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How Facebook’s Failures Line Up With Frances Haugen’s Whistleblower Docs

We connected the dots between some of our own past investigations and the internal Facebook...

Facebook Expands Harassment Policy to Protect Public Figures

Facebook will bar content that degrades or sexualizes public figures, including celebrities, elected officials and...

Here’s How Many Millions in Ad Revenue Facebook Could Have Lost During Outage

We used Facebook Inc.'s latest financial report to estimate its revenue loss per second during...

What Caused the October 2021 Facebook Outage?

The technology giant suffered a major shutdown that lasted about six hours.

Facebook Is Down, as Are Instagram, Messenger, and WhatsApp

The websites and apps for all four Facebook products were not available on the morning...

Ex-Facebook Manager Alleges Social Network Fed Capitol Riot

A data scientist who was revealed as the Facebook whistleblower says that whenever there was...

Facebook Puts Instagram for Kids on Hold After Pushback

Facebook is putting a hold on the development of a kids' version of Instagram, geared...

Facebook Allows Promotion of ‘Fake Masks’ for Children in Schools

In this special investigation, we also found nearly 100 comparisons of mask-wearing to Nazi Germany...

Foreign, Pro-Trump Facebook Pages Post Altered Fox News Videos, Earning Tens of Millions of Views

Since at least late 2020, the videos from Fox News, OAN, and Newsmax featured misleading...

Facebook Fails To Stem COVID Denialism Even as Delta Variant Surges

We documented a sampling of Facebook posts, comments, and a group that continue to push...

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Reader beware.

Is Facebook Issuing New Warnings About ‘Extremist Content’?

The purported messages urge users to seek support from the tech giant's partners.