Hanna Kozlowska

The shootings at two New Zealand mosques that left at least 49 people dead is a tragedy of the age of social media, tailor-made to be shared.

Chris Cox, arguably the most important person at Facebook after Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg, is leaving the company, Zuckerberg announced on Thursday (March 14).

Mark Zuckerberg says he has a grand new vision of social media, one that involves rebuilding Facebook with privacy in mind. But his announcement this week of the company’s supposed shift in philosophy—from a public “town square” to a more private “living room”—has raised many questions and doubts. 

Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren is the first presidential candidate in the 2020 race to outline how she would take on Big Tech.

In a habitually lengthy blog post, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on Wednesday (March 6) what looks like a significant policy shift for his company.

More than 40 Senate Democrats, along with their party colleagues in the House, introduced on Wednesday (March 6) legislation that would reverse the Federal Communications Commission’s decision to repeal net neutrality rules instated in 2015 by the Obama administration.

At the end of the 19th century, American economist and sociologist Thorstein Veblen said that people take their cues about what to consume from the social class immediately above their own. They want things just beyond their reach.

Some moderators tasked with policing content on Facebook end up believing conspiracy theories spread on the platform, reports Casey Newton at The Verge.

Serial killers are loners who stalk strangers at night to later snatch, torture, and sexually assault them before finishing the deed. They have terrifying nicknames, like “Jack the Ripper” or “BTK” for “Bind, Torture, Kill.” So goes the narrative of the archetypal monster our society loves to dissect and analyze in TV shows, books, and podcasts. And, generally speaking, statistical evidence supports that stereotype—but only for men.

A UK parliamentary committee published a report Monday (Feb. 18), bashing Facebook for everything from the Cambridge Analytica scandal to the spread of misinformation on the platform. It’s absolutely scathing: the members of parliament call the platform a “digital gangster,” accuse its executives of lying, and the company of undermining democracy. 

In Arkansas, it costs almost $15 to make a 15-minute phone call from a local jail. And that’s just the average—the highest bill in the state a new report has found reached nearly $25. These are costs put largely on people who are awaiting trial and often can’t afford to post bail, making for another exploitative feature of the US criminal justice system.

Facebook was founded 15 years ago last week. In just a decade and a half, it has become nothing less than a juggernaut, one of the biggest and most powerful companies in the world, and one of the most visited sites on the internet.

Lindsey Vonn is ending her career in ski racing like the true champion she is. She is still near the top of the pack, but will abandon her chase for an all-time record number of wins because her body can no longer take the beating that the sport—and her uncompromising style—requires. Vonn will ski in the last race of her career during the World Championships in Alpine Skiing in Are, Sweden, on Sunday (Feb. 10). It will be a downhill race, the discipline she has ruled for many years.

Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren officially announced on Saturday (Feb. 9) that she’s running for US president, entering a field that already features four women who are considered major candidates.

Sandusky, a small city in Ohio, recently did what activists and politicians on a national level have long been calling for to make voting more equitable: It turned Election Day into a holiday.

This post has been updated after Facebook changed its policies Feb. 7.

Facebook has banned four insurgent groups in Myanmar that oppose the country’s military, wading deeper into a conflict it has been accused of fueling.

Snopes, the internet’s fact-checker, has decided not to renew its partnership with Facebook, the organization announced Friday (Feb. 1).

Facebook capped its most tumultuous and scandal-ridden year with… the highest revenue it’s ever posted in a single quarter.

Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is taking on Big Tech. On Friday (Jan. 25) she sent a letter, along with fellow US representative Chellie Pingree of Maine, to the CEOs of Microsoft, Facebook, and Google, expressing her disappointment in the companies’ decision to sponsor LibertyCon, a libertarian student conference that was held in Washington earlier in January, and included an event devoted to climate change denial.

Facebook let kids spend thousands of dollars on games without their parents’ permission, documents from a class-action lawsuit show, according to an investigation published by the news organization Reveal Jan. 24.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wants to integrate his company’s messaging services—WhatsApp, Messenger, and the direct messages in Instagram—into one, the New York Times reported today (Jan. 25). This means that like WhatsApp, Messenger and Instagram DMs would be encrypted.

Most US Facebook users don’t know that they can check how the social network categorizes them in order to show them targeted ads, a new survey from the Pew Research Center released today (Jan. 16) shows. These categories can be anything from whether you use wi-fi to your political preferences to how old your toddler is.

Facebook announced today (Jan. 15) that it is giving $300 million in grants to various organizations that are trying to help local journalism thrive in today’s difficult media market.