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Facebook Head of News Product Alex Hardiman expressed the company’s plans to “redefine its relationship” with news publishers in an effort to “minimize the bad” and “promote quality” during a panel at the South by Southwest film festival.

According to a new report, Facebook users are spending 24 percent less time on the platform.

The Wall Street Journal published an article recently explaining how Facebook chooses which ads to target users with — and it’s not by spying on you through your phone’s microphone.

All of Facebook’s Oculus Rift virtual reality headsets have reportedly been disabled worldwide due to an expired certificate.

In a tweet, Brad Parscale told Facebook, Google, and Twitter to “make sure the playing field is level.”

BlackBerry has filed a lawsuit against Facebook, alleging patent infringement.
According to CNN, BlackBerry claimed in their lawsuit “that the social media companies developed messaging applications that ‘co-opt BlackBerry’s innovations’ by using patented features touching on security, the user interface, and battery life.”

The New York Times published a long-form article recently discussing the new documentary from Breitbart News Senior Editor-At-Large Peter Schweizer titled The Creepy Line.

The Anti-Defamation League has stated that social media companies YouTube, Twitter and Facebook may use the group’s “Online Hate Index” to detect hate speech on their platforms.

Facebook has issued an apology over their recent threat to demonetize the Christian parody news site Babylon Bee after Snopes accused the site of publishing “fake news.”

Facebook has apologized for a recent user survey which asked if pedophiles should be allowed to request sexual images from children on the social media platform.

Two Missouri men were sentenced to prison last Friday for killing a cat and posting a video of it on social media.

While our Chicken Little media scream about the sky falling, out here in Real America, all we see is Trump delivering peace and prosperity.

Another Facebook executive has stepped forward to debunk a liberal talking point – this time directly taking issue with a theory pushed by Hillary Clinton.

The House Committee on Science Space and Technology released a report on Thursday detailing how Russia has been using social media platforms to disrupt domestic energy markets and influence domestic energy policies.

The unelected executive branch of the European Union (EU) has ordered social media and tech firms to delete content they consider “illegal” with one hour, as they ramp up efforts to censor the internet.

The Christian satire site Babylon Bee has been fact-checked by Snopes and threatened by Facebook after it published an Onion-style article about CNN about purchasing a washing machine to “spin the news.”

The CEO of News Corp, Robert Thomson, has attacked sites such as Facebook and Google for not paying publishers for their content.

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg has claimed that “not all interactions in social media are equally good for people in terms of their psychological well-being.”

Facebook has told MPs conducting a “fake news inquiry” it has found no new evidence of a coordinated attempt by Russian-linked accounts to target voters in the Brexit campaign and influence the vote.

Facebook regularly collects data on its 1.4 billion daily active users worldwide — here is how to find the information they have collected on you.

The outcome of Facebook’s recent algorithm changes has been a massive reduction in engagement on the President’s account.

Facebook’s latest facial recognition announcement, which appeared on the site yesterday, coincides with a recent court ruling relating to the collection of biometric data.

According to a recently published survey, the majority of Americans are worried that the U.S. government won’t do enough to regulate big tech companies.

LittleThings, a 100-employee-strong company which posted “feel-good stories and videos” on Facebook, has shut down following Facebook’s pivot away from publisher content to user posts.

House Energy and Commerce Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) argued at an Axios event on Wednesday that regulation will come for big tech companies if they are not responsible.

Former President Barack Obama has called for the regulation of tech companies and the altering of their algorithms to promote “common conversation” on social media platforms.

The News Media Alliance (NMA), which “represents over 2,000 newspapers in the U.S.”, has launched a political action committee in their effort to take on Google and Facebook.

President Donald Trump has selected Brad Parscale as his campaign manager for 2020, according to an exclusive headline on the Drudge Report.

CNN President Jeff Zucker called on regulators to investigate Facebook and Google at a recent conference in Barcelona.

Mindy Robinson, a conservative actress and wife of former UFC fighter Randy Couture, was banned from posting to Facebook for 30 days after she shared abusive messages she received on the platform. After a Breitbart News request for comment and outreach from fans, Facebook has reversed the suspension.

The legendary evangelist Rev. Billy Graham, who passed away at the age of 99 Wednesday, had some inspiring words of wisdom on what happens to those who wander away from God.

A private citizen received online abuse after CNN tracked her down and publicly shamed her for unknowingly sharing a “Russian-coordinated event” on her Facebook page.

Conservative commentator Pam Geller revealed on Breitbart News Daily on Wednesday morning that her panel on free speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) had been canceled because she refused to remove Jim Hoft of Gateway Pundit as a participant.

Facebook co-Founder Chris Hughes said in a recent interview that the modern digital economy is “going to continue to destroy work” in America.

Facebook’s VP of Advertising has backtracked on comments he made recently relating to the use of Facebook by Russian operatives to sow discord amongst Americans.

Facebook will reportedly begin sending postcards to the addresses of potential political ad buyers to confirm that they reside in the U.S. following the controversy around Russian ad purchases.