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The wrong man has the ear of Mark Zuckerberg, according to tireless Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen. The former company executive who previously leaked thousands of internal Facebook papers and testified before the US Senate and British parliament last year, told The Times that Zuckerberg and his senior team…

UPDATED with closing price: Facebook shares closed down 26.4% in a market rout, knocking a record $230 billion off the company’s market cap. PREVIOUSLY: A plunge in shares of Facebook parent Meta Platforms Facebook has erased more than than $200 billion of its market value, one of Wall Street's steepest dips…

The House committee investigating the January 6th attack on the Capitol has issued subpoenas to four major tech companies, including Alphabet, Meta, Reddit and Twitter, for documents related to the spread of election disinformation on social media and the use of platforms by violent extremists. Bennie Thompson, the…

UK regulators today ordered Meta, formerly Facebook, to unwind its acquisition of popular GIF-making and sharing app Giphy after concluding the deal was anticompetitive – a significant call amid rising pressure on both sides of the Atlantic to rein in the power of the social media giant, including by breaking it…

An actor and Mark Zuckerberg look-alike skewed the virtual reality of the Facebook founder's Metaverse while promoted the stunning waterfalls and wild horses of Iceland in a tourism video. Urging people to visit "Icelandverse," actor Jörundur Ragnarsson, with a short bowl haircut and awkward body movements and…

On tonight’s episode of CBS’ Late Show, Stephen Colbert went after embattled social network Facebook. “Today’s been a monumentally bad day for Facebook, the world’s top social media network and uncle radicalizer,” he said. The late-night host addressed the role and influence of Facebook groups.  “Facebook does, for…

Addressing "the recent debate around our company," Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg gave not an inch on Monday, saying, "what we are seeing is a coordinated effort to selectively use leaked documents to paint a false picture." Kicking off a conference call with financial analysts after quarterly earnings, Zuckerberg…

Facebook hit 2.91 billion monthly active users last quarter, up 6% from the year earlier, and reported mixed financial results and a revenue outlook for the current fourth quarter that was below expectations. Revenue of $29 billion for the September quarter was up 35% from the year before but below Wall Street…

Facebook continues to generate headlines, with CEO Mark Zuckerberg personally being named a defendant in a consumer protection lawsuit and the company said to be planning a name change. The still top-secret new corporate moniker, reported by The Verge, would serve as an umbrella for all Facebook brands much like…

Weekend Update anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che weighed in on Facebook’s turbulent week on tonight’s episode of Saturday Night Live. “This week, we found out that sometimes a guy in a hoodie actually can be dangerous,” Jost deadpanned, with reference to the tech company’s founder Mark Zuckerberg. “Internal documents…

Facebook’s having a rotten week on both the public relations and apparently the technical side. According to the Downdetector site that lets users plug in outages and graphs them, complaints started to spike around 2:15 pm ET about problems accessing apps and  Instagram and Facebook Messenger are having a similar…

Stephen Colbert opened Tuesday’s edition of The Late Show with a short clip of Jesse Eisenberg reprising his role as Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg from The Social Network, poking fun at how the big tech billionaire lost more than $6 billion due to the Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp outage. As the world plunged…