Frances Haugen, the Facebook whistleblower who first came forward in an explosive "60 Minutes" interview, told a Senate subcommittee on Tuesday that there is "no one" holding Mark Zuckerberg ...

Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to end content moderation on Facebook and stop suppressing political content marks a watershed moment in the platform’s chaotic evolution. It is disgraceful in its way, but ...

Amazon, Uber, Google, Facebook, Microsoft and many other big companies have something in common. They’re all platforms, providing underlying technologies that others use to build or facilitate their ...

Another day, another product category Facebook wants to dip its toes in. Today Facebook announced Bulletin, a newsletter product built to take on platforms like Substack and Twitter’s Revue. Bulletin ...

"We expect these AIs to actually, over time, exist on our platforms, kind of in the same way that accounts do." Were you hoping that bots on social media would be a thing of the past? Well, don’t hold ...

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The former president was banned two years ago after the Jan. 6. U.S. Capitol riot. By Alex Weprin Senior Editor Former president Donald Trump is returning to Facebook. Two years after the social ...

The cool new thing on Facebook is for Mark Zuckerberg to drop product news in live audio rooms. So today, Zuckerberg took to his brand’s Clubhouse competitor to announce its next new thing: Bulletin, ...

Caroline McCarthy, a CNET News staff writer, is a downtown Manhattanite happily addicted to social-media tools and restaurant blogs. Her pre-CNET resume includes interning at an IT security firm and ...

Technology companies have long had a simple answer to anyone who did not like what was happening on, in, or through them: Services like Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter were platforms, which merely ...

The writing is on the wall for Facebook — the platform is losing market share, fast, among young users. Edison Research’s Infinite Dial study from early 2019 showed that 62% of U.S. 12–34 year-olds ...

This post was updated at 10:18 a.m. PST to add information about Bebo's plans for OpenSocial. SAN FRANCISCO--When Bebo co-founder and CEO Michael Birch took the stage in a theater at the Metreon ...