Buying an eyeshadow palette or a pair of sneakers you spot on Instagram is about to get easier if you’re in the US.  Facebook-owned Instagram said Tuesday it’s testing a feature called checkout that will allow users to buy a product without leaving the photo-sharing app. That means Instagram users don’t have to go through …

When Ruth Meeker heard that a gunman had opened fire inside a mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, on Friday, she turned to social media site Twitter to learn more about the attack. What she saw next horrified her. After clicking on a hashtag about the shooting, a gruesome video of the massacre that the alleged gunman livestreamed on Facebook started …

Facebook, which has been embroiled in a series of scandals, is losing two more top executives as it focuses on building a more “privacy-focused social platform.” On Thursday, the company announced that Chief Product Officer Chris Cox and Chris Daniels, who heads Facebook-owned messaging app WhatsApp, are leaving. The leadership shuffle comes a week after Facebook CEO and co-founder Mark …

Facebook is stepping up its efforts to curb the spread of misinformation about vaccines, a move that follows mounting criticism that the world’s social network hasn’t done enough to combat the medical myths.  On Thursday, Facebook said it would demote the ranking of groups or pages that spread misinformation about vaccines on its News Feed and in search results. The …

Facebook, which has been under fire over privacy concerns, is doubling down on private messaging. “I believe the future of communication will increasingly shift to private, encrypted services where people can be confident what they say to each other stays secure and their messages and content won’t stick around forever,” Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a post Wednesday. “This …

Two former Facebook content moderators have joined a lawsuit against the tech giant, alleging they suffered psychological trauma and symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder caused by reviewing violent images on the social network.  The lawsuit, which seeks class-action status, alleges that Facebook violated California law by failing to provide thousands of content moderators with a safe workplace. The moderators were …

Facebook is doubling down on ephemeral content.  The social network said Thursday it’s releasing a new tool globally that lets users share events in Facebook Stories, a format that allows users to post photos and videos that vanish in 24 hours. Facebook announced in January that it was testing the events feature in US, Mexico and Brazil.  The release of …

Facebook said Thursday that a work version of the social network that companies pay for now has more than 2 million users. Called Workplace, the enterprise product made its official debut in October 2016 but Facebook has never revealed how many people use the communications tool. The user numbers that Facebook Workplace released Thursday, though, don’t paint a complete picture.  Facebook …

Facebook faces mounting concerns about the mental health of contractors who sift through the site for hate speech, violence and porn, even as the social network beefs up its effort to police offensive content. On Monday, Facebook defended outsourcing the work Accenture, Cognizant and other companies. But the world’s biggest social network acknowledged it had room to improve the conditions …

Facebook might know your heart rate even if you’re not on the social network.  At least 11 popular apps sent personal data to Facebook, including information about when a user was having her period or what real estate listings a person viewed, according to testing from The Wall Street Journal. Using Facebook software built into these apps, developers were able …