This is your brain off Facebook
Planning on quitting the social platform? A major new study offers a glimpse of what unplugging might do for your life. (Spoiler: It’s not so...
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Facebook reports robust profit, revenue gains; stock rises
Facebook said Wednesday that it earned $6.9 billion, or $2.38 per share, in the October-December period.
Facebook shuts controversial program to pay Apple users for data
Facebook reportedly sidestepped Apple’s app store and its tighter rules on privacy. The app will be discontinued on Apple's iOS, though it will continue to...
Facebook advertising profiles are a mystery to most users, survey says
About three-fourths of the Facebook users in a Pew Research Center survey said they were not aware of the Ad Preferences page, which lists their...
Facebook shuts hundreds of Russia-linked pages, accounts
Facebook removed nearly 500 pages and accounts. Some originated from an agency controlled by the Kremlin.
Microsoft, Amazon respond to Facebook privacy concerns
Microsoft said it took steps to make sure it was respecting user privacy when using Facebook data. Amazon said it uses information in accordance with...
D.C. attorney general sues Facebook over Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal
The salvo from the D.C. attorney general ended a protracted silence on the part of many U.S. regulators, who have faced immense pressure — from...
Facebook offered users privacy wall, then let tech giants around it
Internal records show that the social network had arrangements with Microsoft, Amazon and others, effectively exempting some partners from its usual privacy rules. The documents...
Facebook, Google to pay Washington $450,000 to settle lawsuits over political-ad transparency
The tech companies admitted no wrongdoing in the settlement of the lawsuit filed by Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson.
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