Coronavirus: Facebook scrambles to keep up with soaring usage in time of isolation
Facebook said Wednesday said it would place “authoritative” coronavirus content at the top of user feeds as it scrambled to keep up with increased usage and stem the flow of…
Privacy overhaul: Facebook separates security tool from friend suggestions
Facebook Inc will no longer feed user phone numbers provided to it for two-factor authentication into its “people you may know” feature, as part of a wide-ranging overhaul of its…
U.S. regulator weighs action against Facebook from integrating its subsidiaries – Report
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is considering asking a court to stop Facebook Inc from moving ahead with plans to integrate its WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger subsidiaries, The Wall Street…
How social media sites handle political ads
Online platforms including Facebook and Alphabet Inc’s Google face growing pressure to stop carrying political ads that contain false or misleading claims ahead of the U.S. presidential election. In the…
Facebook unites payment service across apps with Facebook Pay
Facebook Inc said on Tuesday it was launching Facebook Pay, a unified payment service through which users across its platforms including WhatsApp and Instagram can make payments without exiting the…
WhatsApp adds shopping catalog feature, courting e-commerce
Facebook Inc on Thursday launched a catalog feature for its WhatsApp messaging app, it said in a blog post, building out the service’s e-commerce tools as it moves slowly toward…
Facebook’s Libra could come under some existing rules – Watchdog
Existing securities rules could apply to “stable coin” digital currency initiatives such as Facebook’s Libra project to help realise its benefits, global securities watchdog IOSCO said on Monday as policymakers…
I don’t just want to push Trump off Twitter, I want to push him out of the White House – Warren
Elizabeth Warren U.S. Democratic presidential contender Elizabeth Warren went after big tech companies during the Democratic debate on Tuesday but brushed off rival Kamala Harris’s challenge to join her…
Warren campaign challenges Facebook ad policy that exempts politicians from fact-checking
U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren’s Democratic presidential campaign this week challenged Facebook’s policy that exempts politicians’ ads from fact-checking, by running ads on the social media platform containing the false claim…
FBI director warns Facebook could become platform of ‘child pornographers’
FBI Director Christopher Wray said Friday that Facebook’s proposal to encrypt its popular messaging program would turn the platform into a “dream come true for predators and child pornographers.” Wray,…