Facebook said Tuesday it’s rolling out a long-awaited privacy feature that will let users clear information from apps and websites they browse outside of the social network.  The world’s largest social media giant collects a trove of information about the 2.4 billion people who log into its site every month, allowing businesses to better target …

Facebook doesn’t plan to launch its new Libra cryptocurrency and a complementary digital wallet until 2020. But that hasn’t stopped some startups from throwing their hats in the ring early.  On Sunday, Israeli developer ZenGo said a cryptocurrency wallet it rolled out earlier this year will begin supporting Libra. Since Facebook and its 27 partners haven’t launched the cryptocurrency, ZenGo is letting users …

Facebook Groups, a place where people with common interests gather to chat, has three privacy settings, and that can be confusing for some users.  Now the social media giant, which has been under fire for privacy mishaps, is trying to make it easier for users to figure out how these settings work. Currently, Facebook Groups are called public, closed or secret. …

Lyndi Cohen’s Instagram photos illustrate the power of healthy living. The Australian nutritionist features meals she’s prepared for the week and moves gracefully through yoga poses. She also shares side-by-side bikini shots to show how glamorous photos on the social network diverge from real life.  Still, the 29-year-old grapples with an unhealthy habit: obsessing over how many “likes” her Instagram …

Twitter wants to make following a topic as easy as following an account. On Tuesday, the company said it’s trying out a way for users to follow sports topics such as the New England Patriots, cricket or wrestling. It’s testing this feature for Android users and will curate topics users could be interested in following. Twitter will also let you …

Facebook said Tuesday it’s suing two app developers in Asia for making money from advertising fraud, highlighting how the social network is cracking down on abuse on the platform. The app developers LionMobi in Hong Kong and JediMobi in Singapore released apps on the Google Play Store that infected a user’s phone with malware to make it appear as if …

Facebook plans to rebrand Instagram and WhatsApp so users know they’re from the social network, a move that highlights how the company is exerting more control over its acquisitions. The apps will say “Instagram from Facebook” and “WhatsApp from Facebook.” “We want to be clearer about the products and services that are part of Facebook,” Bertie Thomson, a Facebook spokeswoman, …

Debra Lee, the first African-American to serve on Twitter’s board of directors, is stepping down from the role in August after more than three years, according to a filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday. Twitter’s announcement came on the same day AT&T announced that Lee would be joining its board of directors. “Twitter is a terrific company …

Twitter isn’t afraid of change. It constantly tests new features and has rolled out a revamped desktop site and a Olympics partnership this month alone. All the experimentation appears to be worth the effort. On Friday, Twitter said 139 million people logged into the app every day in the second quarter. That’s up from the 134 million daily active users the company had …

Facebook said Wednesday that the Federal Trade Commission opened an antitrust investigation into the company, but the heightened regulatory scrutiny doesn’t appear to have slowed down the social network’s growth. The new investigation came on the same day that the Federal Trade Commission announced that it was hitting Facebook with a record $5 billion fine for its earlier privacy mishaps. It also …