The California State Court of Appeals reversed a decision made in 2020 that stated Facebook was protected from legal action under Section 230. Facebook can be sued over claims its advertising ...

New research published Thursday attempts to shed light on these questions. Four peer-reviewed studies, appearing in the journals Science and Nature, are the first results of a long-awaited, repeatedly ...

This photo shows the mobile phone app logos for, from left, Facebook and Instagram in New York, Oct. 5, 2021. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, file) (CN) — A study claiming Meta’s news feed algorithm ...

Over the last several years, there have been growing concerns about the influence of social media on fostering political polarization in the US, with critical implications for democracy. But it’s ...

Eighteen months after Facebook banned communities and users connected with the “Boogaloo” anti-government movement, the group’s extremist ideas were back and flourishing on the social media platform, ...

With no communication from the company, publishers relying on Facebook traffic are at the mercy of the inscrutable algorithm, and they say it's punishing them. Reading time 5 minutes An apparent ...

(CNN)Facebook-parent Meta is facing four new complaints from human rights groups in Europe alleging that the algorithm it uses to target users with companies' job advertisements is discriminatory, ...

The project included 17 academic researchers from 12 universities who were granted deep access by Facebook to aggregated data. A landmark study of how Facebook shaped the news users saw in the run-up ...

Is Facebook exacerbating America's political divide? Are viral posts, algorithmically ranked feeds, and partisan echo chambers driving us apart? Do conservatives and liberals exist in ideological ...