41 stories tagged facebook, newest first.
170 points by DeepLogin | 37 comments
New Mexico Department of Justice press release announcing a $25 billion civil penalty against Facebook in its Cambridge Analytica consumer protection case.
634 points by cbg0 | 418 comments
CNBC news article reporting that a New Mexico court ordered Meta to pay a $25 billion penalty in a Cambridge Analytica-related data privacy case.
417 points by AshleysBrain | 406 comments
A Mastodon post by Ashley Gullen reporting that Facebook Pages now require a paid subscription to post more than two links per month; the page returned a 429 error.
429 points by 0in | 155 comments
Nieman Lab article reporting that Meta's new commercial terms, effective October 30, let Meta scrape websites of business accounts using Facebook, Instagram, or WhatsApp.
36 points by bcaulfield | 18 comments
Mirror US news article about a man sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia after a Facebook comment was screenshotted and passed to authorities and his employer.
357 points by rbanffy | 250 comments
A Reddit r/worldnews thread on Meta blocking Brazilian President Lula's Facebook page and campaign ads two weeks before the election; the page loaded as a Reddit block screen.
348 points by pseudolus | 94 comments
CBS News report that a New Mexico jury found Facebook liable for deceiving users about privacy protections related to the Cambridge Analytica data breach.
644 points by Markoff | 780 comments
An article reporting that uBlock Origin has stopped trying to filter Facebook ads; the captured page shows only a Cloudflare bot-verification screen.
430 points by robtherobber | 284 comments
ABC News Verify investigation reporting that Facebook's monetization programs are paying controversial creators who produce rage-bait content.
621 points by abawany | 269 comments
Reclaim The Net article about a Texas woman arrested over a Facebook post criticizing her town's water quality; page showed a Cloudflare verification screen.
463 points by root-parent | 195 comments
Prism news article reporting that Amazon, Facebook, ICE, and the FBI have access to Seattle Shield, a private intelligence-sharing network run by Seattle police.
1556 points by CliffStoll | 240 comments
Cliff Stoll's Hacker News post saying an AI-generated Facebook review of The Cuckoo's Egg falsely claimed he died in May 2024.
540 points by giuliomagnifico | 219 comments
Axios scoop reporting that Meta removed ads on its platforms soliciting plaintiffs for social media addiction lawsuits.
737 points by macleginn | 485 comments
The Times article about Sarah Wynn-Williams, author of the Meta memoir "Careless People", being barred from making negative statements about Meta.
1416 points by npilk | 777 comments
A personal blog post arguing that Facebook is now dominated by AI-generated slop content and has been abandoned by younger users.
319 points by celsoazevedo | 149 comments
A Lemmy post on lemdro.id reporting that the Android app Nova Launcher added Facebook and Google Ads tracking; the page did not render.
467 points by mdhb | 222 comments
ZDNET article explaining that Facebook settings may let Meta analyze and retain photos from users' phone camera rolls, and how to check and disable them.
438 points by pier25 | 254 comments
The Verge article reporting that Facebook is asking users to let Meta AI process private, unpublished photos from their camera rolls.
468 points by FinnLobsien | 801 comments
New Yorker column by Kyle Chayka on Mark Zuckerberg's testimony at Meta's antitrust trial arguing that social media platforms are no longer what they used to be.
907 points by Aldipower | 473 comments
Cory Doctorow's Pluralistic post about Sarah Wynn-Williams' Facebook memoir "Careless People" and Meta's attempts to suppress it.
419 points by imakwana | 413 comments
NBER working paper by Allcott, Gentzkow and others studying how deactivating Facebook and Instagram affects users' emotional state.
964 points by jbegley | 625 comments
Drop Site News investigative article reporting leaked data showing an Israeli government campaign of takedown requests to remove pro-Palestine posts on Facebook and Instagram.
341 points by AntiRush | 185 comments
SFGATE article about a former Facebook director's book portraying Mark Zuckerberg harshly; the page loaded only a bot-check captcha.
683 points by tom_usher | 268 comments
A March 2025 blog post arguing that algorithmic social media feeds manipulate what people consume and think, and urging readers to take back control from them.
746 points by rogerthis | 335 comments
DistroWatch Weekly issue of January 27, 2025, whose site news section reports on Facebook blocking or banning posts that discuss Linux.
762 points by impish9208 | 1199 comments
Meta newsroom post by Joel Kaplan announcing the end of its third-party fact-checking program in favor of a Community Notes model.
340 points by n1b0m | 485 comments
Guardian article reporting that Meta is removing its AI-generated Instagram and Facebook profiles after backlash, including over a persona called 'proud Black queer momma'.
340 points by uxhacker | 385 comments
Guardian report that more than 140 former Facebook content moderators in Kenya were diagnosed with severe PTSD, part of a lawsuit against Meta and Samasource Kenya.
374 points by franciscop | 119 comments
A blog post written as short letters to OAuth providers like GitHub and Facebook, pointing out spec violations such as token endpoints returning 200 for errors.
397 points by heshiebee | 188 comments
Blog post about Facebook's internal Little Red Book, created by designer Ben Barry in 2012 to codify company culture and mission as it scaled.
408 points by haxrob | 161 comments
A technical investigation into class action lawsuit claims that Facebook used the Onavo Protect app to intercept encrypted traffic from competitors' mobile apps.
443 points by jmsflknr | 251 comments
Engadget article on how users locked out of Meta accounts have turned to small claims court as a way to get customer support and restore access.
439 points by edsimpson | 169 comments
Ars Technica article on a lawsuit alleging Facebook gave Netflix access to user DMs and wound down Facebook Watch streaming to keep Netflix's ad spending.
638 points by geocrasher | 577 comments
Meta's official status page showing the status and outages of its business products such as Ads Manager, updated March 5, 2024.
460 points by louisbarclay | 183 comments
Louis Barclay's Substack post on handling a cease-and-desist letter from Big Tech, drawing on Facebook's 2021 letter over his Unfollow Everything extension.
433 points by pg_1234 | 219 comments
Neowin news article reporting that Meta now allows EU users to unlink their Facebook, Messenger and Instagram accounts.
467 points by cratermoon | 426 comments
Guardian article on a Human Rights Watch report claiming Meta's Facebook and Instagram systematically censor pro-Palestinian content worldwide.
643 points by pbrw | 631 comments
Dig.watch news update reporting that the EU data protection regulator banned Meta's personalised advertising on Facebook and Instagram, with possible fines up to 4% of turnover.
376 points by mmphosis | 360 comments
Michael Geist blog post on Meta blocking news links in Canada in response to the Online News Act (Bill C-18).
333 points by brojoe55 | 158 comments
An Ask HN post from a small business owner asking whether to sue Facebook in small claims court over ad charges after their account was suspended.
464 points by isaacfrond | 265 comments
Ars Technica article on the FTC alleging Facebook violated its 2020 privacy order and proposing a ban on Meta monetizing data from minors.