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Facebook agreed to pay billions of dollars extra on top of an initial fine sought by the Federal Trade Commission in 2019 to protect CEO Mark Zuckerberg from personal liability related to a massive data leak probe, shareholders allege in a pair of lawsuits made public on Tuesday. In lawsuits filed last month in Delaware’s …

Facebook on Tuesday highlighted progress it’s made over the past several years to address challenges such as safety and security, misinformation and responsible innovation. The social network said it has 40,000 people working on safety and security issues and has invested more than $13 billion in teams and technology since 2016.  Facebook’s update comes after a series of critical reports …

Roughly half of US adults say they get news from social media sites “sometimes” or “often,” according to a new poll from Pew Research Center. Though that number (48%) is slightly lower than it was last year, it could generate concern given social media’s vulnerability to misinformation. The new data, published Monday by Pew, includes a few interesting finds. Facebook …

Facebook on Saturday criticized a series of Wall Street Journal articles about the social media platform’s negative effects on users, saying the articles contained “deliberate mischaracterizations” and “conferred egregiously false motives to Facebook’s leadership and employees.” The series, based on information culled from internal Facebook documents and online employee discussions, reported that the company was aware of the “platform’s ill …

An app created by jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has reportedly been removed from the Apple and Google app stores in the country as the parliamentary election kicked off Friday. The tech companies removed the app after pressure from Russian authorities, according to reports from The New York Times and Associated Press.  The Smart Voting app, also known as …

Facebook‘s internal research into Instagram has raised serious concerns about the photo-sharing app’s impact on the mental health of teens, prompting US lawmakers to press the world’s largest social network for more answers. “As the internet — and social media specifically — becomes increasingly engrained in children and teens’ lives, we are deeply concerned that your company continues to fail …

Facebook reportedly exempted millions of high-profile users, including celebrities and politicians, from some or all of its community standards, apparently contradicting the social network’s public statements that its rules apply to everyone.  The Wall Street Journal, citing internal documents, reported Monday that the world’s largest social network created a program known as Cross Check, or XCheck, that shielded public figures …

President Joe Biden said Monday that he plans to nominate online privacy expert Alvaro Bedoya to a seat on the Federal Trade Commission in a move that is expected to lead to greater regulatory scrutiny for Big Tech companies like Amazon, Facebook and Google.  Bedoya, the founder of Georgetown Law’s Center on Privacy & Technology, has been a leading critic …

Instagram is building a new feature that would let users customize their feed, according to TechCrunch. The feature would reportedly let you “Favorite” up to 30 accounts, which would show up in your feed before other (non-favorite) accounts.  On social media apps like Instagram, Twitter and Facebook, followed accounts accumulate quickly, and feeds can quickly turn into a soup of …

They’re back. Smart glasses. Not the ones from Google and Snap that largely fizzled and faded from view many months and years ago. Now there’s a new pair of high-tech glasses that craves your attention: the awkwardly named Ray-Ban Stories from Facebook. Priced at $299, the Facebook Ray-Bans can shoot photos and 30-second videos, play music and podcasts, and make …