Frances Haugen, the Facebook whistleblower who first came forward in an explosive "60 Minutes" interview, told a Senate subcommittee on Tuesday that there is "no one" holding Mark Zuckerberg ...

Facebook’s latest shift toward an Instagram-like experience raises new questions about the platform’s overall direction.

Amazon, Uber, Google, Facebook, Microsoft and many other big companies have something in common. They’re all platforms, providing underlying technologies that others use to build or facilitate their ...

Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to end content moderation on Facebook and stop suppressing political content marks a watershed moment in the platform’s chaotic evolution. It is disgraceful in its way, but ...

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For the first time, 60 Minutes is publishing whistleblower complaints filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission against Facebook by former employee Frances Haugen. The filings, submitted by ...

Technology companies have long had a simple answer to anyone who did not like what was happening on, in, or through them: Services like Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter were platforms, which merely ...

The former president was banned two years ago after the Jan. 6. U.S. Capitol riot. By Alex Weprin Senior Editor Former president Donald Trump is returning to Facebook. Two years after the social ...

The cool new thing on Facebook is for Mark Zuckerberg to drop product news in live audio rooms. So today, Zuckerberg took to his brand’s Clubhouse competitor to announce its next new thing: Bulletin, ...

This post was updated at 10:18 a.m. PST to add information about Bebo's plans for OpenSocial. SAN FRANCISCO--When Bebo co-founder and CEO Michael Birch took the stage in a theater at the Metreon ...