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Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) said she will send a letter to Facebook and the Justice Department.

Her failure at Facebook exposes a flaw at the heart of the argument that made her famous.

“In some buildings, there are more ‘Black Lives Matter’ posters than there are actual black people.”

Facebook needs to start being more open

Facebook’s second in command wanted an examination of the billionaire’s financial ties after he delivered a blistering speech about tech companies.

Earlier this week, Riot’s CEO sent an e-mail to employees describing the punishment its COO, Scott Gelb, will face after multiple employees alleged that, as a comedy bit, he has repeatedly touched subordinates’ balls or butt or farted in their faces. Several employees tell Kotaku that his punishment—two months of…

Internal documents show that the social network gave Microsoft, Amazon, Spotify and others far greater access to people’s data than it has disclosed.

Partnerships with tech giants went way further than previously disclosed, says new report

Responding to Mark Zuckerberg’s comments in a Vox interview, civil society advocates said Facebook had no consistent methods for dealing with hate speech in Myanmar.

After local activists accused Facebook of not doing enough to stop hate speech on its platform, they got a response from the chief executive himself.

What’s on your mind? Right now, as I’m writing this, The New York Times is breaking the news that Facebook, after a year of staggering revelations concerning everything from misuse of private data to enabling Russian election interference to knowingly providing inflated metrics publishers used to remake the media landscape, has been caught giving other big companies access to its users’ informa...

Suit alleges lax privacy standards at Facebook

Former Facebook employees detailed how the company's leadership and performance review system have created a "go along" culture

TwitLonger is the easy way to post more than 140 characters to Twitter

Class-action lawsuit records show how mobile game developers used deceptive billing practices to allow children to rack up unauthorized credit card charges on games like Angry Birds and Ninja Saga.

"The important thing is that the people involved in that research project knew they were involved and consented," Sandberg tells CNBC's Julia Boorstin after an earnings report that smashed expectations.

Desperate for data on its competitors, Facebook has been secretly paying people to install a “Facebook Research” VPN that lets the company suck in all of a user’s phone and web activity, similar to Facebook’s Onavo Protect app that Apple banned in June and that was removed in August. Facebook sidesteps the App Store and […]

Facebook executives are defending its "research" tactics.

Facebook employees are fuming after Apple revoked the company's enterprise certificates.

‘Everyone has a right’ to social media, says the head of the website that notoriously tolerates racists, death threats, and trolls.

Inside the soul-crushing world of content moderation, where low-wage workers soak up the worst of humanity and keep it off your screens.

Other Facebook employees have reacted with outrage to the rules, calling them "inhumane."

In the class action lawsuit, the woman says that thousands of content moderators are subjected to "highly toxic" content as part of the job.

"I’m fucked up."

A growing number of employees feel that the military project crosses a line.

Andy Rubin allegedly received a $150 million stock grant after being accused of sexual harassment

The ads were later restored

See posts, photos and more on Facebook.

Facebook just quietly adopted a policy that could push thousands of innocent people off of the platform. The new “sexual solicitation” rules forbid pornography and other explicit sexual content (which was already functionally banned under a different statute), but they don’t stop there: they also...

In case you are one of the very few needing a reminder, Harry Potter is the titular character in a series of seven bestselling books that…

I hate to say I told you so, but I told you so.

This is the last post you’re going to see about any of the Cormoran Strike books. This part finally pushed me over the limit. You’ll understand why in a moment – it only took half…

Passwords were exposed for years to anyone who had internal access to the files.

Civil society groups and news orgs like @motherboard had explained why that was problematic.. FB says it started to look deeper in the past three months to conclude “white nationalism and separatism cannot be meaningfully separated from white supremacy and organized hate groups.”

if it took three months for facebook to figure out that white nationalism is effectively synonymous with hate groups.... like what do these teams do all day

To our trans family, We see you. We stand with you. We love you. #TransDayOfVisibility

In pursuit of more video views

Facebook's executive team, including Mark Zuckerberg, used the data of Facebook users as leverage over partner companies, according to leaked...

A new Wired piece offers details

In the midst of a historic US measles outbreak, at least one Google employee walking around the tech giant’s main Silicon Valley campus has been diagnosed.

Facebook said that the new privacy issue stemmed from a code change from May 2016.

“Many women simply aren’t cut out for the corporate rat race, so to speak, and that’s not because of ‘the patriarchy,’” a Microsoft employee wrote.

“Jennifer is a seasoned leader whose global perspective and experience will help us fulfill our mission,” says Sheryl Sandberg.

The two reportedly discussed the “health” of the platform.

They alleged retaliation in an internal post.

President Trump met privately on Tuesday with Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey. The meeting comes as the president continues to accuse tech giants of exhibiting bias against conservative users.

A Twitter employee who works on machine learning believes that a proactive, algorithmic solution to white supremacy would also catch Republican politicians.

Documents show how the company tracks and terminates workers

Riot Games' decision to try and block lawsuits being filed against the company prompted an enormous internal blowback it's still wrestling with.