Last week, former Vice President for growth at Facebook, Chamath Palihapitiya came out against the platform, stating that it tears society apart. Now, it seems that Facebook itself thinks it’s bad for your health, but it has steps in place to help with that. Facebook has taken a lot of …

Facebook has been stepping up its effort in many departments this year, from password recovery to its attack on fake or promoted news. One ex-employee, however, is more concerned over Facebook’s contribution to social media tearing apart society. Former Vice President for growth at Facebook, Chamath Palihapitiya spoke to Stanford …

Just last week, Facebook announced that it will add ‘trust indicators’ to combat the spreading of false information. Further progressing on its plans to ‘combat fake news and propaganda’, the social media page is now adding a tool to allow users to identify whether or not they have interacted with …

By now, Facebook users are accustomed to jarring changes every once in a while, often resulting you hating your own force of habit due to buttons shifting around. This time, the company has decided to take an entire button away, leaving many unable to delete their own posts from the …

Over the last year, the idea of ‘fake news' has become a hot button issue on social media, with politicians calling for the likes of Facebook, Twitter and Google to combat the spreading of false information. Now Facebook is stepping up to the plate with ‘trust indicators', intended to identify …

Facebook owner, Mark Zuckerberg took to the company’s earnings call earlier today to announce that it has exceeded $10 billion in quarterly revenue, thanks to its 500 million users. It wasn’t all sunshines and rainbows, however, as Zuckerberg swiftly moved onto the topic of security, discussing the future of the …

It is no secret that Facebook has been putting publishers in a tough position over the last few years. Constant news algorithm changes make it difficult for publishers to get their content seen without ‘boosting’ specific posts and now, it seems that Facebook is testing a new way of displaying …

For the past two years, Microsoft and Facebook have been working with telecoms infrastructure company Telxius on a huge 4,100 mile long sub-sea cable for high-end data transmission. The cable, known as Marea, has been installed across the Atlantic Ocean, offering 160 terabits of data per second by 2018. With …

Facebook has had a lot of difficulties developing its AI, particularly in its inability to discern hate speech. This has now resulted in the social media giant having to temporarily suspend advertisers from targeting people via employer or education, as the AI continued to let keywords like “Jew hater” slip …

Last night saw some of the biggest tech firms in the world come together the battle against warrantless police wanting access to mobile location data. The companies signed a brief asking the Supreme Court to consider the impact it has on privacy. The brief was collectively signed by Airbnb, Apple, …

The idea of a modular smartphone has been around for a while, with many big name brands trying to tackle the ambitious journey to bring it to life. These projects have always come to an abrupt and disappointing end, but where companies like Google and LG have failed, Facebook plans …

Last year, Facebook forced mobile users to move over to a separate messenger app for private messages. In January, the reasoning behind this became more clear, with Facebook announcing that it would begin showing adverts within the messenger app. In-app ads have been tested in a handful of countries but …

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds has been quite the success story after selling four million copies in just three months and the early access game doesn’t seem to show any signs of slowing down. Due for its full release later this year, Battlegrounds has managed to climb into second place on Steam’s most …

This week, the European Commission is fining Facebook £94.1 million, after concluding that the company gave ‘misleading' information during an investigation into its acquisition of WhatsApp in 2014. The EC initially began vetting the acquisition deal between Facebook and WhatsApp on anti-competitive grounds. During the Commission's investigation, Facebook made filings …

After founding the company and helping it get to the point where it is today, Palmer Luckey has officially left Oculus VR and by extension, Facebook as well. This move has been somewhat expected for several months now, as Luckey has remained silent since September, when he was found to …

The virtual reality revolution isn't going quite as smoothly as Oculus VR predicted, as its parent company, Facebook, is set to close 200+ of the VR firm's demo stations around the U.S.. This comes amid reports that some of the demo stations would often sit for days at a time …

In the ongoing race to attract the best software developers in America, Facebook has once again expanded its employee benefits to improve the lives of those with recent bereavements or sick relatives. Moving forward, anyone with a sick family member can take up to six weeks of paid leave to care …

Following on from claims that fake-news had a large impact on the U.S. presidential elections, technology firms like Google and Facebook are taking steps to combat it in the lead up to the French elections in April. Together they've debuted a service called Cross Check, which when it goes live …

Facebook is looking to end one of the biggest problems in web security: password recovery. To that end, it has announced a new way to recover your password for your Github account, which is successful could spell the end of secret questions, recovery emails and provide much greater security in …

While some lobby groups are still railing against the dangers of torrent sites and downloading, many around the world have moved on to much newer ways to watch protected content: like Facebook live streams. Looking to stay on top of emerging trends however is Dutch anti-piracy group, BRIEN, which has shut …

If you thought using Facebook's Messenger application was a good way to avoid seeing all of the adverts on the Facebook main site, think again. In what will begin as a small-scale trial in select territories, Facebook is set to begin running adverts within the app itself, providing links to …

The Information Commissioner's Office in the UK has warned Facebook that it may pursue action against the social network over data gathering conducted as part of the WhatsApp messaging service. It claims that Facebook doesn't inform its users enough about what it's gathering. In response, Facebook has paused data gathering …

Like a real world game of Agar.io, Facebook is swallowing up everything around it as it expands into new fields of advertising and absorbs old ones. With the release of its second quarter financials, we've learned that its net income has tripled year on year, thanks to a huge expansion …

A recent episode of Black Mirror that addressed the idea of social networking ratings affecting the real world, could be closer to reality than you might think. Admiral is currently looking to use analysis of Facebook posts, searching for triggers like exclamation points and confident statements, as a bearing on …

Unity held its annual Unite conference yesterday, where it launched the new 5.5 game engine and a new Timeline feature for the editor. However the big news was some of the partnerships it has made recently, including ones with Nintendo, Facebook and Google, each of which will be using the …

As the owner of Oculus VR, Facebook has been driving forward virtual reality development for much of the last year and recently announced a new Facebook social experience through the Rift headset. To head up its new social VR team, Facebook has now hired on ex-EA executive Rachel Franklin, who was …

Even though it earned close to £5 billion pounds around the world in 2015, Facebook has managed to earn itself more than £11 million in tax credits with the British government, meaning that it can offset future tax bills to reduce those figures. This comes at a time of massive …

It looks like Facebook is going to be much more involved with the ongoing Oculus VR experience moving forward, as with the latest 1.8 update for the headset's companion software and store, Facebook integration is possible. If you use it though, prepare for your VR skirts to be lifted. If …

Facebook looked pretty unprofessional when earlier this year it fired its entire news curation staff, only to have the algorithm that replaced them promote fake news within 24 hours. To stop that happening in the future, the social network has teamed up with Twitter and other news and tech firms …

Mark Zuckerberg has been attacked by a Norwegian newspaper and many international commenters, for what many people see as outright censorship of an iconic photo from the Vietnam war. He has been accused of abusing his power and making Facebook limit freedoms with its aggressive editing of certain images. Perhaps the …