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People in the Phillipines are selling organs on Facebook, supplying an illegal human organ trafficking ring in exchange for some desperately-needed cash.

People Are Selling Human Organs on Facebook

By Dan Robitzski

Senator Ron Wyden's new privacy bill would hold tech companies' CEOs responsible if they lie about protecting users' personal information.

New Privacy Bill Could Send Mark Zuckerberg to Jail

By Kristin Houser

PayPal left Facebook's cryptocurrency project last week. Visa, MasterCard, Stripe, and eBay have decided to abandon the crumbling project as well.

Facebook’s Cryptocurrency is Collapsing in Front of Our Eyes

By Victor Tangermann

At an event, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg reiterated that the social network is still hoping to one day release a brain-controlled wearable

Mark Zuckerberg: Wearables Will Soon Read Your Mind

By Victor Tangermann

Mark Zuckerberg, the Facebook CEO who's accumulated a nice $69.8 billion, suggests that maybe no one needs a billion dollars after all.

Mark Zuckerberg, a Billionaire, Says Billionaires Shouldn’t Exist

By Dan Robitzski

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg just took questions from employees during a Q&A session, and for the first time, the company livestreamed the event.

Facebook Just Livestreamed an Employee Q&A With Mark Zuckerberg

By Tag Hartman-Simkins

After a week away from Facebook, undergrads felt better and made healthier choices. But they were also eager to sign on again.

A Week Break From Facebook Can Make You Less Depressed

By Dan Robitzski

A Yahoo software engineer hacked 6,000 people's accounts in a systematic, far-reaching hunt for nudes and other sexually-explicit media.

Science & Energy

Yahoo Engineer Admits He Hacked User Accounts to Hunt for Nudes

By Dan Robitzski

Mark Zuckerberg told Facebook employees that Elizabeth Warren and her plan to break up tech corporations is an exisential threat.

Leaked Audio: Mark Zuckerberg Is Terrified of Elizabeth Warren

By Dan Robitzski

Oxford researchers found that at least 70 countries have sponsored campaigns that spread favorable propaganda across the internet.

Dozens of Countries Are Deploying Propaganda on Social Media

By Dan Robitzski

Facebook Just Bought a Brain-Computer Interface Startup

Facebook Just Bought a Brain-Computer Interface Startup

By Victor Tangermann

Facebook released a new data policy for its Portal devices that reveals the company will occasionally store audio recordings of Portal users.

Facebook: Actually, We Do Listen to You Sometimes

By Dan Robitzski

Facebook is soliciting bodycam footage of police shooting their firearms so it can use the video to train its AI to detect violent content.

Cops Are Giving Facebook Bodycam Footage

By Kristin Houser

France's Minister of the Economy and Finance said that Facebook's Libra cryptocurrency will be barred from the country if it's released as planned.

French Gov Official Warns Facebook: Libra Is Not Welcome Here

By Dan Robitzski

Facebook has announced a trio of new initiatives designed to prevent suicide and self-harm amongst the platform's many users.

Facebook Announces New Efforts to Prevent Suicide and Self-Harm

By Kristin Houser

A state-owned communications watchdog in Russia claims that Google, Facebook, and YouTube interfered with a local election by allowing political ads.

Russia Accuses Facebook of Meddling In Its Election. Seriously.

By Victor Tangermann

U.S. Senator Ron Wyden suggests sending Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to prison for the lies he has told the American people.

Senator Suggests Sending Mark Zuckerberg to Prison

By Kristin Houser

Over 419 million database records on hundreds of millions of Facebook users, including their phone numbers, were stored in an unprotected server.

Phone Numbers of 400M Facebook Users Were Publicly Available

By Victor Tangermann

Facebook scientists built a minecraft-playing AI assistant that they hope will learn to understand natural language as it performs tasks.

Artificial Intelligence

Facebook Research is Using Minecraft to Train AI. Here’s Why.

By Dan Robitzski

Over the past six months, hundreds of endangered species, especially the Helmeted Hornbill, have illegally gone up for sale on Facebook.

Science & Energy

Traffickers Are Using Facebook to Sell Endangered Bird Skulls

By Dan Robitzski

Backers for Facebook's Libra cryptocurrency are reportedly considering pulling their support in the face of increased scrutiny and regulation.

Backers for Facebook’s Libra Cryptocurrency May Jump Ship

By Dan Robitzski

Facebook announced that it plans to extend its fact-checking program to Instagram, but it's not clear that checking memes will accomplish anything.

Instagram Wants to Fact-Check Your Memes

By Dan Robitzski

In an attempt to convince its two billion users that it truly cares about their privacy, Facebook is opening a number of pop-up privacy check-up cafes.

Facebook is Opening Privacy Check-Up Cafes, for Some Reason

By Victor Tangermann

Facebook paid third-party contractors to write up transcriptions of user's conversations, despite the company's insistence that it doesn't record us.

Facebook Has Been Secretly Transcribing Your Conversations

By Dan Robitzski

Facebook has removed an event called "Storm Area 51" with some 2 million Facebook users who have RSVP'd, claiming it violated community standards.

Facebook Removes “Storm Area 51” Event

By Victor Tangermann

Facebook has announced it's collaborating with researchers to build a real-time brain decoding device that could help patients with neurological damage.

Facebook is Making Progress on Its Mind Reading Headset

By Victor Tangermann

Chris Hughes, one of the guys responsible for turning Facebook into an all-powerful monopoly, met with federal regulators to say Facebook is a too big.

Facebook Cofounder: Please Break up Facebook

By Dan Robitzski

Facebook's former head of security wants to build an "internet observatory" to monitor harassment. The idea is to build out the tool for academics to use.

Stanford Built an “Internet Observatory” to Monitor Abuse

By Dan Robitzski

Facebook is already inundated with scam posts for its yet-unreleased cryptocurrency, Libra. It's a bad sign for a company trying to earn public trust.

Facebook Is Having Trouble Fighting Scams About Its Own Altcoin

By Dan Robitzski

A new study reveals that tens of thousands of porn sites automatically monitor your, uh, behavior, and send the data to companies like Facebook and Google.

Science & Energy

Facebook And Google Know All Your Kinks

By Dan Robitzski

China Is Obsessed With Facebook’s Cryptocurrency

China Is Obsessed With Facebook’s Cryptocurrency

By Victor Tangermann

Air Force “Stands Ready” to Defend Area 51 From Facebook Event

Air Force “Stands Ready” to Defend Area 51 From Facebook Event

By Victor Tangermann

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Artificial Intelligence

Facebook’s “Superhuman” Poker AI Out-Bluffs World’s Top Players

By Victor Tangermann

Facebook will now help French courts identify users suspected of spreading hate speech on the platform, a deal it hasn't made with any other nation.

Facebook to Identify Hate Speech-Spouting Users for France

By Kristin Houser

Facebook's pivot to blockchain and its new Libra cryptocurrency could sow the seeds of the company's destruction, argues fintech expert Marc-David Seidel.

Fintech Expert: Libra Could Be Facebook’s Downfall

By Dan Robitzski

Thanks to a popularity boost from Facebook's Libra cryptocurrency, the value of Bitcoin recently surged to over $11,000.

Facebook’s Libra Cryptocurrency Just Resuscitated Bitcoin

By Dan Robitzski

Contractors who moderate flagged posts for Facebook describe hellish and hostile working conditions while reviewing the worst of the internet.

Facebook Moderators Are Dying at Their Desks

By Dan Robitzski

Facebook's cryptocurrency could give the company even more sway and influence — perhaps even turn them into a virtual nation according to Jennifer Grygiel.

Expert: Facebook Is Trying to Become an Independent Country

By Victor Tangermann

Shortly after Facebook annoucned Libra, its new cryptocurrency, U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown and European leaders called for strong regulations.

Senator Slams Facebook’s New Crypto: “Facebook Is Already Too Big”

By Dan Robitzski

Amnesty International argues that Facebook took away a crucial tool for humans rights investigators without consulting them.

Human Rights Group: Facebook Won’t Let Us Investigate War Crimes

By Dan Robitzski

With Near-Infinite Resources, Facebook Launches a Cryptocurrency

With Near-Infinite Resources, Facebook Launches a Cryptocurrency

By Victor Tangermann

UK artists Bill Posters and Daniel Howe, with the help of ad agency Canny, just uploaded a video of a deepfaked Mark Zuckerberg to Instagram.

Watch Deepfaked Mark Zuckerberg Rant About How He Controls You

By Victor Tangermann

A company called Planner 5D is suing Facebook and Princeton University, claiming that they took, used, and shared its database of 3D models and simulations.

Artificial Intelligence

A Startup Is Suing Facebook, Princeton For Stealing Its AI Data

By Dan Robitzski

Democrats in the House of Representatives formally launched an antitrust probe into Silicon Valley to determine whether Facebook and Google are monopolies.

Congress Is Deciding Whether to Break Up Facebook, Google

By Dan Robitzski

Facebook's plan to block revenge porn by storing digital fingerprints of lewd photos to cross-reference new uploads doesn't involve informing victims.

Facebook Knows When Someone Posts Your Nudes — but Won’t Tell You

By Dan Robitzski

Facebook has lifted the curtain on its robotics research, sharing details on three projects in a newly published blog post.

Facebook Finally Unveils Secret Robotics Projects

By Kristin Houser

The AIs used by Facebook and other social media companies to filter out extremist content may also be deleting valuable evidence of criminal activity.

Facebook’s AI May Be Helping Terrorists Get Away With Murder

By Kristin Houser

Facebook is not only failing to detect Al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups on its platform, it's algorithmically generating content for them.

Artificial Intelligence

Facebook Cheers on Charming Local Business Al-Qaeda’s “Great Year”

By Dan Robitzski

In a New York Times op-ed, Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes argues that Facebook needs to be broken up and regulated.

Facebook Co-Founder: “It’s Time to Break Up Facebook”

By Victor Tangermann

"Millions of Facebook Inc photos, status updates and other content posted since 2014" have been combed over by hundreds of outsourced workers in Hyderabad.

Outsourced Workers Are Training AIs With Your Private FB Posts

By Victor Tangermann

InfoWars came back online not even a day after Facebook announced the ban with a page titled "Infowars is back."

InfoWars Made a New Facebook Page One Hour After Ban

By Victor Tangermann

Ex-Googler: Company Has “Voodoo Doll, Avatar-Like Version of You”

By Dan Robitzski

Health-focused apps can sell sensitive personal information to whomever they please, and a new study shows that many do so without telling users.

Health & Medicine

Apps to Help Quit Smoking Are Selling Your Data

By Dan Robitzski

Facebook probably didn't get the reaction it expected when it unveiled updates to its dating service: instead of clapping, the crowd sighed and groaned.

Facebook’s New Dating Feature Prompted Audible Groans

By Dan Robitzski

A new study says that based on Facebook's current numbers, dead people's accounts will outnumber the living in about 50 years.

In 50 Years, Dead People Will Make up Most of Facebook’s Users

By Dan Robitzski

The Federal Trade Commission is reportedly considering holding Mark Zuckerberg directly responsible for Facebook's privacy scandals.

The Government Wants to Make an Example out of Mark Zuckerberg

By Dan Robitzski

Facebook admitted yesterday that it "unintentionally uploaded" email contacts of some 1.5 million new users since May 2016.

Facebook “Unintentionally” Uploaded 1.5 Million Email Contacts

By Victor Tangermann

Facebook-owned virtual reality company Oculus just shipped tens of thousands of Touch controllers bearing hidden messages.

Hidden Messages Suggest That Facebook Sees User Privacy as a Joke

By Kristin Houser

Facebook just announced changes to how it handles dead peoples' memorialized accounts. It'll no longer suggest that you invite dead people to events.

Facebook Will Stop Suggesting You Invite Dead People to Events

By Dan Robitzski

Linus Torvalds, the angry rant-prone creator of Linux, argues that modern social media incentivize terrible behavior online.

Linux Creator: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter Are “A Disease”

By Dan Robitzski

Senator Warren just introduced a bill that would jail executives of billion-dollar tech companies from which users' personal info gets stolen.

Elizabeth Warren: If Data Gets Stolen, Throw Tech CEOs in Prison

By Dan Robitzski

Singapore's newly proposed fake news bill would force Facebook and other platforms to issue corrections alongside posts containing false statements.

New Singapore Law Would Force Facebook to Issue “Corrections”

By Kristin Houser

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg penned an op-ed for The Washington Post asking governments to create new rules for the internet.

Mark Zuckerberg Asks Governments for “New Rules” for the Internet

By Kristin Houser

Australia has proposed a new bill that would punish social media companies that don't do enough to prevent the weaponization of their platforms.

Australia Proposes Bill to Stop “Weaponization” of Social Media

By Kristin Houser