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Mysterious Israeli-based group is using Facebook pages to spread fake news and target politicians
It's just another day at Facebook as a mysterious Israeli-based Facebook group used 21 different pa…
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'It's horrifying how much they know': An anonymous Facebook employee explained what it's like to go face to face with Mark Zuckerberg's 'secret police'
Inside the meeting room were several members of Facebook's internal investigations team, The Guardi…
James Cook
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A top Facebook exec told a whistleblower her concerns about widespread state-sponsored disinformation meant she had 'job security'
Facebook integrity chief Guy Rosen said concerns about dictators using fake accounts to bolster sup…
Tyler Sonnemaker
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Christopher Wylie, the 28-year-old whistleblower of the Trump-linked data firm Cambridge Analytica, says his Facebook account has been disabled
Despite reportedly having evidence that Cambridge Analytica had illegitimately collected user data,…
Dave Smith
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A St. Louis cop bragged on Facebook about spending his 'annual Michael Brown bonus'
"I decided to spend my annual Michael Brown bonus on a nice relaxing bicycle ride trip to Defiance,…
Matthew Speiser
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A second former Cambridge Analytica employee has reportedly been subpoenaed by Robert Mueller's investigation
A representative for Brittany Kaiser, a former business development director for Cambridge Analytic…
Mark Matousek
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A pro-Trump group bought Facebook ads for Green party candidates during the 2018 midterm elections to try and split the Democratic vote, The Guardian reported
The conservative marketing firm Rally Forge was behind the ads, part of an apparent effort to split…
Kelly McLaughlin,Jake Lahut
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Police used Google Maps to track down a mafia fugitive who was on the run for 20 years
Gioacchino Gammino was spotted on Google Street View at a grocery store in Spain. Police found a ph…
Isobel Asher Hamilton
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Engagement with anti-vaxx Facebook pages more than trebled from July to August, analysis shows
The Guardian's research was based on monitoring six popular pages that posted anti-vaccine messages.
Isobel Asher Hamilton
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A former Facebook employee who was responsible for monitoring data breaches has come forward about the way Facebook handles user data, calling its practices 'utterly shocking and horrifying'
"They felt that it was better not to know," Parakilas said about Facebook executives at the time. "…
Prachi Bhardwaj
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The Cambridge Analytica data breach also harvested people's private Facebook messages
However, the Guardian said that whistleblower Christopher Wylie had looked at some direct messages …
Alexandra Ma
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A Facebook app developer laid out how the company is massively underplaying the risk of another Cambridge Analytica data scandal
"This is the remarkable thing about the experience of an app developer on Facebook. You can change …
Shona Ghosh
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Facebook just published emails showing how much employees knew about the giant Cambridge Analytica data breach 2 years before the story exploded
The emails may help clarify this issue for Facebook, but they are also a stark reminder that employ…
Isobel Asher Hamilton,Isobel …
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British data regulator granted search warrant to raid Cambridge Analytica offices and seize its servers
Alexander Nix, the company's CEO, was also secretly filmed offering to entrap politicians with brib…
Alexandra Ma
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An email exchange provides a glimpse into how Cambridge Analytica and Facebook first responded to what's now a huge data scandal
The Guardian wrote that Cruz's campaign was "using psychological data based on research spanning te…
Allan Smith
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Chinese state media cited a Swiss biologist who said the US interfered with the WHO's COVID-19 investigations. The Swiss embassy says the biologist likely doesn't exist.
In a Facebook post, a Swiss biologist claimed the US intimidated the WHO's COVID researchers. The S…
Matthew Loh
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Britain's data regulator is getting a warrant to raid Cambridge Analytica and seize its servers
CA was contracted by Donald Trump's presidential campaign, and the Brexit Leave campaign, in 2016. …
Matt Weinberger
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A top senator investigating Russian election interference is demanding answers from Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg
The letter comes as Facebook is once again under scrutiny after news reports published this weekend…
Julie Bort
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A man traveling with 3 friends live-streamed their final moments before their plane crashed in Nepal, leaving 70 dead
A smiling Sonu Jaiswal, 29, streamed himself and his three friends before the crash. They had plann…
Matthew Loh
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Nurofen is in trouble over allegedly 'misleading' ads that claim it's more effective than ibuprofen
Commenting on the Australian ruling, Dr Aomesh Bhatt, Reckitt Benckiser's medical affairs director,…