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Facebook's iteration of the metaverse is set to get a lot less glitchy — and have a lot more privacy concerns.

Virtual Reality

Facebook Locks Down Patents for Full-Body VR Tracking

By Noor Al-Sibai

Meta announced a slate of big name virtual reality concerts set to take place entirely in the metaverse last month — and nobody seemed to notice.

Facebook Hosted Three Huge Concerts in the Metaverse and They Seriously Flopped

By Tony Ho Tran

Another Oculus Quest 2 user had an intense allergic reaction to the VR headset's facial foam interface over the holiday, resulting in a hospital trip after Christmas for 13-year-old Lewis Gray.

Virtual Reality

Christmas Present VR Headset Sends Boy to the Hospital

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Nick Clegg, Meta's vice president for global affairs and communications, isn't impressed with the design of the company's Quest virtual reality headset.

Facebook Exec Laments the Company’s Bulky, “Wretched” VR Headset

By Victor Tangermann

A handy guide to talking about the metaverse with your friends, parents, and weird cousins this Thanksgiving at the table.

How to Talk to Your Family About the Metaverse

By Tony Ho Tran

Sure, the Metaverse could improve our lives. In fact, Rosenberg told Insider it'll make our world "feel like Harry Potter." But social media has already created a world where nobody can seem to agree on what's real or not, and the Metaverse isn't likely to make those problems better. They'll probably only get worse.

Experts Say AR Could Let People “Reality Block” Stuff They Don’t Like

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Facebook Shows Off Gloves That Allow You to “Feel” VR Objects

Virtual Reality

Facebook Shows Off Gloves That Allow You to “Feel” VR Objects

By Victor Tangermann

A top VR developer at Facebook sounds like he's not entirely on board with the company's refocus on the metaverse -- and his remarks were interesting.

Facebook’s Top VR Expert Seems Pretty Annoyed by Metaverse Push

By Jon Christian

Facebook hardware insiders told The New York Times tech reporter Mike Isaac that "this is going to take a long time, i.e. breakthroughs in physics, etc."

Facebook Hardware Devs Reportedly Skeptical of Metaverse

By Victor Tangermann

CEO Mark Zuckerberg made the announcement at the end of the company’s Connect conference dedicated to its augmented and virtual reality products.

Facebook Changes Name, Announces AR Layer Over Physical Reality

By Tony Ho Tran

Facebook has hired Mathew Rosengart, the lawyer who helped free Britney Spears, in a potential lawsuit against producers of a TV show about the company.

Embattled Facebook Hires Britney Spears’ Lawyer

By Tony Ho Tran

After news came out that Facebook is considering changing its name, a former Facebook employee has a theory about what it might be.

Is This Facebook’s New Name?

By Jon Christian

Anthony Zadravic, a real estate agent in New South Wales, landed in court after he forgot to add an apostrophe to a post criticizing his former workplace.

Man Sued for Bad Grammar in His Facebook Post

By Tony Ho Tran

Facebook announced it would be cracking down on people using the platform to sell land in the Amazon rainforest

Facebook Vows to Stop Selling the Amazon Rainforest

By Tony Ho Tran

Facebook's internal communications tools were knocked out, leaving employees scrambling. Worse yet, some employees couldn't even physically get to work.

Facebook Employees Have Reportedly Been Locked Out of Company Offices

By Victor Tangermann

Facebook is down. Which means misinformation about the cause of the outage has hit Twitter hard, including dubious reports of a Facebook leak.

Fact Check: Is Facebook Down Because 1.5 Billion Users’ Data Was Stolen?

By Victor Tangermann

Facebook has been down for several hours, indicating that this isn't your average outage for the company. WhatsApp, Instagram, and Messenger are also down.

Something Very Strange Is Going on at Facebook

By Victor Tangermann

For one beautiful moment, the internet was blanketed in a serene silence.In case you haven't heard, Facebook is down. Like really, really down.

Facebook Is Down. Like, REALLY Down

By Victor Tangermann

Facebook has teamed up with Ray-Ban to come up with a pair of smart sun glasses that absolutely nobody asked for.The design is as creepy as it is familiar.

Facebook: Taping Over Camera LED on Our Glasses is a TOS Violation

By Victor Tangermann

Social media giant Facebook issued an apology on Friday after their AI labeled a group of Black men in a video as “primates."

Artificial Intelligence

Facebook Apologizes for Racist AI That Labeled Black Men as “Primates”

By Tony Ho Tran

Literally Nobody Asked for Facebook’s Dumb VR Meeting Feature

Literally Nobody Asked for Facebook’s Dumb VR Meeting Feature

By Victor Tangermann

President Joe Biden said that social media sites like Facebook are “killing people” by allowing COVID-19 misinformation to run rampant.

Biden: Misinformation on Facebook Is “Killing People”

By Tony Ho Tran

Facebook announced that is is abandoning plans to develop a brain-computer interface headset capable of turning brain signals into spoken words.

Facebook Abandons Plans for Mind-Reading Headset

By Victor Tangermann

The Texas Supreme Court has ruled that Facebook can be held liable if sex traffickers use the platform to victimize children on Friday.

Facebook Can Be Held Liable for Sex Trafficking, Says Texas Court

By Tony Ho Tran

A new Facebook patent reveals some unusual new augmented reality headware, including a fedora, baseball cap, and visor with displays attached to the brim.

Facebook Is Working on an Amazingly Hideous Augmented Reality Fedora

By Dan Robitzski

Facebook is starting to squeeze ads into the magical virtual reality environments enabled by its Oculus Quest VR headset.

Virtual Reality

Dystopian Marketers, Unite: Facebook to Start Dropping Ads Into VR Spaces

By Victor Tangermann

A growing body of scientific evidence suggests there may be a link between social media use and depression, NPR reports. Facebook disagrees.

Scientists Say There’s a Clear Link Between Facebook and Depression

By Victor Tangermann

After a not-so-sneaky attempt to get back on Twitter, former US President and serial poster Donald Trump finds himself banned once more.

Trump Just Got Kicked Off Twitter AGAIN

By Dan Robitzski

Facebook's Oversight Board has officially ruled to uphold the social media network's suspension of Donald Trump in a ruling today.

Facebook Oversight Board Rules That Trump Remains Banned

By Victor Tangermann

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced during an internal Q&A that any employee who wants one could expense an Oculus Quest 2 to the company.

Virtual Reality

Facebook Is Giving a VR Headset to Every Employee Who Wants One

By Dan Robitzski

"Do you ever get so excited about what you're working on that you forget to eat meals?" Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote in a Thursday status update.

Mark Zuckerberg Says He’s So Excited About New Project That He’s Forgetting to Eat

By Victor Tangermann

Facebook has been permitting the Chinese government to buy ads that deny it's committing acts of genocide against its Muslim Uyghur population.

Facebook Lets Chinese Government Run Genocide-Denying Ads

By Dan Robitzski

Hackers posted the leaked private information of over 533 million Facebook users online. The breach was so big it even includes Mark Zuckerberg's data.

Science & Energy

New Facebook Leak Was So Huge It Included Mark Zuckerberg’s Personal Data

By Dan Robitzski

Facebook released a new video, showing off a prototype of a wrist-worn device meant to serve as a controller for its upcoming augmented reality glasses.

Facebook’s Neural Wristband Actually Sounds Pretty Cool

By Victor Tangermann

According to a new blog post, Facebook is hoping to hook up its upcoming AR glasses to a "soft wristband" that can control them.

Facebook Shows Off Neural “Wristbands” to Control AR Glasses

By Victor Tangermann

In a leaked company meeting, Facebook showed off recent progress on the brain-reading technology its been developing for years.

Leaked Meeting: Facebook Working on Device to Read Your Brain

By Dan Robitzski

The government of the Solomon Islands, a nation of hundreds of islands in the South Pacific, is defending its decision to temporarily ban Facebook.

An Entire Island Nation Is Banning Facebook

By Victor Tangermann

Facebook, a company that's been around since 2004, announced on October 12, 2020 that it will prohibit posts that deny or distort the Holocaust.

Facebook Waited Until October 12, 2020 to Ban Holocaust Denial

By Dan Robitzski

A seed company uploaded a picture of onions to market its seeds on Facebook. The algorithm flagged it for being "overtly sexualized."

Facebook Algorithm Flags Onions as “Overtly Sexualized”

By Dan Robitzski

Facebook's former head of monetization says that his former employer, like big tobacco companies, worked to make its product as addictive as possible.

Former Employee: We Made Facebook as Addictive as Cigarettes on Purpose

By Jon Christian

Following a landmark European court ruling, Facebook is warning that it may pull out of Europe entirely, as The Guardian reports.

Facebook Threatens to Pull Out of Europe Entirely

By Victor Tangermann

The consulting CTO of Oculus says he's "kind of embarrassed" at Facebook's feeble attempts to leverage VR during the pandemic lockdown.

Virtual Reality

Oculus CTO Says He’s “Embarrassed” by Facebook’s Handling of VR

By Jon Christian

TikTok has officially sued the Trump administration for banning transactions with its parent company ByteDance.

TikTok Officially Sues the Trump Administration Over Ban in US

By Victor Tangermann

According to a new report, Facebook only flags about 16 percent of the medical misinformation that gets posted on the platform.

Facebook Only Catches 16 Percent of Medical Misinformation Posts

By Dan Robitzski

Disgruntled Facebook employees are reckoning with their company's multifaceted role in damaging "the fabric of our society."

Former Employee: “Facebook is Hurting People at Scale”

By Dan Robitzski

A federal appeals court just ruled that the Facebook's practice of collecting data through its "like" widgets could be considered wiretapping.

Court Says Facebook has Been Wiretapping for Years

By Dan Robitzski

A team researchers at Facebook have created a virtual reality headset that's not much larger than a (bulky) pair of sunglasses.

Virtual Reality

Facebook Built a VR Headset the Size of a Pair of Large Sunglasses

By Victor Tangermann

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg decided to do nothing about president Donald Trump's problematic posts about protesters. Employees are fuming.

Facebook Workers “Walk Out” Over Inaction on Trump Posts

By Victor Tangermann

Facebook just agreed to pay $52 million to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging that its content moderators suffered psychological trauma on the job.

Facebook Will Pay Mods $52M For Trauma From Gore, Sexual Abuse

By Dan Robitzski

Facebook has been getting takedown requests from several states, urging it to remove anti-quarantine protest pages in defiance of stay-at-home orders.

Facebook Is Taking Down Pages Organizing Anti-Quarantine Protests

By Victor Tangermann

Facebook published a new heatmap that shows the proportion of people feeling coronavirus symptoms within each U.S. county.

This Heatmap Shows Severity of COVID Outbreak in Every US County

By Dan Robitzski

Almost a year after it was announced, Facebook's Libra project looks almost unrecognizable in its updated white paper that was announced today.

Facebook’s Cryptocurrency Has Failed Spectacularly

By Victor Tangermann

On Friday, OurMine's hackers took over the Instagram and Twitter accounts of social media giant Facebook in an apparent effort to drum up business.

Hackers Hijack Facebook’s Twitter, Instagram Accounts

By Kristin Houser

According comments he made on a post that outlined his New Year's resolutions on Facebook, Zuckerberg revealed that he hunts wild boar with bow and arrow.

Mark Zuckerberg Says He Hunts Wild Boar With a Bow and Arrow

By Victor Tangermann

Facebook Bans All Deepfakes

Facebook Bans All Deepfakes

By Victor Tangermann

Twelve former content moderators have filed a lawsuit against Facebook and a contracting firm alleging that the work caused psychological trauma.

Former Content Moderators Sue Facebook for Giving Them PTSD

By Kristin Houser

In a call with reporters on Wednesday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed that the social media company has nixed 5.4 billion fake accounts in 2019 alone.

Facebook Says It Has Shut Down 5.4 Billion Fake Accounts in 2019

By Victor Tangermann

According to an exclusive report by The Wall Street Journal, Google will start offering bank checking accounts to its Google Pay customers.

Google Is Going to Start Offering Bank Accounts

By Victor Tangermann

The Facebook iOS app is turning on users' camera without informing them, according to Twitter user Joshua Maddux, who uploaded a screen capture video.

Facebook’s iPhone App is Secretly Using Your Camera As You Scroll

By Victor Tangermann

Facebook hired the cofounder of a media outlet that's specifically biased against Elizabeth Warren to head its recently-launched news service.

Facebook’s Head of News Founded an Anti-Warren Website

By Dan Robitzski

A white supremacist planned to blow up a synagogue, but the bombs he got from undercover FBI agents he met through Facebook were inert.

FBI Meets Would-Be Bomber on Facebook, Gives Him Fake Explosives

By Kristin Houser

Cognizant, a firm providing Facebook with content moderation services, has announced that it plans to end its relationship with the social media company.

The Firm That Deletes Gore and Child Porn on Facebook Just Quit

By Kristin Houser

During his recent Congressional hearing, Mark Zuckerberg was asked if he would ever spend a day moderating Facebook. He wasn't keen on the idea.

Mark Zuckerberg Refuses to Look at Horrible Facebook Gore

By Dan Robitzski

Facebook COO insists that the company doesn't run political ads, honest or not, for the money. It's all for the important "political discourse."

Facebook: Misleading Political Ads Are Important “Discourse”

By Dan Robitzski