Social media sites tearing society apart, says former Facebook exec
12 Dec 2017
Chamath Palihapitiya is not the first to speak out against his former employer – in October, Justin Rosenstein, who developed the iconic 'Like' feature for Facebook, said he has banished all apps on his phone
Facebook to open new London office
04 Dec 2017
Facebook to enable users to know if they were exposed to anti-Hillary Russian propaganda
23 Nov 2017
Facebook's founder president Sean Parker says social network exploits vulnerability in human psychology
10 Nov 2017
WhatsApp service restored after brief outage
04 Nov 2017
Facebook, Twitter, Google unveil extent of Russian meddling
02 Nov 2017
In their testimony before a Congress committee, the social media companies revealed startling new data showing many more millions of Americans were exposed to the fake news than previously thought
WhatsApp introduces Delete for Everyone feature
30 Oct 2017
Facebook to build next data centre in Virginia
07 Oct 2017
Facebook says Kremlin-linked group bought ads during 2016 presidential elections
18 Sep 2017
Facebook’s revelation of a Russian group tied to the Kremlin having bought political ads on its platform during the 2016 elections has led to outrage
Thousands of pro-Trump ads linked to Russian accounts: Facebook
07 Sep 2017
Facebook has revealed that thousands of ads posted on the site over the past two years, tending to favour Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, were linked to fake accounts based in Russia
Net neutrality: it’s AT&T, Comcast vs. Google, Facebook, Amazon
01 Sep 2017
Apple has specifically urged the FCC chairman not to roll back an existing ban against so-called “fast lanes”, which might allow broadband providers someday to charge for faster delivery of tech companies’ movies, music or other content
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