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In an op-ed published in The Washington Post Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg says the responsibility for monitoring harmful content is too great for firms like his to handle alone. He calls for countries around the world to pass new laws in four areas: ...

In 2018 a Brussels court ruled that Facebook had broken privacy laws and needed to erase illegally-gathered data on Belgian users, but now the social media behemoth is challenging the decision in an appeals court. The ruling forced Facebook to stop tra...

When the Cambridge Analytica revelations became a global scandal, CEO Mark Zuckerberg stated at the time that Facebook learned of the data sharing in 2015, and from the media. But, according to new revelations, Facebook employees were aware of concern...

More than a 100 advertising companies, including Google and Facebook, are allowed to track visitors to government and other public sector websites, in a clear violation of governments' own data protection rules, a new report highlights. The report by D...

The European Commission has expressed its concerns after Facebook repeatedly withheld key data on its efforts to clamp down on disinformation ahead of the European Parliamentary elections. An upcoming EC report details that the social media giant has e...

A sobering report from the UK parliament’s Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee has denounced Facebook for “intentionally and knowingly” violating data privacy laws, and calls for a compulsory code of ethics for all social media companies. The r...

Germany's competition regulator has announced it will order Facebook to substantially restrict how it collects and combines data about its users unless they give explicit consent. The German watchdog’s decision follows concerns that users were unaware ...

Facebook on Monday announced plans for an independent oversight board that will have the power to overturn company decisions on user posts. The move is an effort to combat the spread of misinformation and abusive behaviour on Facebook, with an eye on t...

Facebook has deleted 500 pages and logins allegedly involved in peddling fake news in Central Europe, Ukraine and Eastern Europe. The social media company writes that these pages had links to Russia’s Sputnik news agency openly pushing propaganda and d...

Facebook is to employ fact checkers in the UK to combat disinformation. A foundation called Full Fact will review stories, images and videos and rate them based on accuracy. The key focus will be on disinformation that could damage people's health or s...