook wants everyone to know it’s taking seriously, it’s the topic of ethics. The general idea of an ethical approach to everything it does — its innovations, initiatives, and new [ More… ]

We kind of saw this coming, did we not? In Facebook’s most primitive days — if you can remember a time when it was restricted to college students, there was no News Feed, and status [ More… ]

Facebook’s data privacy scandal has dominated the news these past few months. Today, the company is reporting something it’s likely more excited about. On today’s Q1 earnings call, the Silicon Valley giant reported strong numbers [ More… ]

Facebook has published its internal enforcement guidelines.  These guidelines — or community standards, as they’re also known — are designed to help human moderators decide what content should (not) be allowed on Facebook. Now, the social [ More… ]

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony before U.S. lawmakers earlier this month seems to have done little to restore trust in the company. According to a HubSpot survey of 300 U.S. internet users, only 12% of people [ More… ]

At 1:00 AM Eastern Standard Time on Wednesday, Facebook published an announcement outlining some of the ways it plans to advance toward the General Data Privacy Regulation (GDPR), which comes into force next month. Last [ More… ]