Facebook's defense against a goverment-mandated breakup has leaked, suggesting it would focus on the difficulty of splitting Instagram and Whatsapp.

European regulators are cracking down on Facebook's ability to transfer data across the Atlantic. Now the tech giant is threatening to pull its services from more than 400 million European users.

Facebook Inc. is again being sued for allegedly spying on Instagram users, this time through the unauthorized use of their mobile phone cameras.The lawsuit springs from media reports in July that the photo-sharing app appeared to be accessing iPhone cameras even when they weren’t actively being used.Facebook denied the reports and blamed a bug, which it said it was correcting, for triggering what it described as false notifications that Instagram was accessing iPhone cameras.

Facebook is moving to curb internal debate around divisive political and social topics, Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said, after a spate of disputes and criticism that has fueled discord among staffers.

Illegitimate reviews can hurt business for legitimate sellers, causing brands like Nike to sever ties with Amazon. Here's how to spot fake reviews and Amazon's plan to prevent them.

We found discriminatory ads can still appear, despite Facebook's efforts

As Facebook struggles with waves of misinformation, the company’s political and business concerns are influencing its fact-checking policies.

Facebook says privacy changes that Apple has made to its newest operating system will cripple the social-media giant’s ability to serve targeted ads to iPhone users while they use outside apps.

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“The delay in notification eliminated any potential options for recovery of the equipment.”

Major advertisers on Facebook reduced their spending by millions of dollars in July, but not enough to significantly damage the platform’s revenue.

Since Facebook relies on millions of small advertisers, so far the boycott effort has been more about image than profits.

NSO Group, the team behind the 2019 WhatsApp spyware attack, says Facebook proposed buying "Pegasus" software to better keep tabs on iOS users' activity.