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EU fines Meta for forcing users to accept personalized ads

By Harry Guinness

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Meta will pay $725 million for a single Cambridge Analytica privacy settlement

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Meta is open sourcing its automated content moderation tool

By Harry Guinness

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WhatsApp, Discord, and other apps that let you message yourself for peak productivity

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A massive data leak just cost Meta $275 million

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Meta’s new AI can use deceit to conquer a board game world

By Charlotte Hu

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Major tax-filing sites routinely shared users’ financial info with Facebook

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Meta lays off more than 11,000 employees after ‘worst downturn’ in company’s history

You can now tell Facebook to stop feeding you posts you hate

You can now tell Facebook to stop feeding you posts you hate

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Meta says it’s shut down a giant Russian misinformation network

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Facebook’s automated image removal system is flawed, says Oversight Board

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Study confirms the obvious: youth have abandoned Facebook

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Meta could protect users’ abortion-related messages whenever it wants, advocates say

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Meta’s new chatbot is already parroting users’ prejudice and misinformation

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The fascinating and fraught ways researchers are studying modern friendships

By Charlotte Hu

It’s not just you—everyone hates Instagram now. Here’s why.

It’s not just you—everyone hates Instagram now. Here’s why.

By Harry Guinness

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Facebook will try to make its news feed more personal again

By Charlotte Hu

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Facebook’s new profiles feature will let users split up their accounts

By Colleen Hagerty

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You might be missing DMs on social media. Here’s how to fix it.

Mark Zuckerberg just showed off Meta’s next mixed-reality gadget

Mark Zuckerberg just showed off Meta’s next mixed-reality gadget

By Colleen Hagerty

This app is helping Californians stay on top of wildfire risks

This app is helping Californians stay on top of wildfire risks

By Colleen Hagerty

Curious about what’s in ‘The Facebook Papers’? Read them for yourself.

By Charlotte Hu

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Live in bliss by tuning out news stories you’re tired of hearing about

By Sandra Gutierrez G.

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How to read the news without doomscrolling through social media

By Harry Guinness

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How to start a livestream from your phone

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How to make your social media posts truly private

Meta’s new ‘system cards’ make Instagram’s AI algorithm a little less mysterious

By Charlotte Hu

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Your privacy is costing Meta money

By Colleen Hagerty

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Reset your digital life by deleting all your social media accounts

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Meta’s new supercomputer could power its virtual universe

By Charlotte Hu

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Facebook Portal Go review: Ring ring ring ring ring ring ring … video calling

By Mike Epstein

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Find your ‘Spotify Wrapped’ on more of your favorite apps

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The simplest way to post to all your social media accounts at once

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It’s time to purge the worst people in your social media feeds

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Meta gave a sneak peek of one of its first VR wearables

By Elana Spivack

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Facebook is making a big change in how it serves ads

By Charlotte Hu

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Facebook archived more than a billion user faces. Now it’s deleting them.

By Charlotte Hu

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Anyone can add links to Instagram Stories now. Here’s how.

By John Kennedy

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One of Facebook’s first moves as Meta: Teaching robots to touch and feel

By Charlotte Hu

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Facebook changes its name as it pushes toward a digital reality future

By Charlotte Hu

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How to delete your Facebook account and take your data with you

By Sandra Gutierrez G., John Kennedy

Renaming the company won’t fix Facebook’s image problem

Renaming the company won’t fix Facebook’s image problem

Facebook might rebrand as a ‘metaverse’ company. What does that even mean?

By Charlotte Hu

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Congress is coming for big tech—here’s how and why

By Charlotte Hu

The Facebook whistleblower’s Congressional hearing was a ‘big tobacco moment’ for tech

The Facebook whistleblower’s Congressional hearing was a ‘big tobacco moment’ for tech

By Colleen Hagerty

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Facebook has an explanation for its massive Monday outage

By Charlotte Hu

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What we know about why Facebook went down

By Charlotte Hu

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What to do if you think you’ve been hacked

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Tips for dealing with trolls on social media

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Facebook users can now mix Messenger and Instagram friends in group chats

By Charlotte Hu

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Criticism has pushed ‘Instagram Kids’ back to the drawing board

By Colleen Hagerty

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Are ‘water positive’ pledges from tech companies just a new kind of greenwashing?

By Angely Mercado

Twitter’s efforts to tackle misleading tweets just made them thrive elsewhere

Twitter’s efforts to tackle misleading tweets just made them thrive elsewhere

By Charlotte Hu

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Learn to use Facebook Messenger’s new encryption option for group chats and calls

By Sandra Gutierrez G.

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How to turn on dark mode for all your gadgets and apps

By Whitson Gordon, John Kennedy

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Custom vibrations and other ways to shake up your smartphone messages

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How to ignore people on social media without blocking or unfollowing them

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How to block toxic comments everywhere

By Whitson Gordon

Why the new FTC chair is causing such a stir

Why the new FTC chair is causing such a stir

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How to keep your Facebook account safe and secure

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How to keep all of your accounts safe in a world where people want your data

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7 ways to clean up your Facebook News Feed

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How to protect your privacy while signing up for a COVID-19 vaccine online

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Facebook wants to remove the ‘friction’ between you and your computer using augmented reality

By Stan Horaczek