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Josh Hawley, Missouri’s attorney general, launched a probe into Facebook’s handling of their user’s private information.

The New York Times published an article how hard it is to boycott tech companies such as Facebook and Google when they dominate so much of the tech landscape.

The Apple CEO had criticized Zuckerberg over Facebook’s business model of selling user data.

Saturday on MSNBC’s “Hugh Hewitt,” Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) warned of the “downsides” of posting personal information on Facebook and how it could be exploited by business and political interests. Coons told host Hugh Hewitt that Facebook’s business model warranted

Christie-Lee McNally, the executive director of Free Our Internet, joined SiriusXM Patriot’s Breitbart News Daily, Friday, to discuss with Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow how much data Facebook and Google are collecting on users.

A Facebook executive in 2016 hypothesized that the companies platform could allow terrorists to coordinate, resulting in people’s deaths.

Data analysis firm Cambridge Analytica may still be in possession of the data of Facebook users, despite their claims of having deleted all data, according to a new report.

Facebook is beginning to limit the data available to advertisers following their most recent user data scandal. Its latest move is to limit information from third party sources previously available to ad buyers.

British billionaire investor Jim Mellon has claimed, “We’re going to see decimation particularly of Facebook,” which he described as “sinister,” following allegations of user data mishandling at the social network.

“I think the best regulation is no regulation, is self-regulation,” he said. “However, I think we’re beyond that here.”

Hollywood star Will Ferrell will be deleting his Facebook page this week in response to allegations that the social network mishandled user data.

The Facebook scandal over selling customers’ deepest secrets for huge amounts of cash has accelerated signature-gathering efforts for a “Privacy Act” initiative on California’s ballot.

A BBC interview from 2009 shows Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg stating that the company would never sell or share user data, less than a year later Zuckerberg declared that the “age of privacy is over.”

Facebook rates users’ political leanings based on their Internet usage — here’s how to find out what Facebook thinks your politics are.

Playboy has announced its departure from Facebook, removing its collection of pages, following user data mishandling allegations against the social network.

Twitter announced this week that they are banning advertisements for cryptocurrencies, joining technology giants Google and Facebook.

According to sources close to President Trump who spoke to Axios, he is more worried about the overreaching control of e-commerce website Amazon than he is about social media network Facebook and other Silicon Valley titans like Google.

Following Facebook’s latest user data scandal, the company has promised to give users more control over their personal data.

The Swedish government is planning to put more pressure on tech giants Google, Facebook, and Twitter to end anonymity for ‘online trolls’ and those accused of posting hate speech.

Facebook is reportedly going on a hiring spree in the Swamp as its CEO Mark Zuckerberg gets ready to testify before Congress.

A California Assemblyman from the Bay Area is pushing a bill that would create the “first regulatory agency for Big Tech in the nation” to protect Californians’ personal data, including social security numbers, financial data, and medical information.

Rep. Marsha Blackburn called for the passage of the Browser Act to give Internet users more control over their digital privacy.

The Cambridge Analytica employee who revealed the company’s alleged Facebook data mining has stated that he believes his predecessor may have been poisoned.

Professor Tim Wu, a former advisor to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), has claimed “privacy” is “like kryptonite” to Facebook’s business model.

Christopher Wylie, the former Cambridge Analytica employee who exposed Facebook’s data practices this month, claimed President Trump’s election made him speak out.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Peter Thiel’s data analysis company Palantir reportedly used Facebook to track down an alleged child predator.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been asked to testify before a second panel of U.S. lawmakers, this time the Senate Judiciary Committee.

In a letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, 37 State Attorneys General called on the company to provide further data about their latest user data scandal.

The MRC will monitor PolitiFact.com, FactCheck.org, Snopes.com, Washington Post Fact Checker, AP Fact Check and CNN Fact Check.

A Facebook tool designed to inform users about the advertisers trying to target them through the platform withholds key information from consumers that get too curious, even locking them out when they use it too many times, according to a report in Bloomberg Businessweek.

Facebook’s share price took a massive hit as the company’s data privacy scandal deepened.

U.S. tech giant Facebook has responded to an urgent request by the British Parliament that CEO Mark Zuckerberg appear before a committee, replying they would instead send a deputy, states Bloomberg.

Facebook reportedly donated $200,000 to combat a data-privacy ballot initiative in California that would allow consumers to ban companies from sharing or selling their personal data.

The CEOs of Apple and IBM gave a blunt assessment of Facebook’s ongoing data privacy scandal.

Facebook may be collecting data from your phone calls, messages and contacts — here’s how to turn it off.

In a rare departure from the mainstream narrative, Zuckerberg expressed doubts about being the world’s censor.