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Since Frances Haugen, a former Facebook employee, came forward with troubling information about the far-reaching harms caused by the company's algorithms, talk of potential regulatory reforms has only intensified.... Read more

A Facebook representative provided false testimony in a lawsuit that accuses the social media giant of violating state campaign finance laws, Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson alleges in court filings.... Read more

Facebook unveiled fresh protections Wednesday against online attacks on journalists, activists and celebrities as the social media giant battles a crisis over its platforms' potential harms.... Read more

A systematic review of research into the dark side of social media use has identified 46 harmful effects, ranging from physical and mental health problems to negative impacts on job and academic performance, as well as security and privacy issues.  ... Read more

Google is developing a new feature called Big Moments, which will compete with rivals Facebook and Twitter in delivering the latest breaking news updates during major events.... Read more

Facebook Inc. is changing the way it counts user profiles for advertising purposes—a move that will increase the number of total accounts an advertiser can reach—as part of an effort to improve privacy.... Read more

Facebook's chief spokesman said the company is willing to subject itself to greater oversight to ensure its algorithms are performing as intended and aren't harming users.... Read more

Less than two years after Facebook hired Frances Haugen to help correct dangerous distortions spilling across its platform, she had seen enough.... Read more

Facebook on Friday said it will stop allowing the sale of land in Amazon rainforest conservation areas at marketplaces on the social network or its Instagram and WhatsApp services.... Read more

Facebook on Friday said users around the world again had problems accessing its services for hours due to a tweak of its system, just days after a massive outage caused in a similar fashion.... Read more

A Moscow court has ruled to enforce the collection of fines from Facebook for breaching Russian laws on illegal content, officials said Thursday.... Read more

Facebook has announced that it is halting development on its Instagram Kids project. This follows reports that the social media giant had commissioned—and kept secret—internal research that found Instagram was detrimental to young people's mental health.... Read more

As social media giants like Facebook and Twitter come under increasing criticism for how they approach what type of speech is allowed on their platforms, another type of online group navigated similar struggles more than a decade ago, according to two University of Kansas scholars who have written a new... Read more

Right at the time social media became popular, teen mental health began to falter. Between 2010 and 2019, rates of depression and loneliness doubled in the U.S. and globally, suicide rates soared for teens in the U.S. and emergency room admissions for self-harm tripled among U.S. 10- to 14-year-old girls.... Read more

Former Facebook product manager Frances Haugen testified before the U.S. Senate on Oct. 5, 2021, that the company's social media platforms "harm children, stoke division and weaken our democracy."... Read more